Jessica Yin graduated in 2001 with a concentration in HAA, and now works as a senior architect at the architectural firm SCB. “I focused on Architectural History and Theory, with the intention to apply to graduate school for Architecture. Thanks in large part to the guidance of HAA's academic advisor at the time, I was able to chart out a course for fulfilling prerequisites for application (including coursework at the GSD), as well as meet with current architecture students and working design professionals to better understand the field and profession. This was...

Molly (Dorkin) Taylor (HAA Class of '03) completed her AB in History of Art art Harvard University, and attended the Courtauld Institute where she received her MA with a focus in Italian Renaissance Art. Molly then spent several years as a Specialist in OId Master Paintings at Christie's in New York before returning to academia, earning her PhD in British 18th century art at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Since 2013, Molly has been Head of Research at Dickinson Gallery in London, a private treaty sales dealership specialising in art from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

Congratulations to all the degree recipients of the A.B. in History of Art and Architecture, 2023:
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Congratulations to HAA graduating seniors Rosie Collier and Adam Dwyer on winning the 2023 Hoopes prize for their respective theses: Prayer in the Perilous Realm: The Impossible Landscape of Hieronymus Bosch’s Hermit Saints, and Operative (Work)Space: Rethinking the Office Layout Informed by Traditional Japanese Building Practice.

The Hoopes Prize, funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, recognizes excellent undergraduate work, usually in the form of a senior thesis.

Dora Ching, HAA Class of '86, recently won the Association for Asian Studies Awards 2023 Book Prize for her work "Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves." You can read more at bit.ly/doraching

Dora Ching, a specialist in Chinese painting and calligraphy with particular expertise in Chinese portraiture and Buddhist art of the Silk Road, has served as the associate director and now deputy director of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University since 2002. Before and during her time at the Tang Center, she...

Scott Rothkopf, HAA Class of ’99, has recently been appointed as the Director of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Scott previously served as the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator in 2015, and Senior Deputy Director in 2018. Prior to his work at the Whitney, Scott served as the Senior Editor of Artforum International from 2004 through 2009. He began his curatorial career at the Harvard University Art Museums, organizing Mel Bochner: Photographs, 1966–1969 (2002) and Huyghe + Corbusier:...

Amy Werbel (HAA Class of '86) is Professor of the History of Art at SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of numerous works on the subject of American visual culture and sexuality, including "Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock" (Columbia University Press, 2018), and "Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia" (Yale University Press, 2007)

Dr. Werbel is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from numerous institutions, including the UC National Center for Free...

Paige Newell graduated Harvard College in 2014 where she concentrated in History of Art and Architecture, specifically the Italian Renaissance era. During her time at Harvard she also was a member of the Varsity Women's Swim Team and was a teaching fellow for the Department of Statistics. Paige went on to attend medical school at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia from 2014-2018, and returned to Boston in 2018 after matching into General Surgery Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. During residency she spent her two year research fellowship as...

Elizabeth “Betsy” S. Hawley (HAA Class of '09) is an art historian, writer, and curator specializing in art of the Americas and modern and contemporary art. Since graduating from Harvard, she completed a MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art and PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has held curatorial positions at MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and served as a visiting faculty member at institutions including Boston University, Earlham College, Northeastern University, and Santa Clara University. Hawley is currently an assistant professor of art history at the University of...

Evan Schueckler (HAA class of ’15) is currently working as the Manager for the Historic Preservation Program for the City of Portland, Maine. Prior to that, he worked as an Associate City Planner for the City and County of Denver, Colorado Landmark Preservation. Before moving to Colorado, Evan worked as a Junior Designer and Historic Preservation Specialist with Historic Building Architects in Trenton, New Jersey.

While an undergrad, Evan focused on Architectural History within the HAA department, writing his thesis on the century-long evolution of the...