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What information gaps exist in history? Specifically, who are the people we don’t hear about, and where can their footsteps be seen today? Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History Matthew Rarey seeks to tackle those very questions in his book Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2023), which traces the history of sacred objects created by people of African descent living in South America and Europe.

Matthew Rarey, the chair of Oberlin’s art history department and an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history, won the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2024.

Program coordinator for studio art and art history hailed for orchestrating the success of both departments.

A series of marketing internships and a willingness to be open to new ideas paid off for Jessica Moskowitz, who handles media planning and buying of social media ads for Microsoft.

An art history and East Asian studies double major with an education studies concentration, Lai is constantly striving to learn more about pedagogy and language acquisition.

Madi Goetzke ’21 will spend a year traveling the world as a Watson fellow to analyze the role of communally-based cultural heritage sites which double as UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites.

Justine Goode ’16 has always wanted to work at a print magazine in either a design or an editorial capacity. Today, the former editor of the Grape, Oberlin's alternative student newspaper, is fulfilling both career goals at Vanity Fair.

Fung earned a master’s in scientific illustration at Zuyd University in the Netherlands. She recently founded Biotic Artlab, a medical and scientific illustration studio.

Late last month, a small group of new Oberlin faculty members stood in a large circle, six feet apart, in the King Sculpture Court of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The invited group were among the first visitors inside the space since it closed in late March. This month the museum reopens with regular hours to members of the college community.

Fikrig is carving a niche by incorporating themes of reproductive and queer rights advocacy into art historical research.