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2026 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program at RIT–applications due February 27, 2026

Be part of the 2026 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program and gain a “behind the scenes” glimpse into life as a faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This vigorous, four-day program offers additional opportunities to enhance interview skills, practice job-talk presentations, and explore the research, teaching, and service expectations of RIT Faculty members.

Individuals who meet the following are encouraged to submit an application:

  • Able to contribute in meaningful ways to the RIT’s commitment to innovation and creativity. We are interested in scholars and artists who are multifaceted and exceptional in their research or artistry. The Program is open to all eligible participants regardless of race, religion, age, gender, or other protected federal or state categories.
  • Studying or researching in the discipline areas offered at RIT
  • Advanced PhD (ABD status) or MFA candidates (anticipated graduation by May/June 2027), postdoctoral scholars or early-career faculty or researchers.
  • Desire a rewarding academic teaching and research career at an exceptional institution.
  • Able to travel to Rochester, New York, for the duration of the program.

Application Materials:

  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Cover letter: express your interest in FFCEP, and desire for a career in the professoriate. MFA applicants should include a link to their online portfolio. 
  • Artistic or Research Statement: summary of current research or artistic endeavors and/or proposal for upcoming work.
  • Teaching Statement: summary of the guiding principle(s) that inform your pedagogical approach & style.

Sample Itinerary

Day 1 – Travel day, meet and greet with participants, job talk pointers

Day 2 – RIT community welcome breakfast, host department activities, panel discussions on faulty support, diversity and student body

Day 3 – Host department activities, panel discussions on faculty life, dinner with RIT administration and community members

Day 4 – Conclude program with a tour of the greater Rochester area, lunch with cohort, and departure for travel home

For more information on RIT’s current COVID-19 guidelines please visit https://www.rit.edu/ready/

The final application deadline is February, 27, 2026.

Start your application here: https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6eU0rCIsk7c1cbz

CFP: Nineteenth Century Studies Association Awards and Prizes

NCSA Announcement: Submissions Open for Emerging Scholars Award, Article Prize, and BIPOC Scholars Prize
Award Submission Deadline July 1, 2025

Submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award are due July 1, 2025. Winners will each receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Short descriptions are below, but please refer to the links to the NCSA website for complete information and lists of recent award recipients. https://ncsaweb.net/grants-funding-awards-prizes/

The Emerging Scholars Award: https://ncsaweb.net/ncsa-emerging-scholars-award/
The work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in nineteenth century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications of this constituency of emerging scholars, this award is given for an outstanding article or essay published while the author is within their doctoral studies or within six years following conferral of their doctorate. Articles that appeared in print in a journal or edited collection in 2024 or between January 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025 are eligible for the Emerging Scholars Award, which will be presented at the 2026 NCSA Conference. If the official date of publication does not fall within that span but the work in fact appeared between those dates, then it is eligible. NCSA encourages winners to attend the annual conference and will waive the conference registration fee. Entries can be from any discipline and may focus on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (the French Revolution to World War I), must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and must be by a single author. Submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged. Articles may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays.

More information and link to submit articles are HERE:ncsaweb.net/ncsa-emerging-scholars-award/
Emerging Scholars Award Contact: Dr.Alexandre Bonafos, Chair of the Emerging Scholars Committee atEmergingScholarsNCSA@gmail.com

The Article Prize
The Article Prize recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (French Revolution to World War I). Entries must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged. Articles that appeared in print in a journal or edited collection in 2024 or between January 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025 are eligible for the 2026 Article Prize, which will be awarded at the 2026 NCSA conference. If the date of publication does not fall within that span but the work in fact appeared between those dates, then it is eligible. NCSA encourages winners to attend the annual conference and will waive the conference registration fee. Articles may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays.

