Featured Grad Alumni News

Vaishnavi Patil, an alumna of the Mittal Institute’s Graduate Student Associate program, earned her Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture in February 2026. Her doctoral research examined female deities—particularly mother...

Congratulations to Linda Mueller (HAA Ph.D. ’25), who was recently named a co-winner of the 2026 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) for her dissertation, entitled “Drawings and the...

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”...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The University of Sydney honoured Dr Alan Cholodenko for his outstanding contributions to the University, admitting him as an Honorary Fellow. Dr Cholodenko first began teaching at the University in 1978, and quickly became a pivotal figure in the...