On Thursday, June 16th, Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D. Candidate) participated in the Wisconsin Idea Spotlight: “Ho-Chunk Land — Stories of Teejop,” alongside Ho-Chunk Nation trial court judge JoAnn Jones ’82, MS’83, JD’86 and Professor of Photography …
Year: 2022
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | The Art of Diversity: Race & Representation in the Art & Visual Culture of the U.S.
AH 104 “The Art of Diversity: Race and Representation in the Art and Visual Culture of the United States,” will be taught again this fall MW, 9:55–10:45am. This course is first-year friendly and goes toward …
Faculty News | Professor Spaulding Wins Research Prize
The Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation, located in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, has awarded the fourth Joseph Beuys Prize for Research to Daniel Spaulding (Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, UW–Madison) as well as Polish scholar …
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim Awarded Gerda Henkel Ph.D. Fellowship
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim was awarded the Gerda Henkel Ph.D. fellowship award for his dissertation “Operating through dichotomies: Discourses on the ‘Islamic’ in Egypt’s architecture from 1967 to 2013.” Ahmed’s research examines how society produced …
CDMC Call for Exhibition Proposals!!!
Are you interested in exhibiting with the Center for Design and Material Culture in one of their galleries? CDMC collaborates with artists, curators, designers, scholars, and more to create meaningful exhibits that support curriculum, research, …
Faculty News | Roundtable Discussion with Prof. Dale on The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv
On Wednesday, June 8th, Professor Thomas E. A. Dale participated in a Roundtable Discussion on the Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv that was hosted by Dumbarton Oaks. The cathedral of St. Sophia in the historic …
Alumni Update | Jessica A. Cooley Awarded Postdoc at the University of Minnesota
Congratulations to Jessica A. Cooley (Ph.D., 2021) for being awarded the 2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship and appointment as the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Cooley will be working on developing her …
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | Monsters in Medieval Art & Culture
This fall, Professor Thomas Dale will be teaching his AH 515/815 seminar “Monsters in Medieval Art & Culture,” Tuesdays, 4:00–6:30pm in Elvehjem L170. Email Prof. Dale for more information and consent to enroll at tedale@wisc.edu.
Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik to Chair 2023 SAH Session in Montréal
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik organized and will be chairing the session “Material Religion Through the Sacred Interior” at the 76th Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference in Montréal, Canada, April 12–16, 2023. The session …
Alumni Update | Guided Tours of Rome: Church History Through Art & Architecture
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, alumnus Daniel Cochran (Ph.D., 2018) joyfully resumed his annual guided tours of Rome. Stemming from his extensive time living and researching in Italy, Daniel began offering guided tours of the …