Ph.D. Student Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan has published the article “Medieval Dreams and Far-Right Nightmares,” with Benjamin Bertrand, in Issue 32 of Current Affairs. Their article discusses the Far-Right’s appropriation of medieval symbols and the Death Dealer statue at the …
Graduate Students
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 355 History & Theory of Photography
Art History 355: History & Theory of Photography is a first-year friendly course that has no prerequisites and can be used as a humanities breadth and L&C credit. Ph.D. Student Gabriel Chazan will be teaching this …
Student & Faculty Spotlight: UW–Madison Art History at IMC Leeds
Last week Ph.D. Candidates Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik, along with Professor Thomas Dale, presented papers at the International Medieval Congress hosted by the University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. Kilgore’s paper, “A Climate of Exchange: Saintly Bones, Imported Silks, and …
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: Monsters & Machines
Ph.D. Candidate Matt Ferens will be teaching AH 430: Monsters & Machines, Tuesday/Thursday 4:00–5:15pm during the Fall 2021 semester. There are no prerequisites! Counts as humanities breadth and L&S credit. “The world will ask you who you are, …
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 303 Agency & Image in Asia
Art History 303: Agency & Image in Asia is a first-year friendly course that has no prerequisites and can be used as a humanities breadth and L&S credit. Ph.D. Candidate Young Kim will be teaching this class …
Faculty News: Casid’s Film ArtNet Pick of the Week for June 7–13!
Professor Jill Casid debuted a specially commissioned film, Untitled (Melancholy as Medium) on Wednesday, June 9th. Casid conceived the fifth chapter Melancholy as Medium of the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support after the ADA curated by UW Art History Ph.D. candidate Jessica A. …
Student & Faculty Spotlight: Cooley and Prof. Casid Collaboration
We are pleased to announce the next online chapter of Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, co-curated by Jessica Cooley (UW–Madison, Art History, Ph.D. Candidate) and Ann M. Fox on Wednesday, June 9th from …
Summer 2021 Course Highlight | AH 201: History of Western Art I, From Pyramids to Cathedrals—Online!
Ph.D. Student Abby Armstrong-Check will be teaching AH 201: History of Western Art I, From Pyramids to Cathedrals online during Summer 2021! Make sure to enroll now! Pyramids to Cathedrals serves as an introduction to the history of human visual …
Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott gives interview to WPR about her upcoming “History of the Museum” course
LauraLee Brott (Ph.D. Candidate) gave an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio about her upcoming course, “The History of the Museum: From ‘Prehistory’ to COVID-19.” The segment, on the Ideas Network, discusses when the “first” museum was born, what …
Summer 2021 Course Highlight | The History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid-19
Make sure to enroll in AH 430 The History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid–19 with Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott this summer! Click here to enroll.