The Department of Art History Awards Committee is delighted to announce that Jessica Cooley (Ph.D. Candidate) has received our first annual Transforming the Discipline Graduate Research Award. This award recognizes a student whose research makes …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells (Ph.D. Candidate) to Give IRH Lecture
Lindsay Wells (Ph.D. Candidate) and Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2020–21) will give an Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison (IRH) lecture on Monday, February 22nd, 3:30–5:00pm CST. To attend Cultivating Beauty: Indoor Gardening and the …
Student Spotlight: CAA 2021
Going to the virtual 109th CAA Annual Conference this week? Make sure that you check out the papers by the Department of Art History’s graduate students. Cortney Anderson Kramer will be presenting her paper “The Artwork …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik (Ph.D. Candidate) in Conversation with Texas Fashion Collection Director Annette Becker
Center for Design and Material Culture Conversation Series Annette Becker is a fashion historian and arts educator whose work focuses on accessible material culture studies. She currently serves as the director of the Texas Fashion Collection …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia Appointed a Research Associate at the Université Bourdeaux-Montaigne
Ph.D. Student, Ehsan Behbahani-Nia, has been appointed to the position of research associate in the Ausonius Research Institute at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne in France. Famous for its wine, Bordeaux is located in the southwest of France …
Art History Lecture: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier”
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski and PhD candidate Travis Olson will be presenting their research in a live virtual lecture entitled: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: German-American Farm Buildings in Southwestern North Dakota” on Thursday, January 28th at 6:00pm (CST). The …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: “Cross-Cultural Arts Around the Atlantic Rim”
Ph.D. Candidate Kyungso Min will be teaching AH 354 Cross-Cultural Arts Around the Atlantic Rim TR 2:30–3:45pm. The development of modern and contemporary art is unthinkable without consideration of the constitutively shaping role of race and ethnicity. This course …
Student Spotlight: You’re Invited to the “Critique in the Postcolonial Anthropocene” Working Group
Michael Feinberg (Ph.D. Candidate) invites you to stop by the working group, Critique in the Postcolonial Anthropocene at the upcoming MLA conference. He will be presenting “Marcus Rainsford’s Revolutionary Ecologies in Historical Account,” on Saturday, January 9th, 2021 …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: “History of American Art: Art, Material Culture, and Constructions of Identity, 1607–present”
Ph.D. Candidate Travis Olson will be teaching AH 364 History of American Art: Art, Material Culture, and Constructions of Identity, 1607–present, MWF 11:00–11:50 am. To see this course and our other course offerings please click here.
Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells Publishes Journal Article
Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells recently published her article “Proserpina Unbound: John Ruskin, Maria La Touche, and Victorian Floriculture” in the Winter 2020 issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. Lindsay’s essay reinterprets Ruskin’s late-nineteenth-century botanical writings from the perspective …