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Fall 2020 Course Highlight: AH/ASIAN 379/779 “Cities of Asia”
Professor Preeti Chopra will be teaching her much anticipated course AH 379/779: Cities of Asia MW 5:30–6:45pm. This semester long survey course, presents a historical overview of the built environment of the cities of Asia from …
Faculty News: Affiliate Assoc. Prof. Sarah Anne Carter Named Executive Director of the CDMC
Art History Affiliate Professor Sarah Anne Carter will serve as Executive Director of the Center for Design and Material Culture and Associate Professor of Design Studies in the School of Human Ecology beginning Fall 2021.
Student Spotlight: Travis Olson (PhD Student) Awarded Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD Student Travis Olson for being awarded the 2020 HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP)! Since the HDP office is still on an all-telework schedule due to COVID-19, …
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: AH 355 “History & Theory of Photography”
This fall, PhD Candidate Kyungso Min will be teaching AH 355: History & Theory of Photography on Tuesday/Thursdays 2:30–3:45pm. This is a FIRST YEAR FRIENDLY course!
Student Spotlight: Art History Dept. Hosts Alt-Ac Career Roundtable
This past week, Graduate Student Coordinator Prof. Thomas Dale organized a roundtable entitled “Alternative Careers and Strategies for Art History Graduates.” Art History alumni who have careers outside of academia were invited by Prof. Dale …
Faculty News: Professor Andrzejewski Leads New Workshop
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski (along with co-PI Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, English) has been awarded funding for a new Mellon-Borghesi Workshop at the Center for the Humanities for 2020–21. “Greener Pastures” developed in response to an urgent crisis in Wisconsin’s livestock …
Fall 2020 Course Highlight: AH 300 Art & Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Professor Nick Cahill will be teaching AH 300: Art & Archaeology of Ancient Greece TTh 9:30-10:45am. This is a First Year Friendly course and is open to all students with no prerequisites.
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Alumni Update: Peter Bovenmyer Discusses Florentine Manuscript for Les Enluminures
Peter Bovenmyer (PhD, 2019), gallery manager at Les Enluminures in Chicago, discusses an early Florentine humanistic manuscript from the important scriptorium of S. Maria degli Angeli, the artistic home of Lorenzo Monaco and Fra Angelico. This video is …