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Graduate Awards Ceremony

April 28, 2022

The Graduate Awards ceremony held non April 26 honored several art history students: Reed O’Mara and Katelyn Jones for the best papers; Lauryn Smith for the overall performance; and Julie Polsinelli for excellence in teaching. Marina Mandrikova, Sam Truman, Morgan McCommon, and Sarah Lavin received Pancoast awards. Two awards were given posthumously to Simone Perry, a graduate student in art education who tragically passed away in February of this year.

Photo: Dean Joy Ward joins Prof. Gertsman, Katelyn Jones, and Reed O’Mara for a photo op after the ceremony. Click below to see more photos!

Arielle Suskin Accepted Into the 2022 Cohort of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art at the Harvard Art Museums

April 25, 2022

Arielle Suskin was accepted into the 2022 cohort of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) at the Harvard Art Museums. The Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art is an intensive two-week workshop for a cohort of 15 pre-doctoral art historians. This year's topic is replication...

Cosmic Ecologies: Animalities in Medieval Jewish Art (The Newberry Library, May 14-15, 2024)

April 25, 2022

Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce this call for papers aimed at graduate students and early career scholars, who are invited to send in paper abstracts for a two-day symposium on animality in pre-modern, and particularly medieval, Jewish art and culture. The symposium, which will take place at the Newberry Library in Chicago on May 14-15, 2024, will address a plethora of topics: cosmic ecologies and their continuities across the animal-human-divine-demonic spectrum; visual and textual collisions between humanities and animalities; bestialization as a heuristic; animalization of Jews in Jewish and Christian discourses; zoocephaly in material and literary sources; monstrosities and hybridities as sites of wonder and liminality. Please click below for submission information.

CONGRATULATIONS to All of Our Spectacular Undergraduate Majors in Art History!

April 25, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our spectacular undergraduate majors in Art History and to those who shared their work at the Undergraduate Research Showcase on Friday. Emily Belina, Grace Bentley, and DavidPatrick Ryan were awarded departmental prizes for their accomplishments this year! Photo: students in Prof. Rager's Majors Seminar gather in...

Undergraduate Art History Major Elie Stenson Published Another Exhibition Review!

April 24, 2022

Undergraduate Art History major Elie Stenson has published another fantastic exhibition review, this time about the Currents & Constellations show now on view at the CMA. Read more here: https://observer.case.edu/currents-and-constellations-black-art-in-focus-sets-new-standard-for-narrative-art-exhibits/

Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Features Two Plenary Speakers From CWRU: Professors Elina Gertsman (Art History) and Gabrielle Bychowsky (English)

April 21, 2022

On April 9, the storied Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, held on the topic of Contact / Touch, featured not one but two plenary speakers from Case Western Reserve University: Professors Elina Gertsman (Art History) and Gabrielle Bychowsky (English). In the afternoon, after the plenary reading, Prof. Bychowsky spoke with the...

Congratulations to Julie, Katelyn, Lauryn, and Reed for Receiving This Year’s Graduate School Awards!

April 21, 2022

Congratulations to Julie, Katelyn, Lauryn, and Reed for receiving this year's Graduate School awards! Julie received the Instructional Excellence Award; Katelyn received the Friends of Art Award for a Best MA Paper; Lauryn received the the Friends of Art Award for a Best Overall Performance; and Reed received the...

Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin on Being Named a HILLS Faculty Fellow for 2022-23!

April 21, 2022

Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin, who has been named a HILLS Faculty Fellow for 2022-23. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series develops leadership among faculty in the arts and humanities, with a particular focus on diversity and inclusion in higher education administration. Prof....

Pancoast Fellowships Announced

April 20, 2022

Congratulations to PhD students Marina Mandrikova and Sam Truman, and MA students Morgan McCommon and Sarah Lavin, on receiving the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowships! The Pancoast Memorial Fund enables women graduates of The College of Arts and Sciences and women graduate students in The College of Arts and Sciences...

Congratulations to Prof. Benay on Being Named a HILLS Faculty Fellow for 2022-23!

April 18, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Benay, who has been named a HILLS Faculty Fellow for 2022-23! Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series develops leadership among faculty in the arts and humanities, with a particular focus on diversity and inclusion in higher education administration. Prof. Benay...

Lou Adrean Wins the ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award

April 16, 2022

We are delighted to announce that Lou Adrean, the longtime librarian at the Ingalls, just received the ARLIS/NA distinguished service award. The award was presented to Lou at the Society’s 50th anniversary conference and convocation ceremony in Chicago, on April 7, by Beth Owens and Rachel McPherson. "The Distinguished Service Award...

“The City is Our Museum” App Featured in Freshwater Cleveland!

April 16, 2022

FEATURED in TODAY's Freshwater Cleveland! CWRU Grad Students Jess Long and Lauryn Smith worked with LANDStudio on their new "The City is Our Museum" app. The app brings to life a carefully curated collection of public art in Cleveland and is an example of Engaged Art History! Jess was the...

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