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  • Michelle Donnelly (MA’14) appointed as the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    December 16, 2025

  • Lee Ann Custer (PhD ’21) selected as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

    December 9, 2025

  • National Museum of Asian Art names Naoko Adachi the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art

    October 2, 2025

  • Ivan Drpić Named Cecil L. Striker Associate Professor of History of Art

    September 8, 2025

  • David Brownlee Wins James Biddle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation

    July 24, 2025

  • Prof. Jonathan Katz featured in the New Yorker

    July 16, 2025

  • ARTH undergrad alum Delaney Keenan (BA’20), curates “From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum”

    July 9, 2025

  • Julie Nelson Davis Named Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of History of Art

    July 2, 2025

  • ARTH major Lila Shermeta receives the Lynda S. Hart Undergraduate Award

    May 16, 2025

  • ART major Greer Goergen wins 2025 Penn Press/Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies Prize

    April 18, 2025

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Upcoming Events

  • Rachel Haidu, University of Rochester, "How to Be in a Transition"

    Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

  • COLLOQUIUM - Brian Rose, "Configuring the Image of the East in Roman Triumphal Monuments""

    Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - 3:00pm

  • VLST Lecture | Kaira M. Cabañas, "Caring for Butterflies: Art History as Labor Therapy"

    Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

  • Thune Lecture - Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College

    Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

  • Christopher Wood, NYU "TBD"

    Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 5:00pm

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Interim Department Chair: André Dombrowski
Graduate Chair: Sarah Guérin
Undergraduate Chair: Ivan Drpic

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19104-6208   215.898.8327

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