UIC Art History alumna Kayleigh Doyen (BA, 2020) and Clinical Assistant Professor Emmanuel Ortega organized the asynchronous online program “Reflections on Race and Contemporary Landscapes” at LATITUDE, featuring recorded interviews with four artists:…
Associate Professor of Art History Nina Dubin has co-edited a special issue of Journal18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, titled 1720. The full issues can be found online here.
Two Art History PhD Students, Artie Foster and Nadia Gribkova, have received Provost’s Graduate Research Awards. The Provost’s Graduate Research Award (PGRA) supports multidisciplinary scholarship and provides a way for students early in…
Two Art History graduate students who completed their degrees last spring were honored by the Graduate College. Mariela Espinoza-León received an Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award for her MA Thesis, “‘Corazón de Lumbre, Alma de…
Prof. Elise Archias has published “When ‘Interplay is the Content of the Work’: A Response to Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy” in CLCWeb as part of the special issue: “A Symposium on Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy,”…
Deepthi Murali (PhD, Fall 2020) has received a Digital India Learning Scholarship grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies to begin her digital art history project at Roy Rosenzweig Center for…
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation has made a generous gift to UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, creating a clinical professorship in the Arts of the Spanish Americas. Emmanuel…
Art History PhD Student Erik Wenzel was awarded Honorable Mention in the Graduate College’s 2020 Image of Research contest. His drawing will be on view in Daley Library through January and can be…
PhD Candidate Deanna Ledezma has had her article “Regarding Family Photography in Contemporary Latinx Art” published in the most recent issue of Art Journal, one of the foremost academic journals in our discipline.…
Alumna Alkebuluan Merriweather (BA, 2019) has launched a digital platform titled Black Matriarch Archive. Black Matriarch Archive is a digital platform and archive that seeks to encourage members of the African diaspora to…
Khristin Landry-Montes (PhD, 2018) is creating the opportunity for her students at Cornell College to work with Indigenous Maya communities in Yucatan. See the full story here.
Clinical Assistant Professor Emmanuel Ortega recently took part in a discussion about how the growth of the LatinX population is affecting Nevada as part of Nevada Public Radio’s Race and Racism series. You…
THE GREAT DIVIDE Photographed by Alec Soth Streeterville is a neighborhood of mostly white, affluent, college-educated families living in townhomes and high-rise condominiums along the shore of Lake Michigan. A baby born there…
Chloe Lundgren has completed her Master of Arts degree with the thesis, “Expanded EXPORT: Toward a Phenomenological Reading of VALIE EXPORT’s Work of the 1960s and 1970s.” Her thesis explores EXPORT’s “phenomenologically feminist…
The photography of Alkebuluan Merriweather (Art History BA, 2019 and current student in MUSE) has been selected for the Black Joy Archive, a project founded by Brooklyn designer Zoe Pulley, to serve “Black…
PhD Candidate Ionit Behar has been named as a Resident Graduate Scholar at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities for the 2020–21 academic year. Resident Graduate Scholars join the vibrant community of scholars at…
“Chicago should really take the lead … say let’s be a model for the rest of the world and not be afraid to say when we talk about desegregating the city, we’re talking…
EXCERPT: One of the courses that I particularly enjoy teaching at the university is called Architecture and Memory, where my students and I explore case studies of monuments and ordinary buildings which are…
What was your reaction when you heard the city was going to remove the Columbus monuments overnight? Lee: Collective joy. Although I support a vibrant public process and debate, in this circumstance, there…
In an open letter to Microsoft and McCann, Ms. Martin and the other artists described the invitation as “both shocking and somehow predictable.” They also wrote that it “betrays a telling and dangerous opportunism.” “In…
The figure of Jen Reid, who was photographed standing on the plinth with her fist raised after the 17th-century merchant was toppled by Black Lives Matter demonstrators last month, was erected at dawn…
Cassy Smith has accepted the position of Archivist at the Pueblo of Isleta’s new cultural center, Yonan An. She will be moving to Albuquerque and beginning work mid-August. The first project that she…
Assistant Professor Andrew Finegold has received a grant from the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund in support of his book Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture, which will…
Faculty rebellions are simmering on campuses across the country, said Walter Benn Michaels, a member of the academic freedom committee at the American Association of University Professors and a professor at the University…
Festive congratulations to UIC Museum and Exhibition Studies Program alumna and UCLA Classics graduate student Mariam Usmani, who has won a UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship for 2020-2021 academic year. https://www.facebook.com/uclaclassics/photos/a.2013950362255108/2588152684834870/?type=3&theater
The Courtauld Institute of Art will be hosting an online conference on “Art History in Climate Change” on June 25–26, 2020. The event is free, but you must register: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-art-history-in-climate-change
The Chicago Resiliency Fund is a cash assistance program to support Chicago residents who were excluded from federal stimulus aid in response to COVID-19. The City of Chicago in collaboration with Open Society…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday to remove one of the country’s most iconic monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
As the ongoing protests over George Floyd’s death, police brutality, and racism roil the United States, museums across the country are being called out for not doing more to condemn racist policing and…
Art History PhD candidate, Cassy Smith, has been selected receive a $1000 honorarium from SmartHistory and the Samuel Kress foundation in exchange for a Native American art history essay of her choice. This…
The United States has seen escalating protests over the past week, following the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Educators everywhere are asking how can we help students…
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Ms. Peterson sent out almost 80 query letters and applications, offering employers specific ways that she could help them. Within two weeks, she had heard back from 15 and now has patched together…
These last two months I’ve grown obsessed with one American painting: a bloody masterpiece of pain and healing, made in Philadelphia nearly a century and a half ago. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was still…
The universities were ranked according to their research performance and career outcomes as well as a range of indicators assessing each institution’s social impact and attempts to foster equitability, according to QS CEO…
The Chronicle of Higher Education |Posted on May 25, 2020
A good proposal has eight basic elements. After you’ve determined that the press publishes in your area, your book proposal is pretty straightforward. Naomi Schneider, executive editor of the University of California Press, described…
One of the ways that humanities scholars can contribute to the current pandemic: by engaging in long-term, big-picture research that brings humanities questions to bear on public health. This kind of work provides…
SooJin Lee (Ph.D., 2014) publishes translation in Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation and Interaction (2020), published by Phaidon Press. https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Art-1953-Innovation-Interaction/dp/0714878332/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222636099791898&set=p.10222636099791898&type=3&theater
