Emilie Boone (PhD 2016) worked closely with the Met's Department of Photographs on the James Van Der Zee archive acquisition during her postdoc from 2018-2020
December 7, 2021 – from The New York Times
2021 News
December
Graduate Student Laurel Garber's exhibition on Emma Amos is featured in The New York Time's "Best Art Exhibitions of 2021"
December 7, 2021 – from The New York Times
October
Marc Cordero ’22 and Vitoria Faria ’23 appointed Art History Representatives to the WCAS Student Advisory Board
October 4, 2021
The department has chosen two student leaders to serve as Art History Representatives to the WCAS Student Advisory Board. Marc Cordero, a senior from Hinsdale, Illinois, is majoring in Art History and pursuing an Entrepreneurship minor. His art history interests include Art Nouveau and Mexican Muralism. Vitoria Faria, a junior from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is majoring in Art History and Economics. She enjoys studying the Dutch Golden Age and connections between Brazil and the Atlantic world in the early modern period.
August
Art History major Joni Rosenberg interviews Professor Escobar about research during the time of COVID for the Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
August 9, 2021 – from Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
Undergraduate alumna Meghan Considine's "Knowledge and Wonder's Place, Policy, and Publics: Kerry James Marshall and the Henry E. Legler Library's Percent-for-Art Commission"
August 8, 2021 – from Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal
July
The department welcomes Thadeus Dowad, joining us in the fall
July 30, 2021
June
Professor Christina Kiaer will be appointed to the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professorship starting September 1, 2021
June 21, 2021
The Andersen Professorship was established with a gift from the Arthur Andersen Foundation as part of the Great Teachers Campaign.
May
This fall the department will welcome a new faculty member, Antawan Byrd
May 24, 2021 – from Northwestern Department of Art History
Emeritus Professor David Van Zanten's book “Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste Duc, and Vaudoyer” is now available at MIT’s open access collection
May 10, 2021 – from MIT Press Direct
April
Risa Puleo named 2021-2022 Franke Graduate Fellow by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
April 27, 2021 – from Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Rebecca Zorach named 2021-2022 Kaplan Faculty Fellow by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
April 27, 2021 – from Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Scott Miller (PhD 2020) presents at The Met's Virtual Spring Fellows Colloquia on May 6
April 9, 2021 – from The Met
Douglas Gabriel (PhD 2019) awarded Getty Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History
April 7, 2021 – from American Council of Learned Societies
February
Undergraduate alumna Lois Biggs awarded a 2020-21 Fulbright Fellowship
February 23, 2021
(Scroll down: Lois is third on the linked page)
The book for Alissa Schapiro's co-curated exhibition wins CAA's 2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award
February 11, 2021
The book for graduate student Alissa Schapiro's co-curated exhibition, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, wins CAA's 2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for museum publication of the year.
January
Liza Oliver (PhD 2014) is a finalist for CAA’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
January 21, 2021 – from CAA