News – Department of Art History and Art

August 13, 2026

We are delighted to share that doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse has accepted a position as Catalogue Raisonné Researcher at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute! Based in New York City, the WPI is a non-profit foundation working in collaboration with the Fonds WPI in Paris and dedicated to publishing digital catalogues...

Alumna update from Dr. Angie Verduci

August 5, 2026

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her dissertation on medieval Triumph of Death murals in 2023, has been appointed to teach in the International Curriculum at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Offered twice each year to students from around the world,...

July 20, 2026

Rachel Sweeney, third-year PhD student in medieval art, was this year's recipient of the Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies from the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Her paper, "The Faddan More Psalter: Tangible Connections Between the Insular World and Byzantium," was originally written...

July 2, 2026

The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to announce the publication of Animalities and Humanities in Medieval Jewish Art, a special issue of Ars Judaica co-edited by Prof. Elina Gertsman. In addition to a broad range of articles, the volume features a roundtable discussion that explores historical and ecological spectra of...

August 5, 2026

Join us on May 27 for Reed O'Mara's lecture on the use of pseudo-Hebrew in late medieval prints! The talk is part of the lecture series organized by the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Reed, a doctoral candidate in medieval art and a Mellon Fellow, is...

May 26, 2026

May 19, 2026

Congratulations to all the speakers, chairs, and organizers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies! Case Western Reserve--its faculty, its affiliates, its students, and its alumni--were amply represented this year. Thank you, as always, for making us proud, and for paving the way for the annual meeting of the...

Congratulations to Clara Pinchbeck! She’ll be at the Getty for the next two years.

May 15, 2026

PhD candidate Clara Pinchbeck has accepted a two-year Research Assistant position at the Getty Research Institute. Working under Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Clara will focus on long-term digital projects within a division that encompasses the Getty Provenance Index, the Getty Vocabulary Program, and...

May 14, 2026

May 1, 2026

On Tuesday April 21st, CWRU Art Studio instructor, Adriel Meyer recieved an Excellence in Teaching award from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She was one of 3 awarded this year and was especially excited to be recognized by her Alma mater.