Department of Art History

Professor of Art History and the College Christine Mehring has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in the School of Historical Studies for the 2024-25 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. During her stay as the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Member, Prof. Mehring will work on a book on the art and architecture of the Munich Olympics. Forthcoming from Yale University Press, the book is co-authored with architectural historian Sean Keller, who will also be an IAS Member and serves as Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Each year, IAS welcomes the most promising post-doctoral researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world to advance fundamental discovery as part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Joining Prof. Mehring at IAS for the coming year will be her former doctoral advisee Katerina Korola (Ph.D. 2021, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota) and another departmental alumna, Tamar Mayer (Ph.D. 2017, Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University). Visiting scholars are selected through a highly competitive process for their bold ideas, innovative methods, and deep research questions by the permanent Faculty—each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. Past IAS Faculty include Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, John von Neumann, Hetty Goldman, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Located in Princeton, NJ, the Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1930. Today, research at IAS is conducted across four Schools—Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science—to push the boundaries of human knowledge. Among past and present scholars, there have been 35 Nobel Laureates, 44 of the 62 Fields Medalists, and 23 of the 27 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, winners of the Turing Award and the Wolf, Holberg, Kluge, and Pulitzer Prizes.