2018 News
December
November
Professor Huey Copeland appointed to the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professorship
September
Erin Reitz (PhD, 2017) named Assistant Professor in Art History at UIUC
In the fall of 2019, Erin Reitz will join the faculty of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor of American Art. Next year, Reitz will head to Brown University, where she has been named a 2018-2019 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellow.
Statement on Department’s Commitment to Openness and Inclusion
Julia Oswald awarded Samuel H. Kress Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art
Julia will spend the first year of the fellowship conducting research overseas. During the second year, she will be in residence at CASVA to complete her dissertation and to work part-time on curatorial projects.
August
Aisha Motlani wins dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women
Aisha Motlani wins 2018-2019 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Founded in 1881, the AAUW is one of the oldest and largest non-institutional sources of funding for graduate women. Aisha will use the fellowship to complete her dissertation titled “Crisis and Innovation: Visualizing the 1857 Indian Rebellion."