This spring, Professor Yuhang Li will be teaching AH 308 “The Tastes of Scholars & Emperors: Chinese Art in the Later Periods,” TR 1:00–2:15pm, humanities breadth and L&S credit. In what ways were Chinese arts special and noteworthy within the …
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Alumni Update | December 2021 Graduation 🦡 🥳 🎓
On Sunday, December 19th, 2021 Professor Thomas E. A. Dale escorted Mark Dieter and Morgan Lemmer Weber across the graduation stage to receive their doctoral degrees. Mark Dieter’s doctoral dissertation focused on the work of Frank Lloyd …
☃️ Happy Holidays from the Department of Art History! ☃️
Happy Holidays from the Department of Art History!
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | AH 407 Victorian Culture: Sex & Death
Professor Nancy Rose Marshall will teach the seminar AH 407 “Victorian Culture: Sex & Death” in Spring 2022, MW 4:30–5:45pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L150. What did it mean for a painter-poet to exhume his dead wife’s …
Student Spotlight: Ahmed Abdelazim Publishes Article in “Anthropology of the Middle East”
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim has just published his first peer-reviewed paper in the journal, Anthropology of the Middle East, under the title “‘Men Don’t Cry Over Women’: Expressions of Love and Grief in Egyptian Popular Music.” He also presented his …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | AH 403 Pyramids to Minarets to Satellite Dishes: Cairo’s Art & Architecture
This spring, Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim will be teaching AH 403 *ONLINE*: “From Pyramids to Minarets to Satellite Dishes: Cairo’s Art & Architecture,” MWF 9:55–10:45am, humanities breadth and L&S credit. From Pyramids to Minarets to Satellite dishes, Cairo has evolved …
Student Spotlight: Özlem Eren Elected SHERA Grad Student Communications Fellow
Ph.D. student Özlem Eren has been elected as the SHERA (Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture) Graduate Student Communications Fellow for 2022–2024.
Last Day of Fall 2021 Semester Classes
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Spring 2022 Course Highlight | Latinx Art, Performance, and Visual Culture
Professor Paola S. Hernández will teach the seminar AH 802 “Latinx Art, Performance, and Visual Culture” in Spring 2022, Wednesdays, 2:30–5:00pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L166. Latinx artists—those of Latin American background in the US, either first …
Spring 2022 Course Highlight | Words about Images
Professor Jennifer Nelson will teach the seminar AH 500/800 “Words about Images” in Spring 2022, Mondays, 2:30–5:00pm, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L166. From Homer and Philostratus to John Ashbery and Robin Coste Lewis, poets within the …