The Department of History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of Cécile Fromont as a professor in our department. Born in Martinique, and with degrees from Science-Po and Harvard, Fromont has published field-changing books on the Christian visual culture of early modern Kongo and Angola and on Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas. “One of the great challenges of today’s Humanities,” writes HAA Chair Joseph Leo Koerner, “is to forge a new conception of the global. In the objects and performances she elects to study, and in capacious and original ways she...
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.”...