#  Department of History of Art and Architecture 

 



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From its earliest beginning in 1874 as one of Harvard’s twelve divisions, the Department has expanded its variety of fields to comprise expertise that spans the globe and ranges from antiquity to contemporary art. Our Faculty supports cross-regional, transnational, and transcultural modes of analysis built around the principle of contact zones between cultures. Another priority of our Department concerns the material specificity of works of art across all media, as well as in the various processes and technologies of their production. In this we are well served by partnerships with the Harvard Art Museums, Fine Arts Library, Graduate School of Design, Houghton Library, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Visual and Environmental Studies, whose rich collections and facilities are an integral part of what we do in our innovative undergraduate and graduate teaching and research.

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##  News 

 



  [### HAA Alumna Makeda Best Appointed MoMA’s Next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography

 ](https://press.moma.org/news/makeda-best/) June 03, 2026 

 The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Makeda Best as the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. MoMA has exhibited and collected photography since its founding in 1929, and formally established a Department of... 

 

 

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   [### HAA 2026 Senior Thesis Prize Winners

 ](/news/2026/05/haa-2026-senior-thesis-prize-winners) May 26, 2026 

 From left to right: Charissa Shang, John Weaver, Catherine Mignone, Carrie Lambert Beatty. Congratulations to this year’s HAA prize winners: Abramson Prize: John Weaver, for his senior thesis Worldly Heaven: Elephanta’s Polyvalent Program and Sacred... 

 

 

   ![from left to right: Charissa Shang, John Weaver, Catherine Mignone, Carrie Lambert Beatty](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/_NZF2735.jpg?itok=2s9dXRPq) 

 



 

 

   [### Catherine Mignone, Marin Gray, and John Weaver Awarded Hoopes Prizes

 ](/news/2026/05/catherine-mignone-marin-gray-and-john-weaver-awarded-hoopes-prizes) May 22, 2026 

 Congratulations to our HAA Class of 2026 Hoopes Prizes Winners: John Weaver with "Worldly Heaven: Elephanta's Polyvalent Program and Sacred Geography", Catherine Mignone with "Sources are Forgotten: Diamonds and Ethnic Solidarity", and Marin Gray with "... 

 

 

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   [### HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Awarded Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 

 ](https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/ebonie-pollock/) May 06, 2026 

 The Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 has been awarded to Ebonie Pollock, a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, for her dissertation ​ “Gold Would Not Be Too Precious a Medium”... 

 

 

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