The Doctorate (PhD) in Art History program at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University provides the broad-based training needed for teaching, research and curatorial positions at the highest levels of the discipline.

Tyler doctoral students work with faculty with diverse and global areas of expertise, including new and emergent digital technologies, with specialists in the ancient Mediterranean; the Islamic world; Renaissance and Baroque Italy, Spain and Germany; modern and contemporary art, especially in North and Latin America; and the art of the African diaspora in the Caribbean. Tyler’s Art History PhD program is small; each student’s primary advisor is committed to providing one-on-one mentorship and career development.

At Tyler, graduate students have access to both the intimacy and collaborative spirit of a world-class school of art and architecture—with opportunities to study side-by-side with artists and designers—and the resources of a large, public, comprehensive, Research-1 university. Students can supplement their Art History PhD with Temple’s Teaching in Higher Education Certificate, Temple’s Cultural Analytics Graduate Certificate, arts management coursework from Tyler and more.

Tyler students students take full advantage of the extraordinary research opportunities opened up by Tyler’s location in Philadelphia—an affordable and vibrant center of art, culture and history strategically situated near New York, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore—and at Temple University Rome, a leading center for interdisciplinary research and study abroad (fellowships are available).

NOTE: GREs are optional; please do note that if you submit your GRE scores to the department, they are automatically included in the application for University Fellows.

For more information, contact Assistant Professor Mariola Alvarez at mariola.alvarez@temple.edu.