Who We Are
The Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association (GSHAAA) seeks to support student scholarly endeavors and departmental life, provide academic and professional development opportunities, and fund student research and travel. Through the organization of social and departmental events, we aim to foster and grow an academic community comprised of participation from all cohorts. GSHAAA also plans a variety of programs aimed at providing mentorship to new students, navigating degree requirements, and preparing for professional life beyond BU.
Current BU students can visit our student-run website to learn more about GSHAAA and access our shared resources.
2024/2025 GSHAAA Officers:
- President: Isabella Dobson
- Vice President: Isaline Lefrançois
- Treasurer: Bailey Pekar
- Student / Faculty Liaison: Catherine Lennartz
- Fundraising Coordinators: Julia Phillipps and Jiayi Yang
- Forum Coordinators: Grace Ann Arulanandam & Emma Lazerson
- Social Events Coordinators: Oriane S. Dubois & Izzy Scarpati-Toledo
- GSO Representatives: Allegra Davis, Jailei Maas, & Emily Nootbaar
- Travel Grant Committee: Grace Ann Arulanandam, Hamin Kim, & Hannah McIsaac
- Guest Lecture Series Coordinators: Rachel Kline & Isaline Lefrançois
- Webmaster: Sybil F. Joslyn
Departmental Positions:
- Social Media Coordinators: Danarenae Donato & Oriane S. Dubois
- Graduate Symposium Coordinators: Open
What We Do
In addition to providing social, professional, and financial support for HAA graduate students, GSHAAA members are also responsible for running the following special events and organizations:
Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
We organize one of the longest-running graduate student symposiums in the country, The Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87), Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture. Following a call for papers, presentations are juried, and selected graduate students from around the world come together to share their work on a Saturday during the spring semester.
2024/2024 Symposium Coordinators: Open
HAA Guest Lecture Series
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the HAA Guest Lecture Series brings together historians of art, architecture and material culture specializing in diverse fields and genres. Prominent scholars are invited to share their latest research with the BU community in a lecture followed by Q&A.
2024/2024 HAA Guest Lecture Series Coordinators: Rachel Kline & Isaline Lefrançois
SEQUITUR
Founded in 2014, SEQUITUR is a scholarly art and architectural history journal edited by graduate students from BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture. This open-access, online journal features articles written by graduate students, but we hope to reach a much wider audience. We solicit proposals from students at other universities as well as our own, and contributions include the latest exhibition and book reviews, interviews, scholarly essays, and more.
Senior Editors: Kaylee Kelly, Rachel Kline, and Catherine Lennartz
Junior Editors: Isabella Dobson and Megan Horn
MA Editorial Assistant: OPEN