Congratulations to UW Art History alumni Drew Sawyer (B.A. 2005) and Marcela Guerrero (Ph.D. 2015) on their being named co-curators of the 2026 Whitney Biennial. We are so proud of our department’s alumni and their …
Alumni
Alumni News | Alum Receives Historic Preservation Award
Dr. Sarah Fayen Scarlett (Ph.D., 2014) is part of a team recently honored with the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. The Keweenaw Time Traveler is an interactive online historical atlas …
Alumni Update | UW-Alumn Dr. Farmer (Ph.D., 2019) Accepts New Position
Dr. Sophia Maxine Farmer (Ph.D., 2019) will begin a new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky this …
Spring 2024 Graduation Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti, Ph.D.
Marie-Agathe Simonetti graduated this spring with her Ph.D. in art history, with an emphasis on Southeast Asia, under the advisement of Professor Preeti Chopra. Reflection: “The Art History Department provided me with an unforgettable doctoral …
Spring 2024 Graduation Spotlight | LauraLee Brott, Ph.D.
LauraLee Brott graduated this spring with her Ph.D. in medieval art history under the advisement of Professor Thomas Dale. Reflection: “In my second year as a PhD student, while I was still finishing coursework, the …
This Week/Alumni Highlight | East Central European Symposium Featuring Amy Hughes (Ph.D., 2022)
This Friday, Assistant Curator at the Corning Museum of Glass, Amy Hughes (Ph.D., 2022), will be presenting during the symposium Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe at 2:00pm at the Pyle Center. Learn …
Alumni Update | Marcela Guerrero (MA’05; PhD’15) Featured in OnWisconsin Magazine
Marcela Guerrero (M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2015) has been featured in the Spring 2024 edition of the OnWisconsin Magazine. Dr. Guerrero is a senior curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and their first curator of …
Alumni Update | Matthew Rarey (MA’08; PhD’14) Wins Top Art History Book Award
Matthew Rarey (M.A. 2008, Ph.D. 2014) has won the College Art Association’s 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for his first book, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University …
Student Spotlight | A Winter Show Wonderland
In January, Eva Kushner (’24) visited the 70th edition of The Winter Show located at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City to experience the booth of esteemed UW–Madison alum, art dealer, and …
CAA February 14–17, 2024
The UW–Madison Department of Art History will have a strong showing at this year’s College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Here is the schedule of our department’s faculty and students by day of the conference: Thursday, February …