Program Overview

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Doctoral Study in Art History

Introduction

The University of Auckland offers New Zealand's largest programme of Art History and theory. As a doctoral candidate, you'll benefit from financial support for research expenses, high-calibre supervision practices, and the networks and expertise of world-class academic researchers.

Research Opportunities

You will be supervised by our researchers and have access to a range of resources to assist you in your academic and professional development. We welcome research proposals in areas such as:

• Mori art
• Pacific art
• New Zealand art
• Early modern visual and material culture
• Court studies
• International contemporary art and visual cultures
• Gender, art and visual culture
• Psychological and phenomenological approaches to art
• Critical and postcolonial theory
• Indigenous museology
• Museums and curating
• Photography
• Performance art
• Art crime

Our People

Our academic staff include:

• Professor Ngrino Ellis: Mori art, Mori and Indigenous museology, non-Western feminisms, art crime
• Professor Erin Griffey: Early modern British and European material and visual culture, court studies, portraiture
• Professor Greg Minissale: Contemporary art, art theory and criticism, psychological approaches to art
• Associate Professor Caroline Vercoe: Pacific art, contemporary Mori and Pacific art, photography and representation, gender and non-western feminisms
• Dr Katherine Stapleton Bond: Early modern European history and visual culture

Past Research Topics

Some examples of past research topics include:

• 'Beyond the clock: The aesthetics of time in contemporary art'
• 'Mama 'o 'a folau (Far away, but only travelling): Contexts and performativity in the making, use and display of contemporary ngatu'
• 'Anna of Denmark and the arts in Jacobean England'
• 'Unfolding relations: Intersubjectivity choreographed in contemporary art'
• 'Picturing the writing woman: The representation of three early vernacular poets in fifteenth-century Italy'
• 'Inspiration and exchange: Artist residencies in Oceania'

Experience Doctoral Study

Our doctoral programme provides students with the opportunity to engage in original research and contribute to the field of Art History. One of our recent doctoral graduates, Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, was awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis for her research on the aesthetics of time in contemporary art.

Scholarships and Awards

There are several scholarships available to doctoral students, including:

• University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships
• Anne Reid Memorial Trust Scholarship

Doctoral Programmes

We offer a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Art History, which provides students with the opportunity to engage in advanced research and contribute to the field.