Syracuse University Art and Music Histories

A vibrant interdisciplinary department in the College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University

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Congratulations to Avery Colligan-Wild for winning the 2022 Sidney Thomas Prize for the best undergraduate student paper in art history. Avery's prize-winning paper is titled "Tracing the Metaphysical Journey of Vrubel's Demon."

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Congratulations to art history graduate teaching assistant Molly Joyce (G ’24), who has been named a teaching mentor for 2023-24 by the Graduate School. Mentors are selected for their excellence in teaching and overall graduate study. Huzzah!

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Congrats to all our M.A. graduates in art history: Steph Adams, Hannah Alvino, Ankush Arora, Madeline Drewes, Rachael Hickman, Julia Neufeld, J. Sabine Rishell, Madelaine Cosette Thomas, and Dominic Zaffino. Keep in touch!

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Congratulations to Tara Sandin for winning the 2022 Abraham Veinus Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper in Music History and Cultures: “Visions of Jeanne d’Arc: Mythologizing and Materializing a Queer Messianic Madonna in Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco."

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Congratulations to Music History and Cultures major Julianne Stein who graduated with Distinction. Her MHC Distinction paper is titled, “The History of Western European Music: Expanding the Canon. An Encyclopedia Website and Accompanying Paper.”

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#ICYMI: @AndHistories professor Romita Ray chatted with @TIME about the symbolism behind the #Coronation ⤵️

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Steph Adams (G '23) has been selected as this year's winner of the Laurinda Dixon Prize for “Nailor’s New Deal: Recentering Diné History in Gerald Nailor’s Department of the Interior Murals." The Dixon Prize is awarded to the best M.A. Capstone paper. Congrats, Steph!

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Congratulations to art history alum Miranda Traudt (M.A. '11) for being appointed Assistant Provost for Arts, Community Programming! https://t.co/OFWvsuJGOR

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This summer Clio Rom ('19) will take a leave from her duties as art history instructor at the University of Arkansas to present a paper at the "Power of Flowers" conference at Ghent University, after which she will participate in the Plant Humanities Program at Dumbarton Oaks.

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Congratulations to art history major and senior Mina Gurbuz ('23) for her installation, inspired by her grandfather, for the exhibition titled, "[No Citation Needed]," organized by students enrolled in the Archive as Art course taught by professor Juan Juarez (VPA).

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Congratulations to Professor Sascha Scott for winning a research fellowship from the New Foundation for Art History! Woohoo! Read about it here:
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Gary Radke, emeritus professor of art history, is quoted several times in the Wall Street Journal article, “Is That a Secret Michelangelo Selfie at the Sistine Chapel?” Read the article here: https://t.co/UGlokDtzXf

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Graduating art history seniors who took Doing Art History: Research and Professional Practices in Fall 2022, taught by Prof. Glenn Peers, will present a pop-up exhibition at the Syracuse University Art Museum on May 12, 2023. Exhibition opens at 2, presentations begin at 2:30.

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Congrats to Prof. Wayne Franits for publishing his second book on the late seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Godefridus Schalcken. It is the only major English-language study of an artist who, though somewhat forgotten today, was internationally famous during his lifetime.

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Art history alum Giselle Hobbes (M.A. Florence Program '20) is graduating from Cornell University this May and has just been awarded the 2023-2024 Fulbright Open Study/Research Award for France. Congratulations, Giselle!

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Congratulations to art history alum Mariah Riberio (M.A. '22) for receiving a FLAS fellowship (2023-2024) to study the study Nuu-chah-nulth (the language of an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast).

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This past November, Art History alum Isaac Messina (B.A. ’14, M.A. ’15) started a new position as Assistant Paintings Conservator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).

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Prof. Sascha Scott and Prof. Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk Nation) and Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz are organizing a symposium at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, "Unsettling American Art History." Book your tickets now! https://t.co/HlUwYI2xLn

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1 p.m. SU Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building. Associate Professor Sascha Scott and M.A. Art History students will talk about their exhibition, Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art. In person and on the museum Instagram page @suartmuseum.

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We can't wait for Thursday at the @EversonMuseum!