More information and link to submit articles are here:https://ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article-prize/
Article Prize Contact: Dr. David Ogawa, Chair of the Article Prize Committee at ogawad@union.edu  OR ArticlePrizeNCSA@gmail.com
 

The BIPOC Scholars Prize
The BIPOC Scholars Prize recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (French Revolution to World War I) completed by a scholar who identifies as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or a person of color). Entries can be from any discipline, must be published in English or accompanied by an English translation, and submission of essays that are interdisciplinary is especially encouraged. Articles that appeared in print in a journal or edited collection in 2024 or between January 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025 are eligible for the 2026 BIPOC Scholars Prize, which will be presented at the 2026 NCSA Conference.  If the listed date of publication does not fall within that span,but the work appeared between those dates, then it is eligible. NCSA encourages winners to attend the annual conference and will waive the conference registration fee. Articles may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays.

More information and link to submit articles are here:https://ncsaweb.net/bipoc-scholars-prize/
BIPOC Scholars Prize Contact: Wendy Castenell and/or Emily August, Co-chairs of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, atwcastenell@wlu.edu andemily.august@stockton.edu

ACRAH will be at CAA2025!

The ACRAH/CAA2025 panel will be Critical Race Art History Roundtable: Doing the Work

The session will be in-person at the New York Hilton Midtown – 2nd Floor – Nassau West on February 14, 2025 at 2:30pm EST.

The ACRAH Business Meeting will also be held in the same room February 14, 2025 at 1:00pm EST.

Session Abstract:

What does it mean to do critical race art history? This session brings together scholars in a conversation about how a critical race art history approach can manifest in our work. Having proposed this line of inquiry twenty-five years ago, we want to reflect on the nature of the concept and how the field has evolved. What are the goals of critical race art history, and what are its methodologies and theoretical grounds? What are the conceptual parameters of this lens on art history–what does it mean to center an understanding that race structures how we see and shapes our reception of art? What tools and methods do we employ to make the operations of race visible? How do we move from American identity politics –that emphasizes a white/non-white binary and focuses on the identification of negative racial tropes and artistic rebuttals to the harm of such imagery–to a comprehensive unpacking of the systemic racialization in art? What do we gain when we foreground how race informs the construction of the visual cultures that we inhabit? How do the insights of critical race art history become integrated into art history at large?

Participants:

Kymberly Pinder, Yale University

Pinder is Professor of Art and History of Art and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. She is the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Reading in Race and Art History (Routledge, 2002).

Tatiana Flores, University of Virginia

Flores is the Edgar Shannon Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in Art History at the University of Virginia. She is an editor of The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (2023).

Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard University

Hutchison is the Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915 (Duke University Press, 2009).

Lily Cho, York University

Cho is Associate Professor of English at York University. She is the author of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021).

Call for Nominations: 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize

Call for Nominations: 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art. A cash award of $3,000 is made to the author of a recent book-length publication that provides new insight into works of art, the artists who made them, or aspects of history and theory that enrich our understanding of America’s artistic heritage. The Eldredge Prize seeks to recognize originality and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing, clarity of method, and significance for professional or public audiences. It is especially meant to honor those authors who deepen or focus debates in the field, or who broaden the discipline by reaching beyond traditional boundaries.
Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024) are eligible. To nominate a book, send a one-page letter explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Nominations by authors or publishers for their own books will not be considered. The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2025. Please send to: Eldredge@si.edu. Further information about the prize may be found at americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge.

