University of Chicago Department of Art History

08/29/2024

Position Opening: Assistant Professor - East Asian Art History

The Department of Art History invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in East Asian Art History with an expected start date of July 1, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. We seek a historian of any period whose work addresses the visual, material, and/or architectural culture of the Korean peninsula and/or Korean diaspora in its wider regional and historical context, preferably with a focus on transnational and intercultural topics.

The selected candidate will pursue their own research agenda, collaborate with faculty in Art History and other departments, and teach in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The teaching load for tenure-track positions is typically four courses per year on the quarter system. Additional responsibilities include advising at all levels of the program, service on departmental and university committees, and regular interaction and collaboration with the Center for the Art of East Asia.

This search is part of an initiative to expand Korean Studies at the University of Chicago, also taking place through a related search in Korean Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations: https://apply.interfolio.com/153011.

Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/153014 by 10:59pm Central Time/11:59pm Eastern Time on October 7, 2024.

EOE/Vet/Disability
All University departments and institutes are charged with building a faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and with diverse viewpoints; with cultivating an inclusive community that values freedom of expression; and with welcoming and supporting all their members.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination: https://www.uchicago.edu/non-discrimination

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-834-3988 or email [email protected] with their request.

01/10/2024

12/08/2023

Position Opening: Collegiate Assistant Professor in Architectural History

Collegiate Assistant Professor of Architectural History The Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications from historians of architecture or the built environment for a four-year, non-renewable, postgraduate appointment as a Collegiate Assistant Professor, who will teach in the Department of Art History. Collegiate Assistant Professors are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the Core Curriculum, the College's general education program.

Apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/137597

This position will be part of the Service Employees International Union. For more information about the Department of Art History, please visit arthistory.uchicago.edu. Please contact [email protected] with any questions about the position.

All University departments and institutes are charged with building a faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and with diverse viewpoints; with cultivating an inclusive community that values freedom of expression; and with welcoming and supporting all their members. We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange.

The University’s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity. The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, s*x, s*xual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law.

For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-834-3988 or email [email protected] with their request.

03/30/2022

2021-2022 Smart Lectures

11/08/2021

Join us Wednesday, Nov 17th at 5PM as art historian Elizabeth Lev presents a lecture on "Michelangelo's Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel."

This is a hybrid event held on the University of Chicago campus, with options for online and in-person attendance, and is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Art History.

For more information and to register: https://buff.ly/3nYQsGI

04/08/2021

"Lust, Love and Loss in Renaissance Europe" is now open at the Smart Museum of Art! Organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, this exhibition is curated by Nora S. Lambert, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the department. To make a timed reservation to see the exhibition, click on the link below.

NOW OPEN—make a timed reservations to visit "Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe," a new exhibition organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry that features more than 40 paintings, prints, and luxury wares from the 15th-17th centuries: https://www.exploretock.com/smartmuseumofart/

05/22/2018

The Department of Art History is partnering with The University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME), the UChicago Division of the Humanities, and the UChicago College to launch a visionary conservation science teaching collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago. With support from philanthropist Suzanne Deal Booth, the department has created a five-year position to teach two classes each year in conservation and conservation science respectively: the Suzanne Deal Booth Conservation Seminars. Over the course of five years, the program will also support an annual eight-week summer undergraduate research internship in the Department of Conservation and Science at the Art Institute. As a part of the recently renewed The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -funded Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI), this collaboration aims to harness and deepen the university’s ongoing initiatives in the arts and applied sciences and connect them to the humanities, and to combine all three in distinct, innovative, and meaningful ways. Read more on the UChicago Arts website.

10/17/2017

Art History PhD student Carl Fuldner and his research partner Shane DuBay recently published an article in the National Academy of Sciences showing "that the discoloration of ... birds in museum collections can be used to trace the amount of black carbon in the air over time and measure the effects of environmental policy on pollution." Read more here!

Horned Larks are cute songbirds with white bellies and yellow chins—at least, now they are. One hundred years ago, at the height of urban smoke pollution in the United States, their pale feathers were stained dark gray by soot in the atmosphere.

10/17/2017

New UChicago Arts' speaker series offers a timely reflection on art in the Nuclear Age.

10/17/2017

Congratulations to Prof. Wu Hung for being named the College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Scholar at next year's CAA Annual Conference being held at the LA Convention Center in February.

Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago congratulates Prof. Wu Hung (University of Chicago Department of Art History) for being named the College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Scholar at next year's CAA Annual Conference being held at the LA Convention Center in February.