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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

Jennifer Stager

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

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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

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 […]


Doctoral student to join Getty Museum Graduate Internship program

In the coming year, Ben Allsopp, a graduate student in the department, will gain curatorial experience through the Getty Museum Graduate Internship program. He will be working within the Manuscripts […]


HOA Major Kendra Brewer Receives Beinkeke Scholarship

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Congratulations to Kendra Brewer (Class of 2024), who has received a prestigious Beineke Fellowship to support her future pursuit of graduate school! Kendra is a double-major in History of Art and […]


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

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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 […]