Yale History of Art

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF MEDIEVAL WORLDS (500-1450 CE)

YALE UNIVERSITY’s Department of History of Art seeks an Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, to begin July 1, 2025, who will complement our existing strengths in late Roman Italy, medieval Latin Europe, Buddhist East Asia and the early modern Islamic world. The geographical field is open, but expertise in the Mediterranean world, the Byzantine Empire, Central Asia, the Levant, northern and eastern Africa, or Islamic Iberia – and attention to the interconnections of a given area with other parts of the world – will be especially welcome.

Applicants must have met the requirements for a PhD or equivalent degree at the time of hire. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in their area(s) of expertise, and to mentor students in the BA and PhD programs. They will be ready to engage with the interdisciplinary Medieval Studies community on campus and make use of the university’s resources in the art gallery and libraries.

Applicants should include a cover letter describing their scholarly interests and teaching experience and/or plans. The most effective letters will demonstrate how the applicant’s work connects to different facets of our department and university, and show how the applicant will bring new perspectives and paradigms to the department’s curricular offerings and intellectual life.

In addition to the substantive cover letter, applicants must submit a current curriculum vitae, a teaching portfolio (including at least two sample syllabi and statement of teaching philosophy), a writing sample of 6000-8000 words (a dissertation chapter, journal article, or book chapter), and three letters of recommendation.

All materials must be submitted online through INTERFOLIO at http://apply.interfolio.com/152041. Review of applications will begin on November 4, 2024, with preliminary interviews to be held by mid-January.

Please direct any questions to the chair of the search committee, Jacqueline Jung, at [email protected].

Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.

Congratulations to PhD candidate in History of Art and Early Modern Studies Renata Nagy for her virtual exhibition, Natural Interactions in the Book as Art and Making Knowledge, at the Yale University Library!

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/naturalinteractions/page/introduction

Congratulations to History of Art doctoral candidate Pierre Von-Ow for curating "William Hogarth's Topographies, an online exhibition at The Lewis Walpole Library!

The library is excited to announce the new online exhibit, "William Hogarth's Topographies" is now available. Curated by Pierre Von-Ow, Ph.D. candidate in Yale's Department of the History of Art, this online exhibition explores William Hogarth’s engagement with topography, an important, if lesser-known aspect of his art. Drawing primarily from the extensive collections of Hogarth’s graphic work at the Lewis Walpole Library and other Yale collections, the exhibit seeks to contribute to recent historiographic efforts that re-read Hogarth’s work in a more international perspective, most notably the “Hogarth and Europe” retrospective at Tate Britain (November 2021-March 2022), which stresses the necessity of approaching the artist’s work in the light of a broader European and global context that resonates in his production.
View the online exhibit here: https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/hogarths-topographies/page/intro

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery are pleased to announce a series of lectures highlighting new scholarship in the field of American art by this year's cohort of fellows. Yale History of Art PhD candidate Colin Young will present "Con Artist: George Catlin's South American Humbug" on Friday, May 6 at 1 PM.

Free registration here:

Smithsonian American Art Museum Virtual Fellows Lectures Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows for a series of lectures highlighting new scholarship in the field of American art.

Please mark your calendars for "Evoking Ancestral Memory," featuring Lokosh - Nannikbi', Maker (Joshua D. Hinson) with Royce K. Young Wolf, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation and Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow, at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday, May 5 at 12:30 PM EST.

Please join the Modern and Contemporary Forum's final event of the spring 2022 semester on Wednesday, May 4 AT 6 PM EST. Artist Carolyn Lazard will be in conversation with independent curator Meg Onli. Lazard and Onli, who have collaborated in the past, will discuss their respective creative practices and common interests in deconstructing normative notions of time and space.

Zoom registration here: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpdeitrzsuHtCYG53DJDwAtIYdQX3VAKBk

The in-person “Desert Futures : Sahara” symposium and workshop will run from April 28 to May 1, 2022. This interdisciplinary, multi-day event brings together a distinguished group of artists and scholars from diverse disciplinary and linguistic backgrounds to participate in conversations focused on the poetics and politics of Saharan spaces in particular. The conference includes a public opening symposium (free and open to to the public), film screenings and art exhibitions, an interdisciplinary graduate student colloquium, and a scholarly workshop (for invited guests and registered participants).

History of Art PhD candidate Colin Young will participate in Poetics Politics of Desert Spaces, an all-day graduate student colloquium on Friday, April 29th, beginning at 9 AM EST in the Humanities Quadrangle, room 134

For full schedule and registration, please visit: https://desertfutures.yale.edu/2022-conference-yale -context=graduate-student-colloquium

Please join the Pre- and Early Modern Forum for a virtual lecture by Victoria Addona (McGill Department of Art History & Communication Studies) entitled “Late Sixteenth-Century Florentine Architecture and the 'Almost Impossible'" on Monday, April 18 at 5:30 PM EST.

Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/8472619307

The 18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium is pleased to announce its next event. Professor Barry Bergdoll (Columbia GSAPP) will give a lecture entitled "The Case for the Polychromatic City in 19th-Century Paris" on Tuesday, April 19 at 6:30 PM EST via Zoom. Please register here: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvfu6tqjwvHtaJ5ezlthjkyjXYbENrbXDv

Please join graduate students Chelsea Connolly, Kevin Hong, and Gavi Levy Haskell for the Department's fifth Work in Progress Lecture, "Teaching Antiracist Art History: Toward a More Equitable Classroom," on Tuesday, April 19 at 4 PM EST on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/92535902806

Exciting things afoot!

Art History expands course offerings after year-long professor deficit - Yale Daily News More than half of the Art History department’s core faculty are currently on leave, but the department plans to increase its course offerings next semester to accommodate growing interest.

Reminder!