Professor Yuhang Li has won the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award by the American Academy of Religion for her book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press). Congratulations Prof. Li!!! The jury stated: “Yuhang …
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Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott wins The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography
Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott has won The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for her paper, “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine.” Her paper explores how the …
Faculty News: Affiliate Prof. Marina Moskowitz’s “Politics at Home” Exhibition Featured on WPR & Isthmus
Art History Affiliate Professor Marina Moskowitz discussed the newly opened Politics at Home: Textiles as American History this past Wednesday, September 8th, on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). If you missed hearing Prof. Moskowitz on the radio, you …
Faculty News: Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s Latest Edited Volume is Now Available!
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall‘s latest edited volume, Victorian Science & Imagery: Representation & Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, is now available through University of Pittsburgh Press. In addition to editing the volume, Prof. Marshall wrote the …
Faculty News: Prof. Nelson Featured in State of Renaissance Art History Article
Professor Jennifer Nelson‘s latest book Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors been featured in the article “After the Plague: The State of the Renaissance Art History.” You can read the glowing review of Prof. Nelson’s place …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia to Present at “Working Stones in the Achaemenid Empire”
Art History Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia is giving a virtual lecture this Friday, September 17, 2021, as part of the symposium “Working on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire,” organized by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Iran’s …
Student Spotlight: Tania Kolarik Named ICMA Newsletter Assistant Editor
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik is the incoming Assistant Editor for the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) Newsletter. It is a two-year graduate student position with the ICMA. Tania will be in charge of the events and exhibitions section and …
Happy First Day of Classes Badgers!
Happy First Day of the Fall Semester Badgers! #fall2021 #uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #onwisconsin #arthistory #fallinwisconsin
Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day from the UW–Madison Department of Art History!
Fall 2021 Course Highlight: AH 567/867 “Material History of American Landscape”
Professor Anna Andrzejewski‘s AH 567/867: “Material History of American Landscape” seminar will be taught in-person on Mondays, 2:30–5:00pm. This course seeks to examine what we can learn about the history of what we now call …