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Professor Kalavrezou featured in the "ARISTEiA in 30 Minutes" podcast

July 11, 2022

Professor Kalavrezou was recently in the "ARISTEiA in 30 Minutes" podcast in conversation about Byzantine Art and the Modern World alongside Dimitris Karampas, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics and Centre for Maritime Archaeology; and Georgios Tsolakis, PhD Candidate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. 

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Suzanne Blier Honored for Being an “Ambassador of the Yoruba (Nigeria)”

September 13, 2022
Suzanne Blier and King
Professor Suzanne Blier was honored on September 10 with an award and trophy for being an “Ambassador of the Yoruba (Nigeria)” during a two-day Event in Chicago at the Malcolm X College and the DuSable Museum, where she also delivered the event’s Keynote Address. The program reads in part: “Suzanne Blier was bestowed a Yoruba  (Nigeria) chieftaincy title, Otun Yeye Obalufon (‘First/Right Mother of Obalufon’) for her work on Ife art and history by Oba Aderami Adedapo, Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Yoruba for her work during her stay in Yoruba land.” 
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Harvard Art Journal, Vol. VI - Special 25th Reunion Edition, May 2018

July 22, 2022
Front page of reunion edition of HAJ

In May of 2018, a 25th anniversary reunion issue of the Harvard Art Journal was published. The Department of History of Art and Architecture has been given permission to host and provide access to this edition which is available here. HAA is grateful to the work of Paula Rand Hornbostel (AB ‘93), Editor-in-Chief, for...

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HAA PhD candidate Louis Copplestone awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship

July 6, 2022
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Congratulations to HAA PhD candidate Louis Copplestone for recently being awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship in History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Louis’ major field is South Asian art and architecture, with a focus on interactions between architecture, other forms of cultural production, and religious thought. He is writing a dissertation on the buildings built for Buddhists in eastern India and Bangladesh after the 9th century CE.
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New Publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art”, by Patricio del Real

June 27, 2022
Front cover of publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art”

Professor Patricio del Real’s new publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art” will be published at the end of August. The book provides “a nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art’s carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and cultural interests.” ...

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HAA Student Prize Winners AY 21-22

May 27, 2022
From left to right: Paul Tamburro, Wendy Yu, Kelsey Chen, Professor Felipe Pereda

Please join us in celebrating this years student prize winners from HAA.  

The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize for Best Senior Thesis in History of Art and Architecture - Congratulations to Paul Tamburro, who won for his senior thesis Orality and the Maya “Scribe”: Reading Reading Back into the Picture. The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize is awarded by faculty vote of the Department of History of Art and Architecture to the one student of this department whose thesis has been determined as "Best Senior Thesis" as based primarily...

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