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News

  • Shira Brisman's "The Goldsmith's Debt" reviewed in New York Review of Books

    September 8, 2026

  • Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Darlene Jackson

    August 18, 2026

  • Julia Perratore (PhD'12) quoted in New York Times article

    August 6, 2026

  • Prof. Ann Kuttner and PhD student Benjy Jude in Penn Today

    July 21, 2026

  • Michael Leja awarded the 2026 Ewell Newman Book Prize

    July 8, 2026

  • Ramey Mize (PhD'23) curates "Winslow Homer, Painter Etcher"

    July 7, 2026

  • Rita de Cássia do Monte Lima and Iris Péron-Ames receive the 2026 Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts

    May 11, 2026

  • Iris Péron-Ames receives the 2026 Rose Undergraduate Research Award

    April 22, 2026

  • Congratulations to Iris Péron-Ames for being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

    April 10, 2026

  • Prof. Julie Nelson Davis appointed as Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Scholar in the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the University of Zurich

    April 6, 2026

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Upcoming Events

  • COLLOQUIUM - Shira Brisman, "The Currency of Shame"

    Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 3:30pm

  • Opening Reception for "At Liberty: Life in the City of Brotherly Love During the Early Republic"

    Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 5:00pm

  • COLLOQUIUM: Nicholas Herman, Tour of the 2026 New Acquisitions Showcase at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

    Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - 3:30pm

  • Penn-PMA Reception

    Friday, September 18, 2026 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

  • Thune Lecture - Alicia Volk, University of Maryland, "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan”

    Wednesday, September 23, 2026 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm

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Department Chair: Julie Nelson Davis
Graduate Chair: Sarah Guérin
Undergraduate Chair: Ivan Drpic

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