Recent Alumni News

  • Nicole Boyd '18 is a PhD student in Italian Baroque Art at Yale University

  • Bailey Chapin '24 has been accepted, with full funding, to the MA/PhD program in Art History at SUNY Stony Brook, where she will study modern American and European art

  • Conan Cheong '12 is in the PhD program in Southeast Asian art history at SOAS University of London and is the recipient of an Alphawood Fellowship
  • Hyunjin Cho '13 completed her dissertation on Qajar illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnama at Boston University

  • Maximilien Chong '21 completed a Master of Architecture at Rice University

  • Carolina Elices '17 completed MA in English at University of British Columbia, spring 2024; started PhD studies in English at Cornell University, fall 2024

  • Brandon Eng '15 is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts / NYU and a Curatorial Assistant at the Walker Art Center
  • Sarafina Fabris-Green '20 is a recent graduate of the Master’s in City Planning program at MIT

  • Gabby Farina '23 started working at The New Yorker as an associate photo editor

  • Nia Felton '21 was awarded the Lifchez-Stronach Curatorial Internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is now the Fellowship and Programs Director at apexart, a non-profit arts organization in Lower Manhattan

  • Emma Flaherty '24, in fall 2025, will begin a fully funded PhD program at Princeton University (in 2024-2025, Emma was Research Fellow, Wadsworth Atheneum, working with Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art.)

  • Emma Frohardt '20 was an Account Executive at Cultural Counsel, an arts and culture communications consultancy in New York, and is now a freelance arts consultant and strategist

  • Sarah Hale '23 is pursuing a MS in Library and Information Science at Simmons University while continuing to work at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia

  • Maya Hayda '21 will continue a fully funded PhD in Art and Archeology at Princeton University, fall 2024

  • Rachel Hirsch '15 is in the PhD program in Art History at Harvard

  • Yiwen Huang '23 began a dual degree program (Master of City Planning and Master of Science in Architecture Studies) at MIT in the fall of 2023

  • Emma Kendall '24 was accepted to the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art (after completing a summer internship at the Whitney Museum of American Art)

  • Spencer Klink '24 was awarded a 2025-26 Fulbright Study/Research Award to conduct research in Germany

  • Grace Kuipers '14, Postdoctoral Research Associate, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, won the Zuckerman Prize for best dissertation in American Studies and recently had an article, “Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry and the Subterranean Commons” published in The Art Bulletin based on her dissertation research. 

  • Sarah Leonard '09 was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for British Art and is now a freelance cultural heritage consultant

  • Rose Lieber '24 started working at Di Donna Galleries in New York City

  • Kate Liu '23 began a  MA program in Art History at Columbia University, focusing on Medieval art, in the fall of 2023

  • Sharifa Lookman '17 is a PhD student in Italian Renaissance Art at Princeton University

  • Maggie Masselli '16 is pursuing a PhD in Art History at Brown University

  • Kelsey Morgan '22 and Nina Kagan '23 will begin their M.Arch. studies at the Yale School of Architecture.

  • Jadwiga Parker '23 is enrolled in the Master of City Planning program, University of Pennsylvania

  • Mim Pomerantz '23, Project and Exhibitions Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (UK)

  • Riley Richards '21, Assistant Curator, Boscobel House and Gardens, Philipstown

  • Rachel Rosin '19, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Modern Art. 

  • Lucy Salwen '17 is pursuing a Master of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Olivia Samios '20 is an artist liaison at Perrotin, an art gallery in NYC

  • Juntai Shen '18 graduated from Harvard Law School

  • Sabrina Tian '24 is completing a MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London

  • Simon Usdan '18 completed a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development at Columbia University

  • Isabella Vitti '08, Communications and Research Associate, Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC

  • Phoebe Vlahoplus '21 began an MA in Art History at Oxford University in the fall of 2021

  • Ann Zhang '22 completed a dual degree in Master of City Planning and Master of Urban Spatial Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Adele Zhou '21 is a Graduate Trainee at Christie’s auction house in Hong Kong


