Department of Art History

The Department of Art History at the St. George campus offers Graduate and Undergraduate degrees in Art History. Founded in 1935, it was the first model for such department at a Canadian university and over seven decades has achieved an international reputation for scholarly and creative excellence.

The research of our art and architectural historians engages a wide range of periods, from ancient to contemporary, and regions, including East Asia, South Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. We incorporate many theoretical and methodological approaches: philosophical, anthropological, economic, narratological, psychoanalytic, queer, gender, popular cultural, political, postcolonial, and historiographical. These help to generate diverse understandings of the rich range and deep history of human artistic production and reception.