(NEW YORK) — As a result of a dramatic escalation in political censorship, more than half the students at U.S. colleges and universities now study in a state with at least one law…
Edited volume Contextualizing Pompeiopolis Urban Development in Roman Anatolia from a Comparative Perspective, co-edited by Visiting Assistant Professor Peri Johnson, alongside with Julia M. Koch and Lâtife Summerer (2025) is published by De…
Congratulations to Art History PhD candidate Julian Adoff, who just published his article titled “Jewish Modernity in Multiplicity Maurycy Gottlieb’s Dialectically Hybrid Jewish/Polish National Identity” in the international, peer-reviewed open access e-journal Belvedere…
A Very Strange Comparison Blake Stimson Pages 266-289 | Published online: 19 Dec 2025 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03087298.2025.2588922 Abstract Building on what Étienne Balibar calls the ‘very strange’ comparison of wage labour with chattel slavery ‘central’…
Modern Art: An Introduction (Chicago) Instructor: Hannah Gadbois Twelve Ten Gallery 1104 West Thorndale Avenue Chicago, IL 60660 From Claude Monet’s ethereal waterlilies to Jackson Pollock’s turbulent drip paintings, modern art is marked…
Panel: Modernity Framed: The Politics of Art Through the Lens of Economy and Class Struggle in Iran Between Revolutions November 24, 2025 Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC (November 22-25) Chair…
This is a dire moment to enter the work force. It is a perfect moment to spend four to seven years acquiring rare and valuable skills before entering a work force which will…
Assistant Professor Riad Kherdeen will be giving a paper titled “The Ghosts of Morocco’s Agadir Earthquake,” at the Historical Materialism Conference 2025 held at SOAS in London. He is on a panel called…
As director of the National Public Housing Museum, Lisa Yun Lee ’91 is challenging narratives about public housing and reimagining the idea of a 21st-century museum. “There was a time, much like now,…
Dr. William Jackson “Jack” Rushing III passed away on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at the age of 75, from complications related to Parkinson’s Disease. He was a distinguished professor and art historian of…
Professor Ömür Harmanşah’s essay “Ground Truthing in the Anthropocene (and the Rituals of Apology)” was recently published in the catalogue publication Grounded/Yerebasan, which was edited by Melis Cankara on the occasion of 19th…
Art History MA alumna Drita Kabashi starts a new position teaching Art History at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Kosovo (A.U.K), which is Kosovo’s only private, not for-profit university. It is the only…
Assistant Professor Riad Kherdeen will be giving a paper at the workshop “Art, Mobility and Border Politics between Italy and North Africa: 1869 – 1993,” organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute…
https://conference-2025.philippinestudies.uk/programme/ Ashley Dequilla (b. 1987) is an artist-filmmaker and archivist of Negrense, Tagalog and Ilonggo descent. She holds an MFA in Moving Image (‘23) and is completing her MA in Art History (‘25)…
PhD Candidate Rong Lin is a recipient of a Bliss Symposium Award from Dumbarton Oaks. This award will cover Rong’s travel costs, enabling her to attend the this year’s symposium in Pre-Columbian Studies…
During the twelve-day war on Iran, a flurry of statements, commentaries, and open letters appeared across digital platforms, institutional websites, and social media feeds. Produced by artists, academics, activists, NGOs, and cultural institutions,…
Julian Adoff (PhD candidate) has published an essay for the Centre for Modern Art & Theory in Brno, Czech Republic, titled “Beyond Nation(s) and Empire(s): Cross-Cultural Networks and the Entrepreneurship of Late-Habsburg National…
Download discussion paper The Public Value of Arts and Culture: Investing in Arts and Culture to Reimagine Economic Growth in the 21st Century | UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Authors:…
Kaveh Rafie (Ph.D. 2025) has been hired as a Sessional Instructor teaching undergraduate Art History courses including Global Art I & II and surveys of Early and Late Twentieth Century Art for the…
This research explores the reconstruction of Agadir, Morocco, after the 1960 earthquake as a pivotal moment in the entanglement of modernism, decolonization, and Cold War geopolitics. It analyzes the competing masterplans—one by the…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html “I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,” Ms. Mishra said in a get-ready-with-me TikTok video this summer that…
Sarah Rogers Morris (PhD, 2025) has published an opinion piece in the August 1, 2025 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, titled “Want to Save Democracy? Teach Art History. Visual comparison cultivates…
Aubrey Prestwich filed her MA thesis, “What! Is This the Kitchen? Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959,” chaired by Prof. Jonathan Mekinda. The thesis assesses the role of domestic advice in…
Andrew Finegold, Associate Professor of Art History, has published an article titled “Dreams of Gold: Mesoamerican Metalwork and the Question of Form” in the April 2025 issue of the journal Art History. The…
Kaveh’s committee includes UIC Art History Professors Stimson and Archias, Norma Moruzzi, UIC Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies, Nicholas Brown, UIC Professor of English and Black Studies, and Peyman…
In an era when technical skills are evolving at an unprecedented pace, there is an important set of durable ‘soft skills’ that last a lifetime. Durable Skills include a combination of how you…
English and history majors aren’t necessarily known for desiring analyst gigs, but those seeking to work for the man are finding that the man suddenly wants them back. Investment banks usually have their…
When it comes to employment prospects, majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperform some STEM-based counterparts, according to a recent analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/college-majors-with-the-best-and-worst-employment-prospects.html
PhD Candidate Zack Martin won a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgium! Congratulations Zack! Zack Martin will spend 9 months in Belgium this coming academic year with the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, doing…
Landscapes hold traces of human histories—political, colonial, social, and economic. If they serve as records of histories and narratives—sometimes violent ones—how do photographers, acting as archaeologists of contemporary landscapes, translate these memories into…
Dr. Caroline Fernald (BA 2011), the Executive Director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), has received an Inspire Award for outstanding leaders in the Cambridge, MA community. She and the other…
Assistant Professor Emmanuel Ortega and MA Student Ashley Dequilla will be presenting papers at the “Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture Interdisciplinary Symposium” on May 9, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the…
MA Student Ashley Dequilla received a grant in 2024 from the National Film Preservation Foundation for the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago. Five home movie titles by Nicholas Viernes (1902-1991) won full…
Here are a couple of loving remembrances with short excerpts of Joshua’s uncompromising thought from each: The Truth is the Whole: Remembering Joshua Clover “If we are reaching into history, I am still…
PhD Students, Anneliese Hardman and Humaira Hossain, have published catalogue essays in the South Asia Institute’s most recent exhibition, The Written Image: A Confluence of Music and Calligraphy. Anneliese’s essay is titled: “Calligraphy…
The Department of Art History is delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the John D. McNee Award: Benson and Sara Moore. This award, which was created in honor of John D. McNee,…
PhD student, Anneliese Hardman, has published an exhibition review about “What do I call you?” on the Bridge Magazine’s website. The show at Material Exhibitions (April 14-May 5th) is a solo exhibition featuring…
1.1 million international students at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year and supported more than 378,000 jobs. The economic activity total is the…
Ömür Harmanşah will deliver University of California Irvine’s Critical Theory Mini Seminar on May 5-7, 2025. The title of his seminar is “Landscapes of the Anthropocene: The Environmental Politics of Fieldwork and Heritage.”…
