Department of Art History
Source: https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/students/job-placement Parent: https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/
Job Placement
Graduates of the PhD program launch their scholarly careers both in academia and collecting institutions. Listed below are the first job placements for graduates of the PhD program. Alumni are listed by academic year of graduation.
2024-25
| Roko Rumora | Toledo Museum of Art Assistant Curator |
2023-24
| Sylvia Wu | Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin |
| Zhiyan Yang | Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow University of Chicago Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Society of Fellows & Collegiate Assistant Professor |
2022-23
| Jadine Collingwood | Assistant Curator Museum of Contemporary Art |
| Luke Fidler | Assistant Professor of Art History University of Southern California |
| Zsofia Valyi-Nagy | Postdoctoral Fellow Getty Research Institute |
| Meng Zhao | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assistant Professor Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at University of Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Zhenru Zhou | Postdoctoral Fellow Tsinghua University |
2021-22
| Maggie Borowitz | Penn State Assistant Teaching Professor of Latin American Art and Architecture University of Chicago Humanities Teaching Fellow |
| Carly Boxer | Bucknell University Assistant Professor Rice University Nancy and Robert J. Carney Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Art and Architecture |
| Katerina Korola | University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of German Studies University of Chicago Humanities Teaching Fellow |
| Nancy P. Lin | Cornell University Assistant Professor |
| Jesse Lockard | Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institute Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Catalina Ospina | Yale University Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art Yale University Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music |
| Chloé Pelletier | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Curator of European Art (Before 1800) Art Institute of Chicago Curatorial Associate, Painting and Sculpture of Europe Department |
| Yunfei Shao | Central China Normal University Assistant Professor |
| Christine Zappella Papanastassiou | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Neurosurgery Assistant Professor of Research |
| Dongshan Zhang | Peking University Postdoctoral Fellow |
2020-21
| Savannah Esquivel | University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor |
| Meekyung MacMurdie | University of Utah Assistant Professor of Art History University of Bern Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Martin Schwarz | University of Basel Postdoctoral Assistant |
| Anatole Upart | Binghamton University Lecturer University of Alabama at Birmingham Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History |
| Tingting Xu | University of Rochester Assistant Professor of Art History Columbia University Mellon Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology |
2019-20
| Kristopher Driggers | San Antonio Museum of Art Associate Curator of Latin American Art Tucson Museum of Art Assistant Curator, Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art |
| Max Koss | Leuphana University Lüneburg Research Associate, Provenance Lab Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz Affiliate Fellow |
2018-19
| Anne Feng | Boston University Assistant Professor Harvard University Post-Doctoral Fellowship in East Asian Languages & Civilizations |
| Jennifer Sichel | University of Louisville Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies University of Chicago Post-Graduate Preceptor, MAPH |
| Nancy Thebaut | University of Oxford Tutor and Fellow, St Catherine's College Associate Professor of Medieval Art History Skidmore College Assistant Professor of Art History University of Basel NOMIS Fellow at eikones |
2017-18
| Hannah Klemm | Blanton Museum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art St. Louis Art Museum Assistant Curator |
| Alexandra Marraccini | Warburg Institute, University of London Bilderfahrzeuge Project, Research Associate |
| Caroline Schopp | Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor Berlin University of the Arts Guest Professor of Art History, Art Theory, and Aesthetics University of Vienna Postdoctoral University Assistant |
| Leslie Wilson | Art Institute of Chicago Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research Smart Museum Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts SUNY Purchase Assistant Professor |
| Beth Woodward | Lake Forest College Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Jin Xu | Columbia University Associate Professor Vassar College Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History |
2016-17
| Emily Capper | University of Minnesota Assistant Professor in Art History University of Minnesota Lecturer |
| Jennifer Cohen | Dali Museum Director of Curatorial Affairs Art Institute of Chicago Curator of Provenance and Research Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation Research Fellow |
| Ingrid Greenfield | Harvard University, Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Tamar Mayer | Tel Aviv University Assistant Professor Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery Head Curator |
