104 Frick Fine Arts Building

412-648-2400

http://www.haa.pitt.edu/

lih@pitt.edu

Application to the graduate program is directly to the PhD program. Therefore, we encourage all prospective students to contact a faculty member in their area of interest before applying. Even though many students get their MA here before proceeding to the PhD, ours is essentially a PhD program, and applicants should contact the faculty member closest to their interests. Our program possesses an innovative and exciting structure, in which faculty members are grouped into research constellations. These constellations organize our faculty, not around subject matter, but rather around commonly held interpretative approaches and lines of inquiry(“Visual Knowledge,” “Agency,” “Identity,” etc.). While our program insists that enrolled students acquire thoroughgoing knowledge of a particular subject-matter—prospective students should select their potential advisor based on that professor’s expertise in a given subject—it also aims to encourage students to produce conceptual, idea-driven research for their Ph.D. We strongly encourage students to explore our website (www.haa.pitt.edu) for more information on faculty members, graduate program requirements, and the application process. Our graduates have an excellent placement record in college and university teaching positions.