Department of Art History

CAA Lifetime Achievement Award

Best Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, for Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression 

Douban Top 10 Authors of the Year

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association, for "Architecture, Vision, and Ritual: Seeing Maya Lintels at Yaxchilan Structure 23" in the September 2019 issue of The Art Bulletin

2020 Book Prize, ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, for To Describe A Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror

Frank Jewett Mather Award, College Art Association, for To Describe A Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror

Christine Mehring, with YOU BE MY ALLY Team, Golden Muse Creative Award, Experiential & Immersive/Augmented Reality Category 

Association of American Publishers 2020 PROSE Award for Excellence in Classics for Pindar, Song and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology (co-authored with Leslie Kurke)

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

College Art Association Distinguished Scholar

Elected Fellow of the British Academy

The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

Slade Professorship, University of Oxford

Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions for Art of Conversion

American Academy of Religion Prize for Best First Book in the History of Religions

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 

Eighth National Spirit Achievers Award, China Life Magazine

Guanghua Distinguished Scholar of Humanities, Fudan University, Shanghai 

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring 

Academic Excellence Award, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Distinguished Teaching Award, College Art Association

I Tatti Prize for Best Essay in the Italian Renaissance by a Junior Scholar

Meiss/Mellon Author’s Award, College Art Association, for The Murals of Cacaxtla

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

National Cultural Heritage Award, One of the Ten Best Books on Art and Archaeology, for Art of the Yellow Springs

Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
 

Robert Motherwell Book Award, The Dedalus Foundation

Medieval Academy Book Subvention to support the publication of Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

The Best Exhibition of the Year-the Fifth AAC Art Award (for the exhibition A Second History at Guangdong Art Museum in 2010)

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

Epson Fondazione Antonio Ratti Prize for Artistic Research, as Our Literal Speed

Excellence in Chinese Art History, American Friends of the Shanghai Museum

Distinguished Teaching Award, College Art Association

Future Faculty Mentorship Award

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring

Outstanding Book Award, Association of American University Presses (AAUP), for Chinese Sculpture

Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association

Gordon J. Laing Prize for What Do Pictures Want: The Lives and Loves of Images.

Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring