Professor Jill Casid delivers the keynote on “Doing Things with Being Undone” at the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Visual Culture in London September 13th to 15th. Taking up the issues surrounding …
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Michelle Prestholt wins Schewe Award
The department is pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Schewe Award for Best Graduate Student Paper (2017-18) is Michelle Prestholt. Michelle’s paper is entitled “Oppositional Identities: The Monstrous Peoples at Vezelay and …
Memorial celebration honors the late Prof. Menocal August 25
A Memorial celebrating Narciso’s extraordinary life was held on Saturday, August 25 at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, in Madison. A reception followed from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Fluno Center, 601 …
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
“Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths,” organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, will examine how the smith’s craft extends from the production of the most basic of domestic tools to the creation …
Professor Casid delivers Berlin lecture
As part of the lecture series Intensify Desire at the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Freie Universitat in Berlin organized by Christian Liclair and Susanne Huber, Professor Casid presented, “Queer Deformativity: Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, …
2018 Undergraduate Prize Winners
The Department is pleased to announce the winners of our 2018 Undergraduate Prizes. Hoyon Mephokee wins the Warfield Family Essay Prize for his paper (written for Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s seminar), “Exploring the Exotic: …
Andrzejewski’s new Florida research
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski presented her paper on vacation/retirement communities built by the Mackle Company in Florida at the 2018 meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 5. She envisions this as …
Christy Wahl awarded DAAD grant
Christy Wahl, Ph.D. Candidate, has been awarded a research grant through the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst or DAAD). This generous grant, funded by the German government and the European Union, provides …
Another Fellowship for Lindsay Wells
In Fall 2018 Lindsay Wells will research her dissertation on Victorian indoor gardening and the Aesthetic Movement at the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University. Lindsay looks forward to encountering the resident spirit who …
Student Wins Hilldale Fellowship
Art History undergraduate student Hayley Huston has received a prestigious Hilldale Fellowship to conduct research during summer 2018. Her advisor, Prof. Yuhang Li, is supervising progress on Hayley’s honor thesis entitled “Transmedia …