BIO

A Belarusian-American printmaker, designer, and an historian of art and architecture, specializing in Italian Renaissance and the Baroque, Anatole Upart received his BFA in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, an MA in Art History from UIC in 2011, and a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2021.
Dr. Upart has taught at the University of Chicago as well as Clemson, Furman, Benedictine, and St. Xavier Universities. In 2021-2022, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as its Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History. He taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton as a Lecturer in Architectural History from 2023 to 2026. In the summer of 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London, UK). That same year, Don Pedro de Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the Duke of Calabria and the Heir to the Neapolitan throne, invested Dr. Upart as a Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. In 2024, he became the Chair of the Americas Branch of the Society for Court Studies. The following year, he was admitted as a Member of the Venerabile Arciconfraternita della SS.ma Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.
Dr. Upart continues to be involved in teaching, printmaking, heraldic history and design, and art.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS

Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RSA), London, UK, since 2024.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, UK, since 2022.
Affiliated Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2019-2020.
Mellon Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2019-2020.
Center for the Art and Architectural History of the Port Cities, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History of the University of Texas at Dallas, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, La Capraia, Research Residency, Autumn 2018.
The Hannah Gray Travel Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2018.
Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Biamonte Fellowship Fund, University of Chicago, Summer 2018.
Chagall Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2018 (declined).
Course Arts Resource Fund, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Spring 2018.
American Friends of the HAB Travel Grant, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Summer 2018.
Presidential Travel Grant, American Catholic Historical Association, Winter 2018.
Graduate Council Travel Fund Award, University of Chicago, Winter 2018.
The Carl S. Meyer Prize, 2017, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
Fulbright Graduate Student Award, Italy, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut, Rome, 2016-2017.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Centro Vittore Branca, Venice, Italy, Residence, Summer 2017.
Humanities Division Conference Grant, University of Chicago, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2016.
Kress Fellowship for Language Study in Italian for Graduate Students in European Art History (Middlebury College), Summer 2014.
UChicagoGRAD Travel Fund, University of Chicago, Autumn 2015.
The University of Chicago Fellowship, 2013 – 2019.
GAI Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2013 – 2019.
Dowley Scholarship, University of Chicago, Summer 2013.
Benedictine University Faculty Development Fund, Winter 2013 & Spring 2013.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Recognition Scholarship, 1996-2000.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant, 1996-2000.