Roberts Presents at Society of Cinema and Media Studies
Graduate student Emma Roberts presented her paper, "Smoothing Off the Rough Corners: In the Company of Men (1969) and the Interracial Encounter” at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference.
Laube Writes First American Review of Juergen Teller’s "Auschwitz Birkenau"
Georgina Laube (HAA 2020) writes the first American review of Jürgen Teller’s "Auschwitz Birkenau," published by Steidl in collaboration with the International Auschwitz Committee, for Andrea Blanch's Musée Magazine. The review dives into the significance of the recently released book and examines Teller’s unflinching i
Gao Joins the Mongol Connections Traveling Seminar Project
Graduate student Naren Gao has been accepted to join the Mongol Connections traveling seminar project funded by Getty through its Connecting Art Histories initiative and hosted at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Nygren Co-Authors Reflection on Art History and AI
Writing for the Spring 2025 issue of ICMA News, the newsletter of the International Center of Medieval Art, Christopher Nygren and collaborator Sonja Drimmer reflect on the use of AI in the classroom:
Paula Kupfer Participates in Photography History Workshop at Hertziana Library in Rome
Paula Kupfer recently participated in the workshop "Centers and Peripheries: Photography's Geography Lesson," at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, delivering a presentation titled "The Afterlives of an Imperial Archive: Race and Repair in Contemporary Art from Brazil." The convening was led b
Ptaschinski Presents at Renaissance Society of America
Claire Ptaschinski shared her research at the Renaissance Society of America's 2025 Annual Conference in Boston. Her paper, "The Madonna dei Miracoli: Street Art, Flooding, and the Transformation of Rome's Urban Ecosystems," was presented as a part of a series of two panels on "Street Art in Early Modern Italy." This research emerged from the third chapter of Ptaschinski's dissertation and addressed the impact of 16th- and 17th-century floods on the image and shrine of the Madonna dei Miracoli near Rome's Tiber River.
Nakhaei presents at the 55th Middle Atlantic Symposium in Washington, DC
Graduate student Hossein Nakhaei presents his paper, "A Composite of Fragments: Removal, Displacement, and Illusion in Museum Displays of Persian Luster Tiles," at the 55th annual session of the Middle Atlantic Symposium, hosted by the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASV
Smith in Carnegie Magazine
Since 2023, Teaching Assistant Professor Deirdre Madeleine Smith has been researching Carnegie Museum of Natural History's collection of nearly 2,000 works of naturalist and scientific illustration, often in collaboration with Museum Studies students and interns.
HAA Graduate Students Attend Panafrica Days Symposium
Huey Copeland, Lauren Taylor, and HAA Graduate Students visited Chicago to attend the
HAA at the College Art Association Conference 2025
HAA friends and colleagues recently gathered at the American Folk Art Museum to tour Somewhere to Roost with exhibition curator and HAA PhD candidate Brooke Wyatt. The tour coincided with the 2025 CAA Annual Conference, connecting HAA faculty, students, and alumni in New York. The HAA community participated fully in the conference as attendees, presenters, and panel chairs.
HAA Research Highlighted in Pitt Research Annual Report
Clinical Professor Alison Langmed was highlighted in the 2023-2024 Annual Report issued by the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research.
Architecture Student Take Field Trip to Frick Environmental Center
On a chilly Saturday, students from the Architectural Studies Program enrolled in ARC 1203 Design Studio 3 met instructors Chris Guignon, Jen Donnelly, and Maria Cadena at the Frick Environmental Center in Frick Park. Students learned about the significant passive design techniques employed by the building and its landscape. Students learned about stormwater management, passive solar gain, natural daylighting, and construction techniques that mitigate heat loss. The Frick Environmental Center is a certified Living Building that has achieved LEED Platinum and is open to the public.
Ghosh Publishes Article in a Book on the History of Bengal Textiles
Graduate student Namrata Ghosh’s article, Textiles and Memories, appears in the book, Textiles from Bengal: A Shared Legacy (2024), published in conjunction with an ongoing exhibition of the same name in Kolkata, India. As the former Research Associate for the exhibition, Ghosh studied several textile collections and conducted extensive research that supported the curatorial vision of the project.
Reparative Histories of Art and Architecture, Department Receives Mellon Grant
Department of History of Art and Architecture at Pitt receives $500,000 Mellon Grant to center social justice analysis in the discipline.JANUARY 29, 2025 (PITTSBURGH, PA)—The Department of History of
Nygren Begins Term as Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly
On 1 January 2025, Christopher Nygren, Associate Professor and Department Chair, begins a three-year term as Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly, the leading interdisciplinary journal in the field of early modern studies.