Art History and Archaeology News
May 2012
As of July 1, Elizabeth C. Childs is promoted to the rank of Professor, and also to the Etta and Mark Steinberg Chair in Art History.
She has also been reappointed as Chair of the Department.
Professor Elizabeth Childs will deliver a talk on "The avant-garde looks East: the Japonisms of Van Gogh and his circle" at an international symposium to be held in conjucntion with the exhibition "Van Gogh: Up Close," at the National Gallery of Canada, on May 26, 2012.
Professor William Wallace will speak on "Michelangelo's Other Patrons: the Strozzi" at the International Symposium "Michelangelo and His World in the 1490s," Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
Professor Angela Miller will teach at the John F. Kennedy School of North American Studies at the Freie University, Berlin from May through July 2012.
Professor Angela Miller will be the Teaching Fellow at the Courtauld Institute for the Terra Foundation of American Art, during which time she will give a lecture and seminar.
April 2012
The Department of Art History and Archaeology are pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Ila Sheren (PhD, MIT), currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Jackman Institute at the University of Toronto, as Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, a position that will start in January 2013.
Professor Elizabeth Childs will deliver a talk, "Encountering Polynesia: Gauguin, nostalgia and the fictions of paradise" at the Seattle Art Museum on April 10, and will also be giving a lecture on the Gauguin in Polynesia show at that museum to Seattle area Washington University alumni.
March 2012
Professor William Wallace delivered the paper "Michelangelo's Brothers at My Shoulder," presented in honor of F.W. Kent at the Renaissance Society of American Meeting, held in Washington D.C.
Dr. Mark S. Weil, E. Desmond Lee Emeritus Professor of Art History, and Susan Fisher Sterling (B.A. 1997, Art History and Archaeology, Washington University), both received 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards from Arts and Sciences.
Professor Susan Rotroff delivered the lecture "The Unsolved Mysteries of the Agora Bone Well" at Amherst College as part of the Archaeological Institute of America lecture program.
The Department travels to Seattle, WA for its spring field trip.
February 2012
The Department is pleased to announce that our post-doctoral teaching fellow in Roman Art and Archaeology, Dr. Adrian Ossi (PhD, University of Michigan, 2009) has accepted an appointment of a second year in the Department. An announcement of his popular courses for next year is forthcoming.
Professor Susan Rotroff presents "Intimate Fumigations and Urban Goats: Pottery puzzles from ancient Athens" at Washington University's "Friday Archaeology."
The Department has a lively presence at the 2012 College Art Association Conference.
The Department had a lively presence at CAA, held in Los Angeles February 22-26. Professor John Klein delivered "Matisse's Decoration as Total Artwork" in the session "The Modern Gesamtkunstwerk"; Professor Marisa Bass (joining the department next fall), gave the paper "After-Images of Erasmus: The Humanist Portrait in the Early Sixteenth-Century Netherlands" in the session "Affect and Agency: The Netherlandish Portrait (1400-1750); and Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Melanie Michailidis co-chaired the session "The Interconnected Tenth Century," where she also delivered "Samanid Silver and Trade Along the Fur Route."
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
Professor Elizabeth Childs is featured in Washington Magazine.
The Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Speaker Series hosts Dr. Carol Duncan.
September 2011
June 2011
Professor Elizabeth Childs attends Scholars’ Day for the exhibition “Gauguin: Maker of Myth” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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