The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is delighted to welcome our new chair, Professor Evelyn Lincoln, and to send a most hearty thanks to outgoing chair, Professor Sheila Bonde who ended her seven-year tenure in May.

Professor Lincoln joined the faculty in the History of Art & Architecture in 1994 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Professor of Italian Studies and a member of the faculty of the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown.  

Professor Lincoln is looking forward to this new role in helping the department to continue to explore opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty at all stages of their lives and careers as they pursue study together in the history of art and the built environment.  "I feel strongly that our department provides a vital place to study the things we make to live in and among, from a variety of perspectives, time periods and geographies," says Professor Lincoln. "Gaining a visual intelligence is central to knowing how we understand the world, and the historical study of why things have come to look the way they do is truly essential to an education in the humanities."