Where does the english word Juggernaut come from? Listen to Science Diction’s episode “Juggernaut: Indian Temple or Unstoppable Force?” that features Ph.D. Candidate Ujaan Ghosh as he talks about the perplexing linguistic, orthographic, and religious origin of this …
Graduate Students
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | Race in the Middle Ages
Ph.D. Student Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan will teach AH 303 “Race in the Middle Ages” in Spring 2022 on Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30–3:45pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140. Humanities Breadth and L&S Credit. Students will be introduced to the …
Student Spotlight: Michael Feinberg Awarded Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre
Doctoral candidate Michael H. Feinberg (he/they) has been awarded an Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre. Two grants are given every year to support the study of British works of art on paper of the …
Student Spotlight: Marie-Agathe Simonetti to present at AAS
Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) will present at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference on March 26, 2022, in Honolulu, Hawaii. AAS is the largest organization for Asian studies with 5,000 members worldwide. Her paper “Phan Châu Trinh’s …
Student Spotlight: PhD Student Abby Armstrong Check at Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference
On Saturday, October 30th, PhD Student Abby Armstrong Check presented her paper, “Modeling the Holy Sepulchre in France: The Commandry of Laon and Affirmation of Christian Authority” as part of the “Beneficence and the Fine Arts” panel …
Levi Sherman at Las Vegas Book Festival
On October 23, Levi Sherman joined artists Sarah Maker and Mark Sarigianis on a panel moderated by book artist and podcaster Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. “The Art of Contemporary Bookmaking” was convened at the Las Vegas Book Festival to increase …
Student Spotlight: Marie-Agathe Simonetti Awarded DFK Research Grant
Marie-Agathe Simonetti was awarded the DFK research grant for her dissertation “Photography in Indochina: Politics, Press and War in Saigon, Hanoi, and Paris, 1897–1954.” The German Center for Art History in Paris will be funding her …
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer Publishes Essay on Stella Waitzkin
SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments) features a short essay by Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer on Stella Waitzkin and her Chelsea Hotel library installation. SPACES is an archive dedicated to the study of art …
Student Spotlight: Gabriel Chazan Publishes Book Review
Ph.D. Student Gabriel Chazan‘s review of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf, 2021) has been published on the Triangle House Review. Chazan’s review considers art in relation to care, the possibilities of …
TODAY!!! 2021 Annual Schewe Award Presentation
TODAY!!! We hope to see you at 2:30pm CT for the 2021 Annual Schewe Award Presentation!!! More information here: https://arthistory.wisc.edu/event/2021-schewe-award-lectures-chi-lynn-lin-ehsan-behbahani-nia/