Harvard UniversityDepartment of History of Art and Architecture (formerly Department of Fine Arts)
485 Broadway
Sackler Museum
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2377; fax 617-495-1769
DEGREES OFFERED
Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture
AREAS OF STUDY
Ancient (Classical and Near East), Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern,
American, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African
FACULTY IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Professors Emeriti
James Ackerman
Ph.D., Art History, New York University
Renaissance, Baroque, Urban
Pramod Chandra
Ph.D., Art History, University of Bombay
Indian
Oleg Grabar
Ph.D., Art History, Princeton University
Islamic
Gloria Ferrari Pinney
Ph.D., University of Cincinnatti
Greek and Roman Art
John Rosenfield
Ph.D., Art History, Harvard University
Japanese
Seymour Slive
Ph.D., Art History, University of Chicago
Northern Baroque
Professors
Susan Preston Blier
Ph.D., Columbia University
African
Yve-Alain Bois, Department Chair
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor
Ph.D., University of Paris
Modern Art
Thomas B.F. Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American Art
Jeffrey Hamburger
Ph.D., Yale University
Medieval
Ioli Kalavrezou
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art
Ph.D., University of california, Berkeley
Early Christian and Byzantine
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., City University of New York
18th- and 19th-Century European, Contemporary Post-1970s, Feminist and Critical Theory
Neil Levine
Ph.D., Art History, Yale University
Modern
David Gordon Mitten
James C. Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Architecture
Ph.D., Harvard University
Ancient and Classical
Gulru Necipoglu
Ph.D., Art History, Harvard University
Islamic
Alina Payne
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, late 19th Cent. and 20th Cent. history and theory of architecture, Architectural Representation
David Roxburgh, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Islamic
Hugo van der Velden
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Northern Renaissance
Irene Winter
William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts
Ph.D., Columbia University
Ancient Near East
Henri Zerner
Ph.D., University of Paris
Franch Renaissance and Modern
Associate Professors
Alice Jarrard
Ph.D., Columbia University
Baroque, Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture
Rabun M. Taylor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Roman Art and Architecture
Eugene Yuejin Wang
Ph.D., Art History, Harvard
Chinese
Assistant Professors
Robin E. Kelsey
Ph.D., Harvard University
History of Photography and American Art
Yukio Lippit
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Japanese Painting from the Medieval and early modern periods
Jennifer Roberts
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
American Art
Betsey Robinson
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and the Classics
Classical archaeology, srchitecture, landscapes
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Ph.D., Stanford University
American and African American
STUDENT INFORMATION
General
Applicants: 240 for entire program
Openings: 15 per year for entire program
Enrollment: 10-15 in Architectural History
Tuition: $23,370 per year
Financial Aid: Teaching fellowships available in the 3rd and 4th years: about 20-25 for the entire program
Recent Graduates: 10
Requirements
Entrance Letters of recommendation, writing sample, GRE and TOEFL, transcripts
Ph.D.: Romance language, German (or 1 alternate language substituted according to area of specialization), minimum of 16 courses, qualifying paper, general exam in major field, dissertation
Present Employment of Graduates
Columbia University, MIT, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of California (Berkeley), Yale University
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