Art History and Visual Culture

The study of art history and material culture at CEU’s Department of Historical Studies is object-driven, interdisciplinary, and transnational. Faculty and students pursue research in all media with an emphasis on mediveal and renaissance Europe and Asia, as well as global contemporary art. Teaching takes place in conversation with world-class collections in Vienna and across central Europe. The Department is also involved in the CEU Visual Studies Platform that researches and teaches visual imagery in the digital century, encompasses research on visual theory, method and history across different media forms, including visual arts, film, photography, and performance.

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Béla Zsolt Szakács

Medieval Art and Architecture
Central European Art History
High Medieval Culture

Gerhard Jaritz (Emeritus)

History of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages
History of Medieval Mentalities
History of Visual Culture and Image Analysis

Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll

Colonial History and Visual Art
Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Global Histories of Art and Science
Sensory Ethnography and the Collecting of Material Culture

Marsha Siefert (Emirata)

Cinema, Diplomacy, and Cold War Culture
Media History, Music History, and Technology
Labor, Information, Communication, and Infrastructure

Robyn Dora Radway

Habsburg Studies
Early Modern Europe and the Ottomans
History of Art and Material Culture

Karsten Johannes Schuil

Cultural and Intellectual History
Emotional and Sensory History
Medievalisms
Pilgrimage Studies

Marie-Eve Lafontaine

Visual Theory and Practice
Iconographic Studies
History of Emotions
Visual Anthropology

Adéwolé Faladé

Artefact Repatriation and Contemporary Art
Repatriation and Patrimonialization in the Rep. of Benin
Rethinking European Ethnographic Museums and New African Museum Policies
Art, Politics and the Scripting of a New Identity

Bernat Racz

Church Treasures
Latin Europe
High Middle Ages

MA Students

As well as PhDs, our MA students study and publish in their chosen research fields. Click on the image above for a list of MA students working in the field of Art History and Visual Culture.