This fall marks a return to in-person classes and events, and it is exciting to be back on campus with students and colleagues! Our classrooms are full, our labs are humming and the frisbees are …
Month: September 2021
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer to Present at the Feminist Art History Conference
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer will present highlights from her research on Stella Waitzkin with her paper “The Matter of Denial: Contextualizing Stella Waitzkin’s Resin Books without Words” at the upcoming Feminist Art History Conference, hosted by American University …
Faculty News: Last Week to See Prof. Casid’s New Film!
Catch Professor Casid’s new film Untitled (Melancholy as Medium) streaming online until September 25th in the NYC gallery exhibition artists + allies iv organized by Signs and Symbols. Casid joins artist Michelle Handelman whose lastest film Claiming the Liminal …
Faculty News: Prof. Yuhang Li Wins the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award From the American Academy of Religion
Professor Yuhang Li has won the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award by the American Academy of Religion for her book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press). Congratulations Prof. Li!!! The jury stated: “Yuhang …
Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott wins The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography
Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott has won The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for her paper, “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine.” Her paper explores how the …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Marina Moskowitz’s “Politics at Home” Exhibition Featured on WPR & Isthmus
Art History Affiliate Professor Marina Moskowitz discussed the newly opened Politics at Home: Textiles as American History this past Wednesday, September 8th, on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). If you missed hearing Prof. Moskowitz on the radio, you …
Faculty News: Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s Latest Edited Volume is Now Available!
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall‘s latest edited volume, Victorian Science & Imagery: Representation & Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, is now available through University of Pittsburgh Press. In addition to editing the volume, Prof. Marshall wrote the …
Faculty News: Prof. Nelson Featured in State of Renaissance Art History Article
Professor Jennifer Nelson‘s latest book Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors been featured in the article “After the Plague: The State of the Renaissance Art History.” You can read the glowing review of Prof. Nelson’s place …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia to Present at “Working Stones in the Achaemenid Empire”
Art History Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia is giving a virtual lecture this Friday, September 17, 2021, as part of the symposium “Working on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire,” organized by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Iran’s …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik Named ICMA Newsletter Assistant Editor
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik is the incoming Assistant Editor for the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) Newsletter. It is a two-year graduate student position with the ICMA. Tania will be in charge of the events and exhibitions section and …