CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave an invited lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at Northern Illinois University on Oct. 11 and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023. She discussed how one class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – depict… Read more
Art History
CCS alum Rachel Sadvary Zebro appointed Associate Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum
Congratulations to CCS alum (B.A. Art History, 2009) Rachel Sadvary Zebro on her new appointment as the Associate Curator of Collections at the Phoenix Art Museum! Rachel will curate exhibitions of the modern, contemporary, and European art collections as well as manage all collection-focused projects and acquisitions. She previously worked at PAM from 2013-2022 in the positions of assistant registrar, curatorial associate, and assistant curator as well as at the Di Donna Galleries in New York City as the… Read more
Public Lecture: Art in the Atomic Age with curators Gabrielle Decamous and Shawn Skabelund on Nov. 2, 2023
The department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Asian Studies program present two curators in conversation on Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. in Liberal Arts room 120 for “Art in the Atomic Age: Japan, the Pacific Islands, and North America.”
This lecture features Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and Shawn Skabelund, an artist working to reveal the complex issues, ecologies, and cultural histories of and in… Read more
Faculty news: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi invited presentation at Rutgers in October
Congratulations to CCS Professor of Asian Studies and Art History Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent invited presentation at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on Oct. 17, 2023! Dr. Gulácsi’s presentation, “The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archaeological Sites across Medieval East Central China,” focused on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th… Read more
Q & A with a CCS student!
We wanted to hear more from our students about why they are a part of the department, so we interviewed… Read more
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!
Love museums? Interested in a career in museums? Join the Museum Studies Club during the last Thursday of every month in Cline Library room 249 at 7 p.m.!