Faculty

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 …

Professor Yuhang Li’s new book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Lay Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China is featured on the University of Columbia University Press blog during Women’s History Month! To read the full …

Professor Thomas Dale has organized the upcoming session “After the Fire: Building and Rebuilding Notre-Dame in Paris” for the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America at the University of California at Berkeley that …

We are pleased to announce a celebratory event organized to honor recently retired Professor Henry Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It will be held at the …

Professor Kristin Phillips-Court, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and literary culture, has been awarded a Faculty Development Grant in the College of Letters & Science for 2020–21 to create courses on Leonardo da Vinci, …

Professor Thomas E. A. Dale has been elected the First Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America for 2020. He also presented his latest research on race in medieval Venice at the Art, Power, and …

Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be presenting on her most recent research project with her paper “Inheriting an Invented Past: Islamic Art in the Arabian Gulf” on Friday, February 14th at the College Art Association’s Annual …

Today (Jan. 16), Professor Jennifer Pruitt received the first copies of her new book Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture, which is being published by Yale University Press. The …