Dr. Anne Markham Schulz, a long-time affiliate of the Brown History of Art & Architecture department, published a new book with Brepols in 2022.

PhD candidate, Oliver Coulson, will be giving a short lecture at the annual symposium organized by The Frick Collection and The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University on April 14th, 2023.

Kent Kleinman (Faculty Director of the Brown Arts Institute & Professor of the Practice in History of Art and Architecture), received a 2023 Architectural Education Award. This month, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), named Kent a Distinguished Professor: "For exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. Award winners inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector."

Despina Stratigakos is a writer, historian, and Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo. This Spring she will give the 2023 Spear Endowed Lecture titled, "Hitler and the North: How Nazi Architects and Planners in Occupied Norway Envisioned a Nordic Empire."

Eric D. Johnson will join Brown University as a joint HIAA-NAISI Cogut-Mellon Post-doctoral fellow.

Professor Gretel Rodríguez was recently published in the American Journal of Archaeology. The article, titled, "The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange," reconsiders one of the most important Roman monuments of ancient Gaul, the Arch at Orange, offering new interpretations of its iconographic program as well as considering its ancient reception by the local viewers of Gallia Narbonensis.

Identity as Context; Memory as Content is an exhibition co-curated by HIAA/Psych concentrator Yereem Chun and Providence-based artist Kobe Jackson.

Emily Hirsch, PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department has been named a 2022-2023 Center for Netherlandish Art Flanders State of the Art Fellow.

Dominik Halás, History of Art & Architecture concentrator, is one of the youngest team members trusted by vintage, designer clothing reseller, the RealReal. for the New York Times writes, "Mr. Halás started buying and reselling secondhand clothes online as a teenager. “If I had $100 to invest, I would buy something on Japanese eBay and sell it on the U.S. site for $300,” he said. After graduating from Brown University, where he studied art history and architecture, he worked at showrooms including Goods and Services in New York, and then consulted for Helmut Lang before joining the RealReal."

The HIAA Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate, Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, who was recently awarded the Steinhaus/Zisson Pembroke Center Research Grant.

Professor in the Brown History of Art and Architecture Department, Jeffrey Muller, led an exhibition seminar of 6 Brown HIAA grad students to prepare an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Professor Dietrich Neumann’s latest book examines Mies van der Rohe’s first modern house in Guben (presently Gubin, Poland).

Assistant Professor Jeffrey Moser has three talks scheduled for the month of November 2021. He will discuss several aspects of his research on the Northern Song era in medieval China.

In 2020, Professor of Art History Itohan Osayimwese was awarded the 2020 Schelling Architecture Foundation Theory Prize.

The Department of the History of Art & Architecture is proud to announce a diverse variety of faculty publications.

On Monday, Professor Dietrich Neumann gave the keynote opening address at Tirana Architecture Week at Polis University.

After an 11-year closure, the Royal Museum in Antwerp has reopened. While the museum's exterior remains the same, previously unused space inside the building has changed dramatically. An old masters curator and current Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art & Architecture here at Brown, Koen Bulckens, notes for The New York Times, “We have these two different worlds, which each has a distinct identity... On the one hand, we have classical art in the classical building with the grandeur of 19th-century public spaces. And on the other hand, this slick, modernist, white-cube museum.” Read more about the museum and its reopening from Nina Siegal in The New York Times.

Patrick Nasta '22, Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and History. His career interests revolve around sustainable architectural design and renewable urban agriculture. Beginning in October '22 he will spend a year in Pollenzo, Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a Masters in Gastronomy with a focus on World Food Cultures and Mobility.

In March 2022, Oliver Coulson traveled to Spain to speak at the conference, The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages.

Pamudu forms part of the final cohort of the IDRF: the 2022 cycle will be the program’s last.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture is pleased to announce our call for applications, for our annual prizes and funding opportunities.

This research roundtable studies the transgressive potential of color when employed by people of color — its potential to challenge the fixity of racial hierarchies and subvert hegemonic structures.

On Wednesday, April 27, Professor Gretel Rodríguez appears as a panelist in the “The Architecture of Imperialism: A Roundtable at the Periphery of Early Empires.” 

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture has a lively start to the month of April.

The On Speculation lecture series continues with educator, researcher, and curator, Dr. Mpho Matsipa. She presents “Black Time and African Spatialities” on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 5:30 pm, in Petteruti Lounge. 

Professor Erica Kinias is one of just four recipients of the 2022 Olivia Remie Constable Award.

On March 23, 2022, Professor Gretel Rodríguez was named one of the ten 2022 recipients of the Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art.

We look forward to sending out a new date and seeing you, hopefully, very soon.

The hybrid conference is sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Sawyer Foundation.

Professor Arabindan-Kesson uses historical case studies and contemporary art to analyze the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the Black body in U.S. culture.

The Spear Lecture takes place on Thursday, March 10, 2022 in List Art Center 120.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, Harvard University Professor Jinah Kim presents, “Color Coding Knowledge: Five Colors of Indian Esoteric Buddhism.”

On view across Brown’s campus is an exhibit of student work from Professor Itohan Osayimwese’s Fall 2021 course.

Ella Comberg has published two articles: one in the Brown Alumni Magazine, and one in Hidden City Philadelphia. 

HIAA Professor Holly Shaffer has edited the fifty-first issue of Ars Orientalis, published by the Freer and Sackler Galleries at Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the University of Michigan.

Submissions may address specific objects in the Joukowsky’s collection, or the field of archaeology in general.

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) announces that Professor Itohan Osayimwese will deliver the 2022 Eduard F. Sekler Talk at the SAH 2022 Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Department applauds these students for their excellent projects, and celebrates the innovative leadership of Professor Osayimwese and graduate TAs, Pamudu Tennakoon and Dandan Xu.

The edited volume that is the planned outcome of the project will be produced through an innovative collaborative writing process.

On December 4, Professor Jeffrey Muller’s class, “Dutch and Flemish Art: Visual Culture of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century,” paid a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Alexis Lowry, Curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, has been named a 2022 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

This event will be held in List Art Building, Room 110. Insomnia Cookies will be served.

Prof. Gretel Rodríguez presents a talk, Roman Triumphal Arches: Looking at the Arch at Orange on October 28 at 3 pm via Zoom.

Professor Shaffer's essay, "Eclecticism and Empire, in Translation," was published in August in Modern Philology.