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@arthistoryelon.bsky.social
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As an art history student at Elon you will embark on an exciting course of study that focuses on images and objects from the world’s history.

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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join Art History and our colleagues in Elon College, the College of Arts & Sciences in a celebration of the humanities!🎉🎉🎉#HumanityNeedsTheHumanities❤️ @elonrels.bsky.social @elonuniversity.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are hiring! The position is open in terms of geographic scope, time period, and thematic expertise; however, we are particularly interested in applicants whose work is focused on the visual and material culture of the Global South or Native American and Indigenous Studies. 🎉🎉🎉
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote this brief guide to the six women on the Bazzy Tap - three of whom have their bits out
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Ælfgif-who’s who? Bayeux Tapestry edition
Six women appear on the Bayeaux Tapestry - who are they?
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The school year is starting soon (wooo! ahhhh!) so it's a good time to share our (slight revised!) CFP for BAA2 | Before, Amid, and the Artificial: (Trans)Historicizing the Visual! Submit a CFP here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/aE2L5aX6gF #BAA2 @elonuniversity.bsky.social
Logo with letter B, A A and the number 2 and the title of the conference: Before and Amid the Artificial:(Trans)historicizing the Visual. A symposium celebrating 20 Years of Art History at Elon University. Spring 2027.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Looking forward to celebrating Art History @ Elon’s 20th anniversary with YOU!! We are thrilled @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social is joining us for the keynote and we already have some awesome alums and colleagues who’ve submitted. Why would you miss out!!! 🎉🎉🎉 #BAA2
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hey, y'all. The Sept 15th deadline is finally almost upon us! Submit an abstract! Guess who our keynote is? @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social ! We're stoked (and lucky!). (feel free to DM me or email Evan with concerns/roadblocks/questions rather than assuming you can't or shouldn't do it, please!)
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please share with colleagues and grad students!! @arthist-net.bsky.social #ArtHistoryCFP #BAA2 @kringelberg.bsky.social @eagatti.bsky.social @elonuniversity.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The school year is starting soon (wooo! ahhhh!) so it's a good time to share our (slight revised!) CFP for BAA2 | Before, Amid, and the Artificial: (Trans)Historicizing the Visual! Submit a CFP here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/aE2L5aX6gF #BAA2 @elonuniversity.bsky.social
Logo with letter B, A A and the number 2 and the title of the conference: Before and Amid the Artificial:(Trans)historicizing the Visual. A symposium celebrating 20 Years of Art History at Elon University. Spring 2027.
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Dr. Evan A. Gatti @eagatti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey ARH folks! @arthistoryelon.bsky.social is hosting a 20th-anniversary symposium @elonuniversity.bsky.social March 4-6, 2027! Consider submitting a proposal using the link below! If you have questions, feel free to ask me here (or reach out via email; I am the only egatti @ elon. 😉
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey ElonARH Students, alums, and "framily", we're have a part and we want you to come! Click through the slides to #LearnMore and keep your eyes on here for the #ArtHistoryCFP #BAA2 @kringelberg.bsky.social @eagatti.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Submit an abstract for #BAA2 now! 2 sessions will be reserved for #ElonAlumni & former colleagues. All other sessions will feature papers from scholars who submit abstracts on the theme. QR code in the slides below or use this link: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/aE2L5aX6gF
A Symposium Celebrating 
20 Years of Art History@Elon
March 4-6, 2027

Before, Amid, and Artificial
Transhistories of the Visual | 2Submit a proposal here! 
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey ElonARH Students, alums, and "framily", we're have a part and we want you to come! Click through the slides to #LearnMore and keep your eyes on here for the #ArtHistoryCFP #BAA2 @kringelberg.bsky.social @eagatti.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Check out this episode by our very own Professor Kirstin Ringelberg (@kringelberg.bsky.social) for Art History on Fire. 🔥 Those of you who spend some time in Powell House will recognize some other familiar names in that guest list!! 👏 #ArtHistoryonFire #ARHPodcast
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Expressions of Identity in Ancient Greek Coins, an exhibition one of our @arthistoryelon.bsky.social alumni helped with, has a cool website our cool alum built! Check it out! And go Phoebe go!
