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GM08 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
607 255-9861 or

Applying:

2009-10 Tuition: $29,500

Application deadlines:
Fall, Jan. 15; no spring admission

Requirements summary:

  • all Graduate School Requirements, including the TOEFL Exam for Non-Native English Applicants
  • three recommendations
  • GRE general test
  • writing sample

Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations:

Subjects: History of Art and Archaeology (Ph.D.)

Major concentrations: 19th century art; African, African American, and African Diaspora; American art; ancient art and archaeology; Asian American art; baroque art; comparative modernities; contemporary art; digital art; East Asian art; history of photography; Islamic art; Latin American art; medieval art; modern art; Native American and Indigenous studies; Renaissance art; South Asian art; Southeast Asian art; theory and criticism; visual studies

Degrees: Ph.D.

Course descriptions and rosters:

Description:

Students choose a major concentration and two minor ones, one (in rare cases, both) of which may be in another field. The format of examinations in the major and minor concentrations is determined in consultation with each member of the Special Committee. Individual exams are followed by an oral exam with all members of the committee.

Research and study opportunities:
The Fine Arts Library in Sibley Hall has extensive holdings in art and architectural history; Olin and Kroch Libraries have excellent resources in history, literature, and other related fields. Particularly notable are the special collections on Dante, Petrarch, witchcraft, the history of science, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is particularly strong in modern and Asian art. It also has a study collection in other fields, including a rich print collection. A study gallery and classroom in the museum make it a regular part of instruction.

The Department of History of Art has a collection of over 300,000 slides and a study collection of photographs of works of art.

The field sponsors a colloquium including graduate students in the field. Students are also encouraged to participate in one of many interdisciplinary groups in theory, medieval studies, the Renaissance colloquium, the Southeast Asia program, and others.

Students interested in the history of architecture and urban development may want to consider the Field of Architecture.

Application:
The field recommends that applicants have an undergraduate major in the history of art. All applicants must submit GRE general test scores. Applicants must also submit a sample of written work. Applicants should already have begun to study the language or languages appropriate to their intended program; only after demonstrating reading proficiency is a Ph.D. degree candidate eligible for the Admission to Candidacy examination.

The history of art program does not ordinarily admit students seeking a terminal M.A. degree. However, doctoral degree candidates are granted an M.A. degree after successful completion of course work and the Admission to Candidacy examination.

Faculty:

  • Annetta Alexandridis -- Concentrations: ancient art and archaeology; history of photography; Islamic art; Research interests: classical art and archaeology; Greek myths and iconography; archaeology of photography; gender studies; animal and human bodies in Greek culture

  • Judith Bernstock -- Concentrations: 19th century art; American art; contemporary art; modern art; Research interests: modern and contemporary art

  • Susan Buck-Morss -- Concentrations: modern art; theory and criticism; Research interests: critical theory and continental theory (including Russia); visual culture and social theory; political economy and the politics of identity

  • Muhammad Dadi -- Concentrations: Asian American art; comparative modernities; contemporary art; history of photography; Islamic art; modern art; South Asian art; theory and criticism; visual studies; Research interests: modern art; theory and criticism; history of photography; globalization; comparative modernities; critical and post-colonial theory; modernism; South Asian and Islamic art

  • Maria Fernandez -- Concentrations: comparative modernities; contemporary art; digital art; Latin American art; Native American and Indigenous studies; visual studies; Research interests: contemporary art with an emphasis on new media; modern and contemporary Latin American art

  • Cheryl Finley -- Concentrations: 19th century art; African, African American, and African Diaspora; contemporary art; history of photography; modern art; visual studies; Research interests: African American and African Diaspora art and visual culture 1619 to present; cultural memory theory; history of photography and the photographic art market 1839 to present

  • Salah Hassan -- Concentrations: African, African American, and African Diaspora; modern art; theory and criticism; Research interests: African and African American art

  • D. Lasansky -- Research interests: Northern Mediterranean architecture and urbanism; nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture; relationship between between popular culture and architecture

  • Claudia Lazzaro -- Research interests: Italian Renaissance art, architecture, and gardens

  • Sturt Manning -- Concentrations: ancient art and archaeology; Research interests: Aegean, Cypriot and East Mediterranean prehistory; archaeological science; classical archaeology and art; dendrochronology; dendroclimatology; dendrochemistry and climate-change science; radiocarbon dating

  • Kaja McGowan -- Concentrations: Asian American art; comparative modernities; contemporary art; East Asian art; history of photography; Islamic art; modern art; Native American and Indigenous studies; South Asian art; Southeast Asian art; theory and criticism; visual studies; Research interests: Southeast Asian art

  • Laura Meixner -- Concentrations: 19th century art; American art; baroque art; history of photography; Renaissance art; visual studies; Research interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art

  • Christian Otto -- Concentrations: 19th century art; comparative modernities; contemporary art; visual studies; Research interests: architecture and urbanism of the seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and twentieth- centuries

  • An-Yi Pan -- Concentrations: Asian American art; contemporary art; East Asian art; modern art; visual studies; Research interests: East Asian Buddhist art; Chinese art; Tang and post-Tang

  • Jolene Rickard -- Concentrations: African, African American, and African Diaspora; comparative modernities; contemporary art; digital art; history of photography; Latin American art; Native American and Indigenous studies; theory and criticism; visual studies; Research interests: 20th-century contemporary art; native art of the Americas; 19th-century Iroquia indigenous studies

  • Cynthia Robinson -- Concentrations: Islamic art; Latin American art; medieval art; Research interests: Medieval and Islamic art

  • Shirley Samuels -- Concentrations: 19th century art; African, African American, and African Diaspora; Asian American art; comparative modernities; contemporary art; history of photography; Native American and Indigenous studies; theory and criticism; visual studies; Research interests: American art; American studies; women

  • Mary Woods -- Concentrations: 19th century art; comparative modernities; history of photography; South Asian art; visual studies; Research interests: nineteenth-century European and American architecture and urbanism


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