Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture Series

The Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of The Katherine Brown Fund. The series honors Katherine Tsanoff Brown, a founding member of Rice University's Department of Art History, later the Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, and an ardent supporter of public lectures and visiting scholars in the arts even after her retirement from Rice University in 1989. The inaugural lectures took place in academic year 2017-2018.

2022-2023: Alvia Wardlaw (Texas Southern University), Carol Armstrong (Yale University), Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University)

2021-2022: Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) and Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University)

2020-2021: Denise Murrell (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Francesco de Angelis (Columbia University), and Yong Cho (University of California, Riverside)

2019-2020: Roxann Prazniak (University of Oregon) and Achim Timmermann (University of Michigan)

2018-2019: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of California, Berkeley), Timothy Barringer (Yale University), and Cécile Fromont (Yale University)

2017-2018: Robert Nelson (Yale University) and Kellie Jones (Columbia University)

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