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 direction of the individual thesis adviser. 

Required of honors candidates in History of Art and Architecture. Permission of the DUS required.

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.

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 Advisor (or Advisors) with whom they will meet regularly to develop specific intention, substance and methodology of the thesis research and paper. This seminar is a support of independent thesis and/or independent project research, extending methodological inquiry of the project topic to design where students may convene to...

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 structures (e.g. Tamamushi shrine, Shentong Monastery pagodas), timber structures housing tiered sculptural programs (e.g. Yinxian Pagoda, Guanyin Pavilion, etc.), monumental cities and precincts (Angkor Wat, Bagan, etc.), rock gardens (Ryōanji, etc.). The relationship between mind and matter is the central concern driving the course...

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 moment to take stock of recent global-facing literature and methods in the art history of early modern Europe: where are we, and where are we going? The first half of this graduate seminar will do just that. At the same time, in this experiment, each seminar participant will be encouraged to choose an “old master” as their compass...

Evridiki Georganteli

Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic and cultural map of Europe and the Middle East. This course explores the multifaceted encounters between crusaders, Byzantines, Jews, Armenians and Muslims through the material traces they left behind: architecture, Byzantine objects dispersed across Western Europe, coins, sculptures, frescoes, and manuscripts from the East and the West.

Thomas Cummins

This course concentrates on the art and architecture of the two ancient American civilizations, surveying the forms of representation used to establish imperial presence within the accepted vernacular of Mesoamerican and Andean artistic traditions. Special attention is given to the role of art as a means of expressing imperial claims to mythic and historic precedents, upon which political and economic expansion could be realized.