PhD Application Workshop

Monday, September 16, 2024
1:30 pm | Zoom

The Emerging Scholars Working Group of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, in association with the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, is pleased to host a workshop on applying to doctoral programs in the history of art in the United States. A panel of art history graduate faculty will discuss the elements of a strong application, share tips, and offer their perspectives on the process. A Q&A will follow the panel discussion. This virtual event is open to everyone, regardless of field of study. This event is organized in association with HECAA. Neither AHNCA nor HECAA membership is required. 

UVA Art and Architectural History Alumna Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as associate professor in Art History and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (2017) and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art during Slavery (2022). She co-edited a special double issue of Winterthur Portfolio entitled “Enslavement and Its Legacies” and is now co-editing the collected volume The Disabled Gaze: Multi-Sensory Perspectives of Art, Bodies & Objects. She serves as the president of HECAA (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture).