Ph.D. Student Abby Armstrong-Check will be teaching AH 201: History of Western Art I, From Pyramids to Cathedrals online during Summer 2021! Make sure to enroll now! Pyramids to Cathedrals serves as an introduction to the history of human visual …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott gives interview to WPR about her upcoming “History of the Museum” course
LauraLee Brott (Ph.D. Candidate) gave an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio about her upcoming course, “The History of the Museum: From ‘Prehistory’ to COVID-19.” The segment, on the Ideas Network, discusses when the “first” museum was born, what …
Summer 2021 Course Highlight | The History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid-19
Make sure to enroll in AH 430 The History of the Museum: From “Prehistory” to Covid–19 with Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott this summer! Click here to enroll.
Student Spotlight: Michael Feinberg Wins Research Fellowship at John Carter Brown Library
Ph.D. Candidate Michael Feinberg has been awarded with a research fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library to support research on their dissertation entitled, “Caribbean Landscapes and Agencies beyond the Human in British Print Culture surrounding the Haitian Revolution.” …
Student Spotlight: Chapter 4 of Indisposable Exhibition
We are pleased to announce the next online chapter of Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, co-curated by Jessica Cooley (UW-Madison, Art History, Ph.D. Candidate) and Ann M. Fox on Friday, April 30th at …
Summer 2021 Course Highlight: AH 303 “Painting & Graphic Arts in Germany, 1350–1530”
This summer, Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate) will be teaching AH 303: “Painting & Graphic Arts in Germany, 1350–1530” IN-PERSON! This course explores the visual culture of the Late Middle Ages and the beginning of the …
Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells (Ph.D. Candidate) Receives Postdoc at UCLA
Lindsay Wells (Ph.D. Candidate) has received an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship with the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She will spend the …
Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott Wins Medieval Academy of America Dissertation Grant
LauraLee Brott (Ph.D. Candidate) has received the Charles T. Wood Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America to support research travel for her dissertation, “The Holy Land within the Manuscript: Performative Cartography in BL Add. …
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer’s Article in SPACES
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer contributes her article “Embedding the Surface: Concrete art environments and D.I.Y. rubblework” to the SPACES blog. SPACES is an organization dedicated to the preservation and documentation of art environments globally.
Student Spotlight/Event: Check Out the Graduate Student Organizers and Papers at the 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
The 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at UW–Madison begins TOMORROW, March 18th at 7:30am CT. Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik and Ph.D. Student Claire Kilgore are the co-host institution representatives who worked to bring the …