BlackArtLove

Ooh great! Have you considered Harvard? They have Sarah Lewis there dong really great work. I'm considering Yale, Duke, UCLA, UT Austin and Northwestern. Also perhaps Courtauld's MA program in curation. Do you plan on a career in academia or museums, just curious!

Anyone applying for Art History grad programs with a focus on African American, African Diaspora art/visual culture?

Thanks for replying everyone. As a first generation college student, I don't have many people to reach out to in terms of academic advice and getting into a PhD program often seems like a distant dream lol. I'm currently interested in applying to these schools with these POI Columbia (Kellie Jones), Northwestern (Krista Thompson), UCLA (Steven Nelson), UT (Cherise Smith), NYU (Deborah Willis), Cornell (Cheryl Finely), Yale (Kobena Mercer), Derek Conrad Murray (UC Santa Cruz) A few questions... when is a good time to reach out to faculty of interest (plan on applying in Fall 2017)? What are the benefits of a Visual Studies PhD as opposed to Art History? Are there any good MA programs in Diaspora Art (and by good I mean funded/partially funded...)? Is there any helpful specific ways you studied for the GRE? I'm an artist, is that something that I should even mention in application or to POI's? How important is the recommender? Many of my Africana studies professors I have personal relationships with, but there are also extremely notable Art History professors at my University that know me decently well... Does being an undergraduate lower my chances of acceptance? I'm an Art History major, Africana Studies minor (at top public university), Maintained good grades (3.7 CGPA, 4.0 GPA), conducted interdisciplinary research (art history/africana studies) this past summer with a SURF. Presented at two conferences at my institution and work in an art gallery on campus. However, I have never been published, did not complete an honors senior thesis, not extremely proficient in another language, and have not attended any conferences outside of the two I presented at,. Most worried about not being published because I feel like many applicants with MA prob are Like I said.. graduate school seems like a distant dream, any advice is much appreciated!!!! Also feel free to msg me personally.

Hey everyone, I recently discovered this website and have found it extremely helpful in answering my grad school inquires but I would like to connect with other students interested in my field of study (because I have yet to find any). I am a currently Art History BA (at top public university) applying to PhD programs in the fall 2017 (to begin in Fall 2018). I am interested in African Diaspora Art History broadly. If you are in a similar field of study or currently in a Art History PhD program, pleaseee comment! I would love to speak with you about the field and talk through some of my worries. Best of luck.