Richard Ellis

Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.A. Art History, University of South Florida, 2017
M.A. Art History, University of South Florida, 2019, focusing on Islamic art and architecture

Biography
Richard W. Ellis joined the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall of 2024 to purse a Ph.D. in Art History with a doctoral minor through the Bolz Center for Arts Administration in the Wisconsin School of Business. PCurriculum Vitaerior to beginning his doctoral studies, Richard instructed a variety of in-person and online art history courses at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa. In his second and third years in the program, he led in-gallery instruction for university class visits at the Chazen Museum of Art as an Academic Engagement Project Assistant.

Research Interests
His research is centered around Persian art from the Early Modern Period, and he primarily focuses on painted manuscripts, calligraphy, and text-image relationships.

Publications
Richard has copublished an entry on Islamic calligraphy for Oxford Bibliographies Online and has authored an article on Islamic Calligraphy in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts in the West: Renaissance to the Present.

Teaching
Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Richard instructed a variety of courses in art history at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa.

Primary Advisor(s):
Jennifer Pruitt