undergraduate, graduate

Sarah Lewis, Suzanne Blier What would be lost without an understanding of Art of the Black world? This course will introduce students to visual art from the African continent and African diaspora (with an accent on the United States) by examining the...

Vishal Khandelwal This seminar explores architecture, urbanism, and design in colonial and postcolonial South Asia through the region’s interactions and exchanges with other parts of the world. Extending from early European presence in the subcontinent to...

Jonathan Grinham, Leonard Palmer Present assumptions indicate that the management of our material world accounts for more than half of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly fifty percent of these emissions are attributed directly to building...

Melissa McCormick This course examines gender and the production, reception, and interpretation of art in Japan, its diaspora, and global contexts. Organized thematically, it spans from the premodern period to the present day, examining the gendering of...

Jennifer Roberts Centering on the response of photographers and conceptual artists in the 1970s to the Apollo program, but ranging throughout the world history of artistic engagement with the moon, this experimental course will explore what it might mean...

Sarah Lewis How has visual representation—from videos and photographs to sculptures and memorials—both limited and liberated our definition of American citizenship and belonging? Art is often considered a respite from life or a reflection of the times...

Robin Kelsey When photography emerged in 1839, it was not just another medium. It trampled the boundaries of art, expression, creativity, and depiction, raising troublesome questions that still haunt us today. In our consideration of photography, we will...

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth This course explores the historical functions and cultural meanings of color in the period of early modernity (18th and early 19th centuries). Focusing on France and England, we will examine specifically the role color played in the...

Maria Gough This workshop-style seminar, which will be taught in the Study Center of the Harvard Art Museums, foregrounds the pioneering role of textiles and other artisanal media produced by women in the development of modernist art, especially...

David Roxburgh A problem-oriented inquiry into Arabic art and culture (from the formation of Islam through the late medieval period), focusing on regions circling the Mediterranean, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant, as well as the Middle East...