Ph.D. Candidate Laura Hoekstra will participate in a professional development workshop hosted by the Office of Professional Development and publicized in the UW–Madison GradConnections Weekly Newsletter. The workshop, “Careers in Higher Education: Academic Administration and Leadership,” will draw on Laura’s experience …
Month: May 2023
Student Spotlight | Tong Su Presents Paper at AAS
On Friday, March 17th at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS 2023, March 16–19), Ph.D. Candidate Tong Su presented her paper in a panel organized by her on spectacle-making projects in Qing imperial birthday celebrations. The …
Alumni Update | Lindsay Wells (PhD, 2021) Awarded William Morris Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lindsay Wells (Ph.D., 2021) has been awarded the 2023 Jospeh R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship by The William Morris Society in the United States. This fellowship will support further research for her book project, Evergreen Empire: Plants, …
Student Spotlight | Özlem Eren in Serbia & Kosovo-Metohija
Ph.D. Candidate Özlem Eren visited Orthodox monasteries in Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija during Spring Break 2023 to research their architecture and fresco decoration programs. Monasteries shown in the images: Žica (13th century), Stara Pavlica (11–12th century), Gradac …
Alumni Update | Jordi Falgàs (Ph.D., 2011) Organizes Noucentisme Symposium
Director of the Fundació Rafael Masó in Girona, Spain, Dr. Jordi Falgàs (Ph.D., 2011) co-organized the 3rd International Symposium on Noucentisme, “Comparative Mediterraneanisms: Noucentisme, Novecento, and the Politics of Modernist Classicism,” that took place April 13–14, 2023 at …
Congratulations to all of our 2023 Art History Graduates!
Congratulations to all of our 2023 Art History Graduates! We are so proud of what you have accomplished at UW–Madison and look forward to all the places you will go!
Alumni Update | Matthew Francis Rarey Publishes First Book
Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College Matthew Francis Rarey‘s (M.A. 2008; Ph.D. 2014), first book, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic, is now available through Duke University …
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim’s Exhibition in Philly!
The Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia, PA is hosting The Mashrabiya Project during March 3rd–July 23rd, 2023. The multidisciplinary project, which explores this complex element in Islamic architecture and craft, comprises an exhibition presenting new …
Alumni News | Anna Betz (BA, 2017; MA, 2020) Launches Indiegogo for Divine Comedy Ballet
Art History alumna Anna Betz (B.A., 2017; M.A., 2020), Interim School Manager and Teaching Artist at Ballet Co. Laboratory, has just launched her Indiegogo fundraising campaign to begin production of the first phase of the ballet. Inspired …
Alumni Update | Matthew Westerby Appointed Digital Research Officer at CASVA
Matthew Westerby (Ph.D., 2017) has been appointed as the new Digital Research Officer at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art. Matt is a specialist in Western European …