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UD Art History alumni continue to demonstrate excellence in museums, higher education and public scholarship. 🎨📚Faculty ...
05/27/2026

UD Art History alumni continue to demonstrate excellence in museums, higher education and public scholarship. 🎨📚

Faculty and alumni recently reconnected at a UD Art History reception during the 2026 College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago.

Pictured in order:

Thomas Busciglio-Ritter (curatorial track Ph.D.) — oversees American art at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Michele Frederick (curatorial track Ph.D. 2019) — promoted to full curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art

Emelie Gevalt (Ph.D. 2024) — appointed to a leadership role at the American Folk Art Museum

Michael Hartman (Ph.D. 2025) — appointed curator at the RISD Museum

Erin Hein (Ph.D. 2025) — joins the University of Iowa art history department

Jordan Hillman (Ph.D. 2024) — assistant curator at the Bruce Museum

Gabriella Johnson (Ph.D. 2025) — awarded a fellowship by the Renaissance Society of America

Sarah Mead Leonard (curatorial track Ph.D. 2020) — appointed to a leadership role at the Newberry Library

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll (Ph.D. 2019) — curates a landmark exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum

Galina Olmsted (curatorial track Ph.D. 2019) — associate curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lea Stephenson (Ph.D. 2025) — curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Karli Wurzelbacher (Ph.D. 2018) — chief curator at The Heckscher Museum of Art

Not pictured:

Anna Andrzejewski (Ph.D. 2001) — receives inaugural professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

William Keller (Ph.D. 2007) — publishes new book about Deane Keller

Read more about how these Blue Hens are defining their fields: https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/cas/news-events/news/2026/march/ud-art-history-alumni-updates-2025-to-2026/

🎓 We are so proud of the Art History Class of 2026! You walked the stage at Convocation last night, and tomorrow you wil...
05/22/2026

🎓 We are so proud of the Art History Class of 2026!

You walked the stage at Convocation last night, and tomorrow you will leave Commencement and start your future. Make (art) history! 🙌

Congratulations are in order! Art History doctoral candidate Julia Hamer-Light is the recipient of the inaugural Bernie ...
05/18/2026

Congratulations are in order! Art History doctoral candidate Julia Hamer-Light is the recipient of the inaugural Bernie L. Herman Prize for Outstanding Graduate Achievement in Material Culture Studies! Julia’s dissertation, “Part of the Continuum: Arthur Amiotte’s Fiber Wall Hangings and Lakhóta Ecological Pedagogy, 1960-1978,” examines the woven textiles and teaching practices of Oglala Lakhóta artist-educator Arthur Amiotte on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Challenging conventional art historical categorizations that have framed modernism as an urban phenomenon, Julia turns to land-based, Indigenous-led experiential pedagogy to illuminate new connections among modernist practice, ecocriticism, and studio craft. 🧶

This prize is named in honor of the Center for Material Culture Studies’ founding director, Dr. Bernie Herman (1951-2024), an internationally renowned scholar of material culture studies. CMCS writes: “Julia’s work embodies Herman’s commitment to engaging with living, contemporary artists, his interest in challenging definitions of American material culture, and his careful attention to the power of place. Agile, eloquent, precise, and always attuned to the relationships of objects and their makers: Julia’s work would have made Bernie Herman proud.”

📸 Image captions:
1- Detail of Arthur Amiotte, Door to the World, 1972. Mixed fiber media, yarn, hand tanned hide, beads, and sticks. 76 x 44 inches. U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Sioux Indian Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota, R.73.4.2.
2- Julia Hamer-Light

Julia Haein Mun, alumna of the University of Delaware Art History graduate program, is helping expand the definition of ...
05/15/2026

Julia Haein Mun, alumna of the University of Delaware Art History graduate program, is helping expand the definition of “Asian American artist” through her work as assistant curator at the Art Bridges Foundation. Guided by mentors including Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Mun brought an interdisciplinary understanding of the Asian American experience to "Metal the Mirror", the foundation’s first internally curated exhibition featuring an Asian American artist. 🎨

The exhibition showcases sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, whose galvanized steel works transform over time through oxidation.

âś… Read more about Mun's work on the exhibition: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/may/art-history-julia-mun-isamu-noguchi-cas/

📸 Pictured are Curator Julia Mun (center) with her sister Sophia Mun (left) and mother Young Mun (right) in the gallery at the Bruce Museum, where the exhibition opened in April 2025.

