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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 […]

Emma Andersson on Beirut in the 60s

Emma Andersson on Beirut in the 60s

Emma Andersson‘s term paper for in Rebecca Brown‘s class, Modern and Contemporary Art in the Middle East and South Asia (Fall 2021), was just published in an undergraduate e-journal, Apollon, a […]

Doctoral student awarded grant by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Doctoral student awarded grant by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Rachel Young, a graduate student in the department, was awarded a PhD grant through the Gerda Henkel Stiftung to support research and travel for her dissertation, titled “Picturing Medium: Contours […]

Seeing Color in Classical Art, a new book by Professor Jennifer Stager

Seeing Color in Classical Art, a new book by Professor Jennifer Stager

The History of Art is delighted to announce that Professor Jennifer Stager’s book “Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theory, Practice, and Reception, from Antiquity to the Present” (Cambridge University Press, 2022), already available […]