News
Dr. Abayomi Ola to join the Department as a Frederick Burkhardt ACLS Residential Fellow (2019-2020)!
Friday, July 12th
The Department is delighted to welcome Dr. Abayomi Ola (Associate Professor of Art History, Spelman College) for a year-long residency, beginning in late August.
Dr. Ola will be completing his study, Lines of Dissent in Anglophone West Africa, while collaborating with colleagues across campus, including specialists in Anthropology, African and African Diaspora studies, as well as those... [more]
Tuesday, June 18th
The Department is pleased to share the good news that two of its faculty, Dr. Joshua Shannon and Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese, recently were promoted, respectively, to Professor and Associate Professor.
Thursday, June 13th
Dr. Alison Boyd, a scholar studying the intersection of multiple modernities in American and European art with a focus on the arts of the African diaspora, the politics of display, and gender theory, has been named by the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection as the 2019-2020 Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History. Dr. Boyd completed her Ph.D in Art... [more]
Monday, June 10th
The Department is delighted to announce the Professor Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award. Thanks to an extremely generous gift from an anonymous donor, the endowed award will provide annual funds for undergraduate students in the Department so that they may supplement and/or cover costs associated with experiential learning opportunities. The award is named for Professor Mark... [more]
Wednesday, May 22nd
Professor Jordana Moore Saggese, who just completed her first year here at Maryland on faculty, is profiled in the latest edition of CAA News, covering her teaching philosophy, scholarly work, and her approach to editing the Art Journal (the spring edition of which should be in mailboxes soon!). We're so proud to have her here with us. Check it out!... [more]
Friday, April 19th
For his dissertation "Monumental Endeavors: Sculpting History in Southeastern Europe, 1960–2016," completed this past fall, Raino Isto has been awarded the 2018 Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award in the disciplinary area of Humanities and Fine Arts. The Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the... [more]
Wednesday, March 27th
The Michelle Smith Collaboratory has been awarded one of the 2019 University of Maryland Social Justice Day Awards. Writing the notice of award, Linda Aldoory, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, wrote: "Congratulations! The Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture has been selected as an awardee of a University of Maryland 2019 Social Justice Day Award!
Monday, March 25th
Assistant Professor Maryl Gensheimer's first book, "Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla," has been published by Oxford University Press. According to the press website, "Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of... [more]
Caroline Shields (PhD 2017) curates "Impressionism in the Age of Industry" at Art Gallery of Ontario
Monday, March 11th
Dr. Caroline Shields, Assistant Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated the newly-opened "Impressionism in the Age of Industry," which is winning a great deal of praise for its intelligent hang, educational programming, and the abundance of art historical insights the show provides visitors. Particularly clever and attractive is a guide to the exhibition that reads as a... [more]
Monday, February 11th
The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently hired Michael Vetter (Ph.D., UMD '18) as curator of modern and contemporary art. Congratulations Michael!
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