This fall we welcome Dr. David W. Norman as the Henry John Drewal Postdoctoral Fellow! Dr. Norman will be with us for the 2023–24 school year, and during the current fall semester he is teaching ART HIST 303 …
Month: September 2023
WEDNESDAY | 2023 Schewe Award Lecture: Nayoung Kim
Please join us on Wednesday, September 13th at 6:30pm CT for the 2023 Douglas Schewe Award Lecture. Nayoung Kim (Ph.D. Student) will be presenting her winning paper, “Beautiful and Monstrous: Late Medieval Images of the Unicorn Hunt,” …
Report from the Field | Ahmed Abdelazim’s Fieldwork on Egypt’s Dead Cities
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim shares a report from his ongoing dissertation fieldwork on cities in Egypt. In this report, he provides insight into cities that once bustled with life and are now dead.“Dead Cities have been one …
Student Spotlight | Levi Sherman Presents at CBAA
On June 3rd, Ph.D. student Levi Sherman presented at the College Book Art Association’s annual symposium. As part of a panel titled “What if we…? Shared Dreaming as Public Good,” Levi’s presentation connected Artists Books Conversations (ABC) — …
Report from the Field | Kolarik & Kilgore Conduct Fieldwork in the Alps
This May, Ph.D. Candidates Tania Kolarik and Claire Kilgore drove through the Alps along the Brenner Pass that connected Venice to the German speaking regions of northern Europe to study the cross-cultural exchange that took place during the late …
Faculty News | Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst: Redefining Greenlandic Art History Symposium
This symposium celebrates the opening of the Danish National Gallery’s first major exhibition of work by Kalaaleq Inuk artist Jessie Kleemann. Sialussuartut / Like a Cloudburst honors Kleemann’s efforts to expand the field of possibility for Greenlandic …
Welcome Back Badgers!!!
Welcome Back Badgers!!! We are looking forward to this coming academic year and are excited for the many art historical events to come! #uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #onwisconsin
Alumni Update | Alum Sarah Scarlett (Ph.D.’14) Wins Book Award
Congratulations to Sarah Fayen Scarlett (Ph.D., 2014) on winning the 2023 Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum for her book, Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan’s Mining Frontier (The University of Tennessee Press, 2021). The book was also …
Happy Labor Day!
The UW–Madison Department of Art History wishes you a happy, healthy, and relaxing Labor Day!
Student Spotlight | Ehsan Behbahani-Nia Traveling in the Balkans
Ph.D. student, Ehsan Behbahani-Nia, is embarking on a journey across the Balkans as part of the Connecting Art Histories–Beyond the Northern Aegean initiative, sponsored by the Getty Foundation. From May 31 to June 11 2023, Ehsan …