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The History of Art Department congratulates Schuyler Black-Seitz on successfully defending his dissertation, “Modernism in the Service of Capital: The Art of Charles Sheeler, 1915-1959.” Schuyler…
PhD Candidate Cole J. Graham recently spent several weeks in Europe, where he first visited the Université Paris-Nanterre to attend a symposium arranged by the Société d’Études Modernistes. There, he…
We are thrilled to announce that PhD Candidate Emilela Thomas-Adams was recently named the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow (2026-2027) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA…
From March through May, PhD candidate Peter Smyth served as the third Gallery and Exhibitions Visiting Fellow at Asia Society Hong Kong Center. While there, Peter helped open the exhibition
The History of Art Department congratulates Asia Adomanis on successfully defending her dissertation, “On the Borders of Abstraction: Chinese American Artists and the Politics of Hybridity in…
In April 2026, PhD candidate Tony Del Aversano attended the 25th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, in Rochester, New York. There, he presented his paper “Queering the Holy Court: Angel…
The Archives of American Art Journal Spring 2026 issue includes an article from PhD Candidate Asia Adomanis. The essay analyzes the reception of Chinese American painter and…
Asia Adomanis, a doctoral candidate in the department, presented a paper entitled “Monumental Immateriality: Abstractions and Borders in Tseng Yuho’s Western Frontier (1964)” as part of…
The Department of History of Art is excited to share that Ph.D. Candidate Christy Sher has been named as one of fourteen recipients of the 2026-27 Society of Fellows faculty and Graduate Team…
Christy Sher, Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled “Seduction, Science, and Statecraft: The Erotics of “Civic Obstetrics” in Utagawa Yoshitora’s Realize One’s Parental Love” at the…
PhD candidate Liz Rae Heise-Glass has written a piece for The Brooklyn Rail highlighting artists working at the intersections of performance art and music in 1980s New York. This article…
PhD student Michiko Kubota’s book review of Alicia Volk’s In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan has just been published by caa.reviews.
And of course, we highly…
Two History of Art PhD Candidates, Cole Graham and Peter Smyth, have won the prestigious Presidential Fellowship from Ohio State, which provides a year of funding during the 2026-27 Academic Year…
Ph.D. candidate Christy Sher presented a paper titled “Procreative Passions: Visualizing Love, Desire, and Lineage in Edo-Period Japanese Erotica” at the 51st Annual Cleveland Symposium on
In September, PhD candidate Asia Adomanis attended a reception for the publication of the Art Student League’s recent anthology 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League (
Ph.D. candidate Christy Sher presents a paper, “Visualizing the Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Pedagogy, and Civic Instruction in Utagawa Yoshitora’s Fubo no on o shiru zu (Realize One’s…
PhD student Bowie Bo Gyung Kim published an interview article with artist Muhammad Toukhy in the online art magazine Impulse. In their conversation, Bowie explored the possibilities of online…
PhD Student Christy Sher has been accepted as a Research Fellow for the 2025/26 academic year at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. This prestigious and…
The History of Art Department congratulates Karin Flora on successfully defending her dissertation, "Fictive Materiality and the Grisaille Image: Encounters between Art and Matter." Karin was…
PhD candidate Emilela Thomas-Adams has been awarded a prestigious 9-month fellowship at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles. As a predoctoral fellow from September to June, Emilela will be…
From February through April, PhD candidate April Riddle served as the second Gallery and Exhibitions Visiting Fellow at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. While in Hong Kong, April helped with…
The department congratulates Allie Mickle on the successful defense of her dissertation, “Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains.” Allie was advised…
The department congratulates Keyu Yan on the successful defense of his dissertation, “On Post-Mao Time and Space: Chinese Installation Art, 1980s-1990s.” Keyu was advised by Professor Emeritus…
Tony Del Aversano, a PhD student in History of Art, recently published a book review in Sixteenth Century Journal. The review discusses the book Simone Martini in Orvieto, edited…
PhD candidate Keyu Yan has been awarded a grant from the Association for Chinese Art History (ACAH) and the Bei Shan Tang Foundation to support his upcoming trip to the 2025 College Art…
Dareen Hussein, a PhD student in History of Art, was recently awarded the Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School at Ohio State. This is the most prestigious award given by the graduate…
Asia Adomanis recently presented at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s inaugural symposium, Land, Place, Identity: Inaugural Symposium on American Art. The presentation, titled …
Congratulations to Hannah Slater on completing her Ph.D! Her dissertation is called "Reframing 311: visual ecologies of reconstruction in Japan." With thanks to her committee, Dr. Erica Levin,…
Julie Defossez successfully defended her dissertation, “Take Care: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism in the Maintenance Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles.” Her dissertation committee consisted of Kris…
The department congratulates Clayton Kindred on the successful defense of his dissertation, "An Archaeology of Castration: The Image of the Eunuch in Nineteenth Century French Art." His…
History of Art PhD Student Peter Smyth presented at this year’s Comics Crossroads Columbus. The event at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library, held at the city’s premier comics festival,…
PhD Student Mia Kivel has won the 2024 Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize. The Japan Art History Forum’s Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in…
Before completing his PhD degree, Yifan Li (PhD 2024) traveled to China in July 2024 for research in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. During this trip, he visited museums, gathered…
