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Publications of Our Alumni

We are excited to share the accomplishments of our alumni, members of the MA class of 2019! Lauren Lovings Gomes, now a PhD candidate at Rice University, has a recent publication "The Lost Narratives of Natalia Shabelsky" which was originally presented as a paper for the Textile Society of America...

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The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference!

The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music at CWRU invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, taking place THIS WEEK! This in-person graduate student conference will take place Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25, at the Cleveland Museum...

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang on the Defense of her Dissertation!

Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “William Pryor Floyd: The Art and Business of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong”! It is an outstanding dissertation that represents a significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century photography and the history of British Hong Kong. Bing extends...

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PhD students present at the 110th CAA Annual Conference

Congratulations to PhD students Bing Wang and Lauryn Smith, who presented their research at the 110th CAA Annual Conference! Bing presented “From The China Magazine to The Far East: An Early Evolution of Photographs Independent from Texts in East Asian Periodicals,” while Lauryn “Beyond ‘Exceptional’ Women: Unearthing Women’s Agency in the 17th Century Dutch Art Market with Network Analysis.”

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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay on the Publication of Her Third Book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, whose third book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World has just been published! The research for this interdisciplinary, transcontinental study was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies....

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Students in Professor Erin Benay’s “Pressing Matters” Class Print Their Own Linocuts

Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Professor Erin Benay's Pressing Matters: Prints, Power, Revolution class print their own linocuts at the midtown nonprofit Zygote Press.  The class is working in partnership with Zygote Press and the CMA's new Community Arts Center to develop art-historically grounded, social-justice print projects for teens in the...

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