Notable Alumni
2023
Michael Feinberg (Ph.D., 2023; M.A., 2018)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Hamilton College
Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D., 2023)
Assistant Professor of History of Art, Ohio State University
Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D., 2023)
Assistant Professor, Art History, Oklahoma State University
Young Kim (Ph.D., 2023)
English-language lecturer, Ewha Womans University, Seoul. Lecturer, Dankook University, Seoul.
Caitlin Lenox (M.A., 2023)
Artifact Cataloging Project Researcher, Wangensteen Historical Library, University of Minnesota
2022 Douglas Schewe Award Winner
2022
Sara Champlin (Ph.D., 2022)
Executive Assistant, Quarra Stone Company, LLC
Amy J. Hughes (Ph.D., 2022)
Cortney Anderson Kramer (Ph.D., 2022)
Project Manager, Epic
2021
Katie Elizabeth Apsey (Ph.D., 2021)
Associate Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Samantha Comerford (M.A., 2021)
Development Officer, Corporate Engagement, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Jessica A. Cooley (Ph.D., 2021)
ACLS Postdoctoral Associate at the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, University of Minnesota
2021 Transforming the Discipline Graduate Research Award Winner
Mark Dieter (Ph.D., 2021)
Noah Mapes (B.A., 2021)
Current Ph.D. student at Cornell
Iwanter Prize Winner
Kyungso Min (Ph.D., 2021)
2022 Transforming the Discipline Graduate Research Award Winner
Marguerite E. H. Lenius (M.A., 2010; Ph.D., 2021)
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History, Department in the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza (Ph.D., 2021)
Assistant Professor of Africana Visual Culture at Davidson College
Taylor Leigh Scofield (B.A., 2021, double major with Political Science)
Iwanter Prize Honorable Mention
Morgan Lemmer Weber (Ph.D., 2021)
Lindsay Wells (Ph.D., 2021)
2017 Douglas Schewe Award Winner
2021–23 Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles
2023 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship
2020
Anna Betz (M.A., 2020)
Interim School Manager and Teaching Artist at the Ballet Co. Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN.
Developing an original ballet based on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Mya Frieze (M.A., 2020; dual-degree program with SLIS)
Associate Course Director of Art History at Full Sail University, Orlando, FL
Content Manager, Different Visions, Medieval Art History Journal
2019
Peter Bovenmyer (Ph.D., 2019)
Art Director, ARTS for ALL Wisconsin
Sophia Maxine Farmer (Ph.D., 2019, M.A., 2014)
Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor of Art History, Art and Design Department at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
2017
Susan Curtis (Ph.D., 2017), author of Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel
2015
Marcela Guerrero (Ph.D., 2015), DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
2014
Linde Brady Lehtinen (Ph.D., 2014; M.A., 2005)
Curator of Photography, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
2010
Lydia Melamed Johnson (B.A., 2010; certificate in European Studies)
Executive Director, AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers)
Director, The Photography Show
Board of Visitors, Department of Art History, UW–Madison
2005
Antje Gamble (B.A., 2005)
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Murray State University
Drew Sawyer (B.A., 2005; dual Economics major)
Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Arts Editor for Document Journal.
2003
Katherine Baker (B.A., 2003)
Associate Professor of Art History, Arkansas State University
1984
Vivien Green Fryd (Ph.D., 1984)
Professor Emerita of History of Art, American and Contemporary Art, Vanderbilt University