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PhD Student Rayna Li Receives the Newman Exploration Travel Award
PhD student Rayna (Yihao) Li has been selected as one of two graduate students to receive the 2025 Newman Exploration Travel Award.
PhD Student Hannah Wier Publishes in the Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Journal
PhD Student Hannah Wier recently published a review of Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery, London, in the Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide journal
Indigenous Perspectives II: Museums, Stewardship, and Native American Art
On February 27, 2025, the Department of Art History & Archaeology and American Culture Studies presented Indigenous Perspectives II: Museums, Stewardship, and Native American Art. This was the second iteration of the Indigenous Perspectives panels, which grew out of collaborations within the Indigenous St Louis Working Group (funded by the Divided City initiative in the Center for the Humanities).
Dr. Mia Laufer (PhD 2019) Named Irene Leache Curator of European Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art
Following an extensive nationwide search, Laufer officially joined the Chrysler Museum on January 13, 2025.
PhD Student Katie DiDomenico Speaks at SLAM
As a part of SLAM’s University Day, PhD student Katie DiDomenico offers a talk at Gallery 338 about John Greenwood’s Sea Captains Carousing in Suriname.
PhD Student Hannah Wier Offers Gallery Talk at Kemper Art Museum
PhD student Hannah Wier joined Assistant Curator Dana Ostrander to lead a lively discussion on Reframing the 19th Century at the Kemper Art Museum.
Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narrative
The exhibition will demonstrate how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part.
Graduate Students Claire Lyman and Mary Sulavik join Dr. Aravecchia in Amheida this January
Department of Art History and Archaeology graduate students Claire Lyman and Mary Sulavik joined Dr. Nicola Aravecchia, Archaeological Director of the Amheida project, on a trip to the ancient site of Amheida in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.
PhD Candidate Jay Buchanan Will Be Presenting at the 2024 CAA Conference
Jay Buchanan will be presenting at the 2024 CAA conference. Jay’s paper, “Xiyadie's Gate: Antimonumentalizing Tian'anmen and Papercutting Queer Endurance” will conclude the "Queer Monuments" panel chaired by Blake Oetting (NYU-IFA) and Dr. Nick Morgan (Hampden-Sydney).
Jay Buchanan serves as Art Exhibition Project Manager for Moving Stories
Jay Buchanan undertook a Mentored Professional Experience in Fall 2023, serving as Art Exhibition Project Manager for Moving Stories.
Jay Buchanan Interns at Pulitzer Arts Foundation in Fall of 2023
The experience combined professional development with historical insights on how artists, arts workers, and arts organizations relate today.
PhD Candidate Hoyon Mephokee Will Be Presenting at the 2024 CAA Conference
Third-year PhD Candidate will be present his paper titled “Co-Conspirators: Impressionism, Tourism, and the Invention of Modern Thailand” at the CAA 112th Annual Conference in February 2024.
2023-2024 Newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology
Check out the fifth volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology published this October!
PhD Candidate Christopher Hunt Will Be Teaching His First Course as Instructor of Record
Fifth-year PhD candidate Christopher Hunt will be teaching at Washington University in St. Louis this summer.
Graduate Student Jessica Baran will present a New Perspectives Talk at the Kemper Art Museum in June
Graduate Student Jessica Baran will present a talk titled "Credible Testimony and Gender-Based Violence" at the Kemper Art Museum on June 24th at 2 p.m.
Graduate Students Hoyon Mephokee, Brooke Eastman, and Elizabeth Mangone Speak at SLAM
Three graduate students gave pop-up talks at the Saint Louis Art Museum's event Shared Muses: Nature, Music, and Art on Saturday, April 22.
The Art History and Archaeology Department Visits Cleveland!
The field trip was supported by a generous gift from a recent alumna.
PhD Candidate Lacy Murphy has been awarded the Donna Lee Bowen Travel Award
The award will fund her travel to the annual conference for American Institute for Maghrib Studies in Tunis, Tunisia.
PhD Candidate Lacy Murphy will Complete a Residency at the National Humanities Center in Research this Summer
The residency focuses on effective instructional strategies that emphasize accessibility and inclusivity and is funded by The Office of Graduate Studies & The Graduate Center.
PhD Candidate Lacy Murphy to Participate in the National Humanities Alliance Conference
The Annual Meeting brings together faculty, administrators, and representatives from scholarly societies, museums, archives, and other humanities organizations to build their capacity to advocate for the humanities
Second-year PhD student Katie DiDomenico publishes two Google Arts & Culture Stories
Second-year PhD student Katie DiDomenico recently had two stories published on Google Arts & Culture about art in Cleveland
Graduate Student Harper Tooch joins Dr. Aravecchia at Archeology Site in Dakhla Oasis in Egypt
Harper Tooch (MA Student) joins Dr. Aravecchia in excavating at Amheida at the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt.
