Advice for High School & New College Students Wanting to Major in Art History
I have received a lot of emails recently from high school students or new college students wondering how to approach the study of art history. This is a response I wrote to those who emailed me using Tumblr. My goal…
Q&A: “I’ve started to feel as if I’m not made to be an art historian…. Any advice, please?”
A reader seeks advice as they struggle with their place as an art history major.
Q&A: How can I continue to study art history when some artists were such terrible people?
A reader asks: how can they continue to study art history after learning about what terrible people some artists were?
“Help! My parents don’t want me to major in art history.”
One of the most frequent emails I get from aspiring art history majors is something along the lines of, “I fell in love with art history and want to major in it, but my parents want me to pursue something…
Q&A: How important is it to get an art history degree from a highly-ranked college?
A reader asks how important an art history degree from a highly-ranked university is to their career options, and wonders if a degree from an “average” university would suffice.
Q&A: Has being married made pursuing a graduate degree in art history difficult?
A reader wonders if being married has made it difficult to pursue my graduate degree.
Q&A: Where do I start when writing an open-ended art history research paper?
A reader needs advice about how to begin writing an open-ended research paper for their art history class.
Q&A: “I get nervous when I have to write for my art history courses. Could you provide any advice?”
An art history major who is struggling with writing art historical essays asks for advice.