Congratulations to Alex Kaczenski and Sam Truman on passing their doctoral exams with flying colors! Alex and Sam were joined by the alumna Mia Hafer and the honorary medievalist Delilah for a little celebration in Prof. Gertsman's back yard.
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Transforming Art History: Team Award
Team Members: Elizabeth Bolman, Ken Singer, Michael Hinczewski, Ina Martin, Lauryn Smith, Sarah Lavin, Sam Schwab, Fang Ji, Michael McMaster, Shishir Adhikari, Marci O'Dwyer and Gundeep Singh
This interdisciplinary team is transforming art history at CWRU and around the world. The project models the potential of...
At long last, the CMA is opened for small special tours, and the first such tour was offered by Dr. Gerhard Lutz to CWRU medievalists, who convened today at the Treasures from Münster Cathedral. The extraordinary collection of reliquaries is on display through 8/14/2022 and will form an integral part of the next course in the Global Middle Ages series, which will be co-taught by Prof. Gertsman and Dr. McCormick next spring.
Congratulations to Lauryn Smith, PhD candidate in early modern art, who was selected as the inaugural Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Digital Art History Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. As the Frick Digital Art History Fellow, Lauryn will embark on an independent, remote digital art history...
Join us for the latest installment of the project Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art, jointly administered by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Case Western Reserve University! The symposium on June 16th, organized and introduced by Prof. Elina Gertsman and her colleague at EHESS...
Congratulations to second-year MA student Mackenzie Clark who has been accepted to CWRU School of Law with a Justice Joseph Story Intellectual Property Law Fellowship! Mackenzie plans to focus her studies on the intersections of art law, nonprofit law, and intellectual property.
Congratulations to graduating senior Morgan McCommon who was awarded a Baker-Nord Humanities Prize for her paper, “An Attack on Constantine: Vandalism in the 4th-century Frieze of the Arch of Constantine.” Morgan is the first Art History major to win this award since 2014! In this paper, she examines the...
Congratulations to second-year MA student Katie DiDomenico for two recent accomplishments. Katie was selected for a virtual summer internship with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She will be working as a curatorial intern with Dr. Marjorie Wieseman in the Department of Northern European Paintings. The stated...
Congratulations to graduating senior Sarah Lavin, BS in Chemistry and BA in Art History, minor in studio art, who was featured as part of the "Spartan Showcase" in The Daily! Read the article here.
Congratulations to alumna, Kylie Fisher (Ph.D. 2020) who will be joining the Art Department at Furman University this fall as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History! Furman is among the nation's top liberal arts and sciences universities and is located in Greenville, South Carolina. Kylie is thrilled to be...
Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman who will be the professeure invitée at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in 2022 and 2023! Each year, EHESS invites outstanding researchers from around the world to give talks and seminars in Paris within the framework of international scholarly...
Join us for the many papers presented by the CWRU graduate students and alumni at the International Congress for Medieval Studies! Among them are Reed O’Mara, Ben Levy, and Julia LaPlaca (MA, 2020), speaking about medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and Kristen Herdman (MA, 2016) presenting on Medingen Prayer Books. Click below to learn more about their papers or go directly to see the full program here.