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Professor Ioli Kalavrezou Inducted to the Academy of Athens
We would like to congratulate Professor Ioli Kalavrezou in recognition of her induction as a member of the Academy of Athens, the ceremony of which happened this past May. She takes a position specializing in Byzantine Culture. Prof. Kalavrezou was...
HAA Alumna Makeda Best Appointed MoMA’s Next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography
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...
HAA 2026 Senior Thesis Prize Winners
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...
Catherine Mignone, Marin Gray, and John Weaver Awarded Hoopes Prizes
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 "...
HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Awarded Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027
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”...
Byron Otis and Marin Gray Awarded the Bowdoin Prize
Congratulations to Marin Gray (HAA class of 2026) and Byron Otis (HAA G3), who have both been awarded Bowdoin Essay Prizes for 2025-2026. They are two of only six awardees total for the year. The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most...
The Professor Jeffrey Hamburger Co-Edited "Power, Patronage, and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections" Has Been Released.
Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Beatrice Kitzinger, and Joshua O’Driscoll. Studies and Texts 242; Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination 11 xxvi, 378 pp. incl. 232 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-88844-242-0 This volume complements and...
HAA Graduate Student Walid Akef Appointed Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in UMass Amherst
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is pleased to welcome Walid Akef as a new faculty member who will teach Islamic Art and Architecture starting fall 2026. Akef is currently completing his PhD in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic...
Mapping Color in History: What goes into the making of Krishna’s blues on paper or palm leaf?
How blue is Krishna? The poet can get away by responding with a metaphor, calling the dark god Ghanashyam, a storm cloud. Krishna, passionate lover, desired by many and desiring many, is the dark cloud, writes the poet, about to descend on the beloved...
The Power of Looking: Cécile Fromont uses art to interrogate what societies choose to see—or ignore.
Fromont focuses on how global exchange—through the intertwined histories of Christianity, empire, and the slave trade—shaped artistic practices and ideas about power, identity, and spirituality across continents. “What I’m interested in at the core is how...
The Frick Collection Appoints HAA Alumnus Aaron Wile As New John Updike Curator
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced the appointment of Dr. Aaron Wile as its new John Updike Curator. He will take up the post on April 6, 2026. In this senior curatorial role, Wile succeeds Dr. Aimee Ng, who became the museum’s Peter Jay...
Professor Sarah Lewis Honored As One of TIME Magazine's 2026 Closers
Sarah Lewis is on a mission to make sure Black artists get their due. As a curator, an art and cultural historian, and an academic, Lewis is guided by a big question: “What is the role of art and culture for determining who counts, and who belongs, in...
Kongo Christianity: The Intersection of Two Worlds
[Professor] Cécile Fromont reflects on the history of Christianity in the Kingdom of Kongo and how it is expressed in Kongolese culture through the lens of a crucifix at The Met. When we look at Kongo Christian visual culture, we know there is an entire...
Professor Felipe Pereda Awarded Sheila ffolliott Prize for "The Man who Broke Michelangelo's Nose"
The Sixteenth Century Society has awarded Professor Felipe Pereda's The Man who Broke Michelangelo's Nose The Sheila ffolliott Prize for the Best Book in Art History for 2025. The Sheila ffolliott Prize recognizes the best book written in English and...
Vibrant global exchange: US researchers uncover the pigments in traditional Indian paintings
By analyzing the chemical composition of pigments, Harvard’s Mapping Color in History initiative showcases a new layer of Indian art. Against a deep blue backdrop, sword-wielding demons attempt to disrupt a sacred ritual. Ram, who is dressed in a yellow...
Prof. Jinah Kim Collaborates on New MFA Exhibit focused on Red, Yellow and Gold in South Asian Paintings
“Color is elemental, a fundamental phenomenon of the natural world. In the hands of artists it takes many forms. Compared to the intermingled colors an Impressionist painter might use or muted hues a Chinese landscape artist would deploy, South Asian...
Professor Cécile Fromont featured on Harvard Gazette Article "Seeing what you see"
Cécile Fromont believes that something new can be revealed about an artwork or artifact every time someone lays eyes on it. It’s one of the reasons she loves the classroom environment, where she and her students can examine objects of visual and material...
Professor Sarah Lewis Wins 2025 American Book Award for Her Book The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Professor Sarah Lewis is among the winners of the 2025 American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation. "The 2025 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., at the Maude Fife Room, Wheeler...
HAA Graduate Student Icey Lin Received Outstanding Academic Award at Peking University International Forum
Congratulations to HAA Ph.D. student Icey Lin for earning first place in the Art History panel at the 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, hosted by Peking University. Her paper, “Life after Life: Re-interpreting Yingxian Timber...
Professor Eugene Wang Delivered Keynote at Peking University International Forum on “Intelligence and Art”
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, delivered the keynote address at Peking University’s 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, organized under the theme “Intelligence and Art.” His lecture, “How Do We Code...
HAA Alumna Anne D’Alleva Selected as president of Binghamton University
Anne D’Alleva, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Connecticut, was appointed on Tuesday morning during a closed executive session meeting. She will begin her duties on Nov. 1. Before becoming UConn’s first...
Veritalk: Professor Jennifer Roberts on How Art Helped NASA See First Image of Mars
In the latest episode of Veritalk , Jennifer Roberts, the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, explores the unexpected connections between art and science. She shares how NASA engineers used art materials while awaiting the first...
Congratulations to the 2025 PhD recipients
The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the thirteen graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2024–2025 academic year. Bay Bakshi — Agitational Photography, 1930–1945: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude...
Congratulations to HAA Undergraduate Degree Recipients 2025
Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2025: Kya Brooks Hanna Carney Priscilla Cheav Nick Chehwan Bristol Fales-Hill Candace Gardner Max Goeggel Jane Josefowicz Kardelen Kilic Eileene Lee Julian Li...
HAA 2025 Senior Thesis Prize Winners
Congratulations to this year’s HAA prize winners (from left to right): Abramson Prize: Alejandra Riambau, for her senior thesis Tidal Shifts: Water as Metaphor in Cuban Contemporary Art The Matthew Abramson '96 Prize is awarded by faculty vote to the one...
Professor Christina Maranci Awarded Havard College Professorship
“'I am delighted to recognize these five outstanding colleagues for their contributions to teaching, mentorship, and research,' Hoekstra said. 'Their passion, rigor, and creativity inspire our students every day, giving them the opportunity to ask big...
Professor Jinah Kim: Uncovering the palette of the past
When Jinah Kim learned in 2016 that Museum of Fine Arts conservation scientist Michele Derrick had detected cobalt in a 15th-century Indian manuscript, she was presented with an obvious explanation: the document had probably been retouched later...
Professor Jeffrey Hamburger Honored at the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
At the centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held this March in Cambridge, a session, ”Women’s Religious Communities: A Roundtable Discussion of Past Scholarship and New Directions,” was held in honor of the contributions of Prof. Jeffrey...
HAA PhD Alumna Jordan Troeller to Publish "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury" via MIT Press
The book be out May 6th, 2025. "How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. "For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a...
Professor Sarah Lewis Gave Remarks at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at the UN
Professor Sarah Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice initiative, underscored the importance of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, as the blueprint to eliminate racism and protecting human rights She said that many societies were built on racial...
