Art History

Associate Professor Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Ph.D. In February 2024, Dr. Langin-Hooper's journal article, "Making Wonder in Miniature: A New Approach to Theorizing the Affective Properties and Social Consequences of Small-Scale Artworks from Hellenistic Babylonia," was published in the print version of Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Volume 34.1: 27-42.

Professor Adam Herring continued his participation in the Proyecto Cuarto de Rescate de Cajamarca, a community-based program of research and excavation that seeks to document and conserve imperial Inca buildings in the town center of Cajamarca, Peru.

Professor Amy Freund recently published an article in the journal French History. The essay, co-written with Dr. Tom Stammers at the University of Durham in the UK, proposes a new interpretation of one of the Dallas Museum of Art's biggest and strangest portraits, which was painted at the height of the French Revolution. Read more here.

Assistant Professor Tashima Thomas received a SMU Collaborative Research Grant from the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute for her proposal, "Futuristic Arts and Letters Project," in collaboration with Sanderia Faye Smith, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English.

Professor Roberto Conduru, Ph.D. On Saturday, May 4, the exhibition "J. Cunha: Corpo Tropical" (J. Cunha: Tropical Body) opened at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, for the catalog of which Dr. Conduru wrote a brief essay focusing on two works – "Codices" (Codex) and "História de Ogum" (Ogun stories) – and discussing how J. Cunha shares his vision of the history of the African diaspora in Brazil.

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Eager, PhD. In March 2024, The Art Bulletin published Dr. Eager’s article "Sewn in Place: Gender, Materiality, and Map-Making in the Early National United States." The article focuses on a set of five embroidered maps of the US capital in Washington, D.C., produced by a group of young women in Alexandria, VA in the early nineteenth-century.

Associate Professor Abbey Stockstill, Ph.D. In the spring of 2024, Dr. Stockstill was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Her first book, Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib, appeared with Penn State University Press in their "Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies" series in May.

Associate Professor Anna Lovatt, Ph.D. This summer, Dr. Lovatt has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to write the third chapter of her book Picturing Kinship: Relatedness in Contemporary Art.

Professor Randall Griffin, PhD. President Turner and Provost Loboa honored SMU's 2024 Faculty Career Achievement Award Honoree, Dr. Randall Griffin, University Distinguished Professor of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts, in a prestigious academic ceremony on April 14, 2024.

Associate Professor Adam Jasienski is happy to report that his book, Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition (published by Penn State in May of 2023), was awarded the 2024 Eleanor Tufts Award from the Society for Iberian Global Art.

Assistant Professor Elyan Jeanine Hill, Ph.D. has received a West African Research Association postdoctoral fellowship to complete research in Ghana and Togo for her book manuscript. She also recently took a short research trip to Washington D.C. to see the exhibition From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson.