News
Friday, June 2nd
Dr. Kate E. Cowcher, a scholar of the art of Africa during the Cold War and 2017 graduate of Stanford University, has been named by the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection as the 2017-2018 Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History. Dr. Cowcher's revelatory work focuses on the art of the Ethiopian revolution and the negotiation of artists there... [more]
Wednesday, May 31st
Caroline Shields, who recently completed her Ph.D. in the Department under the direction of Professor June Hargrove, has been named Assistant Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Congratulations Dr. Shields, and good luck in your new job!
Monday, May 15th
The Smithsonian Instiution recently announced Fellowship Appointments for the 2017-2018 academic year. Among the awardees, Danielle O'Steen is the recipient of the highly competitive and prestigious Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, which will enable her to... [more]
Monday, May 1st
Eleanor "Ellie" Stoltzfus has been named an Outstanding Graduate Assistant by the Graduate School for 2017. Ellie, who worked this academic year as the Writing and Research Advisor for undergraduate students taking upper-level courses in the Department, impressed the Graduate School selection... [more]
Monday, April 24th
Professor Meredith Gill will lecture on Friday, April 28th at 3:30 pm at the National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall. The lecture, "Flights of Angels: The Heavenly Orders of the Renaissance," draws on material from Professor Gill's book, Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance, copies of which she will sign following the lecture.... [more]
Monday, April 24th
Caroline Shields, who successfully defended her dissertation "Objects of Memory: Paul Gauguin and Still-Life Painting, 1880-1901," has been awarded the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Arts and Humanities for 2016. Caroline and her dissertation advisor, Professor June Hargrove, will attend the Graduate School's Eighth Annual awards ceremony in early May to... [more]
Wednesday, March 15th
The Digital Art History Lab Committee, created to report on the proceedings of the symposium "Art History in Digital Dimensions," which was held at the University of Maryland and The Phillips Collection last fall (October 2016) with support from The Getty Foundation and The Samuel H.
Wednesday, March 1st
Graduate assistant Molly Harrington caught up with the postdoctoral fellows at the UMD Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection, Dr. Max Rosenberg in Modern and Contemporary Art History, and Dr. Nicole Riesenberger (a 2016 graduate of... [more]
Monday, February 6th
As part of its partnership with the Phillips Collection, the University of Maryland offers the University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize, which supports the publication of a first book by an emerging scholar.
Sunday, January 29th
Two summers ago, Professor Emily Egan was in Pylos, mainland Greece, as she has been every summer for many years, with a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Jack Davis and Dr. Sharon Stocker, a husband and wife pair of archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati. The entire team could not have imagined early in that season that they would discover a tomb, known now as the Griffin Warrior Tomb... [more]
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