2020 has been a rough year, but we are excited that Professor Daniel Spaulding will be joining the Department of Art History as an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art this fall semester. His …
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Faculty News: Prof. Andrzejewski Lecture on Sept. 25th!
Save the date for Professor Anna Andrzejewski‘s lecture that is based on her latest research project. Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series, Department of Geography September 25th, 2020 3:30–5:00pm CST Venue: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96180090381 In February of 1964, the …
Faculty News: Jerusalem–Racism Through Medieval Eyes
Professor Thomas Dale is the lead organizer of a Borghesi-Mellon workshop, “Jerusalem in the Medieval and Modern Imagination” for the upcoming academic year. The workshop will explore how pre-modern conceptions of the city (maps, images, histories, literature, theology) within …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Sarah Anne Carter Publishes Entry on Face Masks
“The COVID-19 crisis is altering our relationship to material things, and the stuff of this crisis will be important sources for historians. The stark choices we are all confronting as we practice social distancing—or we …
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: Learn How to Interpret Contemporary Art with Prof. Spaulding
Make sure to check out AH 409: “Interpreting Contemporary Art” taught by our newest faculty member, Professor Daniel Spaulding. He will cover an introduction to theories of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. …
Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Pruitt Promoted to Associate Professor!
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Pruitt for her promotion to Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture!!! Earlier this year she published her book Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture …
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Faculty News: Prof. Andrzejewski Receives IRH Summer Research Fellowship
Professor Anna Andrzejewski has received a Summer Humanities Research Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities to work on her book project, Building Paradise: Housing, Leisure, and Retirement in South Florida after World War II.
Thinking about Art in Pandemic Times?
Starting this Tuesday, April 14th, the Clark Art Institute, where Professor Jill Casid was in residence as the Clark-Oakley Fellow in 2018–19, is featuring Professor Casid’s lecture on the new art of dying as a …
Faculty News: Daniel Spaulding to Join AH Faculty as Assistant Professor this Fall!
The UW-Madison Department of Art History is excited to announce that this fall we are welcoming a new faculty member! Assistant Professor Daniel Spaulding, a specialist in modern and contemporary art, is coming to us …