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Anti-Racist Statement from the Department of History of Art and Architecture (April 2021)

April 5, 2021
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A letter by David J. Roxburgh, Department Chair:

Dear members of the HAA community,

I am writing today about the rise in anti-Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander violence and hate crimes which reached a new height in the mass shootings in Atlanta and the death of six Asian women. While these senseless and brutal acts, fueled by racist rhetoric, have grown exponentially in the past year they are by no means unprecedented expressions of prejudice and hate against the members of our Asian and AAPI community...

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Black Lives Matter Statement from the Department of History of Art and Architecture (June 2020)

June 18, 2020
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A letter by David J. Roxburgh, Chair, on behalf of the Faculty and Staff of HAA:

Dear Members of the HAA Community,

We, the Faculty and Staff of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture (HAA), affirm this truth: Black Lives Matter.

The past several weeks have been painful beyond measure, and it is difficult to put into words the sense of outrage and sadness we feel from the acts of intolerable and violent racism culminating with the recent police murders of...

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Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize

January 22, 2024
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We would like to congratulate HAA Graduate Student Tai Mitsuji for winning the 2023–2024 Bowdoin prize.

Presenting unseen and unpublished light-sheet enhanced images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Tai Mitsuji’s paper demonstrates how Édouard Manet’s double-sided drawing, Barricade (1871), produced a historical palimpsest and portrait of both political change and stasis at the end of the Second French Empire and beginning of the Third Republic. It argues that Manet’s composition was itself a barricade, providing structure for the artist during a period of collective political... Read more about Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize
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