Michael Jachera (BA, 2019) has been accepted into the MA in Interior Design program at Savannah College of Art and Design beginning this spring. Congratulations, Michael!
The writing advice I typed out and stuck up on my wall while I wrote No Shortcuts. [From Carver and Orwell] pic.twitter.com/s2x0CztoYU — Jane McAlevey (@rsgexp) March 7, 2021
The Problem With the Postcolonial Syllabus Against a peculiarly Western allergy to the pleasure of the text. THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION By Sumana Roy FEBRUARY 10, 2021
PhD Candidate Deanna Ledezma has had a photo essay published in “The Archive” section of the journal Photography & Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 2–13). Titled “Selecting Views of Las Trampas: Contact…
The Colors of Photography aims to provide a deeper understanding of what color is in the field of photography. Until today, color photography has marked the “here and now,” while black and white…
Capitalism and the Camera Essays on Photography and Extraction Edited by Kevin Coleman and Daniel James — A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture Photography was…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah has published the chapter “Deep Time and Landscape History in the Anthropocene: How Can Historical Particularity Be Translated?” in the volume Timescales: Thinking across Ecological Temporalities, edited by Bethany…
Associate Professor Nina Dubin has published Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy, a co-authored book related to a forthcoming exhibition she is co-curating at The New York Public Library. Watch the book…
Adjunct Assistant Professor Raphael Nash co-produced the film Saint Frances (written by Kelly O’Sullivan and directed by Alex Thompson), which has been nominated for the John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made…
A graph showing author’s confidence in a paper over the course of its journey through publication. Misses out rejections and 95 other rounds of revision… A graph showing author’s confidence in a paper…
PhD Student Leslie Wooden has had her article “Alvin Baltrop: Queer Photography as a ‘Counter Practice’ in the Archive” published in the latest issue of the Finnish journal SQS: Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti.…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah is part of a research team that was awarded a Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant to further develop their project proposal “Chicago River Campus.” More information about this award…
Associate Professor Ömür Harmanşah has been elected to a three-year term as an Academic Trustee of the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Congratulations Ömür!
PhD Candidate Ionit Behar, in her capacity as Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum, has participated in curating the exhibition LatinXAmerican, which includes a number of online public programs. From the museum…
Donna West Brett and Natalya Lusty, eds., ‘Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images’, (New York: Routledge, 2019) As the entries for this year’s prize attest, several high-quality anthologies were published in our region during…
Art history majors Rebecca Arroyo, Caelan Dean, Serena Luciano, Landon Menze, Monica Ramos, and Nelly Santacruz have officially completed their BA Degrees. Congratulations, graduates!!!!!!
Elise Archias, associate professor of art history and chair of the Fine Arts Review Committee, publishes “All Are Related” in UIC Today on the occasion of the installation of Tussle, a sculpture by…
Liz Fahey has completed her MA degree. Her thesis, “The Disjointed Self: Interrogating Interiority in the Collage Works of Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu” examines the changing relationship between universality and critique in…
Art History PhD Student Julian Adoff has reviewed the volume Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism, edited by Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher, for the…
Associate Professor of Art History Elise Archias has published the special issue “Dance and Abstraction” in ARTS with Juliet Bellow (American University). Contributors include Mariola V. Alvarez, Flora Brandl, Joanna Dee Das, Lou Forster,…
Serena Luciano (BA, Fall 2020) has been accepted into the Masters in Urban Higher Education Program at UIC starting Fall 2021. Congratulations, Serena!
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…
