On Thursday, March 30th, Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D., 2023), then the Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts presented a shoptalk titled, “(re)EMERGENCE: Performing Indigenous Feminist Futures.” Abstract: …
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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, …
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 …
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 …
Art History at Medieval Academy of America 98th Annual Meeting
The Department of Art History was represented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America that took place February 23–26, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Professor Steffani Bennett, the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in …
Alumni Update | Marguerite Heckscher Appointed Assistant Professor at Middlebury College
Marguerite E. H. Lenius (M.A., 2010; Ph.D., 2021) has just been appointed to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department in the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. At …
DOTB’23 | Thank You Jim Friedlander (1963)!!!
⭐️DOTB’23⭐️ Thank You @JimFriedlander (1963) for your #DayoftheBadger donation! We appreciate you! Please enjoy this Mongoose and Badger with Fruit Trees from the 16th century! #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #arthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistorybadgers Learn more here: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69789.html