Brown University History of Art and Architecture

Brown University History of Art and Architecture Bringing together HIAA students at Brown. Welcome to the page for the Brown University History of Art and Architecture Department Undergraduate Group!

The Department Undergraduate Group [DUG] is a group of undergrad students who organize events and bring together students in the HIAA department. Please contact us with any ideas you might have for fun ways to meet other people in the concentration, or events that you think will be useful to you as concentrators in this department! We'll also let you know about department sponsored events, and oth

er opportunities for people interested in art history and architecture. Our meetings are open, so keep an eye out for announcements and invitations-we'd love to meet you)

HIAA concentrator Camille Blanco was recently awarded a Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellowship.The fellowship provides...
04/17/2025

HIAA concentrator Camille Blanco was recently awarded a Cogut Institute Undergraduate Fellowship.

The fellowship provides senior honors students in the humanities or humanistic social sciences with a unique opportunity for collegial interaction with an exciting group of faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate fellows. Fellows of all ranks [graduate, undergraduate, postgraduate, faculty] gather every Tuesday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm to present and discuss works-in-progress, followed by lunch. The fellowship carries a $1,000 research fund and 1 credit for the academic year. Four undergraduate fellowships are awarded annually.

Camille writes, "During the 2025-2026 Academic Year, I will be developing my thesis for the History of Art and Architecture Department along with other Cogut Fellows in a collegial and cross-disciplinary environment. I am one of four to five undergraduate students to receive the Fellowship annually."

Congratulations, Camille!

Last call to sign up for the Fall 2025 Intro to Architecture lottery! The form closes tomorrow, 4/9, at 11 pm.Follow the...
04/08/2025

Last call to sign up for the Fall 2025 Intro to Architecture lottery! The form closes tomorrow, 4/9, at 11 pm.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more and sign up.

This Thursday, 4/3, from 12:30-1 pm in List 423, HIAA will host an information session on the 25-26 honors program as we...
04/01/2025

This Thursday, 4/3, from 12:30-1 pm in List 423, HIAA will host an information session on the 25-26 honors program as well as department summer funding opportunities available for undergraduate research.

Concentrators in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture are invited to apply to the department's honors program during the 25-26 academic year. Applications are open to HIAA and ARCT concentrators who expect to graduate in May 2026. Applications are due April 18th.

Current sophomore and junior concentrators are also invited to apply for research and travel funding for the summer of 2025. Applications for both the Moholt Vanel Travel Fund and the Flexible Flyer Award are due April 28th.

For more information, please visit our website, hiaa.brown.edu/concentrations, or reach out to the Director of Undergraduate Study [email protected].

Later this Spring, Professors Margaret Graves and Jeffrey Moser will both speak as a part of the University of Chicago's...
03/27/2025

Later this Spring, Professors Margaret Graves and Jeffrey Moser will both speak as a part of the University of Chicago's 2025 Smart Lecture Series.

On April 3 at 5 pm, Professor Moser will give a talk titled, "Making Mountains in Medieval China."

On May 20 at 5 pm, Professor Graves will present her lecture "The Poetics of Absence: Technologies of Impress and the Limits of Art History."

You can learn more about the series and each talk by following the link in our bio.

On April 8th, 2025, Professor Itohan Osayimwese will present a talk titled, “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Di...
03/27/2025

On April 8th, 2025, Professor Itohan Osayimwese will present a talk titled, “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage” at Dartmouth College.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

This year, six PhD students in the History of Art & Architecture Department will present papers or moderate sessions at ...
03/27/2025

This year, six PhD students in the History of Art & Architecture Department will present papers or moderate sessions at the 2025 Society of Architectural Historians conference in Atlanta. You can find the full conference program via the link in our bio. Below is a list of our student presentations:



May 1, 2025

PS11 Post-Medieval: Afterlives, Preservation and Loss of the Medieval
“Creation, Destruction, Restoration: Wi******er Cathedral's Reredos”
Regina Noto

May 2, 2025

PS27 Open Session
“Craving Her Space: Negotiating Architectural Boundaries in the Lives of Taj Alsaltane and Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari”
Mohadeseh Salari Sardari

