Congratulations to our Spring 2022 Art History Graduates! We will be highlighting our graduates over the next month, including Art History graduate students who defended their dissertations in Fall 2021. Above are some highlights from …
Graduate Students
Summer 2022 Course Highlight: The History of the Museum
Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott’s course AH 430 History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid-19 will be taught in-person, MTWR, 11:00am–1:00pm, June 13th–July 17th. There will be occasional field trips to museums/collections around the UW–Madison campus. Satisfies L&S credit …
Student Spotlight | Tong Su Receives Research Grant
Ph.D. Candidate Tong Su has been awarded a grant from The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Japan for conducting field research on her dissertation in China for the year of 2022–23. Congratulations Tong!
Student Spotlight | Gabriel Chazan Co-Organizes “Ancestors and the Archive”
Gabriel Chazan (Ph.D. Student) co-organized the event “Ancestors and the Archive” with The Magnum Foundation’s Counter-Histories Initiative, a virtual panel discussion about the ethics and future of institutional archives in light of ongoing decolonization debates. Bringing together academics, …
Student Spotlight | Sara Champlin Defends Dissertation
Dr. Sara Champlin (Ph.D., 2022) has defended her doctoral dissertation “Transformation and Re-Use of Public Baths in Western Asia Minor, 400–700 A.D.” She was advised by Professor Nicholas Cahill. Congratulations Dr. Champlin!!!
Student Spotlight | “Kafkaesque Modernity” by Ahmed Abdelazim
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim contributed a chapter to the edited volume on Cairo’s Urban modernity. The chapter titled “Kafkaesque Modernity: Cairo in the 1980s and the Middle-Class housing crisis” examines the impact of neoliberal urbanization on middle-class …
Student Spotlight | Michael Feinberg Awarded Mayers Fellowship
Michael Feinberg (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded with a Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. At the Huntington, Michael will work on their dissertation chapter that focuses on how the landscape imagery …
Student Spotlight | Kendra Greendeer Inducted Into Bouchet Honor Society
Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D. Candidate) was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society last week as one of five inductees for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kendra was the only inductee from the arts and humanities. Learn more here.
Student Spotlight | Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik at the Cleveland Museum of Art
On March 24th, Tania Kolarik (Ph.D. Candidate) was able to examine twelve medieval textiles held within the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. The textiles ranged from the year 1000 to 1400 and were …
Student Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti to Present at the Musée du Quai Branly
Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) is going to present her research on Vietnamese photography at the Musée du Quai Branly on May 4th, 2022. Her talk, based on the second chapter of her dissertation, demonstrates the link between …