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.