Brown's Department of the History of Art and Architecture serves the discipline, the academic community, and the humanities generally, through the creation of innovative scholarship that expands — and challenges — current understandings of the cultural past. We are dedicated to the study of diverse cultures on their own terms, to the analysis of materials in their own visual languages, and to the humanistic value of our discipline.
We also maintain a longstanding commitment to Museum Studies and the study of objects through a close working relationship with the RISD Museum, and the Bell Gallery housed in the List Art Center at Brown. Graduate and undergraduate students have the opportunity to hold proctorships and internships at the museum, and to work with the Bell Gallery.