Emeritus Professor Robert Linrothe will be giving the Rubin Museum Distinguished Lecture in Himalayan Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this December.
October 25, 2024 – from The Met
2024 News
October
Jessica Bell Brown (BA '09) will lead the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
October 24, 2024 – from Culture Type
Congratulation to Professor Jesús Escobar on being appointed as Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities for a five-year, renewable term.
October 1, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Thadeus Dowad on being appointed the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies for a three-year term.
October 1, 2024
September
Congratulations to Faye Gleisser (PhD 2016) and Emilie Boone (PhD 2016) whose books were shortlisted as finalists for the Smithsonian's prestigious Eldredge book prize.
September 12, 2024 – from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Y. L. Lucy Wang (BA ’16) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Carter Manny Writing Prize from the Graham Foundation.
September 12, 2024 – from Graham Foundation
Congratulations to Douglas Gabriel (PhD 2019) who will be joining the University of Florida as Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art.
September 12, 2024
July
Congratulations to 7 of our PhD students for successfully defending their dissertations in Spring and Summer 2024!
July 15, 2024
Maryam Athari (Jahani and the Worlding of Modern Iranian Art (1953-1979))
Jessy Bell (Infrastructures of Solidarity: Nation-Building and Worldmaking in Socialist Yugoslavia)
Caitlin DiMartino (Resplendent Darkness: Black Madonnas and the Making of Race in France and Spain, 1550-1750)
Benjamin Jones (What We Cain't Do: The Pedagogy of the Black Radical Aesthetic Tradition)
Tamar Kharatishvili (Technology as Refuge: Sonia Delaunay-Terk's Collaborative Intermediality, 1913-1937)
Brian Leahy (For Immediate Release: U.S. Contemporary Art and Exhibition Media Across the Long 1970s)
Alissa Schapiro (“Busy with Other News”: American Art, Visual Culture, and Antisemitism during World War II)
James Glisson (PhD '12) is named Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
July 2, 2024 – from Art Daily
June
Congratulations to Professor Jesús Escobar for being awarded Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2024-25.
June 11, 2024 – from Institute for Advanced Study
May
Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Zorach on being awarded the Ver Steeg Fellowship.
May 29, 2024 – from Northwestern Now
Elizabeth Dudley (BA '24) is featured in Northwestern Magazine for her art historical research on cottagecore.
May 13, 2024 – from Northwestern Magazine
April
Congratulations to Claire Dillon (BA '14) for her 2024-2025 Paul Mellon Rome Prize in Medieval Studies.
April 25, 2024
Claire is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia University. During her fellowship, she will reside at the American Academy in Rome to complete her dissertation, which examines silk production in medieval Sicily and studies hundreds of textile fragments attributed—or misattributed—to the island, reflecting their places in historiographies of the global Middle Ages.
Congratulations to Professor Krista Thompson, one of the 2024 recipients of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
April 11, 2024 – from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
March
Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Zorach on the publication of her new book, Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise.
March 1, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Christina Kiaer on the publication of her new book, Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism.
March 1, 2024
February
A stroll — and vigorous debate — along the Seine: Art history students reenact the 1937 Paris Expo
February 29, 2024 – from Northwestern Now
January
Bronwen Wilson (PhD '99) named Vice President of the Renaissance Society of America. Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art at UCLA.
January 4, 2024 – from Renaissance Society of America