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happening now! Téa Jones presents her senior seminar paper (mentored by @kringelberg.bsky.social) “Your Body is a Battlefield” in the SUNY New Paltz UG Art History symposium! 👏👏👏 #LMTAH #LearnMore #TakeArtHistory @sunynewpaltz.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are excited to invite you to hear Erica Moiah James, Assoc Prof @univmiami.bsky.social present "Haptic Archives & the Critical Work of Tenderness in #GlobalCaribbeanArt" as part of the #ArtHistorySpeakerSeries @elonuniversity.bsky.social. Big thanks 🎉 to @kringelberg.bsky.social for organizing!
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
And hey y’all, three cheers for Dr. Ringelberg for their work mentoring these seniors and yeah, umm building art history 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉@elonuniversity.bsky.social! @kringelberg.bsky.social @elonuniversity.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
And last (but never, ever least) TRIPLE MAJOR 😮 (Art History, Classical Studies, and Religious Studies) SB Barnes presents "Escaping the Heteronormative: Utilizing the Gaze to Understand the Representation of Sexuality, Gender, and Bodies in Italian Baroque Artworks Depicting Religious Ecstasy."
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Next up, Olivia Peterson presents "Piety, Politics, & Reverence: Peter Paul Rubens’s Joan of Arc (1620) and Portrait of Marie de Medici (1573-1642) as a Triumphant Queen (1625)". Peterson argues for engaging "Rubenesque" as an iconography (rather than a style) of power and political potency.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
After a break, we're back with Ash Crouse (Art History and Classical Studies), presenting "Dirce, the Social Transgressor."
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Our next presenter, Kelsey Golden, examines "The Art of Katherina Parr's and the Employment of Portraiture in the Tudor Court." Golden argues that Parr guided her step-daughter, and the future Queen Elizabeth, in using portraiture as a political tool.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Next up, Téa Jones presents "Your Body is a Battleground: An Exploration of Visual Activism in Response to Reproductive Violence & Femicide."
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
First up, Senior Art History & History Major (and Elon College Fellow) Lizzie Ostling presents on space and resistance in the 1970 Japan World Expo. #ARHSeniorSem
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Dr. R opens the ARH Senior presentations w/ a welcome video from the OBSN & a quite from Pauli Murray that reflects Art History at Elon’s mission encouraging the recognition /critique systems of power!@elonuniversity.bsky.social #LMTAH #LearnMore #TakeArtHistory #ElonHSTGEO @kringelberg.bsky.social
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Come and join thisThursday to help pitch and plan some student events this semester! Lead by our PACE student, we hope to plan events that you all would like to attend and the best way to do that is to invite you into the behind-the-scenes of it all. Open to all students, whether in ARH or not!
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hey y'all, we're excited to reintroduce you to our Elon PACE Student Worker Madelyn Fourie! Madelyn is an second year English major who loves to read and travel! Come by and say hi next time you're in Powell House. @elonuniversity.bsky.social
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Y'all! Get your libraries to pre-order this gem, co-edited by my @arthistoryelon.bsky.social crime sibling @eagatti.bsky.social!
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Brepols - Episcopal Power and Patronage in Medieval Europe, 998–1503
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
My colleague @eagatti.bsky.social has been having a busy summer with her research in Italy and just presented at the Leeds IMC! Art + Science on multiple levels!
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It's summer and @elonuniversity.bsky.social Art History faculty are doing cool things! In June Professor Kirstin Ringelberg @kringelberg.bsky.social shared their research on gender, sexuality and art history at venues in New York, Chicago, and Dijon, France. Read more ➡️ www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
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Ringelberg presents at two conferences and an exhibition symposium
Art History Professor Kirstin Ringelberg shared their research on gender, sexuality and art history at venues in New York, Chicago, and Dijon, France.
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Come join the team! This adjuncting situation is open only because (sob) we're losing the great @blairapgar.bsky.social to a "real" job (lucky school to get them on a permanent basis).
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Dr. Evan A. Gatti @eagatti.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@arthistoryelon.bsky.social is seeking someone to teach ARH 2100: Art History of the Ancient World in 25-26 AY. If you are interested in working with my amazing colleagues (or have colleagues or students who might be), please reach out via email (www.elon.edu/u/directory/...). Review begins now!
