News & Announcements Archive

The Zanvyl Krieger Curatorial Fellowship / The Walters Art Museum

Fellowship announcement The Zanvyl Krieger Curatorial Fellowship at the Walters Art Museum is designed to provide curatorial and museum training for an advanced graduate student (a Ph.D. candidate in good […]

Daniel Weiss returns to Johns Hopkins

Daniel Weiss returns to Johns Hopkins

The History of Art department is thrilled to welcome our alumnus and former Professor and Chair, Dan Weiss, back to the department and to Gilman Hall as Homewood Professor of the Humanities.

PhD Student receives Fulbright to examine Caryatids and Women’s Labor in Greece

PhD Student receives Fulbright to examine Caryatids and Women’s Labor in Greece

 As a Fulbright grantee to Greece, Ella Gonzalez will be based in Athens for the 2023-2024 academic year. She will conduct research for her dissertation, provisionally titled “Bearing Weight: Caryatids […]

2023 PhD to join Philadelphia Museum of Art

Emily Friedman, 2023 PhD, has been awarded the Suzanne Andree Curatorial Fellowship in Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is currently the Consulting Curator at the Vanderbilt University […]

Uncovering the Myths of Leonardo

Uncovering the Myths of Leonardo

Professor Stephen J. Campbell’s most recent book, Da Vinci Worlds: Towards an Anti-biography of Leonardo, was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Arts and Sciences Magazine. Campbell wants us to focus on the Leonardo da Vinci we know, not the way we imagine him.

Doctoral student awarded Fulbright-Hays to study avant-garde group in Poland

Jason Mientkiewicz is currently completing a draft of his dissertation in Warsaw with the support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award. In Poland he is researching Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław […]

“Gender Violence, Art and the Viewer” receives support from Millard Meiss Publication Fund

The Spring 2023 grantees of the Millard Meiss Publication Fund from the College Art Association includes History of Art graduate student Ella Gonzalez, whose project Gender Violence, Art and the […]

Collecting the Americas in the Museums of Rome

Morgan Brown is a rising Junior undergraduate majoring in the History of Art and Archaeology and minoring in Visual Arts. She will be completing a research project titled “Collecting the Americas: A […]

Professor Jennifer Stager receives 2023 catalyst award

Professor Jennifer Stager receives 2023 catalyst award

Congratulations to Jennifer Stager who has been selected as a 2023 Catalyst Award Recipient. Granted by the Office of the Provost, the Catalyst Award “recognizes the work of exceptional early-career investigators who […]

In Memoriam: John Austen Stokes, Jr

The History of Art Department mourns the loss of our longtime friend and supporter, John Austen Stokes, Jr., on April 20, 2023. Mr. Stokes, with his wife Marisol, generously shared […]