| Quincy Ngan | Yale University Assistant Professor in Art History and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center |
| Victoria Salinger | Pennsylvania State University Junior Visiting Fellow |
| Marin Sarve-Tarr | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) Fisher Collection Curatorial Fellow Postdoc |
| Jie Shi | Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor |
| Kelli Wood | University of Tennessee, Knoxville Assistant Professor of Renaissance Art University of Michigan Postdoctoral Scholar and Assistant Professor |
2015-16
| Adrian Anagnost | Tulane University Assistant Professor |
| Nicola Barham | University of Michigan Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator in Ancient Art Art Institute of Chicago Research Associate |
| Anna Lee | Smith College Postdoctoral Fellow of History of Photography |
| Stephanie Su | University of Colorado, Boulder Assistant Professor Scripps College Lecturer |
2014-15
| Nancy Lin | Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Art History Harvard University Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute |
| Michelle Maydanchik | University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow Amherst College Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Matt Saba | MIT, Aga Khan Documentation Center Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Department of Islamic Art |
2013-14
| Irene Backus | Oklahoma State University Assistant Professor |
| Kris Ercums | Spencer Museum of Art Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art |
| Rachel Jans | San Diego Museum of Art Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) Assistant Curator, Painting and Sculpture |
| Julia Langbein | Trinity College, Dublin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Trinity College, Oxford Junior Research Fellow |
| Seunghye Lee | Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art Curator of Buddhist Art Sookmyung Women's University Lecturer Seoul National University Lecturer Academy of Buddhist Studies, Dongguk University (Seoul) Researcher |
| Jill Shaw | Detroit Institute of Arts Rebecca A. Boylan and Thomas W. Sidlik Curator of European Art, 1850-1970 Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University Senior Curator of Collections |
| Michael Tymkiw | University of Essex Senior Lecturer (tenured) Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck Institut Postdoctoral Fellow |
2012-13
| Sun-ah Choi | Myongji University Associate Professor Columbia University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Mia Yinxing Liu | California College of the Arts Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Program Bates College Assistant Professor of Asian Studies Yale University Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Catherine Stuer | Denison University Assistant Professor |
2011-12
| Ian Bourland | Georgetown University Assistant Professor Maryland Institute College of Art Instructor |
| Nancy Feldman | School of the Art Institute of Chicago Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago Instructor, Theory and Criticism |
| Julia Orell | University of British Columbia Assistant Professor Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich Assistentin |
| Christina Yu | Museum of Fine Art, Boston Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia Los Angeles County Museum of Art Assistant Curator of Chinese Art |
2010-11
| Ana Maria Reyes | Boston University Assistant Professor of Latin American Art |
| Kris Cohen | Reed College Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities Reed College Assistant Professor |
| Katie Kirtland | Colgate University Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Film and Media Studies |
| Harper Montgomery | Hunter College Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor in Latin American Art Hunter College Assistant Professor |
| Evelyn Ramos-Alfred | Smithsonian American Art Museum Deputy Chief Curator and Curator of Latino Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Curator of Latin-American Art |
| Christa Robbins | University of Virginia Assistant Professor Cornell College Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Galina Tirnanic | Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan Assistant Professor Research Center for Anatolian Civilization, Koc University, Istanbul Senior Research Fellow |
| Peggy Wang | Bowdoin College Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Denison University Assistant Professor |
2009-10
| Kerry Boeye | Loyola University of Maryland Assistant Professor |
| Joyce Cheng | University of Oregon Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, History of Art and Architecture |
| Christina Gonzalez | Oklahoma State University Assistant Professor |
| Christine Hahn | Kalamazoo College Interim Associate Provost, Chair of Department of Art and Art History; Assistant Professor |
| Chriscinda Henry | McGill University Assistant Professor in Art History American Council of Learned Societies Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship |
| Kristine Nielsen | Illinois Wesleyan University Associate Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Dawna Schuld | Texas A&M University Associate Professor Indiana University, Bloomington Assistant Professor |