JOB: Asst Prof, Art History @ Eastern Michigan University

The School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Art History, beginning August 2025. This position is part of a four-faculty cluster in Art History, Political Science, Sociology Anthropology and Criminology, and Arts Administration collaborating with the University’s new Civil Rights and Social Justice Center. We seek candidates from any specialization whose work aligns with the Center’s goals, with a preference for a focus on premodern art, globally defined. Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, the arts of Africa, the Islamic world (including the ancient Mediterranean and Near East), the Americas, or other regions that complement our existing faculty strengths. A museum studies background is also welcome.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a three courses per semester base teaching load, primarily art history courses including surveys and upper-level classes in their area of expertise, while actively engaging in—and helping to shape—the Civil Rights and Social Justice Center’s initiatives. A primary instructional responsibility will be to teach our ancient through medieval survey course, but the appointee is also encouraged to develop new courses and collaborate in a broader re-envisioning of the art history curriculum. They will have opportunities to participate in our College in Prison Program, intercollegiate collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), study abroad programs, and campus programming such as the EMU galleries, among others. The appointee will be expected to collaborate with faculty in the cluster from other disciplines and contribute to shaping a more equitable vision of the arts at EMU. We value candidates who can leverage these unique engagement opportunities to enrich their teaching and research while fostering community connections.

Minimum Qualifications:
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Art History or a related field (completed by August 2025), with a preference for expertise in premodern art history, globally defined. Candidates must show evidence of scholarly potential and commitment to teaching excellence. Enthusiasm for undergraduate teaching, pedagogical creativity, and flexibility are essential, as is a commitment to working with students from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.
The ideal candidate will have a strong commitment to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and an interest in interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement. Willingness to participate in diverse educational outreach programs is crucial. Experience in digital humanities, background in critical race studies, interest in cultural exchange and interaction, and familiarity with museum studies are desirable.
Eastern Michigan University is an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering diverse and inclusive academic communities.

Special Instructions:
Applications for this position are due by January 5, 2025. ATTN: Dr. Pamela Stewart (pstewa13@emich.edu) The following documents in PDF format must be attached when submitting the application:
letter of application
curriculum vitae
statements of teaching philosophy and research agenda
writing sample or offprints of published work (35 pages maximum)
contact information of three references (names, phone numbers, and emails).
Applicants must address their interest in social justice and civil rights and how they might collaborate with the cluster and Center. They may do so in their letter and teaching/research statements, or they may put forward a separate statement.

Application: https://careers.emich.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-art-history-ypsilanti-michigan-united-states

LECTURE SERIES: To Mind and to Mend/Collective for Anti-Racist Art History (CARAH), University of Zurich

ACRAH’s co-directors Jacqueline Francis and Camara Holloway will be presenting as a part of this series. See below.

https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/moderne/events/To-Mind-and-to-Mend–Antirassistische-Praktiken-in-der-Kunstgeschichte.html

REGISTER: https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/institut/registration.html

Focusing on Europe, where anti-racist initiatives and practices are still little established within universities and cultural institutions, this lecture series discusses how art history can assume a more self-critical stance to actively counter racism in all its forms. In what ways can anti-racist and decolonial efforts be fostered through art historical research and teaching, as well as the contextualisation of artworks or collections? What are necessary interventions or existing best practices within the discipline of art history in order to critically engage with racist representations or historical attributions? To what extent can the use of appropriate language prevent the entrenchment of stereotypes and prejudices? And how can debates on inclusion and diversity be sustainably incorporated within academia, museums and art academies? These and other questions will be addressed in the course of the lecture series by art historians, curators, art critics and art educators.

Programme: 

03.10.: Is Art History Racist?

Anne Lafont (Professor in art history and créolités, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

[English]

10.10.: Working Towards a Critical Race Art History

Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) – Jacqueline Francis (Dean, Humanities & Sciences Division, California College of the Arts, San Francisco) & Camara Dia Holloway (Project Manager, Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné, Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York)

[English]

*Online

31.10.: «Gastarbeiter» aus der Türkei und die Immobilität der weissen Kunstgeschichte Westdeutschlands

Gürsoy Doğtaş (Kunsthistoriker und Kurator, Forschungsstipendiat 2024/25 für Curatorial Studies, Städelschule und Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a.M.)

