May 2019 News

History of Art Graduating Students

May 29, 2019

Congratulations to the 13 doctoral students who graduated in 2019, and a special congratulation to our Blanchard prize winners Maggie Breidenthal and Kirsty Dootson and the John Addison Porter prize holder of 2019, Alex Morrison!

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New Assistant Professor of Modern Art joins department

May 24, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Dr Joanna Fiduccia will join the department in Fall 2019 as Assistant Professor, Modern Art. Joanna specializes in the history of European and American modernism and the historical avant-garde.

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Department appoints new Assistant Professor of Chinese Art

May 17, 2019

We are delighted to welcome Quincy Ngan to Yale this Fall as Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Chicago, respectively. Before joining Yale, he worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where he was noted for his teaching on premodern and contemporary Chinese art, Japanese art, and gender and sexuality.

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