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Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize

January 22, 2024
We would like to congratulate HAA Graduate Student Tai Mitsuji for winning the 2023–2024 Bowdoin prize.

Presenting unseen and unpublished light-sheet enhanced images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Tai Mitsuji’s paper demonstrates how Édouard Manet’s double-sided drawing, Barricade (1871), produced a historical palimpsest and portrait of both political change and stasis at the end of the Second French Empire and beginning of the Third Republic. It argues that Manet’s composition was itself a barricade, providing structure for the artist during a period of collective political... Read more about Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize
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Sonali Dhingra wins UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize for 2022

March 9, 2022

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.
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Thea Goldring wins Bowdoin Prize

February 3, 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.

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