Marie-Agathe Simonetti was awarded the DFK research grant for her dissertation “Photography in Indochina: Politics, Press and War in Saigon, Hanoi, and Paris, 1897–1954.” The German Center for Art History in Paris will be funding her …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer Publishes Essay on Stella Waitzkin
SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments) features a short essay by Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer on Stella Waitzkin and her Chelsea Hotel library installation. SPACES is an archive dedicated to the study of art …
Student Spotlight: Gabriel Chazan Publishes Book Review
Ph.D. Student Gabriel Chazan‘s review of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf, 2021) has been published on the Triangle House Review. Chazan’s review considers art in relation to care, the possibilities of …
TODAY!!! 2021 Annual Schewe Award Presentation
TODAY!!! We hope to see you at 2:30pm CT for the 2021 Annual Schewe Award Presentation!!! More information here: https://arthistory.wisc.edu/event/2021-schewe-award-lectures-chi-lynn-lin-ehsan-behbahani-nia/
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer Teams Up with Curator Janine Yorimoto Boldt for Historians of American Art’s Session
Over the summer, Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer teamed up with Chazen Associate Curator of American Art Janine Yorimoto Boldt to present a session on building online presence during the Association of Historians of American Art’s Summer Internship Program. …
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer to Present at the Feminist Art History Conference
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer will present highlights from her research on Stella Waitzkin with her paper “The Matter of Denial: Contextualizing Stella Waitzkin’s Resin Books without Words” at the upcoming Feminist Art History Conference, hosted by American University …
Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott wins The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography
Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott has won The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for her paper, “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine.” Her paper explores how the …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia to Present at “Working Stones in the Achaemenid Empire”
Art History Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia is giving a virtual lecture this Friday, September 17, 2021, as part of the symposium “Working on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire,” organized by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Iran’s …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik Named ICMA Newsletter Assistant Editor
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik is the incoming Assistant Editor for the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) Newsletter. It is a two-year graduate student position with the ICMA. Tania will be in charge of the events and exhibitions section and …
Student & Alumni Spotlight: Matthew Westerby & LauraLee Brott to present at the National Gallery of Art
On October 1, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art is hosting a virtual program, Fragments and Frameworks: Illuminated Manuscripts and Illustrated Books in Digital Humanities, organized by UW Art …