Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik has been awarded a 2024 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Special Mobility Grant to attend the 36th Congrès du Comité International d’Historie de l’Art (CIHA) in Lyon, France this coming June.
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight | Meg Wilson (Ph.D. Student) To Present at CVC Research Forum
Ph.D. Student Meg Wilson will be presenting their work in this year’s Center for Visual Cultures Research Forum on Friday, March 15th, 2024. The Research Forum will take place at the University Club, Room 212, 9:00am–4:00pm, lunch …
Student Spotlight | Medievalists’ Haggerty Exhibition Sneak Peak
Ph.D. Candidates Abby Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore, and Tania Kolarik are co-curating a forthcoming exhibition on American Catholic collecting practices at the Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The show, which will take place …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Featured by Graduate School
Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore was recently profiled by the UW–Madison Graduate School as a WARF-Funded graduate student. You can read the full write-up about Claire’s current research and forthcoming projects here.
Student Spotlight | Laura Hoekstra Begins New Position
Laura Hoekstra (Ph.D. Candidate) is beginning a new position with the Wisconsin Historical Society as the Architectural Historian for the Museum Archaeology Program (MAP). MAP engages in the identification and preservation of Wisconsin’s cultural resources and …
CAA February 14–17, 2024
The UW–Madison Department of Art History will have a strong showing at this year’s College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Here is the schedule of our department’s faculty and students by day of the conference: Thursday, February …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Publishes Exhibition Report in ICMA Newsletter
While conducting dissertation research in Germany this summer, Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate) visited the exhibition Das Mittelalter—die Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts (The Middle Ages—The Art of the 15th Century) at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg. In addition to …
Student Spotlight | Drew Narayanan Publishes Article
Ph.D. Candidate Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan‘s article, “‘Why is He Indian:’ Missed Opportunities for Discussing Race in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021),” has been published in a special issue of Arthuriana. Drew discusses that despite having cast Dev Patel …
Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik & Claire Kilgore to Present at ICMS 2024
Ph.D. Candidates Tania Kolarik and Claire Kilgore will each be presenting papers at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2024. Both of their papers will incorporate their textile research that they completed this …
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim Writes Report for UNESCO
Ph.D. candidate Ahmed Abdelazim has concluded a research project sponsored by UNESCO and the American University in Cairo architectural archives. Ahmed examined all the available documents, drawings, photographs, audio tapes, notes, and papers at the AUC …