103 PhD programmes in Art History

The Art History and Visual Culture by Practice MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter draws on our established, internationally recognised research activity in Art History and Visual Culture.

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

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.

In the field of the discipline of Fine Arts and Art Conservation, doctoral students at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn gain in-depth knowledge of visual arts and artistic creation.

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 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Art History - Gender and Women's Studies offered by the Department of Art History & Communications in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes in-depth and rigorous learning opportunities. 

A key area of specialist interest in the Art History discipline at The Open University UK is the History of Architecture and Design, in the early modern and modern periods.

The Art History discipline at The Open University UK has a strong specialisation in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture that extends from Byzantine art to Northern Europe and the Italian Renaissance.

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. 

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 Art History PhD program at the University of Toronto is designed to prepare students for college and university teaching, museum work, and other research positions.

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 PhD in Art History at Concordia University Montréal is a bilingual inter-university program that enables students to develop advanced research skills and offers a dynamic environment for the exchange of ideas across intellectual communities. 

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 postgraduate programme at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy from University College Dublin incorporates both full and part-time research degrees at MLitt and PhD level in Art History, and in Cultural Policy and Arts Management.  

The Art programme at Manchester Metropolitan University will help you advance or change your career, deepen your expertise, and expand your research and practical skills.

The Art History Department at University of Aberdeen is an active group of researchers, offering expert supervision to research students in a wide range of topics, including late medieval art and architecture, early modern British and European art, the history of collecting and exhibitions from medieval and early modern art through art theory to contemporary visual culture.

University of Buckingham offer a phd degree in History of Art. Each student is allocated two supervisors. 

The University of Naples Federico II proudly presents its distinguished doctoral program in Archaeology and Art History.