Lindsay Wells (PhD Candidate) recently published the entry on “Horticulture” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (2020, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham). This entry chronicles the contributions that women such as Jane Loudon, Elizabeth A. …
Year: 2020
Student Spotlight: Kendra Greendeer’s (PhD Candidate) Fall Exhibition Now Online
Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas curated by indigenous scholars Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) and Dakota Mace (Diné) explores the material interrelationships among cultures with long histories of exchange throughout the Americas. “As Indigenous curators, we felt that it was important …
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: Japanese Painting with Prof. Philips
Professor Gene Phillips will be teaching AH 411 “Japanese Painting: 1500 to 1850” this fall. Come learn about the development of Japanese painting with the emergence of the Kano School and its development up into …
Student Spotlight: Adi Dina Wins 2020 Iwanter Prize!
Art History major Adi Dina wins the 2020 Iwanter Prize, awarded by the Center for the Humanities to an outstanding interdisciplinary senior thesis in the humanities! Adi conducted her project, “Plastic Surveillance: Negotiating Digital Girlhood in the Work …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik & Claire Kilgore Accepted to Newberry Dissertation Seminar
Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate) and Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) have been accepted to the Newberry Library’s Dissertation Seminar on Gender, Power and Culture. This seminar begins in September and will end in May 2021. It provides an interdisciplinary community …
Art History Remembers Professor Emerita Jane Campbell Hutchison
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emerita Jane Campbell Hutchison, 87, on July 12th, 2020, at her home in Chevy Chase, MD. An expert in the history of Northern European Art …
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: “Taste” with Prof. Chopra
Professor Preeti Chopra will be teaching her seminar course “Taste” on Mondays from 2:30–5:00pm this fall. It will explore the idea of taste—both “good” and bad”, in “popular” and “high” culture—drawing on material from the …
Tax Day 2020 is TODAY!
The extended tax deadline is TODAY! https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/danecountyfinancialeducationcenter/
Student Spotlight: Kendra Greendeer Wins Place in CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice
Kendra Greendeer (PhD Candidate) has won a place in the prestigious CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The seminar takes place over two weeks in New York City and provides an in-depth introduction for Art History PhD …
Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Pruitt Promoted to Associate Professor!
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Pruitt for her promotion to Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture!!! Earlier this year she published her book Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture …