Tyler’s Art History PhD students work closely with highly accomplished faculty who have diverse and global areas of expertise, including:

• new and emergent digital technologies,

• modern and contemporary art, especially in North and Latin America,

• Renaissance and Baroque Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands,

• the ancient Mediterranean,

• the Islamic world, and

• the history of prints, photography and media theory.

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As a PhD student or candidate in art history, you can apply for research funding, including short-term grants offered by Tyler or longer-term scholarships offered by Tyler or Temple University. 

Examples of internal funding opportunities include the following:  

• Dean’s Grant for Presentation at a Conference  

• Dean’s Grant for Research  

• Marcia B. Hall Summer Research Grant  

• Temple University Rome Scholarship  

• CHAT Fellowship  

• Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio Digital Scholarship Program

• Dissertation Completion Grant  

• Temple University Writing Center Tutoring Stipend  

• Temple University Student Success Center, Academic Coach  

Some of our recent students also received internships and fellowships like these: 

• Andrew W. Mellon Library Company of Philadelphia  

• ARIT Summer Fellowship  

• Association of Historians of American Art  

• Barra American Art Fellowship, Philadelphia Museum of Art  

• CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar  

• Center for Netherlandish Art, Boston  

• Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Citta Portuali  

• Clayton Lewis Fellowship in American Culture  

• Cooper Fellowship, Yale’s Walpole Library  

• Dunnigan Cartography Fellowship, Clements Library (University of Michigan)  

• Getty Museum Fellowship  

• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Grant  

• Goizueta Fellowship (University of Miami)  

• Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowship  

• Italian Studies Library Research Award, Notre Dame  

• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship  

• Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library  

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship 

• Princeton Art Museum Summer Graduate Fellowship  

• SAAM Audry Flack Short-Term Fellow  

• SAAM Pre-doctoral Fellowship  

• SAH de Montequin Junior Fellowship  

• SAH Tatum Annual International Conference Fellowship  

• Save Venice Anniversary Fellowship  

• Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow, PAFA  

• Title VIII, US State Department  

• Tyson Scholar, Crystal Bridges Programs  

Our art history doctoral degree alumni work in a wide variety of higher education placements, museums, galleries, and other arts-related organizations. Some of our recent graduates landed these placements: 

• Assistant Curator, Allen Memorial Art Museum  

• Assistant Professor of Instruction, Tyler  

• Associate Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum  

• Associate Curator of Art and Visual Cultural, Winterthur Museum  

• Collections Curator and Outreach Coordinator, DeVos Art Museum  

• Curator of Latinx Art, National Gallery  

• Manager of Interpretation and Docent Education, Albright-Knox Art Gallery  

• Manager of Interpretation and Docent Education, Baltimore Museum of Art    

• Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow  

• Research Associate of European Art, Toledo OH Museum of Art