Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) lead a tour for the SASLI (South Asia Summer Language Institute) students making them acquainted with the South Asia Collection at the Chazen. The tour was organized by SASLI to give …
Year: 2022
Save the Date! Celebration of Professor Emerita Ann Smart Martin!
Celebration of Professor Emerita Ann Smart Martin! Saturday, September 24th, 2022, 3:30–6:00pm CT. The Center for Design and Material Culture, in partnership with the Department of Art History, is hosting a Material Culture Symposium in …
Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!
Student Spotlight | Ujaan Ghosh Interviews Wendy Doniger
Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) interviewed Wendy Doniger for her upcoming book, After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata. Professor Doniger is the foremost authority on Hinduism and Indian Religion. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service …
Alumni Update | Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D., 1984) Wins Charles Eldredge Prize
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 …
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Cities and Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece
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 …
Report from the Field | Claire Kilgore Notes from Graz
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 …
Student & Alumni Spotlight | UW–Madison Art History at IMC Leeds
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 …
Student Spotlight | Drew Narayanan Publishes Book Chapter
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).
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Art & Power in the Arab World
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 …