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HAA PhD Alumna Jordan Troeller to Publish "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury" via MIT Press

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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...

Congratulations to 2021 PhD recipients

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The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to our graduate students who received PhD degrees during 2020 - 2021: Trenton Barnes - Emptiness and the Production of Bodies in the Architecture of Teotihuacan, Mexico...

HAA Graduate Student Icey Lin Received Outstanding Academic Award at Peking University International Forum

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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...

Thea Goldring wins Bowdoin Prize

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Congratulations to Thea Goldring for winning t he 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...

HAA Graduate Student Ebonie Pollock Named 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship Recipient

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Congratulations to Ebonie Pollock for being named as this year’s Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship recipient! Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, where she studies African Diaspora Art...

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

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Prudence Peiffer’s (PhD, 2010) book The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever is out August 1 from Harper. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the...

Timothy M. Rohan The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, Yale University Press (2014)

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Based upon Rohan's dissertation supervised by Neil Levine, it is the first monograph about one of the most important architects of the postwar era. Friday, April 24, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Codman Estate, 34 Codman Road, Lincoln, Mass.Once acclaimed and then...

“Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York”, new publication by Paisid Aramphongpha

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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). -- "Horizontal Together tells the story of...

Alejandra Rojas Silva joins faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University

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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...

Congratulations to 2023 PhD recipients

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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. Max Boersma – Technical Difficulties: Abstraction's Entanglements in the World...

HAA Graduate Student Walid Akef Appointed Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in UMass Amherst

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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...

Adam Jasienski wins Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize

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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...