Michelle Chang
Master of Arts in Art History (MA)
Shipwrecked Art Histories, Wet Globalization and Ecocriticism within the Early Modern Period
Overview
The MA in Art History is designed to instruct students in methods to research and present scholarly materials, while providing grounding in a broadly based and methodologically diverse art history. The program offers advanced study of art history in areas of Asian art, European and North American art, and the Indigenous arts of the Americas.
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Program Structure
The MA in Art History is a stand-alone program providing an intensive two years of coursework during which students will gain an understanding of the centrality of art historical study in comprehending the contemporary world and the history of ideas that are embedded in the subject. In their first year students are exposed to both the most current thinking in the field and to art history's disciplinary archive through the Department's required Methodologies seminar. Through their coursework and research students are encouraged to explore and engage with the art historical discourse and supplement their understanding of art and its cultural context. Students also augment their skills by completing a language requirement and by presenting their research to peers, faculty, and the public during Roundtable presentations.
Quick Facts
Program Components Coursework + Thesis required
Research Supervisors
Supervision
Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.
Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for this program
Applicants should browse faculty profiles and indicate in their application who they are interested in working with. No commitment from a supervisor prior to applying is necessary, but contacting faculty members is encouraged.
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This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.
- Adriasola, Ignacio (investigates responses by artists and intellectuals to the crisis of aesthetic and political representation triggered by the failed protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960, and in particular their reliance on depictions of the sexual and geographical margins in their articulation of an aesthetics of political disaffection.)
- Claxton, Dana (film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art)
- Georgopulos, Nicole (French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism; French art, nineteenth-century art and visual culture, art and science, gender and early feminism)
- Gu, Xiong (Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space., Installation, painting, drawing, photography, contemporary art theory)
- James, Gareth (histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities that mark and delimit artistic practice are registered most emphatically)
- Koh, Germaine (Visual art; Visual art)
- Makris, Georgios (Arts of Byzantium; Material culture and archaeology of monasticism; Dissemination and usage of portable objects across the eastern Mediterranean; Medieval monastic culture; , Arts of Byzantium, Dissemination and usage of portable objects across the eastern Mediterranean, Material culture and archaeology of monasticism, Medieval monastic culture)
- Mansoor, Jaleh (Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art; Cultural Industries, Formalism, Marxism and Critical Theory, Marxist Feminism, Modernism, Twentieth Century European Art)
- Mitchell, Karice (Visual art; Visual art)
- Monteyne, Joseph (Renaissance/early modern art and print culture; early modern landscape and eco-criticism; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture, early modern landscape and eco-criticism)
- Orell, Julia (History of Chinese Art; Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties; Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media; Art and the production of knowledge; Cultural and historical geography; History of cartography; Art and the production of knowledge, Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media, Cultural and historical geography, History of Chinese Art, History of cartography, Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties)
- Peck, Alexandra (Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest, Historical Northwest Coast art, Salish (Coastal and Interior) art , Anthropology/anthroplogical methods , Material culture, archaeology, museums)
- Pina Baldoquin, Manuel (Images)
- Porto, Nuno (Self-representation of African identities in contemporary Afro-Cuban Art and in Kenyan photography, Modern and contemporary arts of Africa and the African Diasporas, Curatorship and social justice, Social museology, History of collections, Photography)
- Roy, Marina (Intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology)
- Salgirli, Saygin (Ottoman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Mediterranean Art, Architectural History; Ottoman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Mediterranean Art, Architectural History)
- Shelton, Anthony (Mexican and Andean visual culture, critical museology, development of folk art, aesthetics)
- Shirazi, Sadia (transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art; histories of art; art and activism; race and racialization; migration and diaspora; gender and sexuality; black and postcolonial thought; transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art, histories of art, art and activism, race and racialization, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality, black and postcolonial thought)
- Silver, Erin (Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements; Activism and visual culture, Artist or Author Social Identity, Artistic and Literary Marginality, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Canadian contemporary art, Feminist art histories, Movement culture, Performance studies, Queer art, Social Movements)
- Smith, T'ai (Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles; Arts and Technologies, Economical Contexts, Gender, Media Theory, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design, Politics of Media and Mediation, Textiles)
- Starling, Dan
- Thauberger, Althea (Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform, Media philosophy, Photographic history/theory, Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism)
- Usher, Camille (Contemporary art; Indigenous visual culture; curatorial practices; Museum studies; feminism and performance; public art and graffiti; Contemporary art, Indigenous visual culture, curatorial practices, museum studies, feminism and performance, public art and graffiti)
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