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Kylie R.J. Seltzter - Winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for Writing

We are pleased to announce Kylie R.J. Seltzer is the winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for writing for her dissertation Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870–1892.

Position Available: Assistant Professor in the History of Architecture, Global South

The Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) at the University of Pittsburgh seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of architecture, urbanism, and landscape with research and teaching expertise in the geographies and critical perspectievs of the Global South.

HAA Alumna Receives Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellowship

Congratulations to Jen Lue for receiving the 2018-2019 AAWW Margins Fellowship!

2018 Friends of Frick Fine Arts Undergraduate Writing Awards

The History of Art and Architecture Department is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Friends of Frick Fine Arts Writing Awards.

Call for proposals: Making Advances workshop

A collection-based workshop for Pitt faculty and graduate students, presented as part of Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh. Applications due by February 23, 2018.

New Bachelor of Science in Architecture Degree Offered by the Architectural Studies Program

At the beginning of the 2017-18 academic year, the University of Pittsburgh approved a new Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree.

HAA Students at "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Los Angeles/Latin America)"

HAA students traveled to Los Angeles to participate in programming related to the Getty-led initiative "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Los Angeles/Latin America)" with Professor Jennifer Josten.

Field Trip to the Cleveland Musuem of Art

On November 11, 2017, faculty members from HAA, Classics, and Religious Studies organized a bus trip for 47 students to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Rediscovering a Local Champion of Hand-Crafted Art

Undergraduate students Cyd Johnson and Kendall Dunn made a trip to Verona to visit the early locations of The Store as part of their research on Betty Raphael.