Nancy Um spoke with Ahmed AlMaazmi and Jenny Peruski about her book, Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), for the Indian Ocean series of the New Books Network. Listen here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/nancy-um-shipped-but-not-sold-material-culture-and-the-social-protocols-of-trade-during-yemens-age-of-coffee-u-hawaii-press-2017/
Month: August 2020
Jason (Joonsoo) Park in Sequitur
Doctoral candidate Jason (Joonsoo) Park contributes “Maintenance of Environmental Sculpture: Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape” to Sequitur, which is just published in Sequitur vol.6, issue 2: UnNatural (Spring 2020). Sequitur is a scholarly art and architectural history journal housed within the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture.
Binghamton Art History welcomes new visiting faculty member Shannon Steiner
Binghamton Art History is delighted to welcome Shannon Steiner, joining us as Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Art. Dr. Steiner’s research focuses on Byzantine cloisonné enamel and precious metalwork, with a focus on the intersection of Byzantine study of the natural sciences with practices of artistic production. Further areas of interest include the role that highly-skilled craftsmanship played in Byzantine articulations of imperial power, and the position of art-making in Byzantine hierarchies of knowledge. She has held fellowships from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. Shannon is also a practicing goldsmith and incorporates aspects of historic technique reconstruction into her research and publications. She collaborates with master goldsmiths in Connecticut and Washington DC, and has begun studying blacksmithing at the Center for Metal Arts in Johnstown, PA.
Nancy Um in caa.reviews
Nancy Um’s essay, “What Do We Know about the Future of Art History? Let’s Start by Looking at Its Past, Sixty Years of Dissertations,” was just published as a special feature in caa.reviews. It looks at the College Art Association (CAA) dissertation roster over its sixty-year history as it migrated across CAA’s print and digital platforms. It also takes a focused look at the past seventeen years of art history PhDs in the US and Canada. Read more here: http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3797#.Xz56zi2ZPys
Image caption: “Dissertations in Progress,” Art Journal 22, no. 3 (Spring 1963): 168.
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