art history poster copy

SMU MEADOWS
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN ART HISTORY AT SMU
SMU RASC/A FACULTY
RASC/a is an innovative, multidisciplinary Ph.D. program in art history that prepares students for academic
and museum careers in several areas of European and Latin American specialization. Inspired by
the Spanish verb “to scratch,” RASC/a (“Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture”) aspires to new forms of
intellectual “scratching” that encompass historical and new media, spatial arts, and critical theories of
culture, race, and gender. It also emphasizes transnational, transregional scholarship on the Americas,
Europe, and the ongoing cultural interchanges of the Atlantic and Mediterranean spheres.
Graduate students enjoy close mentorship within a small-program setting. We offer generous funding:
a fellowship package of up to five years of tuition and health benefits plus a stipend of up to $25,000
per year. A terminal M.A. is also available, with top M.A. applicants offered tuition scholarships and assistantships
for both years of the master’s program. Additionally, all graduate students may apply for
support for off-campus and international research and conference travel. The department regularly
conducts site-specific graduate seminars that take students off-campus for a week to ten days to sites
such as Venice, Madrid, and Rio de Janeiro.
Campus Resources: In addition to a dedicated art and art history library (Hamon Library), the SMU
campus is home to the Meadows Museum, which has one of the finest and most comprehensive collections
of Iberian art outside Spain; Bridwell Library, with its internationally recognized collection of manuscripts,
incunabula, and early print media; and DeGolyer Library, whose collections include a wealth of
materials on early voyages and travels, Western Americana, and the history of science and technology.
Area Resources: Dallas/Ft. Worth is home to numerous museums and collections of international
stature, and our students enjoy access to these remarkable resources. The Dallas Museum of Art
holds an encyclopedic collection of over 30,000 objects and has particular strengths in Modern and
Contemporary, Classical, African, Islamic, and Pre-Columbian art, as well as American decorative arts.
The Kimbell Museum, housed in Louis Kahn’s landmark building, boasts a small, superlative collection
of art from around the world. The Amon Carter Museum includes one of the world’s best and
most comprehensive collections of American photography, with strong holdings in American art and
sculpture. The Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas) and the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth possess
fine collections of 20th- and 21st-century American and European art. Many of our students receive
internships at these institutions, as well as regular instruction in their galleries and storage rooms.
BEATRIZ BALANTA, PH.D.
Visual Culture of the Black Atlantic
JANIS BERGMAN-CARTON, PH.D.
European Urban Modernity and Magazine
Modernism in “The Long Nineteeth Century”
AMY FREUND, PH.D.
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
European Visual Culture
RANDALL GRIFFIN, PH.D.
American Art
ADAM HERRING, PH.D.
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes
STEPHANIE LANGIN-HOOPER, PH.D.
Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Art
JOSEPHINE LOPEZ
2014-15 Tufts Fellow, Modern and
Contemporary Latin American Art
ANNA LOVATT, PH.D.
2014-16 Scholar in Residence, Modern American Art
PAMELA PATTON, PH.D.
Spain and the Medieval
Mediterranean World
LISA PON, PH.D.
Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture and
Early Modern European Urbanism and Visual Culture
ERIC STRYKER, PH.D.
Modern and Contemporary Art,
Film and Photography
IMAGE: Cornelis de Jode (1568-1600), Totius Orbis Cogniti Universalis Descriptio (1589).
Courtesy DeGolyer Library, SMU.
For more information about RASC/a and graduate study in art history at SMU in Dallas, go to
smu.edu/MeadowsARHS or contact the Meadows Graduate Office at hoselton@smu.edu.