PS35 Graduate Student Lightning Talks

“Constructing Materialities”
Moderator: Yannick Etoundi

"Assembling the Panama Canal Administration Building"
Paul Wu

“Constructing Memory, Constructing Island Modernity in Trinidad”
Isis Kayiga

“Modern Altitudes: The Alps and the Making of Architectural Modernism, 1912-1939”
Sophie Higgerson

HIAA concentrators, Simone Straus and Camile Blanco, will present at the 2025 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History S...
03/27/2025

HIAA concentrators, Simone Straus and Camile Blanco, will present at the 2025 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. HIAA PhD candidate, Pamudu Tennakoon, will also participate in a panel. The event will take place online from April 3-7, 2025.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the conference and register!

Winter Program Series: "Lifting the Curtain"Newport through a New Lens: Treasures of Photography at the Preservation Soc...
03/27/2025

Winter Program Series: "Lifting the Curtain"
Newport through a New Lens: Treasures of Photography at the Preservation Society
With Dr. Nicole Williams, Preservation Society Curator of Collections

Tonight, March 27th, 6-7 pm | In-Person and on Zoom

The Preservation Society holds an extraordinary archive of Gilded Age photographs encompassing portraits of celebrities and families, transporting foreign views, and images of Newport landmarks. Rare pictures by Felice Beato, José María Mora, Matthew Brady, Marian Hooper Adams and others capture the glamour and tumult of the era. Dr. Williams will explore how these pioneers pushed the limits of the medium, often blurring the line between truth and artifice, to cultivate intimacy, critique injustice and convey knowledge and power. Her talk will also reveal how photographs shed new light on Newport’s iconic architecture and art collections.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more and register.

PhD Candidate Yannick Etoundi has been awarded the 2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship from the New England Chapter o...
03/18/2025

PhD Candidate Yannick Etoundi has been awarded the 2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship from the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.

The Coolidge Fellowship will support Yannick's research for his dissertation, entitled "Abolishing Racial Slavery, Building a French Colonial Utopia: Architecture and Emancipation in the "Vieilles Colonies," 1848-1900,".

Follow the link in our bio to read the full announcement.

PhD Alum, Emily Monty, now the Judith Harris Murphy Assistant and Professor of Early Modern European Art at the Universi...
03/17/2025

PhD Alum, Emily Monty, now the Judith Harris Murphy Assistant and Professor of Early Modern European Art at the University of Kansas, was recently featured in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History newsletter.

"My main goal as a teacher is to help students connect to the materials we are studying in a respectful, encouraging, and challenging environment. In entry-level classes I see myself as a facilitator. At the upper level, I am a collaborator. I am excited to offer courses related to my research and to use teaching as an opportunity to connect with students, faculty, and resources across the university." - Dr. Monty

Read the full piece via the link in our bio!

Professor Dietrich Neumann's book on architect Mies van der Rohe wins the 2025 Architecture and Urban Planning PROSE awa...
03/04/2025

Professor Dietrich Neumann's book on architect Mies van der Rohe wins the 2025 Architecture and Urban Planning PROSE award from the Association of American Publishers.

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time (Yale University Press, 2024) presents a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him. Diverging from the reverential posture of many existing accounts, Neumann insists on the importance of the contemporary context—social, political, and architectural—for understanding the architect’s life and work.

“The 2025 PROSE Awards Finalists and Category Winners significantly showcase a deep commitment to excellence on the part of the professional and scholarly publishing community,” commented Syreeta Swann, Chief Operating Officer at AAP. “We congratulate all of our 101 Finalists and 37 Category Winners and look forward to honoring their incredible contributions to their fields and publishing as a whole.” Read more from the AAP via the link in our bio.

Associate Professor Jeffrey Moser's 2023 publication, "Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China" (The Uni...
02/13/2025

Associate Professor Jeffrey Moser's 2023 publication, "Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China" (The University of Chicago Press), has been awarded the Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

The Bei Shan Tang award honors an outstanding and innovative sole-authored monograph on Chinese art history of any historical period published in the English language.

"Nominal Things" centers eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use to make sense of the world around them.

Read the AAS award announcement via the link in our bio.

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