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Art and Art History

Graduate Art History Program

With a large permanent faculty and frequent visitors, the Graduate Program in Art History offers diversity and depth of study in this discipline. Our strengths include a wide choice of course offerings in nearly all areas of the history of art, from Pre-Columbian, South Asian, Latin American, to European and American. The program encompasses a wide geographical range (for instance, the Precolumbian field of study here spans both Mesoamerica and South America) and chronological depth (Mediterranean studies here comprises specialists from the ancient to early modern periods). Within the graduate offerings, diversity of method and approach is also evident, and it reveals itself in the varied backgrounds of faculty, who have degrees in the history of art, as well as in classics, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, literature and medieval studies. Several faculty are involved in archaeological and exhibition projects, so that students with these interests are able to obtain hands-on experience. The faculty is aware of the need to provide not only solid foundations in the discipline itself, but also thorough training in related fields. Art History seeks to understand the context of art, throughout its duration, and to do so demands the training of reflective and broadly educated scholars.

Graduate study in art history is offered in the major periods of European art, as well as in modern American, Latin American, Precolumbian, and Asian art. When the student decides upon an area of specialization, he or she chooses a member of the faculty to direct the research. For the M.A. thesis, two faculty readers are required. For the Ph.D. dissertation, a committee of five faculty members is required, one of whom must be from outside the department.

Graduate Art History Program: M.A.

Graduate Art History Program: Ph.D.

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