This fall, Professor Thomas Dale will be teaching his AH 515/815 seminar “Monsters in Medieval Art & Culture,” Tuesdays, 4:00–6:30pm in Elvehjem L170. Email Prof. Dale for more information and consent to enroll at tedale@wisc.edu.
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Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik to Chair 2023 SAH Session in Montréal
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik organized and will be chairing the session “Material Religion Through the Sacred Interior” at the 76th Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference in Montréal, Canada, April 12–16, 2023. The session …
Alumni Update | Guided Tours of Rome: Church History Through Art & Architecture
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, alumnus Daniel Cochran (Ph.D., 2018) joyfully resumed his annual guided tours of Rome. Stemming from his extensive time living and researching in Italy, Daniel began offering guided tours of the …
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | History of Islamic Art & Architecture
After a year of leave, Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching AH 305: History of Islamic Art and Architecture, TR, 1:00–2:15pm in Elvehjem L150. Sophomore standing required, satisfies humanities breadth and L&S credit. Enroll here. Description: This course evaluates art, architecture, and culture in …
Fall 2022 Course Highlight | The Arts Converge: Italian Renaissance Courts
This fall, Professor Jennifer Nelson will be teaching AH 420/600 The Arts Converge: Italian Renaissance Courts, Monday and Wednesday, 4:00–5:15pm in Elvehjem L140. Sophomore standing required, satisfies humanities breadth and L&S credit. Enroll here. Description: How does influence work among friends, peers, and enemies? How …
Alumni Update | Villarroel Presents Met Research!
Distinguished alumna of the Art History graduate program Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza (PhD, 2021), currently the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented their research on “History, Reparation …
Spring 2022 Graduate Spotlight | Sara Champlin, Ph.D. in Art History
Sara Champlin (Ph.D., 2022) successfully defended her dissertation this spring, “Transformation and Re-Use of Public Baths in Western Asia Minor, 400–700 A.D.” She was advised by Professor Nicholas Cahill.
Spring 2022 Graduate Spotlight | Amy J. Hughes, Ph.D. 2022, Art History
I have been based in Prague for several years to conduct archival research, in situ analysis and artist interviews for my dissertation, “Refracted Trauma: Dissent, Memory and Affective Politics in Stanislav Libenský’s and Jaroslava Brychtová’s …
Spring 2022 Graduate Spotlight | Cortney Anderson Kramer Ph.D. in Art History
Cortney Anderson Kramer (Ph.D., 2022) defended her dissertation titled “It’s Gotta Be In Ya: Heroic Individualism and the Roadside Concrete Sculpture Garden of the American Midwest, 1910–1960” where she challenged modernist notions of artistic individualism …
Faculty News | Prof. Anna Andrzejewski Speaks at SAH
Professor Anna Andrzejewski presented “Water, Leisure, and South Florida’s Resort Landscape” at this year’s Society of Architectural Historians meeting in Pittsburgh, April 27–May 1. We can’t wait to learn more about Prof. Andrzejewski’s work on the cultural landscape …