Featured 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)
Assistant Curator, Corning Museum of Glass
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
Holly Rubalcava (Ph.D., 2021)
Assistant Professor of Art History at Missouri Western State University
Taylor Leigh Scofield (B.A., 2021, double major with Political Science)
Iwanter Prize Honorable Mention
Christy Wahl (Ph.D., 2021; M.A., 2013) Associate Editor, Bloomsbury Art Market, Bloomsbury Academic
Morgan Lemmer Weber (Ph.D., 2021)
Executive Director, World History Association
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)
Project Coordinator, Integrated Art Group, LLC
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
Sarah Anne Stolte (Ph.D., 2019)
Lecturer, Art Department, Edgewood College
Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2018
Daniel Cochran (Ph.D., 2018)
Associate Pastor, Hinsdale United Methodist Church
Author of Building the Body of Christ: Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique Italy (Fortress Academic Press, 2020)
River Encalada Bullock (Ph.D., 2018)
Collections Specialist, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
2017
Susan Curtis (Ph.D., 2017)
Author of Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel
Lex Lancaster (Ph.D., 2017)
Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Caitlin Silberman (Ph.D., 2017)
Archives Specialist, Lawrence Livermore National Library
Matthew J. Westerby (Ph.D., 2017)
Digital Resource Officer at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art.
2015
Marcela Guerrero (Ph.D., 2015; M.A. 2005), DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Berit Ness (M.A., 2015)
Assistant Curator for Academic Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art
Sarah Fayen Scarlett (Ph.D., 2015)
Associate Professor of History at Michigan Technological University
2014
Linde Brady Lehtinen (Ph.D., 2014; M.A., 2005)
Curator of Photography, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Matthew Francis Rarey (Ph.D., 2014; M.A., 2008) Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History, Oberlin College
2024 College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Winner
2020 Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence
Beth A. Zinsli (Ph.D., 2014; M.A., 2007)
Curator, Wriston Art Galleries at Lawrence University
2013
Cory Pillen (Ph.D., 2013)
Director of Center of Southwest Studies and Associate Professor of Art History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fort Lewis College
Author of WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context: A New Deal for Design (Routledge, 2020)
2012
Marsely Kehoe, (Ph.D., 2012; M.A., 2006)
Author of Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
Amy L. Powell (Ph.D., 2012; M.A., 2007)
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2011
Jordi Falgàs (Ph.D., 2011)
Director of the Fundació Rafael Masó in Girona, Spain
Andrea M. Truitt (M.A., 2011)
Community Relations Manager, Summer of the Arts, Iowa City
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
2009
Nichole N. Bridges (Ph.D., 2009; M.A., 2002)
Mortan D. May Curator for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Saint Louis Art Museum
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.
2004
Liz McGoey (B.A., 2004)
Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Curator, Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago
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
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