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Earlier this month, students in the Joint Program past and present made an impressive showing at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco. PhD candidates Clara Pinchbeck and Arielle Suskin presented their poster on a coin from the recently published Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections Ancient Coin...

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You are cordially invited to a lecture as part of the departmental seminar Wednesday, 25 Tevet 5786, January 14, 2026 at 16:00 (Israel time), on Zoom Human and Animalic Tongues in the Brussels Liturgical Pentateuch Luke Hester, Case Western Reserve University Click to Join: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/81750893434 Previous lectures are available on the Department of Jewish Art...

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Join Prof. Elina Gertsman in her exploration of phantasmagorical images of matzah in medieval Hebrew manuscripts at the Ornamented Membranes conference. Held in hybrid format at the Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, this conference tackles medieval spaces of transition and exclusion, permeable or semi-permeable...

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We are delighted to announce that Zoe Appleby, Rebekkah Hart, Cecily Hughes, and Madeline Newquist defended their dissertation prospectuses with flying colors!  Materiality and environment clearly rule the day here. Zoe's dissertation is provisionally titled "Earth, Water, Gems, and Lava: Eco-Materiality and Environmental Agency in the Medieval Mediterranean," while...

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If you have never stopped to examine this exquisitely wrought citrine cameo of Philip II in Gallery 118 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, there is now added reason to do so--it is the subject of Prof. Erin Benay's new article, published in Artibus et Historiae! Special thanks to...

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Google Arts and Culture Page Live

A Google Arts & Culture digital exhibition focusing on the Getty Museum's Department of Manuscripts's first acquisition to include a female author was recently made its premier. The piece was written by PhD candidate in medieval art and Mellon Fellow Reed O'Mara. The manuscript is from the late fifteenth/early sixteenth...

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Congratulations to Rebekkah Hart, a fourth-year PhD student in medieval art, who received the Schallek Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America! This extremely competitive year-long fellowship will underwrite her dissertation research in the UK. Rebekkah is now interning at the Getty's Sculpture & Decorative Arts curatorial department.

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Congratulations to Madalyn Fox, second-year MA student in contemporary art and museum studies, who presented her paper, “Slabs, Seams, and Survival: Rose B. Simpson’s Symbiotic Claywork,” at the 2025 University of Kansas History of Art Graduate Student Symposium. This year’s theme, “Symbiosis: Art and Ecologies in Global Perspectives,” brought together MA...

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Congratulations to Susana Montañés-Lleras!

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Susana Montañés-Lleras, who recently presented two brilliant papers adapted from her doctoral dissertation at two leading interdisciplinary and international conferences!  At the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States annual conference, held at Saint Louis University, October 3-5, Susana delivered a talk titled,...

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Congratulations to MA Candidate Alexandru Zaharia, whose essay about the Church of God and True Holiness was recently published in Facade! Alexandru's building history of this extraordinary Cleveland gem is the result of research undertaken during his summer practicum in the Publicly Engaged Humanities at the Cleveland Restoration Society.  2025.11.15...

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Please join us for the Digital Humanities Showcase on November 21, at 1 pm, for a presentation/discussion of Prof. Elina Gertsman’s Immersive Realms project, followed by the AnyBook Experience project helmed by Sabina Zonno and Lynn Dodd at USC! As part of the celebrations for the MAA’s Centennial Year, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee and the Graduate Student Committee have partnered to organize a year-long series of webinars showcasing exciting DH projects. Register here or use the QR code on the flyer.

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