Undergraduate Noah Mapes recently received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant from the L&S Honors Program. This grant supports Letters & Science honors students as they undertake senior thesis research projects. Noah is currently working …
Year: 2020
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: “The Material Culture(s) of Slavery in America”
Professor Ann Smart Martin will be teaching AH 563/863: The Material Culture(s) of Slavery in America in Spring 2021 on Wednesdays from 4:00–6:30pm CST. To see this course and our other course offerings please click here.
Today, Dec. 11, Honors Thesis Presentation & Celebration of Graduation
TODAY, December 11th, Tanvi Dhariwal will be presenting her Honors Thesis “Death and Sexual Violence: Constructing Female Identity in the Italian Renaissance” at 3:00pm. Then at 4:00pm we will have our Celebration of Graduation! Congratulations …
Today, Dec. 10th, is the Last Day of 2020 Classes!
We made it! Today is the last day of classes for 2020! Good luck on your final exams Badgers!
Alumni Update: Peter Bovenmyer (Ph.D. 2019) Publishes Chapter
Last month, Peter Bovenmyer’s (Ph.D. 2019) chapter, “Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death,” was published in the edited volume Picturing Death: 1200–1600 by Brill. This chapter came out of his larger …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: History of Islamic Art & Architecture *Online*
Prof. Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching AH 305: “History of Islamic Art and Architecture” online MWF 12:05–12:55pm CST. You can check out our full Spring 2021 offerings here: https://enroll.wisc.edu/search?term=1214&subject=180
Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells Publishes Journal Article
Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells recently published her article “Proserpina Unbound: John Ruskin, Maria La Touche, and Victorian Floriculture” in the Winter 2020 issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. Lindsay’s essay reinterprets Ruskin’s late-nineteenth-century botanical writings from the perspective …
Alumni Update: Daniel Cochran (Ph.D. 2018) Publishes Book
Daniel Cochran (Ph.D. 2018) has recently published his first book Building the Body of Christ: Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique Italy with Fortress Academic Press. Cochran stated, “I am so very grateful for all …
Student Spotlight: Traveling Traditions–Nordic Folk Arts
Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest opens its traveling exhibition, “Traveling Traditions: Nordic Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest,” featuring fieldwork by Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer. The exhibition is the culmination of a …
Faculty News: Casid and Kang Seung Lee Convo on Care
Wednesday, December 2nd, 5:00–7:30pm CST Center for Visual Cultures and Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Care This program will be presented on Zoom. A link to the meeting will be sent to you upon registration completion. TRANSMISSIONS is …