MA in Art History

The Department of Art History and Archaeology offers a free-standing MA in Art History in the following fields of study:

  • African Art and Architecture
  • Ancient Art and Architecture
    • Near Eastern
    • Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
    • Greek
    • Roman
  • East Asian Art and Archaeology
  • History and Theory of Architecture
    • Ancient
    • Early Christian, Byzantine, Western Medieval
    • Renaissance and Baroque
  • History of Western Art
    • Early Christian, Byzantine, Western Medieval Art
    • Renaissance and Baroque Art
    • American Art (pre-1914)
    • 19th-Century European Art
  • History of Photography (pre-1900)
  • Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
  • South Asian Art and Archaeology

Students are accepted into the program and mentored by a faculty member in the proposed field of study. Recipients of the free-standing MA in Art History will be considered for admission to the PhD program only upon re-application. Students who are interested in earning a PhD are advised to apply to the PhD program in the first year of their MA program.

The Department also offers a free-standing MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA).