Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, a recent doctoral graduate who most recently held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI), has joined the faculty at the University of Rochester […]

Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, recent doctoral graduate, has been appointed a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Dr. Rodríguez Tejuca’s research centers […]

This summer Mitch Merback launched his pseudo-blog, “The Consolation of Wisdom,” on the online platform Substack (https://mitchmerback.substack.com/). Sharing its title with his forthcoming book, the site is currently hosting serial installments in […]

Modernism in Relation: KCS Paniker’s Written Pictures (Getty), has been awarded two prestigious publication grants: the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center Publication Grant from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association.

Last May, PhD candidate Celia Rodríguez Tejuca was inducted as a Junior Fellow of the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB), based at Rare Book […]

Nino Zchomelidse, Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, and Carsten Jahnke, Associate Professor of Medieval History at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, […]

Nino Zchomelidse, Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, will give a lecture on aesthetics of illusion and authenticity in Ottonian legal documents at […]

The Department is pleased to announce Professor Caroline Lillian Schopp‘s book, forthcoming in November 2025 with the University of Chicago Press, In-action: Viennese Actionism and the Passivities of Performance Art.

The Department of History of Art extends its congratulations to sophomore Frances Leiter, who has secured an internship at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage this summer. We […]