October 31, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Danielle Abdon's (PhD 2019) dissertation. "Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration", was given the 2019-2020 Carter Manny Writing Citation.
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October 20, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali Printz has completed a 21' by 17' mural in Thomas, West Virginia, called Carrie Williams: Saint of Coketon, in honor of a little-known early civil rights Supreme Court case in West Virginia in the late 19th century. Carrie Williams was a black school teacher at the Coketon Colored School (part of a coal camp) in the 1890s in Tucker County, WV and after local politicians cut the school year for black students in half and cut pay for black teachers, she hired JR Clifford to represent her in the case. Clifford was the first black attorney in WV and also a founder of the Niagara movement and friend of WEB Dubois, and he won the landmark case which led to equal pay and representation for black students and teachers in WV. Unfortunately because this happened in WV, it is little known to the rest of the country.
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October 16, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Marlise Brown (PhD candidate, AH) has authored "Architecture in 18th-century Germany" for SmartHistory. Check it out here: https://smarthistory.org/architecture-18th-century-germany/
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August 15, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Two MA candidates in the Arts Administration track are the first non-Fox students to win a spot in the Fox Board Fellows program. In order to complete the requirements for their degrees, Lucy Mason will serve on the board of Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Sara Potts is working on a board project for the Brandywine Workshop and Archive. Both are from the first class of MAs who will be receiving an MA in the newly revised Arts Administration track.
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July 20, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Jane DeRose Evans, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology has been reappointed as Chair of the Art History Department for a second three-year term through the academic year 2022–23. Under Professor Evans’s leadership, the department has expanded the breadth of its curriculum, transformed the MA Track in Arts Management to reflect current trends, and spearheaded capital improvements to the art history facilities.
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July 10, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Bethany Farrell, Department of Art History PhD Candidate, will continue her fellowship at American Philosophical Society Library & Museum through a NEH CARES Grant. The grant supports the expansion of a digital humanities project on Benjamin Franklin's account books, which Bethany has developed in the past ten months. The American Philosophical Society was one of 317 institutions that received the NEH CARES Grant out of 2,300 applicants. The official announcment is here: https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/aps-receives-neh-cares-grant-support-staf...
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July 1, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali's article, "The Modernist Appalachian Aesthetic: The Art of Patty Willis can be found in the Spring 2020 (vol. 6.1) edition. It grew out of a seminar paper she developed in Dr. Pauwel's American Modernisms graduate seminar, and she developed it for a SECAC talk in 2018.
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June 8, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Marina (PhD candidate, Art History) will be using the funding to conduct fieldwork necessary for her dissertation research. In particular, she will now be supported for travel to Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia, as soon as travel restrictions are lifted.
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June 4, 2020
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Congratulations to the awardees of the Dr. Marcia Hall Art History Research Awards
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