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 …
Graduate Students
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: Becca Owen Chosen as Historian for Wisconsin Humanities’ 50th Organizational Anniversary
Becca Owen (Ph.D. Student) will be serving as a historian contributing to Wisconsin Humanities’ 50th organizational anniversary. Their tentative project is titled “Making History: 50 Years of Wisconsin Humanities.” Here is a summary of their project: …
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 …
Student Spotlight: Traveling Traditions–Nordic Folk Arts
Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest opens its traveling exhibition, “Traveling Traditions: Nordic Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest,” featuring fieldwork by Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer. The exhibition is the culmination of a …
Student Spotlight: Özlem Eren Publishes Case Study
Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren has published a monument case study for the St. Demetrios Cathedral in Vladimir in the Mapping Eastern Europe Project by North of Byzantium (NoB). The project is focused on the history, …
Student Spotlight: Chapter 2 of Jessica Cooley’s “Indisposable”
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. A year-long online exhibition created for the Ford Foundation Gallery, chapter 2 …
Student Spotlight: Silvio Barile’s Sculpted World
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer contributes to Tesserae, a new blog by and for emerging Art Historians. Her entry “Performance Art and the Sculpted World of Silvio Barile” conceptualizes the art environment artist and his work as a …