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The University of Virginia awarded its first Doctor of Philosophy degree in Art History in 1974. Graduates of the PhD Program in Art and Architectural History have gone on to serve as professors, museum curators, non-profit directors, and art market specialists. The titles and accomplishments of many alumni are listed below, and we welcome news and updates from all graduate alumni.

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PhD Graduates in Art & Architectural History

Katherine Eve Baker
Associate Professor of Art History, Arkansas State University

Johanna Bauman
Head of Digital and Special Collections, Pratt Institute Libraries

Lydia Mattice Brandt 
Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina

Betsy Chunko-Dominguez
Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design 

Lucia Colombari
Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management, University of Oklahoma

Tracy Cosgriff
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Middle Eastern & North African Studies, College of Wooster

Leslie Cozzi
Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, The Baltimore Museum of Art

Katelyn Crawford
William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art

Burak Erdim
Associate Professor of Architecture, North Carolina State University       

Emily A. Fenichel
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Arts and Art History, Florida Atlantic University

Amy Finstein
Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Department of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross

Nicholas Genau
Program Manager, Musicopia

Jennifer Grayburn
Assistant Director for Digital & Open Scholarship, Princeton University

Krista Hall Gulbransen
Associate Professor, Art History & South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Whitman College

Mari Yoko Hara
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Notre Dame University

Gabrielle Harlan
Lecturer, Architecture, College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona 

Caroline Irene Harris (formerly Cassells)
Diane W. and James E. Burke Associate Director for Education, Princeton University Art Museum

Mary G. Haviland
Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions, and Curator of Decorative Arts, Clark Art Institute

John Hawley
Associate Specialist, Old Master Paintings - Christie's, New York

Eric R. Hupe
Assistant Professor of Art History, Lafayette College

Anna Marazuela Kim
Advisor, Associate Curator, Venice Project Space, Fondazione Marta Czok, Feb 2023 - present, et. al.

Cory Korkow
Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture, 1500 - 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art

Henry Luttikhuizen
Professor of Art History, Calvin University

Kathleen M. Lynch
Professor, University of Cincinnati

Clara Ma
Research Associate in the Asian Art Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Gretchen Kreahling McKay
Professor of Art History, McDaniel College

Luanne McKinnon
Independent Scholar and past director of the University of New Mexico Art Museum.  

Mike Maizels
Formerly MetaLAb Harvard, Frei-Universität Berlin

Justin Mann 
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

Elizabeth Merrill 
Faculty member, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Ghent University

Christopher C. Miller
Glavé and Holmes Architecture, Richmond, Virginia

Elizabeth Milnarik
Historical Architect, National Park Service, National Capital Region

Emily A. Moerer
Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrichment, Temple University

Rosa Maria Motta
Lecturer of Classical Studies and Italian, Christopher Newport University

Murad K. Mumtaz
Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College

Melissa Ragain
Associate Professor, Montana State University

Najee Olya
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, WIlliam & Mary

Tanya Paul 
Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Elena Pakhoutova
Senior Curator, Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC

Jennifer Stettler Parsons
Assistant Curator, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT

Corey Piper
Brock Curator of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art

Stephanie Rufino
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, Georgetown University

Monica Adele Shenouda
Associate Program Director, University of Virginia Architecture Program in Venice Program

Dylan Spivey
Coordinator of Operations, Virginia Beach History Museums 

Jessica Stewart
Lecturer, Art History, James Madison University 

Jacqueline S. Taylor
Freelance writer, editor, urbanist

Edward Triplett
Lecturing Fellow of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University

Jennifer Van Horn
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware

Anne Williams
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond

Constanze Witt
Lecturer, Archaeology at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jinchao Zhao
Assistant Professor, Tongji University

 

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PhD graduates in Classical Art and Archaeology

Jared Benton
Associate Professor of Art History of the Ancient Mediterranean, Art Department, Old Dominion University

Scott Craver
Editor at Congressional Budget Office, Washington D.C.

Kevin Cole
Assistant Professor, Art History and Art, Broward College

Alicia Dissinger
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton Office

Renee Gondek
Content Director, Art Historian, Hanover Research

Ben Gorham
Research Data Specialist and GIS Administrator, Case Western Reserve University

Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati
Senior Data Scientist, Dropbox

Stephanie Layton-Kim
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Catholic University of America

Ismini Miliaresis
Pursuit Manager in ESG, Deloitte

Elizabeth Molacek
Pursuit Manager, Deloitte

Eric Poehler
Professor, Department of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dylan Rogers
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, Florida State University

Carrie Sulosky Weaver
Adjunct Teaching Professor, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh

Sean Tennant
Archaeology Data Manager at Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Justin Walsh
Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Chapman University

Claire J. Weiss
Office Manager, ORB International

Daniel S. Weiss
Director, Visual Resources, University of Virginia


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