Art History
The mission of the Department of Art History is to educate students on the graduate and undergraduate levels about visual culture and its history, to foster scholarly research and advance knowledge in the discipline, and to function as a resource of expertise to the University, the region and beyond. The Department offers a variety of critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives and approaches. The goal is to equip students with strong skills in a world in which visual literacy is of great importance. These include: critical, conceptual and creative thinking; written and oral communication; research, analysis, and organization; self-motivation and self-discipline, and visual connoisseurship and acuity. This education is designed to foster a life-long interest in, sensitivity to, and appreciation of the significance of artistic production as a fundamental historical and cultural form of human expression and communication.
Art History
Temple University
Tyler School of Art
2001 North 13th Street, Suite 211
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-777-9165
arthisto@temple.edu
Current Degrees
Program Requirements
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BA Art History
Art History Minor
MA Art History
PhD Art History
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Faculty
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NEWS HEADLINES - PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED TO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS!
Dr. Elizabeth Bolman has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 2011-12. The fellowship will fund the completion of a book on the Church of the Red Monastery, a 6th-century Christian basilica complex located in Sohag, Egypt. Based on a multi-year project of conservation, archaeology, and scholarly study spearheaded by Dr. Bolman, the book will contain an introduction, conclusion, and five chapters written by her as well as contributions from a team of sixteen other scholars and specialists. Dr. Bolman will also serve as editor of the book, which will demonstrate how the Red Monastery participated in the cultural life of the Mediterranean. For more information about Dr. Bolman's prestigious fellowship, see the recent press release from the Temple Office of Communication. click HERE
Dr. Alan C. Braddock has been awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., for the academic year 2011-12. During his fellowship, Dr. Braddock will complete a new book titled Gun Vision: The Ballistic Imagination in American Art, which explores the relationship between art and arms in the visual culture of the United States through the nineteenth and early twentieth century. For a more detailed description of his project, see the museum's fellowship program press release HERE.
Jasmine Cloud, who was awarded a four year University Fellowship by Temple when she entered the doctoral program, has now won the Kress two-year fellowship to the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome, one of only four Institutional Fellowships that the Kress Foundation awards, for her doctoral research in Italy. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy for the academic year 2011-2012. To see photographs of Jasmine in Rome, click HERE and HERE.
Laura Turner Igoe, a student in the Ph.D. program, was recently awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) to support her 2011 summer trip to northern Europe.
Amy Malleck was awarded a Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Multi-Country Research Fellowship to support research in Sicily and Cyprus, Summer 2011.
Tamara Smithers was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship by the American Academy in Rome, Summer 2011.
Agnes Szymanska was awarded a Byzantine Greek Summer School Fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Summer 2011.
Cheryl Harper was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshop at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, 2011.
For a complete listing of recent achievements by graduate students in Art History, including papers given at professional conferences, click HERE (PDF)
