39 PhD programmes in Art History in United States

At the Southern Methodist University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Art History. Art History awards two Ph.D. Fellowships each year. 

The Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University offers this PhD degree program in Art History. The program is relatively small, and affords the graduate student the opportunity to work intensively with individual members of the faculty.

Building on a long tradition of intellectual innovation, the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) endorses an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to art history of all periods and places.

The History of Art graduate program at Johns Hopkins University is designed to give students working toward the PhD degree an encompassing knowledge of the history of art and a deep understanding of the theories and methodologies pertaining to art historical research. 

The Art History and Education program from The University of Arizona provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed, methodologically diverse two track PhD program: with one track in Art History and one in Art and Visual Culture Education.  

Our Art History PhD program at The University of Iowa provides scholarly challenges, research skills, and mentoring necessary for professional development and successful careers.

The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside, offers Art History Ph.D. degrees with an emphasis on the history of art and architecture from the early modern period to the present.

The department of Art History at the University of Delaware offers studies in the history of art from ancient to modern times, with special concentrations in art of the Americas and in European art from the Renaissance through the modern eras.

The Art History program at Northwestern University is designed to prepare our graduates for professional lives as art historians and theorists of visual and spatial cultures. 

The Department of Art History at University of Wisconsin Madison offers programs leading to the master of arts and the doctor of philosophy in art history. 

The PhD at University of Kansas is intended for students who hold the MA degree in Art History. 

The Department of Art History at Emory University offers a graduate program that explores cultural, formal, and theoretical concerns central to the visual arts.

The PhD program in Art History at University of Washington prepares graduates for university-level teaching, curator positions at major museums, and independent research in the field.

At the Indiana University Bloomington, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Art History. Join us! 

An intensive program at University of Georgia with tracks in Art Education and Art History. Students engage in intensive research and work closely with faculty mentors. They procure jobs at universities and museums and routinely secure tenure track and curatorial positions.

The Ph.D. in Art History program at Rice University trains students for academic research and teaching, curatorial positions, and other careers in the visual arts.

The Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art and Architecture at Boston University prepares you to produce and defend an original contribution to knowledge and to teach the disciplines of history of art and architecture at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

The Art History graduate program at The University of New Mexico is organized into two major areas of concentration, each of which integrates several fields of specialization—Art of the Americas and a general concentration in Art History.

The department's faculty consists of historians of the major periods of Western, African and East Asian art and architecture, representing a broad spectrum of the discipline's methodologies and specialties. We offer a History of Art and Architecture degree at the Brown University.