In July of 2024, PhD student Maika Kagawa Bahr was able to travel to Tokyo to conduct research for her dissertation. Supported by the Graduate Research Small Grants Program, Maika was able to…
The department congratulates Yifan Li on the successful defense of his dissertation, "Transforming Landscape: Picturing the New Look of Mountains and Streams in Mao's China." His dissertation was…
PhD Candidate Maggie Wilson has won the three year Paul Mellon Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This…
PhD Candidate Allie Mickle spent three months in Hong Kong as the Gallery and Exhibitions Visiting Fellow at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center from March through May 2024. While there, she…
Ph.D student Cole J. Graham recently spent a week at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. Cole attended the society's annual CHAViC (Center for Historic American Visual…
PhD Candidate Maggie Wilson will be a guest speaker at the Columbus Museum of Art, where she will discuss the subject of the ongoing Sapphic Paris exhibition, painter Marie Laurencin. Her…
PhD Candidate Emilela Thomas-Adams has been awarded a prestigious travel grant from the International Center of Medieval Art. The “Student Travel Grant” of 3500 dollars will support research…
PhD student Michiko Kubota traveled to Chicago, IL in May to conduct research for her MA. She attended the Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan symposium and visited its corresponding…
PhD Candidate Margaret Wilson presented a paper at the 2024 International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, the largest annual conference of medieval studies in the…
PhD Student Dareen Hussein was featured in a video that was created as part of a Lantern article on the closing of the Wexner Center for the Art’s spring show, Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental…
The department congratulates Lauren Caskey on the successful defense of her dissertation, “Communities of Color: The Life and Painting of Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978).” Her doctoral work was advised…
PhD Student Cole J. Graham has published a peer-reviewed article in react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture, a journal out of UC Santa Barbara whose fourth volume is…
The department congratulates graduate student Maika Kagawa Bahr for receiving the Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA). This award is Ohio State’s highest recognition of the exceptional…
PhD Candidate Allie Mickle presented her paper, "Aesthetic Kitsch as Global Commodity in Mika Rottenberg's Cosmic Generator" at this year's College Art Association conference in Chicago,…
PhD Candidate Yifan Li was awarded a graduate research grant from The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center to facilitate his dissertation research. The Mershon Center, established in 1967,…
PhD Candidate Keyu Yan publishes a book review of Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art in ASAP/J. Written by anthropologist Sasha Su-Ling…
The Department of History of Art Congratulates two students within the Graduate Program, Yifan Li and Dareen Hussein, who have been announced as recipients of awards from the 2023-2024 Alumni…
Graduate Student Keyu Yan's peer-reviewed article, “Modernizing Sculpture: Print Culture and the New Discourse on Sculpture in China, circa 1880–1929,” is recently published in East Asian…
Keyu Yan, a PhD candidate in History of Art, recently published a book review in InVisible Culture. This review discusses the anthology, The Cute, edited by literary…
Prof. Karl Whittington and PhD Students Emilela Thomas-Adams and Margaret Wilson attended the International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, the largest annual…
Ph.D. student Christy Sher is awarded the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for both the Summer of 2023 and the Academic Year 2023-2024, with funding from the U.S. Department of…
PhD Student Cole J Graham presented research from his master's thesis Inefficient, Unsustainable, and Fragmentary: The Rauschenberg Combines as Disabled Bodies on Friday, April 28th, at…
The department congratulates Mabi Ponce de León on the successful defense of her dissertation, “Interventions of History, Gender, and Politics: Four Argentine Women’s Artistic (Re)Visions Through…
The department congratulates Alanna Radlo-Dzur on the successful defense of her dissertation, “Mixtitlan Ayauhtitlan (in the Clouds, in the Mist): The Invisible in Early Modern Nahua Art.” Her…
This summer, PhD student Asia Adomanis will be in residency at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) as a Predoctoral Fellow in Asian American Art. Asia’s fellowship is supported by funding…
At the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Boston, Yifan Li accepted the Best Graduate Student Paper Prize on East and Inner Asia for his 2022 AAS paper "The New Architectural…
This fall, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Sarah Rosalena is opening at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). Kris Paulsen, associate professor and chair of…
April Riddle, a PhD student in History of Art, recently published a book review for Media-N. The review, “Extending Beyond the Ultimate Display,” examines Jacob Gaboury’s Image…
Lauren Caskey, a PhD student in History of Art, was recently awarded the Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School at Ohio State. This is the most prestigious award given by the graduate…
Yifan Li, a PhD student in History of Art, was recently awarded the Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School at Ohio State. This is the most prestigious award given by the graduate school,…
In August 2022, graduate students Yifan Li and Keyu Yan and PhD Alumna Effie Yin (2019) joined the Mellon Chinese Object Study Workshop Convening at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington…
Gillian Zhang attended the Getty-Heidelberg Dissertation Workshop (Part II) this past July. Her presentation “Stone Painting: Ruan Yuan’s Evening Glow on the Autumn Mountain” focuses on a…
The Department congratulates Gillian Zhang on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "From Paper to Stone: Chinese Painting and Its Medium in High Qing China (1683-1839)."
