Faculty
Gretchen Bender and Mark Collins win Humanities Center Co-Teaching Fellowship
Working with the Humanities Center's AY2025 theme of "Method?," Bender and Collins will be developing a new course, "What to Do? Environmental Crisis and Reparative Artistic Practices."
McCoy Presents at China Westward Conference
Michelle McCoy delivered a paper at the China Westward conference at Harvard University in October.
Hosseini Publishes in JSAH
Sahar Hosseini recently published an article in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Langmead Contributes to New Digital Humanities Volume
Alison Langmead recently published in the new University of Minnesota Press volume, What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Alex Taylor Writes for New Book on Pop Artist Allan D’Arcangelo
A major new monograph on the Pop artist Allan D'Arcangelo (1930-1998) includes an essay and artist chronology by Alex Taylor.
Christopher Nygren Contributes to New Podcast Series
The Genealogies of Modernity began as a collaboration between faculty at Pitt and has since grown greatly in scope. With the support of an NEH grant, faculty advisors have produced an 8-episode podcast that examine different pathways that together have helped bring us to the present.
Gretchen Holtzapple Bender Chairs SECAC Panel
At SECAC, Gretchen Holtzapple Bender led a panel on “‘Ungrading’ Art History: How It Works and Why to Do It” with Matthew Levy of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Langmead Spearheads NEH-Funded AI Pedagogy Project
Alison Langmead was recently awarded funding from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities
David Wilkins to Present at the National Gallery of Art
David Wilkins, professor emeritus, will give a paper on the topic of "Looking at Isabella Anew" on October 20, 2023, at the National Gallery
Taylor Interviewed for Hagley Museum’s Podcast Episode
Alex Taylor’s recent book Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s has been featured in the Hagley Museum’s long-running History Hangouts podcast series