Year: 2022

After a year of leave, Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching AH 305: History of Islamic Art and Architecture, TR, 1:00–2:15pm in Elvehjem L150. Sophomore standing required, satisfies humanities breadth and L&S credit. Enroll here. Description: This course evaluates art, architecture, and culture in …

Distinguished alumna of the Art History graduate program Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza (PhD, 2021), currently the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented their research on “History, Reparation …

Sara Champlin (Ph.D., 2022) successfully defended her dissertation this spring, “Transformation and Re-Use of Public Baths in Western Asia Minor, 400–700 A.D.” She was advised by Professor Nicholas Cahill.

I have been based in Prague for several years to conduct archival research, in situ analysis and artist interviews for my dissertation, “Refracted Trauma: Dissent, Memory and Affective Politics in Stanislav Libenský’s and Jaroslava Brychtová’s …

Cortney Anderson Kramer (Ph.D., 2022) defended her dissertation titled “It’s Gotta Be In Ya: Heroic Individualism and the Roadside Concrete Sculpture Garden of the American Midwest, 1910–1960” where she challenged modernist notions of artistic individualism …

On this Memorial Day the UW–Madison Department of Art History remembers and honors those in the U.S. military who lost their lives during their service.