2008-09
| Jeehee Hong | McGill University Associate Professor Dartmouth College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Lia Markey | Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library Director |
| Sarah Miller | University of Chicago Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar |
| Christina Normore | Northwestern University Associate Professor Reed College Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Rebecca Reynolds | University of West Georgia Assistant Professor |
| Jeffrey Saletnik | Indiana University, Bloomington Associate Professor Amherst College Visiting Assistant Professor and ACLS Fellow |
2007-08
| Paroma Chatterjee | University of Michigan Associate Professor UNC Chapel Hill Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities |
| Karl Debreczeny | Rubin Museum of Art, New York Curator |
| Stacy Hand | School of the Art Institute of Chicago Instructor |
| Matthew Hunter | McGill University Associate Professor Courtauld Institute of Art, London Visiting Lecturer |
| Alexandra Korey | Flod Srl (and The Florentine Srl) Head of Digital University of Georgia - Study Abroad Cortona, Italy Visiting Professor |
| Delin Lai | University of Louisville Professor and Head of Art History Program University of Louisville Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts |
| Eileen Michal | Loyola University Instructor |
| Yun-Chiahn Sena | Trinity College, Hartford CT Kluger Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor |
| Yudong Wang | Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China Professor Union College, Schenectady, New York Assistant Professor in East Asian Art, Department of Visual Arts |
2006-07
| Nell Andrew | University of Georgia Assistant Professor of Art History |
| Patrick Hajovsky | Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University Associate Professor of Art History Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Erin Hazard | Illinois Institute of Technology Senior Lecturer Western Washington University Assistant Professor |
| Wei-Cheng Lin | University of Chicago Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies (Art History) Iowa State University Assistant Professor, East Asian Art and Architecture |
| Małgorzata Lisiewicz | University of Gdansk, Poland |
| Allison Morehead | Queen's University Associate Professor King's College University of Cambridge Research Fellow, Art History/Visual Culture |
| Rachel Remmel | Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Rochester Assistant Dean and Executive Director University of Rochester Assistant Professor, American Studies, Eastman School of Music |
2005-06
| Joy Beckman | Beloit College Associate Professor of Art History & Director of the Wright Museum of Art Beloit College Assistant Professor, Art and Art History |
| Amy Bingaman | Bowling Green State University Assistant Professor |
| Josh Ellenbogen | University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Maki Fukuoka | University of Leeds Lecturer - History of Art (tenured) University of Michigan Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures |
| Emily Godbey | Iowa State University, Ames Associate Professor Iowa State University, Ames Assistant Professor |
| Winston Kyan | University of Utah Director of Graduate Studies, Asian Studies; Associate Professor Macalester College, St. Paul Assistant Professor |
| Stephanie Leitch | Florida State University Associate Professor Florida State University Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Rachel Lindheim | California State University, Chico Associate Professor California State University, Fullerton Assistant Professor |
| Anthony Raynsford | San José State University Associate Professor Temple University Visiting Assistant Professor |
2004-05
| Ken Allan | Seattle University Associate Professor Seattle University Assistant Professor |
| Carmen Fernandez-Salvador | David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Universidad San Francisco de Quito Professor Universidad San Francisco de Quito Assistant Professor |
| Ray Hernandez | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Professor, Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture, Arts of Nineteenth-Century Mexico, and Museum Studies University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Assistant Professor |
| Matthew Johnston | Lewis & Clark College Associate Professor of Art History, Department Chair Radford University, Virginia Assistant Professor |
| Kate Lingley | University of Hawaii, Manoa Assistant Professor |
| Nancy Nield (Buchwald) | Sam Houston State University Visiting Assistant Professor University of Memphis Visiting Lecturer |
| Georgi Parpulov | Princeton University Visiting Fellow, Fall Walter Art Museum Andrew W. Mellon Fellow University of Birmingham Research Fellow, CATENA Project |
| Lisa Pincus | Cornell University Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Allie Terry | Bowling Green State University Associate Professor Bowling Green State University Assistant Professor |
| Angela Volan | University of South Florida Assistant Professor Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies |
2003-04
| Matt Canepa | University of California, Irvine Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran College of Charleston Assistant Professor |
