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Dr. David Efurd (OSU PhD, 2008) has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship for research in India for 2025-26. Dr. Efurd’s Fulbright-Nehru project examines…
History of Art alumna Mabi Ponce de León (PhD 2023) will be presenting artwork as part of the Zanesville Museum of Art's 79th Ohio Annual Exhibition. The exhibition, which celebrates the…
Julie Defossez (PhD 2024) will begin a new role as the Assistant Curator for Public Programming at the Columbus Museum of Art. She is excited to work alongside my new colleagues to enhance and…
Dr. Lauren M. Caskey '24 has accepted a curatorial fellowship at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Over the next couple of years, Dr. Caskey will be researching and cataloging the museum's European art…
Dr. Mina Kim (OSU PhD 2016), a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Alabama, will publish her book, Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions since the 1960s, in November…
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…
Alanna Radlo-Dzur, who received her PhD in History of Art from Ohio State in 2023, has been teaching this year at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Studies. Her research…
In November 2023, several of our History of Art graduate students and alumni reunited with Julia Andrews, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, at the “Jiangnan—Objects in Focus” symposium…
Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur has accepted a position as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and Native North American Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University…
Dr. Sarah Magnatta and Dr. Kimberly Masteller tour the Denver Art Museum on May 21, 2023.
Sarah, an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, is currently working on a book about the…
Alumnus, Gillian Zhang (Ph.D., 2022), Curatorial Research Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, led Professor Julia Andrews, Professor Kuiyi Shen, and current and former OSU grad students …
Anna Talarico recently joined the Cleveland Museum of Art as the Exhibition Project Manager for traveling, international, and select permanent collection exhibitions. In this role, Anna works…
Dr. Gillian Zhang (PhD 2022) accepted an offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as a Curatorial Research Associate in Chinese art. In this position, she will be working on projects relating to…
Dr. Caroline Koncz (PhD 2022) recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Angelo State University, located in San Angelo, Texas. Caroline specializes in Italian…
Linda Huang (PhD 2021) has accepted the position of postdoc teaching fellow at Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Art and Design. Linda will teach classes in global contemporary art,…
PhD Candidate Stephanie Kang is the new assistant professor of art history at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, located in Denver, and she will begin teaching at the college this fall…
Dr. Clint Buhler, who received his PhD in History of Art at OSU in 2013 under the direction of Professor Myroslava Mudrak in 2013, has been appointed Assistant Dean of Visual & Performing Arts and…
The department congratulates Dr. Rebecca Howard, who received her PhD from OSU in 2017, on her new appointment as Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Memphis. Dr. Howard…
Alumna Ariana Maki (PhD 2013) is currently on an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for the project "Digital Biography: Teaching the Life of the Buddha Using Literature and Art." The…
In March 2022, Prof. Karl Whittington took part in the ongoing Creative Pathfinders series at OSU’s Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, interviewing PhD Alum and Curator Catherine…
History of Art alumna Anna Talarico is the Exhibitions Assistant for FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The triennial’s 2022 edition, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows…
Alumna Ariana Maki (PhD 2013) served as guest curator for two exhibitions that opened in March 2022 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.
Mastery and Merit: Tibetan…
Eunice Uhm (PhD 2021) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She is currently a postdoctoral…
Linda Huang, who received her PhD from Ohio State in 2021, has recently published an article: "The Uncertain Body: Lin Tianmiao’s Mother Machine and Postsocialist Biopolitics" in Art Journal…
Alumna Ariana Maki (PhD 2013) served as U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Bhutan (2019-2020). She was affiliated with the College of Language and Culture Studies, Royal University of Bhutan, in Taktse,…
History of Art Alum Yang Wang ‘15 was recently awarded a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art. The fellowship will support an academic year of research and/or writing by early…
Effie Yin (PhD 2019) has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Dickinson College, where she will teach five Asian art courses during the 2019/20 academic year.
Beginning in the fall, James Hansen (PhD 2017) will begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History, with a specialization in contemporary art and new media,…
Rebecca Howard (PhD 2017) has accepted a position as Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, teaching courses on early modern European art.
Congratulations to Seunghan Paek (PhD, 2014), who just accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Catholic Kwandong University in…
Congratulations to Catherine Walworth (PhD, 2013), whose dissertation (now book), Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism, will…
Rebecca Howard (PhD 2017) has accepted a position as Visiting Lecturer of early modern art at Georgia State University for the 2017/18 academic year.
Angela Andersen (PhD, 2015), currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, was recently interviewed about her work for the Ottoman…
Congratulations to James Voorhies (PhD, 2012), whose dissertation (now book), Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968, has just been published by…
More Than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy, edited by Julia Fischer (PhD 2014), was recently published by Cambridge's Scholar's Press. This is Julia's second book…
Angela Andersen (PhD, 2015), was awarded the 2016 Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture; she has also accepted a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2016/17 academic…