[Deutsch]

07.11.: Cause and Effect: On the Audience of Andrea Fraser at Luma Westbau

Brit Barton (artist and art writer, Zürich/Chicago)

[English]

21.11.: Antirassistische Strategien in Museen und kulturellen Institutionen

Gespräch mit Tasnim Baghdadi (Co-Leiterin Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich), Eric Otieno Sumba (Autor und Forscher, Redakteur am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Marilyn Umurungi (Kunst- und Kulturforscherin, Co-Kuratorin Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich)

[Deutsch]

*Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich

05.12.: Documenting Colonial Toxicity

Samia Henni (Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies, McGill University, Montreal)

[English]

*Online

12.12.: Invisible Man. Race und Fototheorie

Christopher Nixon (Philosoph und Komparatist, Hamburg)

[Deutsch]

***

Konzept und Organisation / Concept and organization

CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History

Daniel Berndt, Nadine Helm, Nadine Jirka, Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo

Weitere informationen / Further information

www.khist.uzh.ch/de/research/projects/carah.html

Die Vortragsreihe ist kostenlos und öffentlich zugänglich. Die einzelnen Vorträge werden auf Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten (siehe Programm). Einige Sitzungen finden virtuell statt. Alle Vorträge werden online mit Untertitelung übertragen. Für Fragen und Bedürfnisse zur Barrierefreiheit, sowie für die Anmeldung zur Online-Teilnahme schreiben Sie bitte an CARAH: antirassismus@khist.uzh.ch

The lecture series is free and open to the public. Individual sessions will be held in German or English (see program). Some sessions will take place online. All lectures will be streamed online with subtitles. For questions and accessibility needs, and to register for online participation, please write to CARAH: antirassismus@khist.uzh.ch

Mit der Unterstützung von / With the support of:

  • Kunsthistorisches Institut UZH
  • Lehrstuhl für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst und Lehrstuhl Geschichte der bildenden Kunst
  • Graduate Campus UZH
  • Graduiertenschule der Philosophischen Fakultät UZH
  • Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Stiftung

JOB: Asst Prof, Black art and design @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin in August of 2025. This full-time appointment
is for a historian of Black art and design. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the department’s continued diversification of intellectual conversations about art and design history. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with level of practice, scholarship, and current academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing.

Program Profile
The Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, one of 21 departments at the school, is composed of fourteen full-time art historians specializing in modern and contemporary art and design. Together with 50 part-
time faculty, the department currently offers 225 courses, and mentors 30 dedicated MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History students, undergraduate students pursuing a dedicated BA in Art History, and dual-
degree graduate students earning an MA in Arts Administration and Policy in conjunction with their MA in Art History.

Further information about the department can be found at: https://www.saic.edu/art-history-theory-criticism

Responsibilities
Full-time faculty in Art History, Theory, and Criticism teach and advise undergraduate and graduate students within the interdisciplinary art and design school environment of SAIC. The successful candidate will expand the full-time curricular coverage of the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism’s MA and BA programs in Art History, providing undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, and master’s thesis supervision. The candidate will also be an active participant in the education of studio artists, designers, architects, and arts professionals at the MFA, MA and BFA levels and will contribute to the vibrant and creative culture of a research-oriented department in a prestigious school of art and design. The successful candidate must be interested in contributing to the department’s self-governance and administration, and participate in the SAIC community through ongoing
curricular development, departmental administration, school governance, and service.

Qualifications
Ph.D. or ABD is required. For ABD candidates, a clear path to Ph.D completion prior to joining the School must be evident. Some teaching experience preferred for junior candidates. Senior candidates must show evidence of substantial teaching experience. Evidence of ongoing research and continued publication trajectory expected. Preference will be given to candidates who relate modern and/or contemporary art and design to histories of Black culture. The ideal candidate will contribute to the diversity of the School by bringing a perspective, way of thinking, and/or a unique set of experiences that expand the field. We seek candidates with the knowledge and aptitude to teach and mentor students from diverse backgrounds. Candidates should demonstrate their experience with, or aptitude for, departmental administration as service will be expected.