| Bonnie Cheng | Oberlin College Associate Professor Oberlin College Assistant Professor |
| Anne Eaton | University of Illinois at Chicago Associate Professor Bucknell University Assistant Professor |
| Craig Hanson | Calvin College Associate Professor and Department Chair Calvin College Assistant Professor |
| Naomi Hume | Seattle University Associate Professor Seattle University Assistant Professor |
| Dana Katz | Reed College Joshua C. Taylor Professor of Art History and Humanities |
| Sonya Lee | University of Southern California Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Religion University of Southern California Assistant Professor |
| Elizabeth Liebman | Northwestern University Visiting Assistant Professor Chicago Dance History Project Co-Founder |
| Hajime Nakatani | Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University Associate Professor Rice University Assistant Professor |
| Dawn Odell | Lewis and Clark College Associate Professor Virginia Tech Assistant Professor |
| Sabine Wieber | University of Glasgow Lecturer in History of Art, Architecture & Design Oxford University Oxford Brookes Postdoctoral Fellow |
2002-03
| Cecily Hilsdale | McGill University Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director University of Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Adam Jolles | Florida State University Associate Professor, Chair Florida State University Assistant Professor |
| Christina Nielsen | Huntington Library Hannah and Russel Kully Director of the Art Collections Art Institute of Chicago Curator |
| Elizabeth Siegel | Art Institute of Chicago Curator of Photography Art Institute of Chicago Associate Curator of Photography |
| Jacqueline Tuerk | Kean University Assistant Professor |
2001-02
| Elizabeth Bloom Avery | Colorblends Full Stack Web Developer Wabash College Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Marian Bleeke | Cleveland State University Associate Professor & Director of General Education Beloit College Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Karen Carter | Kendall College of Art and Design, Ferris State University Professor Miyazaki International College, Japan Assistant Professor |
| Katherine Haskins | Yale University Office of Development Associate Director, Arts, Humanities, and Collections Yale University Director of the Art Library |
2000-01
| Lisa Deam | Lily Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Rececca DeRoo | Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor Washington University, St. Louis Assistant Professor |
| Lisa Meyerowitz | Art Institute of Chicago Editorial Director Art Institute of Chicago Special Projects Editor, Publications |
1999-00
| Anna Arnar | Moorehead State University, Minnesota Professor of Art History |
| Anna Brzyski-Long | University of Kentucky Professor of Art History Southern Illinois University Department of Art History |
| Anne Harris | Depauw University Professor Depauw University Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Erin Hogan | Art Institute of Chicago Head of Interpretation University of Chicago Press Publicity Manager |
| Rebecca Houze | Northern Illinois University Professor Northern Illinois University Assistant Professor |
| Barbara Jaffee | Loyola University Instructor of Fine Arts in Art History Northern Illinois University Professor Emerita Northern Illinois University Assistant Professor |
| Michael Mackenzie | DePauw University Professor Wabash College Assistant Professor |
| Michael Schreffler | University of Notre Dame Associate Professor Virginia Commonwealth University Assistant Professor |
| Rebecca Zorach | Northwestern University Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History University of Chicago Harper-Schmidt Fellow |
1998-99
| Paula Lee | Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts University Faculty Fellow University of South Florida Instructor |
| John Ricco | University of Toronto Professor of Contemporary Art, Queer Theory, Aesthetics & Ethics University of Toronto Professor of Contemporary Art, Media Theory, and Criticism Texas Tech University Instructor, Department of Art History |
1997-98
| Stephanie D'Alessandro | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Associate Curator of Modern Painting and Sculpture |
| Julie Johnson | University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Professor of Art History Utah State University, Logan Assistant Professor |
| Kate Luchini | City of Salem, MA Staff Planner for Art and Culture Loyola University, Chicago Assistant Director of the Martin D'Arcy Museum |
| Claudia Mesch | Arizona State University Professor, School of Art Cleveland State University Department of Art |
| Alison Pearlman | Cal Poly Pomona Professor Cal Poly Pomona Assistant Professor |
| Britt Salvesen | Los Angeles County Museum of Art Department Head and Curator, Photography and Prints and Drawings Art Institute of Chicago Department of Publications |
| Woodman Taylor | American University in Dubai, UAE Associate Professor of Art History University of Illinois, Chicago Assistant Professor |
1996-97
| Ikumi Kaminishi | Tufts University Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies |
| Adrienne Kochman | Columbia College Assistant Professor School of the Art Institute of Chicago Lecturer |
| Pamela Loos-Noji | Georgia State University Visiting Professor |
| Sue Taylor | Portland, Oregon Assistant Professor |