Art and Art History

Degrees Offered: M.A., M.F.A., M.A./M.F.A.
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The Master of Arts program has two tracks. Both offer a critical and historical understanding of the visual arts and require either a thesis or two qualifying papers.

Master's students from the program are successful applying to and completing Ph.D. programs. Those who earn a master's in the history of art and museum studies typically find museum and gallery jobs; others find careers in art publishing, art education, art libraries, visual resource collections, architectural firms, or auction houses. Faculty currently offer courses and/or research opportunities in the following areas: American art, architectural history, African art, Armenian art, Asian art, Islamic art, ancient and medieval art, Renaissance, Baroque and eighteenth-century art, modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, art on film, theory, gender studies, and museum studies.

A joint program with Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts (See Studio Art) leads to an M.F.A. and a combined M.A./M.F.A. program also is available.

Applicants should have the equivalent of an art history undergraduate major and a reading knowledge of a relevant language, besides English.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Daniel Abramson
Ph.D., Harvard University
Renaissance-contemporary, architectural theory, Boston's architecture/urbanism

Cristelle Baskins
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Italian Renaissance, secular painting/narrative, gender/women's studies

Madeline Harrison Caviness
Ph.D., Harvard University
Stained glass, gender/women's studies

Eva Hoffman
Ph.D., Harvard University
Islamic art, portable arts, theories and methods

Ikumi Kaminishi
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Asian art/architecture, Buddhist painting, narrative studies

Andrew McClellan
Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Baroque-Rococo art, history of museums, sculpture

Monica McTighe
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Art since 1960, including the history of installation and site-specific art, photography, film, and video

Peter Probst
Ph.D., Free University, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary African art

Eric Rosenberg
Ph.D., Harvard University
American, modern, contemporary art, theories/methods

Amy Ingrid Schlegel
Ph.D., Columbia University
Photography, contemporary art, curatorial studies

Judith Wechsler
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
French realism-post impressionism, history of drawing, art on film

Adriana Zavala
Ph.D., Brown University
Latin American modern/contemporary, art of Mexico, gender/women's studies

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