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The position will integrate the collection of Folk and Self-Taught art into the Americas wing.

The 2025 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, presented by the Society of Architectural Historians, has been given to Swati Chattopadhyay for her book, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire.

Professor Swati Chattopadhyay has received a Senior Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art for 2025-26 to write her book The Art of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire.

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A view of the History of Art & Architecture's Center for Object Based Research and Learning before the inaugural meeting of ARTHI 186SV: Seminar in Modern Architecture: Bauhaus in California, taught by Professor Volker M. Welter in Fall 2019. Instructors hold courses in COBRAL to teach with objects borrowed from the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and the Architecture and Design Collection for study and facilitating discussion. (image taken 9/30/19)

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