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Aaron Hyman becomes Professor of Early Modern Art History
The American art historian Prof. Dr. Aaron M. Hyman will be the new Professor of Early Modern Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He will take up his position at the Department of Arts, Media, Philosophy on September 1, 2024.
Aaron Hyman studied art history at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his doctorate in 2017. His doctoral dissertations on the reception of Rubens in Latin America formed the basis for his book "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America", which examines the transfer of Northern European prints to Spanish America and analyzes the reception of these prints by artists in colonial Latin America. Published by the Getty Research Institute in 2021, the book has been recognized as an innovative, groundbreaking contribution to the development of the field and has been honored with several prizes.
in 2017, Hyman took up an assistant professorship with tenure track at the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Hyman has received several prestigious fellowships, including from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2023, he was a Fellow in Residence at the University of Bern as part of the European Research Council ERC-funded project "Global Horizons in Pre-modern Art".
Hyman's research focuses on Flemish and Dutch art and the art of the Americas, particularly that of the 17th century. A significant part of Hyman's research focuses on areas of cultural interaction, particularly between Northern Europe and the Americas, and on media such as printmaking and book arts that have received little attention in art history. By exploring these transatlantic connections and focusing on underappreciated forms of artistic production, he critically assesses the theoretical and historiographical traditions of European art history and creates new conceptual frameworks.
Hyman will take up his position at the Department of Arts, Media, Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences on September 1, 2024.