Awards & Distinctions

Supported by a Center for Digital Humanities Data Fellowship, the "Languages of Art Writing" Project Explores Art History Via Linguistics

Languages of Art Writing is a data curation project focused on the terminology employed in art criticism, artists’ statements, and manifestos published in Western Europe from the late 1940s to the present. It has been developed with the support of a 2021–2023 Data Fellowship from the Center for Digital Humanities …

Professor Bridget Alsdorf Named Humanities Council 2023–24 Old Dominion Research Professor

The Humanities Council has named A&A Professor Bridget Alsdorf among 2023-24 Old Dominion Research Professors. Her project as Old Dominion Research Professor is a book titled Shadowed: Intimacy and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art.

The professorship provides additional research time for…

Professor Bridget Alsdorf Receives 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Field of Fine Arts Research

Professor Bridget Alsdorf is among the 171 scholars, artists, writers, and scientists to receive the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.  Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, Alsdorf and two fellow Princeton scholars were selected from a group of 2,500 applicants.  

“Like Emerson, I believe…

The Association for Asian Studies Awards 2023 Book Prize to the Tang Center's Dora Ching

The nine-volume set Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves (Princeton University Press 2021) edited by the Tang Center's Dora Ching has won the Bei Shan Tang book prize, which recognizes research in Chinese art history.

"I am deeply honored to receive the inaugural Bei Shan Tang…

A&A Alumnus and Staff Member Awarded 2023 Medieval Academy of America Publishing Prizes

The Medieval Academy of America has announced the 2023 prize recipients, including Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize winner A&A alumnus John Lansdowne *19 and Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize co-recipients Julia Gearhart (A&A’s Director of Visual Resources) and Alice Isabella Sullivan (Assistant Professor Medieval Art and…

Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s “Black Bodies, White Gold” Wins 2023 HBA Book Award

The Historians of British Art (HBA) annually awards prizes to outstanding books on the history of British art, architecture, and visual culture.  Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press 2021) received this year’s award for a single-authored…

“Museumverse” Student Project Wins First Place at Keller Center Innovation Forum

Congratulations to Department of Art & Archaeology graduate students Mengge Cao, Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, and Michael Zhang along with Shruti Sharma (Electrical and Computer Engineering), for winning first place and $15,000 in the humanities and social sciences division of the 17th Annual Keller Center Innovation Forum with their enthralling…

Faculty Awards and Distinctions

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, associate professor in the departments of art & archaeology and African American studies, was awarded the 2022 Dean for Research Innovation Fund for new ideas in the humanities and social sciences in support of her project Art Hx: Visualizing the medical legacies of…

Faculty Awards and Distinctions

Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press) by Basile Baudez has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion.  Awarded since 1959, the prize is given annually…

Faculty Highlight

Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, is a recipient of the 2022–23 Rome Prize, in her capacity as a Terra Foundation Fellow, for her project entitled "A Dream of Italy: Black Geographies and the Grand Tour."

The American Academy in Rome awards the Rome Prize annually via a…

Faculty and Alumni CAA Awards

CAA announced its 2022 Awards for Distinction this week.  Two Department of Art & Archaeology alumni earned awards for their publications and one of our faculty contributed an essay to a publication that won a prize.

Kaira Cabañas *07’s…