College of Arts and Sciences

HUGE congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman on being awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books! The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award is named in honor of one of the founding members of CAA and first teachers of art history in the...

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Big congratulations to Angie Verduci who just published her first peer-reviewed article in Athanor! The article addresses the Triumph of Death mural in Clusone, Italy, and is part of Angie’s dissertation on medieval Triumph murals. Also included in this issue of Athanor is the prize-winning article by our double alumna Mia Hafer,...

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Fourth-year PhD student Sam Truman will be presenting a paper this March at the Catholic University of America’s Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies conference Remembering and Reimagining in the Middle Ages. She will also be presenting at Florida State University’s 38th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in April. Map of the...

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Second-year art history PhD student Reed O'Mara will be presenting her paper "The Language(s) of the Other: Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Broadsides" at the Newberry Library's 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference this Friday, January 28 over Zoom. You can access the Newberry's schedule and the Zoom link for Reed's...

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HUGE Congratulations to CWRU alumna Kylie Fisher (PhD 2020) who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at Furman University!! Furman is among the nation's top liberal arts and sciences universities and is located in Greenville, South Carolina. As a tenure-track member of the faculty, Kylie will be a...

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"The weight of centuries rides on the smooth rippling of water as it washes against the boat’s hull, and the river, displayed on the three screens that flank the entrance of the exhibit, parts easily as we sail upon it. Issuing from these electric views of nature comes the...

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Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin on the publication of her edited volume, Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition. This volume, the first dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrates cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory...

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(The lecture was postponed due to CWRU restrictions on large gatherings during the current COVID surge) Bonna D. Wescoat, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History, Emory University; Director of Excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace The Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace is a physically remarkable...

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We are delighted to announce a series of lectures on eco-criticism and medieval art, slated for spring semester of 2022! The lectures will take place on Zoom; please register here. Our speakers will include Achim Timmerman (University of Michigan), Danielle Joyner (Lawrence University), and Benjamin Tilghman (Washington College). Click below for details — and save the dates of March 18 and April 13 for the lectures presented by Philippe Cordez (German Center for Art History, Paris) and Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University), respectively.

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