Prof. Dr. Aaron Hyman
Professur Frühe Neuzeit
Aaron Hyman
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie
Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte

Professur Frühe Neuzeit

Kunsthistorisches Seminar
St. Alban-Graben 8
4051 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 206 62 91
aaron.hyman@unibas.ch

*1984. BA University of California, Berkeley, 2008. MA Yale University, 2010. Von 2014–15 Belgian American Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Centrum Rubenianum, Antwerpen. Von 2015–17 Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Von 2015–17 Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia. PhD in Kunstgeschichte, University California, Berkeley. 2017–24 Assistant und Associate Professor am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Johns Hopkins University. Von 2017–18 Post-Doctoral Fellow am Departement für Zeichnungen und Graphische Werke am Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2021 Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow an der Newberry Library, Chicago. Von 2021–22 Marilyn Thoma Post-Doctoral Fellow und American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow. 2023 Gastprofessor am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Bern im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts “Global Horizons in Pre-modern Art”.

  • Kulturtransfer, globale Kunstgeschichte, Kunstgeographie
  • Intermedialität
  • Bild-Schrift, Schriftbildlichkeit, Medienwissenschaften
  • Historiographie der Kunstgeschichte
  • Graphische Medien und Drucke bis 1800
2023Apollo—The International Art Magazine, “Thinker” in 40 under 40, USA
2023Renaissance Society of America, Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, Best Book in Renaissance Studies, Honorable Mention
2023Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable Mention
2023Association for Latin American Art, Best Article Prize
2022Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies (2019-22), Latin American Studies Association
2021Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
2021Historians of Netherlandish Art Publication Fellowship
2019Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art & Architecture Emerging Scholars Publication Prize
2018Association of Print Scholars Publication Grant (with Dana Leibsohn)
2018Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association
2017Franklin Pease Prize, Colonial Latin American Review, Honorable Mention