Art History

    March 31, 2025

    Prof. Erin Pauwels to give Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchbag Seminar

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    The virtual lecture is Thursday, April 3, 12–1 PM ETIn her role as Terra Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of American Art, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Pauwels will be lecturing on her latest research, "Unsettled Ground: Richard Throssel’s Photographic Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation". Read More

    March 19, 2025

    Emma P. Holter (PhD candidate) awarded Kress Fellowship

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Emma has been awarded the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellowship hosted at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Warburg Institute! As a Kress Fellow, Emma will research and write her doctoral dissertation "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice," which is advised by Dr. Tracy E. Cooper. This highly competitive fellowship, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will offer Emma the opportunity to conduct object-based and archival research on 15th- and 16th-century Venetian drawings, underdrawings, and monochromatic paintings throughout museum collections in the UK and Europe.  Read More

    March 10, 2025

    Emma Holter (PhD candidate) interns at the Princeton University Art Museum

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Emma has been awarded the graduate summer internship in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. She will be assisting the curatorial team with provenance research, and with the organization of upcoming collection rotations and special exhibitions, in advance of the museum's reopening in the autumn of 2025. Read More

    February 4, 2025

    Tyler Art History at CAA 2025!

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Tyler is being well represented, by students and faculty at the CAA 2025 Annual Meeting. Congratulations to all!-Feb 12 (Wednesday)Li Machado (PhD candidate) is a discussant in the panel, "The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*Prof Leah Modigliani is presenting, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure” in the session Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes and the Urbanocene·Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship” in the session Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages-Feb 13 (Thursday) Read More

    February 4, 2025

    Alpesh Patel awarded grants and appointed on editorial committee

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Alpesh has received two research grants for his book project, which explores the conceptual overlaps among glass as a material, “trans” as a prefix, and decolonial theories: a British Paul Mellon Centre research grant to study the glass works (some of which incorporate lethal gas) of British-Pakistani Hamad Bhutt, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s, and a Danish Arts Foundation research grant to meet artists who take a decolonial thematic approach to glassblowing and other artmaking practices. Alpesh is currently on leave working on this book project. And, Alpesh was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee for Getty Research Journal. Read More

    January 24, 2025

    Michael Ernst (PhD candidate) Awarded Title VIII CRLT Fellowship

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Michael was accepted into the Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training (CRLT) Program and awarded a fellowship for his dissertation research in Azerbaijan. Included in the grant is funding for language instruction to further his Azerbaijani and Russian language skills while there. The Title VIII CRLT Fellowship is awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence & Research and administered through American Councils for International Education. photo: Michael and friends in 2022 at the Alinja Castle in Nakhchivan,  Azerbaijan Read More

    January 21, 2025

    Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans named next President of ASOR

    Author: Wanda Motley Odom

    Jane DeRose Evans, chair of Tyler's Art History Department was elected as the next President of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) by its Board of Trustees. She will serve as the President-elect during 2025, shadowing current President Sharon Herbert, and will work on developing ASOR’s strategic plan that is set to begin in 2026. Jane will step into her three-year term as President of ASOR in 2026. Read More

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