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  2. Year: 2022
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Month: August 2022

Alumni Update | Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D., 1984) Wins Charles Eldredge Prize

Posted on August 30, 2022

Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D., 1984), Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art at Vanderbilt University, has won the 34th Annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her …

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Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Cities and Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece

Posted on August 28, 2022

This fall, Professor Nick Cahill will be teaching AH 405: Cities and Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece, MWF 1:20–2:10pm. This course requires sophomore standing, is honors optional, satisfies humanities breadth and L&S credit. Enroll here. Description: Topics include urbanism in ancient Greece in theory …

Posted in Faculty, News

Report from the Field | Claire Kilgore Notes from Graz

Posted on August 28, 2022

This summer, Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore traveled to Graz, Austria to examine the early-sixteenth-century Large Miracle Altar from the Mariazell pilgrimage church. She also examined woodcuts of the miracles that were produced to advertise the shrine that …

Posted in Graduate Students, News

Student & Alumni Spotlight | UW–Madison Art History at IMC Leeds

Posted on August 23, 2022

The 2022 International Medieval Congress, which takes place annually at the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., featured paper presentations by both current and former UW–Madison Art History Ph.D. students. These badgers met up at a …

Posted in Graduate Students, News

Student Spotlight | Drew Narayanan Publishes Book Chapter

Posted on August 21, 2022

Art History Ph.D. Student Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan‘s chapter “Sir Palamedes, the Indelibly ‘Saracen’ Knight Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts” has been published in The Arthurian World (Routledge, 2022).

Posted in Graduate Students, News

Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Art & Power in the Arab World

Posted on August 16, 2022

This fall, Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching AH 440: Art & Power in the Arab World, TR 9:30–10:45am. This course requires sophomore standing and satisfies humanities breadth and L&S credit. Enroll here.  Description: This course considers the use of art and …

Posted in Faculty, News

Alumni Update | Lex Lancaster (Ph.D., ’17) Publishes Book

Posted on August 15, 2022

Lex Morgan Lancaster (Ph.D., 2017) published their book, Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art, with Duke University Press. Available now for pre-order, use code E22DRAG for 30% off on the Duke Press website. Lancaster was advised by …

Posted in News

Fall 2022 Course Highlight | DS 920 Artisans & Artists: Histories & Theories of Making

Posted on August 10, 2022

Department of Art History Affiliate Professor Marina Moskowitz will be teaching the graduate seminar DS 920 “Artisans & Artists: Histories & Theories of Making” this fall on Tuesdays 9:30am–12:00pm. If you would like to learn …

Posted in Affiliate Faculty, News

Student Spotlight | Özlem Eren Published in “Medieval World”

Posted on August 7, 2022

Ph.D. Candidate Özlem Eren has contributed to the second issue of Medieval World: Culture & Conflict with her article titled “Yaroslav the Wise and Saint Sophia in Kyiv.” Learn more here.  The issue is dedicated to the history, art and …

Posted in Graduate Students, News

Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Interpreting Contemporary Art

Posted on August 3, 2022

Professor Daniel Spaulding will be teaching AH 409: Interpreting Contemporary Art, MW 5:30–6:45pm, during the fall 2022 semester. Sophomore standing, humanities breadth, and L&S credit. Enroll here.Description: This course provides an introduction to global art from the 1960s to the present, …

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