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We regret to announce that the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania will not be making admissions to the PhD program during the 2021-22 cycle. We welcome applications for the MA program. For more information, see the Admissions page.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

READING AND MULTIMEDIA LISTS

  • Space/Race Reading List
  • Space/Gender Reading List
  • Race, Architecture, Social Equity

RECORDED ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

  • The Archaeological Institute of America Critical Conversations On Race, Teaching, And Antiquity
  • Archaeology in the time of Black Lives Matter
  • Getting a Read On: Basquiat and Black Lives Matter

BLACK ART AND CULTURE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON ANCIENT, TRADITIONAL, AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

  • Institute of African Studies, Ghana
  • Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) Cape Town, South Africa
  • Museum of Black Civilization, Senegal 
  • Art in Jamaica
  • Art in Haiti
  • Museums in Cuba
  • Nigerian Art
  • Art in Kenya
  • Art in Mozambique
  • Rap and Radical Politics in Angola
  • African Art Avant Garde
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art
  • Gallery of African-American Visual Artists

RESOURCES ON SLAVERY

  • Penn Slavery Project
  • Slave Trade Consolidated

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

  • Weitzman School of Design Racial and Social Equity Resources List
  • College Art Association
  • A crowd-sourced and incomplete listing of free and public online events related to American art taking place in Fall 2020. Compiled by Juliet Sperling
  • "Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter"
  • Data Tool of Culture Track
  • Centering the Picture: The role of race and ethnicity in cultural engagement
  • A BIPOC Analysis of Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis
  • Newsletters
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Department Chair: Michael Leja
Graduate Chair: Julie Nelson Davis
Undergraduate Chair: Ivan Drpić

Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe History of Art Building
3405 Woodland Walk   Philadelphia, PA
19104-6208   215.898.8327

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