We are excited to announce that Art History Major Sophie Raiskin-Wood ’25 has been accepted into the Smithsonian Because of Her Story Internship Program. This admired program aims to provide interns with the platform to share a diversity of women’s voices from the past and present and empower and inspire people from all walks of … Read more
2023 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium On April 16, 2023, Junior Emma Flaherty participated in the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. This multi-day virtual event features the work of a hundred talented undergraduate students from institutions across the globe. Emma presented her paper from Professor Aksamija’s class ARHA 325, Eloquent Forms: … Read more
SARAH HALE ’23 & YIWEN HUANG ’23 The Art History Program is proud to announce that seniors Sarah Hale and Yiwen Huang have been elected into Wesleyan University’s Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2023. They will be honored at an induction ceremony on Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. in the Memorial … Read more
Understanding China in the Age of the Unequal Treaties Around November, I was offered the exciting opportunity to curate a show for the College of East Asian Studies. The result was the exhibition, “Understanding China in the Age of Unequal Treaties” which is currently in the CEAS gallery. All works included are from the College … Read more
Art History honors candidates recently presented the spring installment of their senior colloquium. This is a critical time for our seniors to receive feedback and guidance from their peers and faculty as they move to finalize their theses. Gabby Farina ’23 “Imagining The Alhambra: Gender, Ornament, and Representational Space“ Since the fall colloquium, my thesis … Read more
John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship “Using funds from the John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, I traveled to New York and the Boston area to conduct research in person at the Morgan Library, the New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, Wellesley Library, and Harvard’s Houghton Library. Over the course of one week, I viewed … Read more
Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, 2022 “With the help of the John T. Paoletti Travel Fellowship, I spent two weeks this summer traveling in Spain and conducting research for my senior thesis. Centered around experiential accounts of the architecture of al-Andalus, my thesis aims to investigate the construction of monument, gender, and memory in al-Andalus and … Read more
Internship at the Florence Griswold Museum, Summer 2022 “This past summer, I had the privilege to work as a Curatorial Intern for Associate Curator Jennifer Stettler Parsons at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. Since I aspire to be a curator at an art museum when I enter the professional world, working in … Read more
Students enjoyed an enlightening discussion moderated by members of the Art History Majors Committee; Gabby Farina ’23 and Mim Pomerantz ’23. enjoyed an enlightening discussion moderated by members of the Art History Majors Committee; Gabby Farina ’23 and Mim Pomerantz ’23. Jeffrey Katzin ’10, is Associate Curator at the Akron Art Museum. He specializes in … Read more
