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Ellen Sebring, Ph.D., will be joining the department as a post-doctoral associate this year. She was creative director of the Visualizing Cultures project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from its inception in 2002. Her research investigates “visual narrative” as an emerging digital historiographic form that addresses the mass digitization of archives now opening an unprecedented global portal to the past. The research—at the... read more about New Post-doctoral Associate »
Edward Triplett, Ph.D. Lecturing Fellow in Art, Art History & Visual Studies Ed Triplett joins the department as lecturing fellow in art history and visual studies. Triplett originally came to Duke in 2015 as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wired! Lab and University Libraries tasked with data curation for visual studies. He continues to work with the Wired! Lab and other digital... read more about New Faculty: Edward Triplett, Ph.D. »
William Paul Thomas, M.F.A. Brock Family Instructor in Studio Arts Photo credit: Beth Mann of Early Bird Photo William Paul Thomas is the inaugural Brock Family Instructor in Studio Arts, the department’s newly endowed position that will bring in a different visiting artist each year. He will teach painting during the 2017-18 academic year at Duke. William Paul Thomas, Jo Ann’s Son, from Cyanosis, oil on canvas, 24 x... read more about New Faculty: William Paul Thomas, M.F.A. »
Michaela O’Brien, M.F.A. Instructor in Art, Art History & Visual Studies Michaela O’Brien is an instructor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke for 2017-18 and is a Teaching for Equity Fellow in the Duke Human Rights Center in the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. She will teach courses in digital photography and the photobook for the department during the academic year. Michaela O’Brien... read more about New Faculty: Michaela O’Brien, M.F.A. »
Paul B. Jaskot, Ph.D. Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Director of the Wired! Lab in Digital Art History & Visual Culture Photo Credit: DePaul University/Jeff Carrion Paul Jaskot is joining Duke as a professor of art history and director of the Wired! Lab for Digital Art History & Visual Culture. Jaskot was previously professor of the history of art and architecture and director of Studio χ at DePaul... read more about New Faculty: Paul B. Jaskot, Ph.D. »
Susanna Caviglia, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Susanna Caviglia joins the department as an assistant professor of art history and visual studies. She took her degrees at the Sapienza University in Rome and the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris. She teaches courses on early modern art and culture. Her research interests focus on French and Italian Art in the long eighteenth century, early modern... read more about New Faculty: Susanna Caviglia, Ph.D. »
Reconstruction of Sta. Chiara, Naples. The Duke Wired!/University of Padua collaborative team was recently invited by the Paisajes espirituales research group at the University of Barcelona to present their digital reconstruction of the choir screen at the church of Santa Chiara in Naples, June 14-16, 2017, in Barcelona. Members of the project team, left to right: Lucas Giles (Duke, G ’16), Elisa Castagna (University of Padua),... read more about Duke Wired! in Barcelona »
A grant from the Getty Foundation was awarded in support of a 2-year advanced institute in digital art history to be led by principal investigator Victoria Szabo, associate research professor of visual and media studies. The grant is given as part of the Getty Foundation’s Digital Art History Initiative and reflects the confidence of the Foundation in the quality of the project. The workshop will be co-sponsored by the international... read more about Getty Grant for Advanced Institute in Digital Art History »
Duke University has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer 2018 Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. Led by Victoria Szabo, associate research professor of visual and media studies, and hosted at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI) integrates humanities teaching and scholarship with artificial and virtual reality... read more about NEH Grant for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities »
Jacopo de’Barbari, View of Venice, 1500, c. 1460/1470-1516 or before. Woodcut from six blocks on six sheets of paper, 52 1/4 x 109 1/4 in. (132.72 x 277.5 cm) (sheet). Minneapolis Institute of Art. The John R. Van Derlip Fund. 2010.88. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. September 7 – December 31, 2017 The Nasher Museum presents a multi-media exhibition that brings to life the city of Venice through Jacopo de’ Barbari... read more about A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’Barbari’s View of 1500 »