This summer, Ph.D. Candidate Mateusz Ferens will be teaching ART HIST 303: Heroes and Villains, asynchronous online, during June 5th–July 28th, 2023. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. Enroll here. In this course, we will dive into …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight | Ehsan Behbahani-Nia at Athens Symposium
Ph.D. student, Ehsan Behbahani-Nia, has been selected to participate in a symposium at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from February 9th–11th, 2023. The symposium, sponsored by the Getty Foundation and part of the Connecting …
Summer 2023 Course Highlight | Animating Art History
It may still be cold outside, but it’s time to begin thinking about your Summer 2023 courses! Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore will be teaching a *NEW COURSE* ART HIST 103 Animating Art History, June 19th–August 13th, Online and Asynchronous. …
Student Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti Publishes Article
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 …
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 …