A work trip with a view! ⛵⛰️Gabriella Johnson (Ph.D. ’25), currently the American Friends of Capodimonte Postdoctoral Cu...
05/12/2026

A work trip with a view! ⛵⛰️

Gabriella Johnson (Ph.D. ’25), currently the American Friends of Capodimonte Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, recently traveled to Maastricht to attend The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF). There, Gabriella studied Old Master paintings, drawings, and sculptures available on the open market alongside other curators, scholars, and collectors. Thanks to a Renaissance Society of America-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History, Gabriella also spent an exciting week in Sicily conducting onsite research for her forthcoming book on the Messinese painter Agostino Scilla.

đź“· Image caption: Vesuvius from the lungomare, April 2026. Photograph by Gabriella Johnson.

According to a study conducted by the Association of Research Institutes in Art History, the University of Delaware Depa...
05/01/2026

According to a study conducted by the Association of Research Institutes in Art History, the University of Delaware Department of Art History is among the best in the world based on funding data from four prestigious residential scholars programs. 🌎🏆

The department is ranked sixth out of 784 international institutions to receive major fellowships and is in the top 10 among U.S. universities for art history research fellowships.

Professor Jessica Horton holds the distinction of being the only art historian among nearly 4,000 fellows to receive funding from all four programs: The Clark, the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art.

âś… Read more on the Art History website: https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/cas/news-events/news/2026/march/ud-art-history-ariah-ranking/

The next Graduate Student Lecture Series is in one week! 🔜Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:30pm in Old College ...
04/08/2026

The next Graduate Student Lecture Series is in one week! 🔜

Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:30pm in Old College Hall 212 or via Zoom.

Our guest lecturer Maya Stanfield-Mazzi will share "The Sign of the Feather: Seeking Presence out of Absence Between the Historical Andes and Amazon".

âś… Register now to attend in-person or virtually: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeN8Gi4w4Y2QfpicXkmKXUv_fM-R-Y7R9LRJ6klQTOhNjYQrQ/viewform

📸 Image credit: Hat of the Cholones Indians. Made with feathers, silk, fibre and vegetable resin. 18th century. Origin: Pampahermosa, Peru. Access number 13.351. Museum of the Americas (Madrid).

04/08/2026

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Join us for our next Graduate Student Lecture Series! ✨Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:30pm in Old College Hall 212 or via Z...
04/01/2026

Join us for our next Graduate Student Lecture Series! ✨

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:30pm in Old College Hall 212 or via Zoom

Our guest lecture speaker Maya Stanfield-Mazzi will share the lecture titled: The Sign of the Feather: Seeking Presence out of Absence Between the Historical Andes and Amazon. 🗻🌿

Register to attend in-person or virtually: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeN8Gi4w4Y2QfpicXkmKXUv_fM-R-Y7R9LRJ6klQTOhNjYQrQ/viewform?usp=header

📸 Image Credit: Feather-covered basket hat, before 1788. Huallaga Valley, Peru. Feathers, cotton thread, natural resin, vegetal fiber, 17 x 49 cm. Museo de América, Madrid.

Caroline Keller, a junior University of Delaware student double majoring in history and art history, is a 2026 Critical ...
03/26/2026

Caroline Keller, a junior University of Delaware student double majoring in history and art history, is a 2026 Critical Language Scholarship recipient. 🌏

This scholarship gives her the opportunity to study Hindi this summer at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Jaipur, India, where she will deepen her language skills while gaining experience in one of India’s most historic cultural centers. 🇮🇳

Congratulations, Caroline!

Read more: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/march/2026-critical-language-scholarship-caroline-keller-hindi/

The University of Delaware Department of Art History is proud to announce that Emily Beeber has been awarded a 2026 Luce...
03/09/2026

The University of Delaware Department of Art History is proud to announce that Emily Beeber has been awarded a 2026 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. The program is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Beeber is one of seven emerging scholars awarded for their promising doctoral research on the history of the visual arts in the United States.

"This fellowship will support my ongoing efforts to illuminate Jewish perspectives in historical American art. I am grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies for their generous support of my research," - Emily Beeber

Credits:
Photo of Emily Beeber - Victoria Kenyon
Portrait - Gerardus Duyckinck I, Abigail Levy Franks, ca. 1735, oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 35 13/16 in. (114.9 x 91 cm), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.8

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