PhD Application Workshop
Presented by AHNCA’s Emerging Scholars Working Group, in association with HECAA
The Emerging Scholars Working Group of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art is pleased to host a workshop on applying to doctoral programs in the history of art in the United States. A panel of art history graduate faculty will discuss the elements of a strong application, share tips, and offer their perspectives on the process. A Q&A will follow the panel discussion. This virtual event is open to everyone, regardless of field of study. This event is organized in association with HECAA. Neither AHNCA nor HECAA membership is not required.
Zoom registration is required. Register here.
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Elizabeth C. Mansfield writes about 18th– and 19th-European art, historiography, and the impact of AI on the practice of art history. Along with experience in higher education as a faculty member and department chair, she has worked at the Getty Foundation as a Senior Program Officer and was Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center. She is currently Professor of Art History at Penn State University.
Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as associate professor in Art History and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (2017) and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art during Slavery (2022). She co-edited a special double issue of Winterthur Portfolio entitled “Enslavement and Its Legacies” and is now co-editing the collected volume The Disabled Gaze: Multi-Sensory Perspectives of Art, Bodies & Objects. She serves as the president of HECCA (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture).
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and she served as Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD program in art history at Emory from August 2020 until July 2023. Gagliardi’s first two books and related articles draw on nearly three years of study in West Africa, with a focus on western Burkina Faso, as well as archival and object-centered research in Africa, Europe, and North America. Gagliardi has also organized workshops on, published on, and garnered fellowships related to her work on promoting justice, equity, and wellbeing within art history and across our institutions. In August 2024, Gagliardi received the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Distinguished Teaching Award.