Undergraduate News

Kassandra is currently an Adrienne Arsht Intern at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art.  She is working on provenance research for a collection of over 300 medals the museum received, dating from 1450-1900. Additionally, she is also beginning research on a Mantuan roundel acquired by The Met in 2022.

Manar Elhag, a pre-dental STEM student and an Art History major, (Class of 2022) has been hired as a paid intern in the Global Community Impact department of Johnson & Johnson. She works for the Corporate Art Program, where she selects art for individual offices and curates collections for whole departments. She installs and handles the art herself, and she performs art audits on the J&J World Headquarters campus buildings in New Brunswick.

Tiarra Brown, who majored in Art History and History (Rutgers, 2017) completed a Master's degree in Art History at New York University in 2022.  She is currently working as a curatorial  Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will be conducting research for a major exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance.  

The Art History department congratulates Maya Ravichandran on receiving the prestigious Marshall Fellowship to study at Oxford. Maya was a student in an interdisciplinary seminar taught by Professor Sarah McHam. She says, "The Michelangelo seminar is among my top three favorite courses I have taken while at Rutgers, so thank you for the wonderful experience! I definitely think students can get a lot out of courses like these."

Maya, who will be attending medical school after Oxford, makes an...

Emily Evrard, Art History BA 2018, has begun a job as Old Masters Department Coordinator at Christie’s Auction and Private Sales in New York. She assists the Chairman and Head of Department for the Old Masters Department. She participates in preparations for seasonal auctions in October and April and also coordinates all stages of the private sales process for the department. She works with incredible works of art on a daily basis and she interacts with an international team including art...

Diego Atehortua is currently a junior majoring in Art History.  Diego is the first Rutgers student to win a Beinecke Scholarship, and one of only 20 students in the United States to receive one this year.

The Beinecke scholarship is a program of the Sperry Fund and provides substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise. Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate...