News

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 recently published a review of Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery, London, in the Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide journal

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).

Following an extensive nationwide search, Laufer officially joined the Chrysler Museum on January 13, 2025.

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 joined Assistant Curator Dana Ostrander to lead a lively discussion on Reframing the 19th Century at the Kemper Art Museum.

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.

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.

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 undertook a Mentored Professional Experience in Fall 2023, serving as Art Exhibition Project Manager for Moving Stories.

The experience combined professional development with historical insights on how artists, arts workers, and arts organizations relate today.

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.

Check out the fifth volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology published this October!

Fifth-year PhD candidate Christopher Hunt will be teaching at Washington University in St. Louis this summer.

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.

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 field trip was supported by a generous gift from a recent alumna.

The award will fund her travel to the annual conference for American Institute for Maghrib Studies in Tunis, Tunisia.

The residency focuses on effective instructional strategies that emphasize accessibility and inclusivity and is funded by The Office of Graduate Studies & The Graduate Center.

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 recently had two stories published on Google Arts & Culture about art in Cleveland

Harper Tooch (MA Student) joins Dr. Aravecchia in excavating at Amheida at the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt.

Dr. Lindsay Sheedy (PhD 2021) was recently promoted to Assistant Director of the National & International Scholarships Office at Purdue University.

Washington University's Center for the Humanities recently published a research article by PhD candidate Lacy Murphy

Recent PhD Graduate moves onto her next chapter.

The virtual residency was sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

This award recognizes exceptional performance by a graduate student in an instructional role within Arts & Sciences.

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)!

The essay on Hungarian-Indian modernist painter, Amrita Sher-Gil will be published on Smart History and Khan Academy.

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.

The second volume of the newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2021.

Orin Zahra discusses three photographs from the series SHE by Rania Matar.

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.

Delayed recognition for a job well done!

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.

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?

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

The inaugural newsletter for the Department of Art History and Archaeology was published in August 2020.

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.

Tola Porter recently participated in the Mildred Lane Kemper Virt​ual Panel Discussion entitled: Public Art - Commissions, Collections, and Engagement. 

PhD candidate Allison Perelman has been awarded this year's Pollard-Stein award for excellence in teaching.

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

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 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."

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 (MA) interned at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2019.