Henry Adams will be on Leave of Absence for the 2016-17 academic year. He has an appointment as a Fellow of the College of the Environment and Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University where he will teach one course, “The Experience of American Landscape,” participate in a...
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Christopher Bedford, who received an MA in Art History from CWRU in 2003, was named the tenth director of the Baltimore Museum of Art; he will begin his term in August. Currently Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he previously served as chief curator...
Two assistant professors in art history, Erin Benay, a specialist in early modern Italian art, and Maggie Popkin, a specialist in ancient Roman art, received awards from the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU. Professor Benay was chosen to be a Baker-Nord Center Faculty Affiliate for the fall...
Andrea Wolk Rager, the Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor in art history, received a John S. Diekhoff Award in spring 2016, the second year in a row that a professor in art history has received this award. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Senate and School of Graduate Studies, the John...
Maggie Popkin, assistant professor of art history, is a principle investigator on a team of scholars who have received a three-year, $300,000 collaborative research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support archaeological research in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Samothrace, Greece. “The grant projects…represent...
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Senate and School of Graduate Studies, the John S. Dieckhoff Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching is awarded to two faculty members that have made exemplary contributions to graduate students through work in the classroom. Part of the prestige of this award is that the process by...
If you are applying for the Creative Achievement Award, please do the following:
Art Portfolio PowerPoint:
Send me art portfolio PowerPoint or PDF images of your student work (24 images). Each image’s credit line should give the name of the piece, the dimensions, the material, media, and the date completed....
Through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CWRU will offer a new five-year doctoral fellowship in art history, beginning in 2015-15. The Mellon Foundation will provide a $25,000 stipend per year, and CWRU will offer full tuition support. The Mellon Fellowship will be awarded on a competitive...
Welcome to CWRU.
If you are interested in studying art history, you have come to the right place, for your professors are all scholars who have worked in museums as well as in universities, and our classes emphasize study of the works of art that can be seen in the...
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art are launching a landmark initiative that capitalizes on their longtime collaborations as well as their strengths in scholarship, curation, conservation and education.
The new venture emerged from the vision and dedication of university trustee Joseph Keithley and his wife, Nancy,...