Each year, our department honors some of our students with awards that have been generously endowed for this purpose. This year’s awardees are: McNee Award (given to graduating seniors with the highest GPAs):…
Sophomore Art History major Kathryn Hogue was featured in a UIC Stories article on undergraduate research at UIC. The story can be accessed here: https://stories.uic.edu/all-stories/building-future-industries-copy
Should Protests Be Allowed in the Classroom? (Spoiler: yes) A January 2025 classroom protest at Columbia University serves as a useful test case. Statements provided by two students enrolled in the course, a…
Kale Serrato Doyen (BA, 2020) has been awarded a 2026 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. The program is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and administered by the…
Art History major Grace Hartrich has been accepted in the McMullan Family Foundation Summer Intensive at the Art Institute of Chicago. This year’s program will focus on “context” in a museum setting. More…
Assistant Professor Riad Kherdeen will be giving a paper titled “Ecological Aesthetics and the Spectacle of Brutalism in the Aftershock of Morocco’s Agadir Earthquake” at the Society of Architectural Historians’s 79th Annual International…
Assistant Professor Riad Kherdeen will be giving a paper titled “Farid Belkahia in Prague” at the annual Association for Art History Conference held at the University of Cambridge on April 9, 2026. He…
PhD Candidate Rong Lin has been invited to present a paper titled “Vegetal Bodies: Anthropomorphic Maize and Maguey in Codex Fejérváry-Mayer” at a symposium titled “Plant Lives: Sacred Interdependencies in the Arts of…
Aubrey Prestwich wins the Outstanding Thesis award for “What! Is This the Kitchen? Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959” (2025)
PhD Candidate Rong Lin has been awarded two separate fellowships from the Huntington Library. One is a short-term award for a one-month stay in Pasadena, California, to conduct research at the library itself.…
Professor Ömür Harmanşah, Director, the School of Art & Art History, and Associate Professor of Art History, was invited to speak at Florida State University’s More Than Human Religion Lecture Series. The title…
Leslie Wooden, who successfully defended her dissertation titled “A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s to the Present” this spring, has accepted a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship from…
EXCERPTS: Because private institutions are not bound by the First Amendment the way public universities are, they have long been largely free to create, adjust, and interpret their speech policies as they see…
Rendered on a large canvas, Jalil Ziapour’s Public Bath, 1949, is anchored by the gazes of two figures on the right looking directly at the viewer. A crouching bather is attended by a…
The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University SNIPPETS: Over the past 15 to 20 years, declining numbers of college-age Americans and a seemingly endless rise in tuition have brought…
The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in…
UIC Art History alumna Ionit Behar has been appointed the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator by Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Previously holding the position of Curator at DePaul Art Museum, Ionit will…
(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…
