News
Friday, January 17th
The Department is delighted to announce that Miguel Resendiz is the inaugural winner of the Mark H. Sandler Endowed Undergraduate Experience Award! This award provides annual funds for undergraduate students in the Department so that they may supplement and/or cover the financial costs associated with experiential learning opportunities such as internships and research or service learning.
Saturday, January 4th
At the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Ella Breden, a senior major in the Department, presented "Re-Inventing the (Potter's) Wheel: Modeling 3D Vessels from 2D Drawings" at the poster session, for which she earned First Runner-Up (out of thirty, mostly professional entrants). Ella's poster, on which she collaborated closely with Christian Cloke, Associate Director... [more]
Thursday, October 24th
It is with sadness that we must observe the passing of Dr. Marie Spiro, Associate Professor Emerita, Late Roman and Early Christian Art and Archaeology. A devoted scholar and teacher, Dr. Spiro was a lively and memorable presence for many years in the Department, combining her sharp eye and razor wit with years of field experience in the Mediterranean to expose students to the wonders of ancient-... [more]
Monday, October 21st
Monday, September 2nd
Thanks to an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad awarded by the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Arts (CASVA), Abby Eron was able to travel this summer to Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland) and explore the landscapes, cityscapes, and cultural contexts of the turn of the twentieth-century Symbolist movement, which is the... [more]
Tuesday, August 27th
Bart Pushaw (PhD, University of Maryland) has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship as part of the Art of Nordic Colonialism project, "which brings together researchers, curators and artists working on art and visual culture related to Nordic colonial projects in the Caribbean, West Africa, India, Greenland, Iceland, and Sápmi." In January Bart will join a team of researchers from... [more]
Monday, August 19th
Marco Polo Juárez, who will start the PhD program this fall under the direction of Professor Abigail McEwen, has been awarded a four-year grant supporting the research of Mexican graduate students focusing on the Fine Arts.... [more]
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]
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