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Congratulations to alumna Christine Wolken, Associate Professor of Art History, who is a recipient of the 2019-2020 Cuyahoga Community College Excellence in Teaching Award in Honor of Ralph M. Besse. The award is given to faculty members who demonstrate exceptional professional competence and commitment to helping students succeed, a...
We are pleased to announce an extraordinary series of lectures made possible by the generous support of the Nord Foundation at Case Western Reserve University. The lectures will take place within the framework of Professor Elina Gertsman’s graduate seminar on medieval Jewish art and will be held on Zoom.
Click here to read an article posted by the CWRU School of Law featuring Sydney Slacas, a second-year MA student in the Art History and Museum Studies program and third-year JD student at the School of Law.
Art History Club is back! We will be having a Meet & Greet on September 8th at 6:00 pm via Zoom! We will be getting to know one another, giving more information about our club, and playing a game of Art History Pictionary! Anyone is welcome to join, regardless...
New Gift to Art History Doctoral Students!
The Sarah and Walter Gibson Endowment Fund
A fund named in honor of Sarah and Walter Gibson has been established to support doctoral students in the Joint Program between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Department of Art History and Art. It will...
Meghan Strong, Adjunct Asst. Professor in Classics, will serve as guest curator for a new installation of the Islamic Art gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The long-term installation, which is set to open in early 2021, will focus on the breadth and diversity of Islamic artistic traditions. In...
If you would like to attend, please email Reed O'Mara (rao44@case.edu) or click here to register.
Big congratulations to Reed O'Mara, whose paper "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints" has been accepted into the Medieval Academy of America's annual conference, to be held in April of 2021. Reed's paper developed during Professor Elina Gertsman's course Medieval Matters: The Monstrous, the Macabre,...
Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture (sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)
Although we are used to thinking that the sense of sight reigned supreme in the Middle Ages, medieval scholars of all stripes were quite obsessively preoccupied with questions of olfaction. This session will explore the multivalent relationships between objects, smells, and memory, especially as they existed in the later Middle Ages.
Abstracts, one page in length, should be sent to Elina Gertsman (exg152@case.edu) by 10.15, 2020