Recent graduate Kali Steinberg started earlier this month as a curatorial assistant for the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. She received her MA from Case Western in 2021 and is thrilled to be back in an academic setting. In this position, she will provide key support for exhibition...
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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...
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,...
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.
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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...
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...
"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...
Professor Elina Gertsman was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. According to the MAA press release, it is the highest honor that the Academy can bestow upon North American medievalists. Fellowships acknowledge scholars' notable lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies through their scholarship, teaching, and service. New...
Please click below to see our January newsletter. We have several events planned for the semester, the first of which is a virtual game night taking place next week on January 21st at 7:30pm!
We are delighted to share the program and recordings of 2021 Keithley Symposium, Monumental Conversations: City Stories that was held on December 3, 2021. The symposium was guided by the questions: what is the story of Cleveland, where does it live? Each panel explored different ways that Cleveland’s public...
Still more congratulations to Prof. Henry Adams on The Golden Age of Cleveland Art, 1900-1945, now on view at the Western Reserve Historical Society and accompanied by a splendid catalogue! Listen to Prof. Adams’s discussion of the exhibition on Ideastream and read his essay on the exhibition in the American Art Review.
Congratulations to Professor Henry Adams on the publication of his newest book, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn: American Master of Watercolor and Printmaking! Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism and the following movements in American art. His...