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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

January 15, 2024

Dr Alice M. Rudy Price obtains research grant

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Alice M. Rudy Price (PhD 2014, Adj, Asst. Prof.) funding for six months of research in Denmark from May to December 2025. This funding will support catalogue research for a 2026–2027 art exhibition, "Aging Bodies, Mature Careers," hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and Skovgaard Museet in Denmark. Read More

January 10, 2024

Dr. Megan Pignaturo-Reddicks (2024) publishes article

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Megan's work, "Divesting and Dismembering: Storage Findings in the Disassembly of Armor" was co-authored with Livingston Bailin and Chassica Kirchhoff and was the result of a grant from the Detroit Institute of Arts. You can find the article in the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, v. 97, n. 1 (2023), p. 66-83. Read More

December 12, 2023

Luke Pelcher (BA anticipated 2024) publishes article

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Luke's article, "The Spanish Imposition of the Grid-Pattern Town upon its Mesoamerican Colonies and How it Disrupted Native Space, Analyzed Through the Maps of the “Relaciones Geográficas”" was published in asterisk*: yale undergraduate journal of art & art history issue 7 fall 2023. Find it here: https://www.asteriskjournal.org/fall-2023  Congratulations to Luke for his original work! Read More

December 12, 2023

Mapping the Global Middle Ages: undergraduate Storymap project

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Students in the upper-level Art History class, the Global Middle Ages, taught by Dr. Joseph Kopta have produced an impressive story about the period between 1000 to 1400, across the globe. Check it out here: https://storymaps.com/stories/865221256e654f1798f03cb2fcdae5de  Read More

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