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2022-2023 History of Art Newsletter

2022-2023 History of Art Newsletter

The Department of the History of Art is delighted to share the 2022-2023 newsletter. Find out what’s new with faculty, students, alumni, and more! View it here.

James Pilgrim (PhD 2020) joins faculty of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Pilgrim (PhD 2020) has joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) as Assistant Professor of Art History. Prior to joining UIUC, Dr. Pilgrim was co-organizer […]

Beinecke Scholarship to support rising senior’s study of indigenous art history

Beinecke Scholarship to support rising senior’s study of indigenous art history

Kendra Brewer earns scholarship that funds graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social science.

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 […]