Research Programs

USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute is an interdisciplinary, collaborative program housed at the Huntington Library and Museum in San Marino. The institute is designed to support advanced research and scholarship on human societies between 1450 and 1850. In addition to its affiliation with the Department of Art History, the Institute receives cross-curricular support from several departments within the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

http://college.usc.edu/emsi/

USC Program in the History of Collecting and Display

Collecting has played a central role in the shaping of art history as a discipline. While academic art historians have frequently distanced themselves from the activities of the art market, the collecting of works of art has a long and complex relationship with the writing of art history. Yet despite the centrality of collecting and collections, and the publication of much new work in this area over the past twenty years, the subject has nonetheless remained rather on the margins of the academic curriculum. The USC Program in the History of Collecting and Display has been established to provide a focus for this work, both as part of the graduate program in art history at USC and as a center for collaborative research activity in this area.