Majors

Senior Talks and Art History Prizes

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Featured image above: (left to right) Adrian Peoples, Anne Hedgepeth, Oliver Brown, and Lucy Schwalbe at the Art History Commons, with images that represented their research on the walls in the background. Congratulations to our senior thesis writers, whose theses all received High Honors!   Four Honors candidates from the Art History Program presented the final research … Read more

Art History Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2026

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The Art History Program is proud to announce that our senior majors Adrian Peoples and Lucy Schwalbe (photos below) have been elected to Wesleyan University’s Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2026. Congratulations, Adrian and Lucy! In total, 77 seniors have been elected in Spring 2026. They will be honored at an induction ceremony on … Read more

Field Trip to the Hill-Stead Museum

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Featured image: Art history minor Rosa Tejada ’26 (second from right) with senior curator Melanie Bourbeau (first from left, standing) and art history majors (left to right) Vansh Kapoor ’26, Annie Hedgepeth ’26, Adrian Peoples ‘26, and Wenqi He ’27 at the Hill-Stead Museum. There is nothing like an enjoyable field trip to reinforce concepts … Read more

Exploring Artist’s Legacy through Research Travel

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Featured photo above: Lucy Schwalbe with Olga de Amaral’s textile works (Rewritten from a first-person account by Lucy Schwalbe. All photos provided by Schwalbe.) With support from the John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, Lucy Schwalbe ’26 visited Bogotá, Colombia in the summer of 2025 to pursue her senior thesis on Colombian textile artist Olga … Read more

Body Seminar Visits The Met Cloisters

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Featured image: The students of ARHA 311: The Body in Medieval Art with Melanie Holcomb (sixth from left) in front of a twelfth-century Spanish fresco of a camel. Written by Nell Brayton ’27 On Friday, February 20, our class, a seminar on The Body in Medieval Art (ARHA 311) taught by Professor Joseph Ackley, journeyed … Read more

Save the Date: Senior Thesis Colloquium

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Join us on Wednesday, March 4 for the Winter Colloquium of the Art History Program! Our four senior thesis writers will present their latest research in Boger 112. Lucy Schwalbe “Olga de Amaral: Social Fabrics” Adrian Peoples “Origin of Woman: Evolution of the French Renaissance Female Nude” Anne Hedgepeth “Melvin Edwards and the African/American Tradition: Memory, … Read more

Majors Committee Fall Events Foster Interest in Art History

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(Featured photo above: Students attending the Art History Open House.) Events organized by the Art History Majors Committee in November gave students a chance to explore their favorite field of study, including taking a close look at rarely displayed artworks. In addition, two of our very own art history graduates, Valerie Gottridge ’25 and Emma Flaherty ’24, connected with … Read more

Field Trip Explores American Modernism in Architecture

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Featured photo above: (Back row) Ray Huang (third from right), Kellyn Guzman (second from right) and eight other students joined the tour led by the Glass House educator Dr. Sarah Churchill (front row, first from left). Tucked away in a town near the state line where Connecticut meets New York is an iconic structure where modern … Read more

Open House and Graduate School Alumni Panel!

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The Art History Majors Committee has organized two Friday events in November and all are welcome! First-year students and sophomores interested in art history will get to meet some of our majors at the noontime Open House in the Art History Commons on November 7 and find out more about the program. Students considering graduate … Read more