Prof. Ann Smart Martin presented her paper “Blaze-Creators: A Material Culture of Lighting and Surfaces in Eighteenth-Century Domestic Interiors” at the Corning Museum of Glass 59th Annual Seminar on October 8–9, 2021. Presented on-line, 618 people from 42 countries …
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Faculty News: Last Week to See Prof. Casid’s New Film!
Catch Professor Casid’s new film Untitled (Melancholy as Medium) streaming online until September 25th in the NYC gallery exhibition artists + allies iv organized by Signs and Symbols. Casid joins artist Michelle Handelman whose lastest film Claiming the Liminal …
Faculty News: Prof. Yuhang Li Wins the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award From the American Academy of Religion
Professor Yuhang Li has won the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award by the American Academy of Religion for her book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press). Congratulations Prof. Li!!! The jury stated: “Yuhang …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Marina Moskowitz’s “Politics at Home” Exhibition Featured on WPR & Isthmus
Art History Affiliate Professor Marina Moskowitz discussed the newly opened Politics at Home: Textiles as American History this past Wednesday, September 8th, on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). If you missed hearing Prof. Moskowitz on the radio, you …
Faculty News: Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s Latest Edited Volume is Now Available!
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall‘s latest edited volume, Victorian Science & Imagery: Representation & Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, is now available through University of Pittsburgh Press. In addition to editing the volume, Prof. Marshall wrote the …
Faculty News: Prof. Nelson Featured in State of Renaissance Art History Article
Professor Jennifer Nelson‘s latest book Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors been featured in the article “After the Plague: The State of the Renaissance Art History.” You can read the glowing review of Prof. Nelson’s place …
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 431 “Crip Tactics”
This fall, Professor Jill Casid will teach AH 431: Crip Tactics on Tuesdays/Thursday from 11:00am–12:15pm. Interested in tactics for social justice and transformation when it comes to sexuality and ability? Want new critical tools for the task? This course …
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 411 “Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art”
Professor Yuhang Li‘s AH 411: Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art will be taught in-person MWF 11:00–11:50am. There are no prerequisites, humanities breadth and L&S credit. In the beginning of this century, China plays a crucial role in …
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 431 Crip Tactics
This fall, Professor Jill Casid will teach AH 431: Crip Tactics on Tuesdays/Thursday from 11:00am–12:15pm. Interested in tactics for social justice and transformation when it comes to sexuality and ability? Want new critical tools for the task? This course …
Student & Faculty Spotlight: UW–Madison Art History at IMC Leeds
Last week Ph.D. Candidates Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik, along with Professor Thomas Dale, presented papers at the International Medieval Congress hosted by the University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. Kilgore’s paper, “A Climate of Exchange: Saintly Bones, Imported Silks, and …