Graduate Dr. Lindsay Sheedy Promoted at Purdue University
Dr. Lindsay Sheedy (PhD 2021) was recently promoted to Assistant Director of the National & International Scholarships Office at Purdue University.
Graduate student Lacy Murphy's new research on Algerian anonymity
Washington University's Center for the Humanities recently published a research article by PhD candidate Lacy Murphy
Recent Graduate Dr. Lindsay Sheedy is Hired at Purdue University
Recent PhD Graduate moves onto her next chapter.
PhD Candidate Emily Thompson Attends the National Humanities Center Virtual Residency
The virtual residency was sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Julie James Receives the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
This award recognizes exceptional performance by a graduate student in an instructional role within Arts & Sciences.
The Department Celebrates our 2022 MA and PhD graduates!
Please join us in congratulating MA recipient Alexis Carr (May 2022), and PhD recipients Emily Hanson (August 2021), Kirsten Marples (May 2022), Lindsay Sheedy (December 2021) and Orin Zahra (May 2022)!
Recent PhD Orin Zahra receives honorarium from Smart History
The essay on Hungarian-Indian modernist painter, Amrita Sher-Gil will be published on Smart History and Khan Academy.
Graduate Student Alexis Carr's New Perspectives talk at the Kemper Art Museum
Alexis Carr is a second-year graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. She will be giving a New Perspectives talk at the Kemper Art Museum titled "Mythologizing the West: A Conversation About American Identity, National Heros, and Their Representations" on January 27, 2022.
2020-2021 Newsletter of the Department of Art History and Archaeology
The second volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2021.
Recent PhD Orin Zahra Interviewed for The Art Newspaper's "The Week in Art" Podcast
Orin Zahra discusses three photographs from the series SHE by Rania Matar.
AM Students Emily Bryan and Jenny Wu reflect on challenges and achievements of a degree completed in a pandemic
Bryan and Wu started together in the department in the fall of 2019, and had just one normal semester before COVID changed everything. Here they recount how they made the best of a weird situation.
Tola Porter wins Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
Delayed recognition for a job well done!
PhD Students Report Successes and Progress
Our current PhD Students have been busy pursuing research, making progress in their degree, and contributing meaningfully to the field, despite the disruptions of the past year.
The Department presents Diverse Careers in Art History and Archaeology: PhD Alumni Panel
This event was of interest to anyone who has ever been asked (or who have asked themselves): what can I do with a PhD in Art History and Archaeology?
Art Events on Campus this Fall!
Over the course of the fall, several exciting art events will be offered, including the Laboratory for Suburbia's first "Sprawl Session; "A Transitory Space," an exhibit of artwork by WUSTL MFA students with critical essays by WUSTL Art History and Archaeology graduate students; and Hostile Terrain 94, a multi-sited interactive memorial to the migrants who have been lost while crossing the southern U.S. border
2019-2020 Newsletter of the Department of Art History and Archaeology
The inaugural newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2020.
A Statement on the Role of Humanities Research and Education in Times of Crisis
Chairs and directors of humanities departments and programs at Washington University in St. Louis give voice to the concerted purpose of the humanities within the University and the world, a purpose grounded in a range of distinct disciplines, methods, and subject matter.
PhD Candidate Tola Porter Speaks on "Public Art-Commissions, Collection, and Engagement" Panel
Tola Porter recently participated in the Mildred Lane Kemper Virtual Panel Discussion entitled: Public Art - Commissions, Collections, and Engagement.
Allison Perelman receives Pollard-Stein Award for Excellence in Teaching
PhD candidate Allison Perelman has been awarded this year's Pollard-Stein award for excellence in teaching.
Faculty and Graduate Students Attend the CAA Annual Conference 2020 in Chicago
From February 12 to February 15, department faculty members, graduate students, and one undergraduate major attended the College Art Association's 108th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL
Renaissance Ramble in Washington DC: Looking at Verrocchio and Berraguete
In Early December 2019, Professor Wallace accompanied five graduate students to Washington DC with the primary goal to see the exceptional exhibitions of Andrea del Verrocchio and Alonso Berruguete at the National Gallery of Art.
Doctoral students Kirsten Marples and Allison Perelman deliver public gallery talks
Doctoral students Kirsten Marples and Allison Perelman both delivered public gallery talks at the Saint Louis Art Museum this past month, in conjunction with the exhibition "Paul Gauguin : The Art of Invention."
Lacy Murphy Completes Accessibility Internship through Visual Resource Center and Disability Resources
PhD student Lacy Murphy acted as liaison between the Visual Resource Center, Disability Resources, and the Teaching Center to research the state of accessibility in higher education.
Hannah Wier Interns at the National Gallery of Art, Presents Gallery Talks on Camille Pissarro
Hannah Wier (MA) interned at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2019.