Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) has published his article, “The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta,” on spectral narratives and urban architectural alterities in twentieth-century Calcutta in the Journal of South Asian Studies. …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight | Levi Sherman Published in “Venue”
Levi Sherman (Ph.D. student) published a review of the Edgewood College Gallery exhibition Enrique Chagoya: Detention at the Border of Language in the inaugural issue of Venue: A Digital Journal of the Midwest Art History Society. The exhibition …
THIS THURSDAY! Echoing Overseas: Curator in Conversation
Echoing Overseas: Curator in ConversationThursday, September 22nd, 2022 | 6:00–8:00pm CTChazen Museum of Art | 750 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706Pre-registration is strongly encouraged, you can register here. Chi-Lynn Lin, Art History Ph.D. Student and curator of Echoing Overseas: …
Student Spotlight | Ujaan Ghosh Leads Chazen Tour
Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) lead a tour for the SASLI (South Asia Summer Language Institute) students making them acquainted with the South Asia Collection at the Chazen. The tour was organized by SASLI to give …
Student Spotlight | Ujaan Ghosh Interviews Wendy Doniger
Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) interviewed Wendy Doniger for her upcoming book, After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata. Professor Doniger is the foremost authority on Hinduism and Indian Religion. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service …
Report from the Field | Claire Kilgore Notes from Graz
This summer, Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore traveled to Graz, Austria to examine the early-sixteenth-century Large Miracle Altar from the Mariazell pilgrimage church. She also examined woodcuts of the miracles that were produced to advertise the shrine that …
Student & Alumni Spotlight | UW–Madison Art History at IMC Leeds
The 2022 International Medieval Congress, which takes place annually at the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., featured paper presentations by both current and former UW–Madison Art History Ph.D. students. These badgers met up at a …
Student Spotlight | Drew Narayanan Publishes Book Chapter
Art History Ph.D. Student Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan‘s chapter “Sir Palamedes, the Indelibly ‘Saracen’ Knight Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts” has been published in The Arthurian World (Routledge, 2022).
Student Spotlight | Özlem Eren Published in “Medieval World”
Ph.D. Candidate Özlem Eren has contributed to the second issue of Medieval World: Culture & Conflict with her article titled “Yaroslav the Wise and Saint Sophia in Kyiv.” Learn more here. The issue is dedicated to the history, art and …