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Installation view, Amze Emmons: Playing the Grid
February 8, 2024

Recent Faculty Achievements Roundup

Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

Across disciplines and programs, Tyler's accomplished faculty have been curating and participating in exhibitions, writing and editing books and other publications, receiving recognition for their work through grants and awards, and more. Below is a roundup of their recent achievements and activities.  Read More

detail of Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul
February 1, 2024

Dr Emily Neumeier to speak at Harvard

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

This semester Dr. Emily Neumeier will be spending her sabbatical at Harvard University as a research fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. During this fellowship, she will be pursuing a new research project about practices of architectural restoration in Ottoman and Republican-era Istanbul, which she will discuss in an upcoming lecture on February 8. Neumeier has already begun investigating this topic in an essay that appears in her co-edited volume Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century, which comes out this month with Edinburgh University Press. Read More

Sutton Hoo belt buckle
January 30, 2024

Art History Department sponsors lecture: Dr. Rachel Vause

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Wednesday, February 21 5:30-6:45 p.m. Tyler B081 In her lecture Fabricating a Glittering Past: The Origins of the ‘Anglo-Saxons, Tyler alum Dr. Rachael Vause (MA '14) will discuss the art and archaeology of early English art, including the burial mound of Sutton Hoo, and amulets and cross pendants that reconstruct belief systems. An early medieval art historian, Vause holds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware.  This lecture is free and open to the public Read More

covers of books
January 30, 2024

Book Launch Party!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Join us for a party to celebrate the publications of three faculty members: Assoc. Prof. Leah Modigliani: Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City Assoc. Prof. Erin Pauwels: Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures Asst. Prof. Mariola Alvarez: The Affinity of Neoconcretism Feb 1 beginning at 6 Temple Contemporary; light refreshments provided Read More

Erin Pauwels
January 25, 2024

Associate Professor Erin Pauwels Appointed Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford

Author: Jordan Cameron

Erin Pauwels, PhD, Associate Professor of American Art and Undergraduate Advisor, has been appointed the 2024-25 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford.  During her professorship, Pauwels will teach an undergraduate course about American art from the 17th century to the present day. She will also teach a graduate course on how land, animals, and material resources have inspired the art and visual and material culture of the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Pauwels will also be a Visiting Fellow at Worcestor College during her time in Oxford, where she will deliver the annual Terra Lecture in American Art in spring 2025.  Read More

January 19, 2024

Maria de Lourdes Mariño (PhD candidate) publishes chapter on decolonizing art history

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Maria's chapter, “Decolonizing La Revolución: Cuban Artistic Practice in a Liminal Space” can be found in The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, edited by Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor Black (2024). Check it out here! https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Decolonizing-Art-Hi... Read More

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