The Department of HIAA is pleased to congratulate Koen Bulckens.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Itohan Osayimwese has recently received two honors.

To see more about HIAA 1882, go to News at Brown where the course was recently highlighted.

As a portfolio reviewer at FotoFest in 2018, Matthew was invited to recommend an artist for inclusion in a group exhibition at this year's biennial.

We have recently added a new class, taught by graduate student Peter Levins, HIAA 1850I: Architectures of the Sea.

How do we talk about and understand monuments, art, and public sculpture as cultural and historic objects that speak to us from the past? Two new faculty members in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture research vastly different geographic areas and time periods, but their research intersects as they explore something we are all talking about today.

As director, Professor Neumann looks forward to broadening the relationships of the Public Humanities with many departments, in particular, with the History of Art and Architecture department.

The article examines Professor Moser teaches the history of Chinese calligraphy to American students.

Congratulations, Professor Bonde.

The Wriston Fellowship is awarded to regular untenured members of the faculty who have achieved a record of excellence in teaching and scholarship during their first years at Brown.

Students have explored the concept of moral injury and discussed the music that reflects their military experience.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture recently honored some of our students with awards and prizes.

We caught up with Amanda in early May after moving her family from Grand Rapids to southern Maine where she was in quarantine with her husband (Brown class of ’05) and two children. (five year old daughter, and toddler).

Open Graduate Education allows doctoral students to complete a master’s degree in a secondary different field. 

We are proud to celebrate the recent outstanding achievements of our graduate students. While every year our community of art and architectural historians is honored with a variety of prizes, this year’s crop of awards is exceptional.

Journalist Kristin Romey quoted HIAA Professor Sheila Bonde in her National Geographic Article.

Congratulations to HIAA Assistant Professor Holly Shaffer on receiving a​ Getty/ACLS Fellowship in the History of Art.

The $245,000 award will allow Professor Osayimwese to develop expertise in the theories and methods of historical archaeology.

Check out the article in the February 24th edition of the Herald.

Over the course of their ten-day trip, the students from both universities visited more than a dozen museums and historic sites in Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Her talk “From Stone and Wood: Christian Art and Identity in Early Modern India” is on Monday, March 2 at 6 pm in List Art Building room 110.

Professor Lubar has taught courses in museum histories as well as the place of museums inn communities.

The series was inaugurated in 1949 to "bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts” from any discipline.

These awards honor the memory of Professor Molholt Vanel who taught in the department from 2008 to 2014. It commemorates her deep interest in travel and museum experience.

This class of more than 200 students featured models of buildings created in the late 18th to mid-20th centuries from around the world.

Join us Monday December 16 at 5pm, List Art Building.

Professor Osayimwese articulates a new, more global history that centers colonialism’s contribution to German modernism.

Allison Pappas received a Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art to complete archival work for the first chapter of her dissertation.

Judith and her colleagues were featured on RI NPR's Artscape on Thursday, October 24.

Tiffany explores how the queen constructed her identity with the art that had come into her possession, and analyzes the circulation of such art in the later Middle Ages.

The theme of this year's conference is "Rethinking the Body: Humanity and its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages."

Be sure to see the student models of important buildings from the era.

This year's conference was called Motion, Rhythm, Shifts.

The guide that they created is available in various Providence hotels and information centers.

We are happy to announce that three HIAA graduate students have been awarded grants in 2019 to continue their research.

This year's series entitled On Speculation considers the changing field of study in art and architectural history.

Professor Lincoln is looking forward to this new role in helping the department to continue to explore opportunities.

Courses in HIAA intersect with study in visual art, global cultures, science, and technology studies, and the built environment.

In particular, she is interested in the relationship of images to textual forms.

Wishing a warm welcome to three of our newest PhD alumnae.

Department chair Evelyn Lincoln recently attended a Print Council of America meeting.

The 2019 graduating class of architecture students has published a book of their selected works.

Judith Tolnick Champa, '79 MA History of Art will be curating an ambitious exhibition and, with three co-organizers, a Forum for early fall entitled ReWilding: Ethnobotany in the Urban.

The walking tour was written and researched by Professor Dietrich Neumann and his students.

Professor Sassin received a grant for her article, "Single People and Mass Housing in Germany (1850–1930): (No) Home Away From Home."

Congratulations, Grads!

Similar to how a museum curator selects objects for an exhibition, Maya selected 8 sites on Brown's campus that are "portraits" of Brown–some are framed, most are not–to raise questions and create opportunities for changing institutions from within.

Dietrich Neumann has published a book chapter, entitled: "All the Struggles of the Present:  Alexander Dorner, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and Rhode Island Architecture."

Professors Neumann, Osayimwese and department graduate and undergraduate students will be involved in public programs, talks, and tours about architecture in Providence.