University of Chicago

DEGREES OFFERED
Ph.D. in Art History

AREAS OF STUDY
Asian, African, Islamic, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern, Theory, Criticism and Historiography

FACULTY IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Professors
Charles E. Cohen (Mary L. Block Professor of Art History)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art

Jas' Elsner
Ph.D., Kings College
Roman and early Christian art, viewing and viewer-response in art, pilgrimage, the receptions of antiquity including the history of collecting and the musuem, art and text including ekphrasis

Tom Gunning
Ph.D., New York University
International Early and Silent Film, American Avant-Garde Cinema, Hollywood Film Genres, Film & Narrative Theory, Classical Film Theory, Film & Still Photography, Japanese Cinema 

Neil Harris (Emeritus)
Ph.D. Harvard University
United States; History of Modern Culture; History of Technology, Communications, Architecture, and the Arts of Design

Reinhold Heller (Emeritus)
Ph.D. Indiana University
19th and 20th century art, art theory and historiography

Elizabeth Helsinger (John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor)
Ph.D., Columbia University
19th Century British Literature & Art History

W.J.T Mitchell (Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor)
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Romanticism, Critical & Aesthetic Theory, Marxist Criticism, 18th Century, Postmodernism, Comparative Studies in Visual & Verbal Art

Richard Neer
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Greek Art and Philosophical Aesthetics

Robert Nelson (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Art History, New York University
Byzantine

Linda Seidel (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Art History, Harvard University
Medieval

Joel Snyder
History of Photography, Theory of Photography and Film, History & Theory of Perspective, Medieval & Renaissance Theory of Vision, Critical Theory, Aesthetics & Theory of Representation

Barbara Stafford (Emeritus)
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era

Yuri Tsivian
Ph.D., Music & Cinema, Leningrad Institute of Theater
Early Cinema, Russian Cinema, Film Poetics

Wu Hung
Ph.D. Harvard University
Early Chinese Art

Associate Professors
Darby English
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Art of the United States & Britain since 1960

Christine Mehring
Ph.D. Harvard University
20th century art, contemporary art, art theory and criticism

Katherine Taylor
Ph.D. Harvard University
19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism

Martha Ward
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
19th and 20th Century Art

Rebecca Zorach
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Renaissance Art (primarily 16th century French and Italian), Gender Studies & Critical Theory, Print Culture & Technology

Assistant Professors
Persis Berlekamp
Ph.D., Harvard University
Islamic Art and Architecture

Ping Foong
Ph.D. Princeton University
Chinese Art & Archaeology

Matthew Jesse Jackson
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Contemporary, postwar European and Soviet Art

Aden Kumler
Ph.D. Harvard University
Western medieval art and architecture

Verity Platt
Ph.D. University of Oxford
Greek and Roman Art

Adjunct Faculty
James Cuno (President & Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Ph.D., Harvard University

STUDENT INFORMATION
General
Applicants: 200 for entire program
Openings: About 20
Enrollment: About 5 in residence in architectural history
Tuition: $36,666 per year
Financial Aid: 5-year Full Fellowships covering university tuition, grants and stipends, teaching opportunities for advanced students, some department funding for advanced students available. 
Recent Graduates 4 Ph.D. per year

Requirements
Entrance Flexible, background in art history or related areas desirable, relevant languages desirable
Ph.D.: 18 quarter-courses  Students in Western Art History must demonstrate reading competence in German and in one of the following: French, Italian or Spanish. Students in Asian Art must demonstrate competence in Chinese and Japanese. Students in Islamic art must demonstrate competence in Arabic, Persian, or Ottoman Turkish, and in German, French, or Italian. Students must earn a High Pass in one of these languages and a Pass in the other on the Department's Foreign Language Reading Examinations, or take the three-quarter introductory language sequences at this University for a letter grade and earn a B+ or better (for the equivalent of a High Pass) and a B or better (for the equivalent of a Pass) in the final quarter, 3 seminar papers, 1 qualifying paper, preliminary examination, dissertation proposal, dissertation