News
Wednesday, July 26th
Dr. Sarah Mellott Cadagin, a 2017 Ph.D. graduate of the Department, has been named professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Cadagin, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, will begin teaching in September. The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) was founded in 1978 in Savannah, Georgia, and now has additional campuses in Atlanta; Lacoste... [more]
Tuesday, July 25th
Two recent graduates of the Department's Ph.D. program, Steven J. Cody (2015) and Alexandra Libby (2014), are published in the latest issue of artibus et historiae... [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.
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