Recent Alumni News

  • John R. Blakinger '06 is Endowed Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Arkansas. His book Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2019) was selected as one of the "Best Art Book of 2019" by the New York Times and was a finalist for the Association of American Publishers 2020 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism

  • Nicole Boyd '18 is a Ph.D. student in Italian Baroque Art at Yale University

  • Hyunjin Cho '13 is writing her dissertation on Qajar illustrated manuscripts of the Shah Nama at Boston University

  • Maximilien Chong '21 is pursuing a Masters of Architecture at Rice University

  • Carolina Elices '17 was admitted to the Ph.D. program in English at the University of British Columbia

  • Sarafina Fabris-Green '20 was admitted to the Master of City Planning program at MIT

  • Emma Frohardt '19 is Account Executive at Cultural Counsel, an arts and culture communications consultancy in New York

  • Rachel Hirsch '15 is in the Ph.D. program in Art History at Harvard

  • Yiwen Huang '23 will begin a dual degree program (Master of City Planning and Master of Science in Architecture Studies) at MIT in the fall of 2023

  • Nia Felton '21 was awarded the Lifchez-Stronach Curatorial Internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

  • Grace Kuipers '14 completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California at Berkeley and served as a Tyson Scholar of American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum

  • Karl Kusserow '86 received the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment (Princeton University Art Museum). The award recognizes the best exhibition catalogue of 2019 from any museum in North America

  • Sarah Leonard '09 is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for British Art

  • Kate Liu '23 will begin a  M.A. program in Art History at Columbia University, focusing on Medieval art, in the fall of 2023

  • Sharifa Lookman '17 is a Ph.D. student in Italian Renaissance Art at Princeton University

  • Maggie Masselli '16, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art History at Brown University

  • Mim Pomerantz '23 will begin a M.A. program in Art History at the University of Oxford, UK, focusing on History of Photography, in the fall of 2023

  • Riley Richards '21 is pursuing an M.A. at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware and was awarded a full-year fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2023-24.

  • Rachel Rosin '19 completed her M.A. (with High Honors) at the University College London. She was offered a Curatorial Assistant job at MoMA working with the ChiefCurator of Drawings & Prints, Christophe Cherix, helping work on the permanent collection displays in the new building

  • Lucy Salwen '17 was admitted to the following Master of Landscape in Architecture programs: Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, City College of New York, Rutgers University, Temple University

  • Simon Usdan '18 was admitted to the following Master of Real Estate Development programs: Columbia University, New York University, University of Southern California

  • Isabella Vitti '08 is Editor for Art History & Visual Studies at Routledge

  • Phoebe Vlahoplus '21 will begin an M.A. in Art History at Oxford University in the fall of 2021

  • Ann Zhang '22 is pursuing a dual degree in Master of City Planning and Master of Urban Spatial Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Adele Zhou '21 is pursuing an M.A. in Arts Administration at Columbia’s Teachers’ College

  • Daniel Zolli '06 has been appointed Agnes Scollins Carey Early Career Professor at Penn State University. His co-edited volume, The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers for the best book in Art History and Criticism


Selected Notable Alumni

  • Joseph Alchermes '75, Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of the Art History Department, Connecticut College

  • Tyler G. Anbinder '84, Professor of History, George Washington University 

  • Wendy A. Bellion '91, Chair in American Art History, University of Delaware

  • Martin A. Berger '87, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Casey Blake '78, Professor of History, Columbia University (actually not an Art History major, but the first T.A. we had in ARHA 101)

  • Ian Boyden '95, Artist, Art Consultant & Co-Director, San Juan Island Museum of Art

  • Sydney Briggs '91, Director of Collection and Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Associate Registrar at The Museum of Modern Art

  • Michael Carrasco '95, Associate dean for academic affairs and research and associate professor of Art History and Cultural Heritage Studies, Florida State University

  • Conan Cheong '12 is in the Ph.D. program in Southeast Asian art History at SOAS in London, and is the recipient of an Alphawood Fellowship

  • Jem Cohen '84, award-winning New York City-based filmmaker

  • Jeffrey Deitch '74, Director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

  • David J. Drogin '94, Professor of Art History and Museum Professions; History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology State University of New York

  • Nikki Greene '97, Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley College

  • Caitlin Henningsen '06 is Associate Museum Educator for Academic Programs at the Frick Collection in New York City and a doctoral candidate at Harvard University

  • Rachel Kaplan '07 is Associate Curator of Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • Jeffrey Katzin '10, Associate Curator at the Akron Art Museum

  • Rob Krulak '88, Independent Consultant

  • Karl Kusserow '86, Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum
  • Paul Lewis '88 serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York
  • James Lieber '84 is founding partner of Lieber Strategies, a consulting firm in Paris France that works with multinational corporations, investment funds, and organizations. He has created the James E. Lieber Art History Internship Fund for Wesleyan art history majors
  • Michael Lobel '90, Ph.D, Professor of Art History at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Celia Lowe '90, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

  • Joanne Lukitsh '76, Professor of History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
  • Eve Mayberger '10, is Assistant Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Janine Mileaf '89 Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Arts Club of Chicago
  • Rachel Mustalish '90, Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Sarah Nazimova-Baum '86 (1964-2016), LCAT, ATR-BC, an art therapist, Coordinator & Intern Advisor, New York Intern Program 

  • Gülru Necipoğlu '79, Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art

  • John B. Ravenal '81, Executive Director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln 

  • David Redden '70, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's (1974-2016), New York

  • John Henry Rice '94, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, is currently working on a major traveling exhibition of Himalayan art

  • Kishwar Rizvi '87, Professor of the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University

  • Adam Rizzo '06 is working as a Museum Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Lisa Rotondo-McCord '82, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art, New Orleans Museum of Art

  • Tamara I. Sears '96 is Associate Professor of South Asian art history at Rutgers University

  • Anna L. Seastrand '03 is Assistant Professor of South Asian art history at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis/Saint Paul

  • Alan Shestack '60 (1938-2020), Former director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and deputy director and chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, Washington

  • Michael Silber '86, Director, McKinsey & Co., Inc., New York

  • Franklin Sirmans '91, Director of Pérez Art Museum, Miami

  • Nancy J. Troy '74, Professor Emerita of Art History, Stanford University

  • Isabella Vitti '08, Editor of Art History and Visual Studies at Routledge Research

  • Laura Weinstein '01, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Gennifer Weisenfeld '87, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University

  • Andrew Witkin '00, Director, Krakow Witkin Gallery, and successful Boston-based artist

  • Carla Yanni '87, Distinguished Professor, Director of Architectural Studies, and First Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians, Rutgers State University of New Jersey

  • Dan Zolli '07, Assistant Professor of Art History, Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts, Penn State University