Our Department is Growing!

Excellent news for SU's Art History department and the campus community in general. After having success with last semester's search for a Latin Americanist we are very proud to add a full-time tenure-track professor to our program, bringing our number up to 4.

Many of you may remember Dr. Patrick Hajovsky from the 2007-2008 academic year when he was a visiting professor. Students consistently spoke highly of his enthusiasm and passion for his topics, so we are all very glad to have him back permanently. 

His official blurb:

"Dr. Patrick Hajovsky came to Southwestern for the 2007-2008 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sarofim School of Fine Arts - Art and Art History Department. He joins Southwestern this fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Art History after serving on the faculty of The University of Texas at San Antonio for the 2008-2009 academic year. Patrick earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in art history from the University of Chicago, his B.A. in art history from Tulane University and B.A. in anthropology/drawing from the University of North Texas."

This fall he'll be teaching a class on ritual landscapes in Meso- and South America, and another focusing on audience and spectatorship in colonial Spanish America.

The official SU News story is here.

Dr. Hajovsky at back right, along with SU new faculty members, from left, Dustin Tahmahkera (Communication Studies), Kenneth Mello (Religion and Philosophy), Reggie Byron (Anthropology and Sociology).