Congratulations to graduating senior Morgan McCommon who was awarded a Baker-Nord Humanities Prize for her paper, “An Attack on Constantine: Vandalism in the 4th-century Frieze of the Arch of Constantine.” Morgan is the first Art History major to win this award since 2014! In this paper, she examines the...
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Congratulations to second-year MA student Katie DiDomenico for two recent accomplishments. Katie was selected for a virtual summer internship with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She will be working as a curatorial intern with Dr. Marjorie Wieseman in the Department of Northern European Paintings. The stated...
Congratulations to graduating senior Sarah Lavin, BS in Chemistry and BA in Art History, minor in studio art, who was featured as part of the "Spartan Showcase" in The Daily! Read the article here.
Congratulations to alumna, Kylie Fisher (Ph.D. 2020) who will be joining the Art Department at Furman University this fall as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History! Furman is among the nation's top liberal arts and sciences universities and is located in Greenville, South Carolina. Kylie is thrilled to be...
Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman who will be the professeure invitée at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in 2022 and 2023! Each year, EHESS invites outstanding researchers from around the world to give talks and seminars in Paris within the framework of international scholarly...
Join us for the many papers presented by the CWRU graduate students and alumni at the International Congress for Medieval Studies! Among them are Reed O’Mara, Ben Levy, and Julia LaPlaca (MA, 2020), speaking about medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and Kristen Herdman (MA, 2016) presenting on Medingen Prayer Books. Click below to learn more about their papers or go directly to see the full program here.
Congratulations to Professor Benay and Professor Ciampaglia, who have won a 2021 Expanding Horizons grant for Social and Racial Justice. Learn more about their project Pressing Matters: Printmaking, Self-Advocacy, and Community Activism in East Cleveland by visiting the EHI website here.
Pressing Matters will design and facilitate participatory printmaking, visual literacy, and self-advocacy...
Congratulations to third-year PhD student Sam Truman for her acceptance into the 2021 White Rose Medieval Graduate Conference, co-hosted by the University of York and the University of Leeds! Sam will be presenting her paper entitled "Embodiment and Identity: The Ghostly Prior of Saint-Sauveur de Pavie."
Congrats to first-year PhD student Reed O’Mara who has been elected to serve as the Mentorship and Professionalization Coordinator on the Board of Directors for the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. The Vagantes Conference is set to take place at Case Western Reserve University in the spring of 2022...
Registration for summer courses is open now! See the attached poster for more information about ARTH 101: Pyramids to Pagodas, taught by Reed O'Mara.
Fifty years after its original German publication, Brill launched a free beta period for the Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie online.
Included are links to other resources, like the Princeton Index of Medieval Art, that map the LCI lemmas to relevant entries in the IMA, and that are also indexed by...
Read about Professor Benay’s collaboration with LAND Studio and CWRU students in her article “From Campus to Community: Art History as Urban Practice,” in the latest issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. Click here to access the article.