We are proud that 2017 alumna Meghann McMahon will be attending the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Virginia this coming fall. Meghann graduated with a double major in Civil Engineering and Pre-Architecture. What is particularly notable about this is that the programs are in two different...
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Assistant Professor Eunyoung Park is a finalist for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching. Congratulations to Professor Park — what an honor to receive this nomination during one’s first year in the department!
Lauryn Smith, a third-year doctoral student in early modern Dutch and Flemish art, is one of fifteen emerging professionals who were selected to participate in the Rijksmuseum and Netherlands Institute of Art History (RKD) Summer School Program, “Northern Renaissance Art: Collections, Research, and Recent Developments.” Lauryn was awarded a...
Lauren Lovings-Gomez, a second-year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, has been awarded the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship! This fellowship will enable Lauren to travel to England this fall to view the “Pre-Raphaelite Sisters” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as to visit additional...
The art history faculty at CWRU is deeply committed to undergraduate education, and this commitment has earned recognition for two departmental faculty members. Erin Benay, Climo Assistant Professor, has been nominated for the 2019 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which honors faculty who have demonstrated excellence...
On March 8, Professor Elina Gertsman and Dr. Sonya Mace (Cleveland Museum of Art) presented their joint paper, “The Global Middle Ages in the Classroom: Expanding Geographies, Challenging Borders” at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. On Sunday, March 10th, they were discussants at the...
Professor Vincent Debiais (EHESS, Paris / Stanford University) is giving a lecture title "Images of Silence in Medieval Art: Visual Approaches to Theology and Practices" on Monday, May 13, at 4:30 PM at Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, in Clark 206.
Kylie Fisher, a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Italian art, received a scholarship award from the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation to help fund her dissertation research in Europe this summer. Kylie's dissertation, advised by Professor Erin Benay, explores the formidable role that engravings played in how...
The Cleveland Symposium is hosted each fall by the Case Western Reserve University–Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies. It began in 1974 as the Ohio Area Student Symposium and included presentations by art history students from Ohio and the surrounding regions. Now...
On Saturday, March 9, second-year MA student Lauren Lovings-Gomez presented her paper “Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold ‘Lotus and Dragon-fly’ Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment” at the 36th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University. She was also able to see CWRU alumna Alexa Amore (MA, Class...
On February 28, Prof. Elina Gertsman delivered an invited talk at the Northwestern Medieval Colloquium, which brings distinguished speakers to campus for evening lectures and informal lunches with graduate students. Her paper, "Lacunae and their Phantoms," was drawn from her forthcoming book that explores medieval concepts of absence.