Art history - northwestern university

The Graduate Program in Art History offers a full-time Ph.D. that is intended to set up our graduates for scholarly research and educating, work in galleries and past, and different professions in the visual expressions. Ranges in which we right now offer coursework and exhorting are: Global Modern and Contemporary, African American and African Diaspora, Early Modern, Asian, and Ancient and Medieval.

We are a medium size division, with 14 full-time personnel members,1 full-time senior speaker, a few going by instructors who extend the office's disciplinary offerings, and a few subsidiary staff. Our Department's relative and cross-disciplinary introduction offers adequate open door for interdisciplinary work, which is intensified by projects and groups over the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and inside The Graduate School.

Our profoundly positioned project is mentally thorough and focused on supporting understudies all through their preparation. Around 25 graduate understudies appreciate close association with employees of overall prestige who keep up dynamic research and distributed profiles. Our educational modules is intended to benefit as much as possible from our nearby assets, from courses at the University of Chicago to property at the Newberry Library. Our graduate understudies likewise have the chance to earn experience working inside offices at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and our own Block Museum of Art.

Liberally upheld by The Graduate School and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the office gives its Ph.D. understudies with full monetary guide for a long time and also travel gifts for meeting presentations and authentic exploration. What's more, the mid year before the start of their second year, graduates in our project travel abroad—Madrid, London, and Delhi have been late destinations—for a concentrated two-week workforce drove course. Such encounters are one a player in the broad academic preparing, mentorship, pedagogical direction, and help at work advertise that we accommodate our graduate understudies. We are pleased with our situation record and of our record of national and global cooperations for predoctoral study.

The graduate pages of this site give an abundance of assets—managerial and scholarly—for current understudies and graduated class. The Graduate Student Program Handbook covers an abundance of data about the division. They are likewise expected to acquaint prospectives with our doctoral system, give staff profiles, departmental rationality, and application necessities. Potential candidates are encouraged to completely familiarize themselves with these materials and to contact our Program Assistant, Mel Keiser, at workmanship history@northwestern.edu, with any inquiries not replied in these pages.

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