Selected Notable Alumni

  • Joseph Alchermes '75, Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of the Art History Department, Connecticut College

  • Tyler G. Anbinder '84, Professor of History, George Washington University 

  • Wendy A. Bellion '91, Chair in American Art History, University of Delaware

  • Martin A. Berger '87, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Casey Blake '78, Professor of History, Columbia University (actually not an Art History major, but the first T.A. we had in ARHA 101)

  • John R. Blakinger '06 is Endowed Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Arkansas. His book Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2019) was selected as one of the "Best Art Book of 2019" by the New York Times and was a finalist for the Association of American Publishers 2020 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism.
  • Ian Boyden '95, Artist, Art Consultant & Co-Director, San Juan Island Museum of Art

  • Sydney Briggs '91, Director of Collection and Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Associate Registrar at The Museum of Modern Art

  • Michael Carrasco '95, Associate dean for academic affairs and research and associate professor of Art History and Cultural Heritage Studies, Florida State University

  • Jem Cohen '84, award-winning New York City-based filmmaker

  • Jeffrey Deitch '74, Director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

  • David J. Drogin '94, Professor of Art History and Museum Professions; History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology State University of New York

  • Nikki Greene '97, Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley College

  • Caitlin Henningsen '06 is Associate Museum Educator for Academic Programs at the Frick Collection in New York City and a doctoral candidate at Harvard University

  • Rachel Kaplan '07 is Associate Curator of Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

  • Jeffrey Katzin '10, Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum

  • Rob Krulak '88, Independent Consultant

  • Karl Kusserow '86, John Wilmerding Senior Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum, received the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment (Princeton University Art Museum). The award recognizes the best exhibition catalogue of 2019 from any museum in North America. 
  • Paul Lewis '88 serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York
  • James Lieber '84 is founding partner of Lieber Strategies, a consulting firm in Paris France that works with multinational corporations, investment funds, and organizations. He endowed the James E. Lieber Art History Internship Fund for Wesleyan art history majors.
  • Michael Lobel '90, Ph.D, Professor of Art History at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Celia Lowe '90, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

  • Joanne Lukitsh '76, Professor of History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
  • Evelyn Mayberger '10, is Assistant Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Janine Mileaf '89 Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Arts Club of Chicago
  • Rachel Mustalish '90, Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Sarah Nazimova-Baum '86 (1964-2016), LCAT, ATR-BC, an art therapist, Coordinator & Intern Advisor, New York Intern Program 

  • Gülru Necipoğlu '79, Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art

  • John B. Ravenal '81, Executive Director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln 

  • David Redden '70, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's (1974-2016), New York

  • John Henry Rice '94, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, is currently working on a major traveling exhibition of Himalayan art

  • Kishwar Rizvi '87, Professor of the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University

  • Adam Rizzo '06 is working as a Museum Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Lisa Rotondo-McCord '82, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art, New Orleans Museum of Art

  • Tamara I. Sears '96 is Associate Professor of South Asian art history at Rutgers University

  • Anna L. Seastrand '03 is Associate Professor of South Asian art history at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis/Saint Paul

  • Alan Shestack '60 (1938-2020), Former director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and deputy director and chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, Washington

  • Michael Silber '86, Director, McKinsey & Co., Inc., New York

  • Franklin Sirmans '91, Director of Pérez Art Museum, Miami

  • Nancy J. Troy '74, Professor Emerita of Art History, Stanford University

  • Laura Weinstein '01, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Gennifer Weisenfeld '87, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University

  • Andrew Witkin '00, Director, Krakow Witkin Gallery, and successful Boston-based artist

  • Carla Yanni '87, Distinguished Professor, Director of Architectural Studies, and First Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians, Rutgers State University of New Jersey

  • Daniel Zolli '07, has been appointed Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor at Penn State University. His co-edited volume, The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers for the best book in Art History and Criticism.