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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Advocates for World Heritage Site at International Conference
Jan. 17, 2025
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Tina Campt Awarded Royal Anthropological Institute 2024 Photographic Studies Prize
Jan. 9, 2025
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Looking Back at Fall 2024—in Awe!
Dec. 30, 2024
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Exploring the Kingdom of Bhutan
Dec. 20, 2024
A pair of hands use a ruler and pencil to draw a pottery fragment
Students in ART 407 Explore Archaeology through Drawing
Dec. 19, 2024
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In the News: The Daily Princetonian Announces Princeton University's New Humanities Initiative
Dec. 18, 2024
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Archaeology Alumnus Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade '24 Awarded Marshall Scholarship
Dec. 16, 2024
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Fall 2024 A&A Majors Colloquium
Dec. 13, 2024
Students examine large manuscripts on a long table
ART 483 Finds Promise at the Intersection of Art and Medicine
Dec. 13, 2024
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New WebDig Application Reimagines Archaeological Recording and Presentation
Dec. 10, 2024
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Introducing Mattia D’Acri, A&A Post-doctoral Researcher
Dec. 10, 2024
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A&A and the École du Louvre Partnership Creates New Undergraduate and Graduate Student Opportunities
Dec. 6, 2024
Three people closely examine Japanese prints on a wall
Professor Rachel Saunders' ART 217 / EAS 217 "The Arts of Japan" Investigates Life Stories of Individual Things
Dec. 5, 2024
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Spring 2025 A&A Course Spotlights
Dec. 2, 2024
Susana Costa Amaral
Meet Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow Susana Costa Amaral
Nov. 21, 2024
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Humanities at Princeton: Taking a Big Swing at Big Questions
Nov. 20, 2024
Breton Langendorfer
Lecturer Breton Langendorfer Explores the Ancient Middle East
Nov. 20, 2024
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In the News: Rachael Z. DeLue on Darwin's "Tree of Life"
Nov. 18, 2024

Student Focus

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Fall 2024 Open Studios
Nov. 22, 2024
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Graduate Students Organize Conference "Bandung to Berlin: Art, Decolonization, and the Cold War"
Nov. 7, 2024
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My Internship at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing
Nov. 4, 2024
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Charlotte Root ’22 and A&A Team Coauthor Article on Roman British Epigraphy
Oct. 3, 2024
Zoe Wang leans a pillar in a colonade
Visiting Student Zi (Zoe) Wang On Medieval Art History Scholarship in China and Princeton
Oct. 3, 2024
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Graduate Student Georgie Sánchez Contributes to David Wojnarowicz Memorial Celebration
Sept. 24, 2024
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Charmaine Branch researches teaching with difficult visual materials in GradFutures fellowship
Sept. 9, 2024
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Megan Coates Studies Digital Humanities and Modern Greek at the Princeton Athens Center
Aug. 30, 2024
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Fall 2024 A&A Course Spotlights
Aug. 23, 2024
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Visual Resources boosts visiting graduate student Kristina Zielke's research
May 30, 2024
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Daniel Drake '24 on filmmaking at Princeton
May 16, 2024
Audrey Zhang poses beside a white dress made of paper
Art and artificial intelligence find their intersection in the work of Audrey Zhang
April 30, 2024
Cindy Li riding on horseback, led by a guide
Tracking fur trade— and my own roots—in Manchuria
April 11, 2024
Fatih Han smiles with a screen showing a manuscript drawing and old manuscripts open in front of him
Exploring the Sense Scapes of Islamic Manuscripts with Fatih Han
March 1, 2024
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Henry Moses '25 Visits Esteban Jefferson Exhibition in London
Feb. 15, 2024

Fieldwork

Christopher Wilson mans the total station, peering intently in profile
Christopher Wilson ’21: From A&A to Archaeology for Environmental Projects
 A group of people surround a glass display case in which is a colorful painted object depicting figures over many folds.
Visiting "Ethiopia at the Crossroads"
Masha Slautina stands in front of and above a lake with fall foliage surrounding it
Touring Japan's Autumnal Art Scene
Group of museum-goers poses on the museum steps
Africa and Byzantium Lecture and Exhibition
Paige Walworth decorates her vessel
Understanding Ancient Pottery by Reading, Seeing, and Recreating
Smith-Sangster is crouched in a hole in the hard-packed earth
Dispatches from the Field: Emily Smith-Sangster’s Excavation of a New [Ancient] Cemetery in Abydos
Ramon Espinoza holding a shovel in the woods
Archaeology Program Student and Veteran Ramon Espinoza Excavates WWII Crash Site in Germany
Students excavating
Excavations at Molyvoti in Northern Greece
Class Visits Smithson's Spiral Jetty
“Terrains of Knowledge” Class Visits Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Art 356 Studies Gardens in Kyoto
Art 356 Studies Gardens in Kyoto
Team Studies Ancient Mining Sites at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt
Team Studies Ancient Mining Sites at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt
Graduate students studying casts of Trajan's column
Art 513 Studies Historiated Columns in Rome

Course Highlights

A pair of hands use a ruler and pencil to draw a pottery fragment
Students in ART 407 Explore Archaeology through Drawing
A student points to a scene on a tapestry
ART 485 Examines Indigenous Works in Special Collections
A chef stands on oen side of a metal tables with students lined up on the other
Applying digital methods to ancient history
A student examines artifacts with a magnifying glass
Venturing through ancient Antioch—with an all-access pass
Alanna Radlo-Dzur takes in a large map on beige textile
Alanna Radlo-Dzur reframes Nahua women and Indigenous scholarship
Professor Watsky points to a detail in a work as students look on
In ART 425, while students gain expertise in Japanese prints, the Princeton University Art Museum gains six works!
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Language to be Looked At
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The Vikings—as they Lived, Died, and Feasted
Paige Walworth decorates her vessel
Understanding Ancient Pottery by Reading, Seeing, and Recreating
Students crowd around a small album
Photography and the Making of the Modern World
Zackery Drucker speaks with students seated a table with screen in background
Examining the Feminist Critique with Artist and Trans Woman Zackary Drucker
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Course Highlight: ART 341/ARC 341 “Neo Architectures: Architecture and its past, from the Renaissance to Postmodernism”
Professor Holzman hands architectural model to students for a closer look
Course Highlight: ART 401: “Introduction to Archaeology”
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Course Highlight: ART 447: Siegecraft: Architecture, Warfare, and Media
Kate Bussard and Jessica Stark present subject matter to students at head of a long table
Course Highlight: ART 388: “Fascist Aesthetics: Women & Photography Between the World Wars”

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