The Department congratulates Stephanie Kang on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "Queering the Future: Hopeful Imagination in Dystopian Times."
This upcoming fall,…
PhD student Keyu Yan participated in the Mellon Chinese Object Study Workshop at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Running from June 20 to 24, 2022, the workshop revolved around the theme of…
PhD Candidate Lauren Caskey will be a Tyson Fellow at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, during the month of August as part of the 2022 Tyson Think Tank focused on The Alfred…
PhD Student Emilela Thomas-Adams, who just finished her first year in the program, was awarded the 2022 Hanawalt Prize from OSU’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The essay is…
On March 27, PhD Candidate Yifan Li presented a paper entitled “The New Architectural Wonder: Reproducing the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge in Mao-era China” for the panel "Architectural Simulacra:…
Asia Adomanis, a PhD student in the department, will be virtually presenting a paper entitled "Primitivism and Resistance: Miguel Covarrubias' Influence in Shanghai" at the Association for Asian…
PhD student Dareen Hussein’s essay entitled “Sounds of Subversion: Assia Djebar’s La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli” was selected as the winner of this year's Gender and Feminisms Caucus…
Two graduate students from History of Art, Gillian Zhang and Karin Flora, presented their current research at Ohio State’s 2022 Hayes Graduate Research Forum on March 4, 2022. Gillian Zhang…
The department congratulates Caroline Koncz on the successful defense of her dissertation, “Beyond Titian’s Venus: The Nude Body and Social Control in Late Cinquecento Venetian Painting.”
Doctoral candidate Alanna Radlo-Dzur and her team at the Getty Research Institute presented an invited lecture on their research project for the Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)…
The department congratulates Eunice Uhm on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "The Subversive Possibilities of Diaspora: Aesthetic Subjectivities of Migration and Displacement in…
The Department congratulates Linda Huang on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "Re-imagining Post-socialist Corporeality: Technology, Body, and Labor in Post-Mao Chinese Art."
The Department congratulates Yiwen Liu on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "Becoming an Art Space: The Daxin Gallery and the Art World in Republican Shanghai (1912-1949)."
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Graduate student Maggie Wilson was recently awarded the Barbara A. Hanawalt Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay from the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for her digital exhibition…
Graduate student Eunice Uhm is completing her dissertation this summer and has accepted a three year postdoctoral position at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Kalamazoo College. In this joint…
MA student Asia Adomanis has been awarded the FLAS (Foreign Language and Areas Studies) fellowship for Summer 2021. The fellowship will be used to support Asia’s attendance at Middlebury College’s…
From March 19 to April 2, 2021, The Wexner Center for the Arts presents Signs of Remembering: Women’s Resistance in Middle Eastern and North African Documentaries, curated by CACP MA…
The department congratulates graduate student Yiwen Liu for receiving the Graduate Associate Performance Award (GAPA). This award is given to graduate students who exhibit exceptional performance…
MA in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice candidate Anna Talarico will be virtually presenting at The 8th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, organized by the Graduate Union of the…
The Department congratulates Emma Clute on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "The Immersive Sublime in July Monarchy Painting."
Graduate student Keyu Yan was recognized by Student Life Disability Services as a Buckeye Access All-Star. This award is given to faculty and staff members that have enhanced the academic…
MA in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice candidate Anna Talarico received an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) from The Graduate School in support of her forthcoming…
PhD candidate Yiwen Liu has been awarded a $7,000 scholarship from the Taiwan-American Trust for the current academic year. Yiwen was selected to receive this scholarship through a competitive…
PhD candidate Eunice Uhm has been selected to participate in the Korean Foundation's 2020 Online Korean Art Workshop this November. The goal of the program is to enhance the understanding of…
Doctoral student Linda Huang has received the Chiang Ching-kuo fellowship dissertation for students in the American region. This program is funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for…
The Department congratulates Trent Olsen on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, “Post-Imperial Masculinities: Portraiture and the Performance of French Manhood ca. 1815-1848."
Dareen Hussein, a student in the Masters in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice program, was recently awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellowship.
This…
The Department congratulates Laura Leeker on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled "Narrative and Experimentation in Fourteenth-Century Italian Chapter Houses."
The Department congratulates Kristen Adams on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled "Metatextiles and the Triumph of Tapestry."
Heidelberg University Institute for East Asian Art History announces dissertation workshops for graduate students in the fields of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Art History. Their goal is to…
PhD candidate Yiwen Liu has been selected to present her research at the Edward F. Hayes Forum at Ohio State on Feb. 28, 2020. This forum allows graduate students in ten different areas of study…
PhD candidate Caroline Koncz was awarded the Gladys Krieble Delmas grant to perform research in Venice. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation seeks to aid students and institutions in the study and…