Faculty

Professor Jennifer Pruitt recently contributed a blog post for Yale University Press, documenting her “Personal Canon” of five influential texts. Read more to find out the works that inspired her most in writing her 2020 …

Check out Prof. Gene Phillips‘ AH 411/775: Ukiyo-e course MWF 9:55–10:45am. In this course, you will take an in-depth look at Japanese woodblock prints, primarily of the Edo Period (1600–1868).

Professor Jennifer Nelson has won the Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600 for Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Hoblein’s Ambassadors! Congratulations Prof. Nelson!!! Read more …

Calling all first-year UW–Madison students! You can NOW Enroll in Spring 2021 classes. We have three introductory AH 103 courses available this spring. -AH 103: Passage Through India MW 1:20–2:10pm -AH 103: Religion and Art TR 1:20–2:10pm …

Explore the century that gave us our modern world: light-bulbs, steam engines, reproductive technologies, the mass media, phonographs, telegraphs, telephones, factories, the middle class, globalization, condoms, antisepsis, even computers! How did artists respond to and …

The Achaemenid Persians ruled most of the Near East for more than 200 years, from 550–330 BC, unifying for the first time in history a diverse empire stretching from the Aegean to Afghanistan and from …

  Check out the Fall 2020 College of Letters & Science Tenure Faculty Interview with our own Professor Jennifer Pruitt!

Spring 2021 Course Highlight: Learn more about The Art of Antagonism in Professor Spaulding’s seminar (AH 500/800) on Mondays, 5:30–8:00pm. This proseminar aims to understand how art (primarily visual art, though we will also address …

Professor Anna Andrzejewski has just published “Selling Sunshine: The Mackle Company’s Marketing Campaign to Build Retirement and Vacation Communities in south Florida, 1945–1975.” The essay is part of a thematic volume of Buildings & Landscapes on the intersection …