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Faculty & Staff Profile
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Hey, here’s some news! (This has been true for a while, by the way.) The opportunities are even greater when you choose a “smaller” but serious program like ours. Mentoring matters, especially when you have access to those mentors! #LMTAH #LearnMore #TakeArtHistory #ArtHistorySky
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Look out world, these wonderful humans have graduated. We are SO proud of them and we can’t wait to see what they do next! 🎉❤️⭐️ #LMTAH #LearnMore #TakeArtHistory @elonuniversity.bsky.social
People standing on stairs in front of a house in graduation regalia People being silly on stairs in front of a house in graduation regalia View of people socializing on a porchView of people in a auditorium in graduation regalia
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More photos of Dr. Ringelberg @kringelberg.bsky.social from the symposium at the Wrightwood 659 for the opening of "The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939." Wrightwood 659 is a new exhibition space dedicated to exhibitions of architecture and of socially engaged art.
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Moving all my junk out of my office in Powell House is bittersweet. I LOVED being a part of this weird lil program--so lucky to spend so much time here with amazing students and colleagues.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We are so proud of Professor Kirstin Ringelberg @kringelberg.bsky.social who recently presented at “The First Homosexuals” symposium held at Wrightwood 659 Chicago. The symposium was the opening event for a groundbreaking exhibition that illustrates the emergence of “homosexual” as a new identity.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 12/05/2025
Museums are able to change lives because of the brilliant people working in and with them, and we're here to support you. This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, take a look at our Wellbeing Hub for resources addressing topics from burnout to eco-anxiety 🌱 What would you like to see added to the hub?
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Wellbeing Hub - Museums Association
We are committed to supporting workforce wellbeing for our museum colleagues. Explore our resources and recommendations.
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Artforum @artforum.com · 17/04/2025
In Artforum’s April 2025 issue, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social offers “a historical account of the language and the feelings used to frame [generative AI’s] imagined role in art-historical practice.”
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MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Today is the @aaup.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education. Find out what is happening on your campus, here is what is happening on ours.
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Honey wake up a super niche @arthistoryelon.bsky.social zine just dropped
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Mark your calendar for the opening of #CallToAction an MSP capstone project curated by Art History /Political Science senior Annie Elvin. There are two opportunities to celebrate her work. College Coffee on 3/25 and from 4:30-5:30 on 3/27 join Annie in the Lindner Reading Room for a gallery talk!
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We are super excited that @artstuffmatters.bsky.social will be joining Dr. Ringelberg's #MuseumsAreNotNeutral class this week via Zoom to talk about #ImagineOtherwise and other kick-ass curatorial work Autry has been up to! hyperallergic.com/639570/a-bla...
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A Black Curator Imagines Otherwise
I almost lost my opportunity to curate the show I'd come to moCa Cleveland to create. But these times are different and I'm unlike anyone to ever work there.
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Happy #FDOC. Let's do this thing. #PowellHouse @elonuniversity.bsky.social #ElonCollege
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#WinterStormBlair is also publishing new research: maes.unibo.it/article/view... This comes from a deleted PhD chapter that I'm very, very happy to have found a home for!
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Visualizing the Reform: Examining Modena Cathedral’s Porta dei Principi for Traces of the Gregorian Reform | I quaderni del m.æ.s. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Took my Imagined Spaces course to walk the Labyrinth on campus. Made them contemplate their fates in below freezing weather.
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Senior seminar presentations today @arthistoryelon.bsky.social -- first up is Paige Frielander and her paper 'The "True" Heads of Household in Domestic Spaces: The "Gender Acts" of Interior Agency, Duty, Sacrifice, and Pride"
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Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Grant writing! Art history skills like attention to detail, writing for super specific audiences, and working collaboratively are all really valuable here
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just one example of the amazing work @blairapgar.bsky.social has been doing with our students!! @elonuniversity.bsky.social #DigitalArtHistory
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Art History @ Elon @arthistoryelon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Woo! We are super excited to share the schedule for the #ARHSeniorSem presentations! @elonuniversity.bsky.social #ArtHistory
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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm in the process of putting together a follow-up zine. What sort of (unexpected) jobs/careers are possible for art history majors? (excluding the obvious ones: Curators, Gallerists, Archivists)
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