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A Windfall of Graduate Student Awards

May 6, 2020

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.

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Sheila Bonde in National Geographic Story

April 22, 2020

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

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Congratulations Professor Shaffer

April 15, 2020

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

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Professor Osayimwese Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

April 1, 2020

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

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"On Speculation" speaker featured in Brown Daily Herald

February 25, 2020

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

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Exploring the Future of Curating in China

February 21, 2020

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.

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Lecture: Christian Art and Identity in Early Modern India

February 13, 2020

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.

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HIAA Affiliated Faculty, Steven Lubar, Appointed Director of CDS

February 7, 2020

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

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Congratulations to Professor Stephen Houston

February 3, 2020

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.

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Congratulations to So Jeong Lim and Olivia McCarthy-Kelley

December 19, 2019

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.

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Modern Architecture Model Show 2019

December 17, 2019

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

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Modern Architecture show: December 16 at 5 pm

December 5, 2019

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

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Professor Osayimwese lecture available online

December 5, 2019

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

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Ph.D. candidate, Allison Pappas, wins grant from Paul Mellon Centre

December 5, 2019

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.

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Judith Tolnick Champa ('79MA) Curates "ReSeeding the City: Ethnobotany in the Urban"

October 24, 2019

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

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Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Ph.D. '07) Publishes Book on the Legacy of Queen Clémence de Hongrie

October 23, 2019

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.

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Professor Moser speaks at the 2019 New England Medieval Conference

October 21, 2019

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

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Student Models From Professor Neumann's Nineteenth Century Architecture Class on Display at the Rock

October 8, 2019

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

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New England Renaissance Conference Coordinated by Brown Alumni

October 8, 2019

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

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HIAA Featured in News From Brown

September 16, 2019

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

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Graduate student awards

August 22, 2019

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

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"On Speculation" - a yearlong lecture series

August 16, 2019

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

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HIAA welcomes a new chair

August 16, 2019

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

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Welcome Back Students - consider a class in art history and architecture this fall

August 16, 2019

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

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Welcome Jessica Stair, New Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

August 7, 2019

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

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We welcome three new Ph.D. Alumnae

June 6, 2019

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

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Five Brown Alumnae Gather at Print Council of America

June 4, 2019

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

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Architecture Student Booklet Available

May 24, 2019

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

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Judith Tolnick Champa, '79 MA will Curate Exhibit at RI State House

May 24, 2019

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.

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New walking tour created by Brown University Students

May 14, 2019

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

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Two Alumni win 2019 Graham Foundation Project Grants

May 13, 2019

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

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Commencement weekend show features models from 19th C. Arch Class

May 13, 2019

Congratulations, Grads!

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HIAA Independent Study Project Wins Undergraduate Library Research Award

April 24, 2019

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.

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Dietrich Neumann publishes book chapter on Alexander Dorner

April 23, 2019

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

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Society of Architectural Historians in Providence

April 19, 2019

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

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The Medieval Cyborg featured in The Brown Daily Herald

April 8, 2019

Her talk argued for a more critical understanding of medieval and early modern conceptions of mimesis through an examination of a range of figural objects.

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