Daniel Zolli (PhD, 2017), who is currently Assistant Professor of Art History and Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts at the PennState College of Arts and Architecture has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association for his article, “Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act.”...

... Read more about HAA Alum Prudence Peiffer (PhD, 2010) to release book The Slip on August 1st

The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the eleven graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2022–2023 academic year.
... Read more about Congratulations to 2023 PhD recipients

Recent HAA graduate Sonali Dhingra has received the UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize for her dissertation entitled Cult and Colossus: Buddhist Sculpture from Odisha in History and Memory (ca. eighth to twelfth centuries). The dissertation was advised by Professor Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at HAA.
... Read more about Sonali Dhingra wins UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize for 2022

Congratulations to Thea Goldring for winning the Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the English Language with her essay entitled “Through Aquatinted Glasses: The Global Context of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince’s Invention of Aquatint.” The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most prestigious student awards, are designed to recognize essays of originality and high literary merit, written in a way that engages both specialists and non-specialists.

Just published: the book by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Joshua O’Driscoll (an alum of the department’s graduate program and now a curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum in New York) to accompany the Morgan’s exhibition of Central European illuminated manuscripts from American collections: Imperial Splendor. The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500, New York/London: The Morgan Library & Museum with D. Giles Ltd., 2021.

Imperial Splendor offers a sweeping overview of...

Congratulations to HAA alum, Paisid Aramphongphan (PhD 2015), on the publication of his first book, “Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York” (Manchester University Press, 2021).... Read more about “Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York”, new publication by Paisid Aramphongpha

The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to our graduate students who received PhD degrees during 2020 - 2021:... Read more about Congratulations to 2021 PhD recipients

Congratulations to recent HAA alumn Alejandra Rojas Silva for her new position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at Ohio Wesleyan University. More information is available on the OWU website: http://bit.ly/alejandrawesleyan

Alejandra Rojas Silva, Ph.D., is a Latin American art historian focused on representations of the natural world in relation to indigenous, colonial, and contemporary forms of identity. Her research, teaching, and curatorial work extend from the early modern period to the present. Her current book project, “Flora Incognita: Picturing...

Adam Jasienski, HAA 2008 (BA), 2016 (PhD), who is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association for his article “Converting Portraits: Repainting as Art Making in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”

"The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize was established in 1957, in memory of a founding member of the CAA and one of the first American scholars of the discipline. This award seeks to encourage high scholarly standards...