# Department of Art History

**Source**: https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/students/job-placement
**Parent**: https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/

## Job Placement

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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

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| Roko Rumora | Toledo Museum of Art  Assistant Curator |

### 2023-24

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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

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| 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 |