Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) has just published her first article: “Color Galore in the French Colonial Empire: Léon Busy as Amateur Autochromist in the Service of the French Government of Indochina,” in the journal Rundbrief Fotografie. Her …
Graduate Students
Student & Alumni Spotlight | Badgers Attend Botticelli Exhibition in Minneapolis
This past Friday, December 30th, 2022 several past and current Department of Art History graduate students assembled in Minneapolis, Minnesota to see an exhibition of works from Renaissance Florence focused on Sandro Botticelli that are …
Student Spotlight | Abby Armstrong Check Publishes Book Review
Ph.D. Student Abby Armstrong Check has published a book review for Alison Locke Perchuk’s 2021 book The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone in the 53rd volume of Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance …
Student Spotlight | LauraLee Brott wins J.B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography
LauraLee Brott (Ph.D. Candidate) has won a J.B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography. The fellowship will support her residency in London as she continues to conduct dissertation research at the British Library on the …
Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik & Abby Armstrong Check Awarded SAH Conference Fellowships
Tania Kolarik (Ph.D. Candidate) and Abby Armstrong Check (Ph.D. Student) have both been awarded the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference Graduate Student Fellowship to attend the SAH’s 76th Annual International Conference in Montréal, CA, April 12–15, …
This Year in the Art History Department | Looking Back at 2022
2022 was a major year for the Department of Art History as we hired a new Department Administrator, Peggy Hacker, and Professor Steffani Bennett as the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art. We also celebrated the career …
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim Attends AMCA and MESA
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim‘s project was selected for the graduate student workshop at the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) that took place from November 3rd–6th at the University of …
Faculty and Student Spotlight | Prof. Dale and Drew Narayanan in Chicago
Professor Thomas Dale and Ph.D. Candidate Drew Narayanan will present their recent research on race in medieval art to the Chicago Seminar on Medieval Culture and Intellectual History on Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 at 1:00pm at Loyola College in …
Student Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti’s Quai Branly Presentation Now Available Online
On May 4, 2022, Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) presented her research at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France. Her talk was part of the panel “L’objectif anticolonial. Photographie et nationalisme vietnamiens, 1865–1930,” a panel on Vietnamese …
Student Spotlight | Ehsan Behbahani-Nia Gives Talk to French MA Students
Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia delivered a lecture on October 13th, 2022 to master’s students at the University of Lyon 2 in France. His talk was part of a larger seminar, Hellénisme(s) et identités locales de l’époque archaïque à …