Undergraduate Honors and Awards

In order to qualify for departmental honors, students must have a GPA of at least 3.7 in classes for the major and have submitted a senior theses of distinction. The faculty of the Department of Art History and Archaeology submits recommendations to the College Committee on Honors for confirmation. Normally no more than ten percent of the graduating majors in the department receive departmental honors.

Senior Thesis Prize Recipient

James DeWille, CC 2010 for The Body in Jesús Soto: Movement, Participation, and Performance in Soto's Art, from Early Vibrations to the Penetrables
Adviser: Alexander Alberro

Senior Thesis Research Fellowship Recipients

Andrea Lujan, GS 2011, to research her proposed thesis on the Aztec Moon Goddess

Diana Greenwald, CC 2011, to study the American painter Thomas Moran and his portrayals of Yellowstone National Park

Past Senior Thesis Prize Recipients

Peter Gallotta, CC 2009, for The Architecture of Protest: University Campus Planning and Spaces of Resistance

Amanda Anderson, GS 2007, for A Villanovan Hut Urn, Miniaturization and Change
Advisor: Joanna Smith

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, CC 2006, for Mortification: Duchamp's Etant donnés and the Fortunate Fall 
Advisor: Susan Laxton 

Andrea Herbst, CC 2003, for Perception and Reception Between Athens and Etruria: The Imagery on Tyrrhenian Amphorae 
Advisor: Clemente Marconi

Past Senior Thesis Research Fellowship Recipients

James DeWille to travel to France to study Jesus-Rafael Soto

Carmen Ferreyra to travel to Argentina to study "The Art of Postproduction in Buenos Aires"