Graduate Program in the History of Art and ArchitectureThe Graduate Program in the History of Art and Architecture was established in 2004 to expand the educational opportunities available to students of art and architecture at Virginia. Pooling the faculties and resources of two strong departments, the new program merges and replaces the Ph.D. Program in Architectural History and the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Art History. Housed in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the merged program offers the M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture, and it also offers graduate degrees in Classical Art & Archaeology. Please note that the M.A. Program in Architectural History in the School of Architecture remains in place as a separate program. FacultyOver 23 faculty teach in the fields of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern, American, and Asian art and architectural history with particularly strong concentrations in the fields of Ancient, Renaissance, Modern, American, and Asian. Our large faculty allows us to offer the best of both worlds: small classes with a faculty/student ratio of 2:1 and a wide variety of course offerings. We typically teach eighteen graduate seminars each year in addition to a broad range of lecture courses with graduate tutorial sections. ResourcesOur program is part of a world-class university with a comprehensive research library system and cutting edge digital technology initiatives. Students often take advantage of courses in other outstanding departments at the University, such as History, Religious Studies, Politics, and English, to name a few. The Fine Arts Library and Alderman Library are excellent research resources, and the Albert Small Special Collections Library houses a major collection of manuscripts, incunabula, American literature, and other rare materials. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is one of several centers offering advanced research opportunities to our students. Fellowships & Financial AssistanceA competitive fellowship program is available for entering students, perhaps the most noteworthy of which are the Jefferson Scholars Fellowships and the President’s Fellowships. A range of financial aid packages is also available. The McIntire Department of Art recently received a major gift endowing the Carl H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History. This Center is already providing significant new financial resources to support student travel for research and language study, as well as publication of research results. For more information on the Lindner Center, see Program Resources. AlumniOur students have received nationally competitive fellowships such as Fulbright Fellowships, the Kress Institutional Fellowships and the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome and to the Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florence, the Luce/American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in American Art, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Fellowship. Alumni teach at such institutions as Tufts University, the University of Georgia, Goucher College, Hood College, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Roger Williams University, Wake Forest University and Bradley University. Many graduates have made their careers in museums including the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Museum, and the National Gallery all in Washington, D.C.; the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum; the Princeton University Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; the Cloisters in New York City; and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Others have worked at the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper-Hewitt and Colonial Williamsburg. ContactPlease contact Professor Daniel Ehnbom, Director of Graduate Studies, if you have questions or would like further information about our program. | |
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