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Rebecca Brown to deliver memorial lecture at Towson University’s Lain Singh Bangdel exhibition

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Rebecca Brown will give the memorial lecture honoring the late John G. Ford and connected to an on-going exhibition Nepali artist Lain Singh Bangdel at Towson University’s Asian Arts and Culture […]


Antioch Recovery Project joins Sheridan Libraries digital scholarship

fragment of a mosaic showing Narcissus. Large sections are missing.

The Antioch Recovery Project is an ongoing research lab dedicated to the study of mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes and its surroundings. Led by Jennifer Stager, the project works in collaboration with a number of experts at Hopkins and in the Baltimore area, as well as with the global community of Antioch researchers.


Congratulations to new PhDs Allsopp and Maceross

Sir John Mandeville. Picture Book of Sir John Mandeville’s Travels. ca. 1410. https://jstor.org/stable/community.10624337

On November 11, Ben Allsopp successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Contact Points: Passion Relics and Painting in Venice c. 1470-1530.” Later that month, Ben visited the J. Paul Getty Museum […]


“Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia” Featured in Apollo’s “Off the Shelf”

Dessert monument. Reconstructed ziggurat at Ur, Iraq.

Marian Feldman’s forthcoming book, Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy during the Ur III Period, has been included in Apollo’s […]


Elizabeth Cropper explores the stories Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi

Lavinia Fontana, Self-portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant (1577). Oil on canvas, 27 x 24 cm. Accademia di San Luca, Rome

Elizabeth Cropper, Professor Emeritus, delivered a lecture at Florida State University, Tallahassee in February 2025, that is now reaching a wider audience through digital publication. The lecture, titled “Fathers and […]


Daniel Weiss to lead Philadelphia Art Museum

Daniel Weiss to take the reins of the Philadelphia Art Museum as the George D. Widener Director and CEO, effective December 1, 2025.


Congratulations to PhD Candidate Ella Gonzalez on Her New ASAP/Review Article

We’re pleased to share that Ella Gonzalez, a PhD candidate in the History of Art program, has published a new review in ASAP/Review. Her article, “Marlene Dumas’ Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic Museum […]


Caroline Lillian Schopp to Deliver Keynote Address at University of Illinois Bloomington Conference

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The Theory, Theater, Performance program of the University of Indiana Bloomington has invited Prof. Schopp to give a keynote lecture at their Second Annual Graduate Student Conference, Afterlives and Otherlives: […]


Department News: Clare Kemmerer and Ariela Algaze Awarded Museum Fellowships

The department is proud to celebrate two graduate students for their fellowship appointments. Clare Kemmerer has been named the Carlson-Cowart Fellow at the Prints and Drawings Department of the Baltimore […]


Ünver Rüstem named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Ünver Rüstem is currently at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) as a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow. During […]