Graduate Courses at The Edith O’Donnell Institute at UT Dallas

• Drs. Erika Doss and Sarah Kozlowski
• Topics in Art History – Artist, Archive, Biography: Ways of Narrating Art History
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to artistic production of a particular time, place, or movement, or a theme treated across chronology and geography.
• Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• Special Topics in Classical Antiquity – The Oplontis Project: Context, Methods, and Digital Heritage
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of the classical world, including Ancient Greece, Etruria, and Ancient Rome.
• Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai
• Special Topics in Asian Art – The Arts of India
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of the arts of Asian cultures.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Charissa Terranova
• Foundations I Theories and Methods of Art History
• Introduction to research methods in art history.
• Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• Topics in the History of Collecting – Legacy of Vesuvius
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the history of collecting.
• Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Mark Rosen
• Special Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture – Venice and the Mediterranean
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture.
• Tuesday, 10:00am – 12:45pm

• Dr. Erika Doss
• Art and Society – American Ruins
• Study of the many forms of interaction between the arts and the society in which they exist. Topics may include the role of the artist in society, the representation of social and religious values in art, or the influence of art and the artist upon society.
• Wednesday, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

• Dr. Sarah Kozlowski
• Foundations II Histories of Artistic Materials and Techniques – Materials, Making, and Meaning in the Medieval and Renaissance World
• Exploration of different ways of studying artworks in their historical, critical, and institutional contexts.
• Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Erika Doss
• Topics in Art History – American Art: Monuments & Mortality 
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to artistic production of a particular time, place, or movement, or a theme treated across chronology and geography.
• Wednesday, 4:00pm – 6:45pm

• Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai
• Topics in Global Art Histories – Art of Islamic Spain
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the global histories of art.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Erika Doss
• Foundations I Practices of Art History – Theories of Art History
• Introduction to research methods in art history.
• Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• Topics in Architecture and Landscape Architecture – Ancient Rome: Historical Topography and Urban Development
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of architecture and the built and natural environment.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Charissa Terranova
• Critical Theory and the Visual Arts – Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics
• A mapping of the relations between the visual arts and critical theories from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
• Wednesday, 4:00pm – 6:45pm

• Dr. Mark Rosen
• Foundations I Practices of Art History
• Introduction to research methods in art history.
• Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:45pm

• Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai
• Topics in Global Art Histories – The World of the Fatimids
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the global histories of art.
• Wednesday, 4:00pm – 6:45pm

• Dr. Sarah Kozlowski
• Foundations II History of Materials and Techniques
• Exploration of different ways of studying artworks in their historical, critical, and institutional contexts.
• Friday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Benjamin Lima
• Topics in Art History – Beauty of Modern Art
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to artistic production of a particular time, place, or movement, or a theme treated across chronology and geography.
• Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• Topics in Architecture and Landscape Architecture – Oplontis: Cultural
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of architecture and the built and natural environment.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Benjamin Lima
• Foundations I Practices of Art History
• Introduction to research methods in art history.
• Friday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Mark Rosen
• Topics in Art History – The Social History of Art
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to artistic production of a particular time, place, or movement, or a theme treated across chronology and geography.
• Wednesday, 10:00am – 12:45pm

• Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai
• Topics in Global Art Histories – Islamic & Mediterranean Worlds
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the global histories of art.
• Tuesday, 10:00am – 12:45pm

• Dr. Sarah Kozlowski
• Foundations II History of Materials and Techniques
• Exploration of different ways of studying artworks in their historical, critical, and institutional contexts.
• Friday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• Topics in Architecture and Landscape Architecture – Roman Houses, Bay of Naples
• Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of architecture and the built and natural environment.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Master’s seminar on a topic related to intersections of the histories of art and science.

• Dr. Michael Thomas
• The Topography of Ancient Rome
• Exploration of different ways of studying artworks in their historical, critical, and institutional contexts.
• Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

• Dr. Sarah Kozlowski
• Foundations II: History of Materials and Techniques
• Exploration of different ways of studying artworks in their historical, critical, and institutional contexts.
• Friday, 2:00pm – 4:45pm

• Dr. Paul Galvez
• Foundations I: Practices of Art History
• Introduction to research methods in art history.
• Friday, 1:00pm – 3:45pm

Dr. Michael Thomas

Domestic Space on the Roman Bay of Naples

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of architecture and the built and natural environment.

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Dr. Whitney Stewart

Early American Material Culture

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the forms, theories, and histories of the decorative arts. (Repeatable up to 9 hours as topics change)

Thursday, 7:00 pm – 9:45 pm

Dr. Maximilian Schich

Rome as an urban socio-cultural system from antiquity to today

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the integration of qualitative inquiry and observation with methods of computation, natural science, and information design. (Repeatable up to 9 hours as topics change)

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova

This seminar explores the ways in which works of art, curatorial practices, and critical theory negotiate and lay bare the ambiguities and multiplicities of gender and identity. The class covers historical ‘isms,’ including romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, degendering, uncommitted gender, transsexuality, and progressive masculinity in contemporary art, the molecular self in contemporary bioart, and related critical theories of gender and identity.

Dr. Elizabeth Molacek

This course explores the unique issues surrounding the collecting and display of ancient art, in both public and private collections in the United States. Through a series of case studies, students will learn to read primary source evidence including excavation records, archival sources, and reconcile this information with close examination of archaeological objects.

Dr. Mark Rosen

Master’s seminar on a topic related to artistic production of a particular time, place, or movement, or a theme treated across chronology and geography.

Dr. Ali Asgar Alibhai

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the global histories of art.

Dr. Maximilian Schich

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the integration of qualitative inquiry and observation with methods of computation, natural science, and information design.

Dr. Paul Galvez

Introduction to historiography and research methods in art history.

Dr. Sarah Kozlowski, at the Dallas Museum of Art

Introductions to the materials and techniques of artistic production across cultures, with emphasis on close study of artworks held in area collections.

Rebecca Quinn-Teresi, at the Dallas Museum of Art

Master’s seminar on a topic related to the history of collection.

This seminar examines patronage and collecting at the early modern European court (c. 1400-1700), where often in the same space wonders of art were displayed alongside wonders of nature and science. The course explores the period’s distinct priorities that shaped these fascinating collections, formed through commission, direct acquisition, and gift-giving, as well as investigates the sociocultural dimensions of conspicuous courtly consumption.

Course meets at the O’Donnell Institute’s Research Center at the Dallas Museum of Art and will include visits to area collections. Students must provide their own transportation.

Dr. Charissa Terranova

Master’s seminar on a topic related to intersections of the histories of art and science.

This seminar explores the Bauhaus as a school of thought, surveying pluralities in aesthetics, philosophy, and practice appearing in its original incarnation during the Weimar Republic and through the diaspora of its teachers and students after its closure in Germany, 1933. This class is held in conjunction with a Terra Foundation-funded symposium in October 2018 at the Nasher Sculpture Center and Temple Emanuel that studies the Bauhaus school and its multiple afterlives across fields.