On Thursday, June 16th, Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D. Candidate) participated in the Wisconsin Idea Spotlight: “Ho-Chunk Land — Stories of Teejop,” alongside Ho-Chunk Nation trial court judge JoAnn Jones ’82, MS’83, JD’86 and Professor of Photography …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight | Ahmed Abdelazim Awarded Gerda Henkel Ph.D. Fellowship
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim was awarded the Gerda Henkel Ph.D. fellowship award for his dissertation “Operating through dichotomies: Discourses on the ‘Islamic’ in Egypt’s architecture from 1967 to 2013.” Ahmed’s research examines how society produced …
Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik to Chair 2023 SAH Session in Montréal
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik organized and will be chairing the session “Material Religion Through the Sacred Interior” at the 76th Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference in Montréal, Canada, April 12–16, 2023. The session …
Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik & Claire Kilgore Awarded Lemoine-Midelfort Fellowships
Ph.D. Candidates Tania Kolarik and Claire Kilgore have each been awarded Lemoine-Midelfort Fellowships for their dissertation research travel this summer. Tania will travel to the Italian cities of Lucca, Pisa, Florence, and Venice for her dissertation “The Fabric of …
Student Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti Presents at the Saigon Social Sciences Hub
On Friday, April 29th, 2022, Marie-Agathe Simonetti presented her research on photography in Vietnam for the Saigon Social Sciences Hub. This association gathers junior researchers on Vietnam in any field of Social Sciences and Humanities. Meetings …
Student Spotlight | Ujaan Ghosh Interviews Partha Chatterjee
Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D. Candidate) interviewed Partha Chatterjee on his recent work, The Truth and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak for New Books Network. Professor Chatterjee is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and the foremost scholar of …
Student Spotlight | Young Kim Awarded Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship
Young Kim (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded with a Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison. As a Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow, Young Kim will work on writing her dissertation that focuses on …
Congratulations to Our Spring 2022 Graduates!!!
Congratulations to our Spring 2022 Art History Graduates! We will be highlighting our graduates over the next month, including Art History graduate students who defended their dissertations in Fall 2021. Above are some highlights from …
Summer 2022 Course Highlight: The History of the Museum
Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott’s course AH 430 History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid-19 will be taught in-person, MTWR, 11:00am–1:00pm, June 13th–July 17th. There will be occasional field trips to museums/collections around the UW–Madison campus. Satisfies L&S credit …
Student Spotlight | Tong Su Receives Research Grant
Ph.D. Candidate Tong Su has been awarded a grant from The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Japan for conducting field research on her dissertation in China for the year of 2022–23. Congratulations Tong!