Art History

James Razumoff, CGII GGR Fall 2024 Research

This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa.

Historians of science and technology describe a “critical movement” in the latter half of the nineteenth century towards a rapid reformation of nature that pushed the limits of representation.

As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New York University.

This project will explore dynamics of intercultural interaction on the island of Cyprus during the first millennium BCE.

On average, over 16,000 people ascend the rocky outcrop of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece each day. The main attractions are the remains of the monumental religious buildings, namely the Parthenon, a 5th century BCE temple to Athena.

The period (1960–1977) witnessed the influx of African American Artists to Africa in search of the “authentic” African identity and to locate their iconography within the lived experience of the continent.

Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC.

China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid world.

By connecting known Chinese st≈´pasdated before the seventh century CE to historical records and Buddhist scriptures translated in Chinese, my dissertation examines the dissemination and reception of the Indianst≈´pasin early medieval China.