Fall 2021

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods. Course is required of HAA G1s and open solely to HAA G1s

Felipe Pereda In the fall term, HAA 99 includes several group tutorial meetings with the senior honors adviser, where assignments are aimed at facilitating the writing of a senior honors thesis; spring term consists of independent writing, under the...

Thea Goldring Required of juniors concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. A group tutorial consisting of weekly meetings with a graduate student, with regular reading and writing assignments. HAA 98ar offers concentrators the choice of several...

Jennifer Roberts and Faculty Required of all History of Art and Architecture concentrators in their sophomore year. An introduction to the practice of art and architectural history through object-based teaching led by faculty members in HAA.

Seminar offered under special arrangements consisting of weekly meetings with designated faculty, where regular reading and writing assignments are focused on a topic of mutual interest.

Lisa Haber-Thomson This seminar will serve as a design platform for inquiry, documentation and analysis in relation either to the thesis topic or capstone project of interest to each student. Thesis students will be responsible for selecting a Thesis...

Patricio del Real Architects in Latin America have engaged ideas on race developed by intellectuals and cultural actors in the 20th Century. What is the relationship between the notion of mestizaje debated by José Vasconcelos and Manuel Gámio, and Mexico...

Eugene Wang The seminar examines some key monuments in East and Southeast Asia. These include early watchtowers with relief decorations, twin structures (e.g. pagodas at Gameunsa Temple, Kaiyuan Monastery in Quanzhou, etc.), ornamented four-sided...

Carrie Lambert-Beatty Without starting from pre-determined categories (e.g. eco-art), how might we map artists’ multiple, conflicting, and changing engagements with the more-than-human world? By thinking through a range of critical approaches, could we...

Shawon Kinew As the territory of early modern European studies continues to expand, mimicking the colonization of the period under study, art historians inevitably become explorers of terra incognita claiming “marvelous possessions.” Now is an ideal...