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The Department of Art History and Archaeology teaches, and interprets through research and publication, the visual and material culture of the classical world, Europe, and the Americas. This mission is supported by nine full-time faculty members, and by a combination of departmentally-managed visual and archival resources rare in American universities.

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Graduate

The department considers the M.A. a broad training program characterized by a diversity of courses.

The Ph.D. qualifies the holder for teaching positions in colleges and universities and for curatorial positions in museums.
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AHAGSA, the Art History & Archaeology Graduate Student Association web page for news and information to/from grad students in the department

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty standards documents
Criteria for Doctoral Faculty Membership (pdf)
Performance Standards for Post-Tenure Review (pdf)
Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure (pdf)

Undergraduate

In addition to providing elements of a liberal education, the program prepares students who wish to specialize in art history or classical archaeology for graduate work.
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Research

Our faculty and staff reflect the widening scope of our discipline with particular strengths in the areas of classical archaeology, the arts of the Americas; the history of architecture; Byzantine and medieval art; gender, sexuality, and the arts; material culture; and the transmission of the classical tradition in later European and American art..
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Resources

Visual Resources Center

Other Departmental Resources

Columbia, MO, information links

 

Upcoming Events

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Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
5:30 p.m. Pickard 106
Reception 4:30 p.m. Cast Gallery

45th Annual Art History and Archaeology 8110 Symposium

 


 

Recent events:

The 2011 Schooling Lecture

A Correct Church: Episcopalian Ecclesiastical Architecture in Wisconsin 1835-1865

Kate Kocyba
Herbert W. Schooling Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in Art History and Archaeology


 

"Building and Time in the Didymaion: From Facture to Architectura"

Prof. John R. Senseney
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Senseney flyer Download flyer (pdf)


Film: a woman like that
an evening with Artemisia Gentileschi

A Woman Like That flyer flyer pdf

"Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again: the Original Function and Later Collection of Early Prints in the Netherlands"

Dr. Kathryn Rudy
University of St. Andrew

Reception 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 6:00 p.m. in Pickard Hall 109

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