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The Department of Art History would like to know what its alumni are doing (both professionally and/or in general). If you are an alumna/alumnus and would like to post news on this site please e-mail Craig Zabel, Dept. Head, at: cxz3@psu.edu
Summer 2009
Kate Bentz ('03 Ph.D.) has completed her third year as Assistant Professor of Art History in the Fine Arts Department at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. In addition to teaching art history courses, she is a chair of art history curricula in (and gives several lectures for) the college's core Humanities Program. This past year, she helped establish the annual Fine Arts Lecture and Performance Series, which brings noted art historians, artists and musical performers to the campus. This summer, she will attend a seminar on Homer and Hesiod sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. She has also been chosen to participate in a three-week institute in early modern Italian paleography at the Getty Research Institute (co-sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) in Los Angeles in August.
In May 2009, Jessica Boehman ('02 M.A.) received her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her dissertation, regarding the life, works and workshop of an Italian Baroque teacher-sculptor, is entitled "Maestro Ercole Ferrata." Jessica completed the research for the project as a Fulbright Fellow to Rome in 2006-2007. In 2008-2009, Jessica served as the Carl Zigrosser Fellow in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Jessica has recently presented papers on Italian sculpture at the Renaissance Society of America and the College Art Association. This autumn, Jessica will a Visiting Professor of Baroque Art at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
In January 2009, Julia Dolan ('02 M.A.) earned a Ph.D. in art history from Boston University. Her dissertation is titled "'I Will Take You into the Heart of Modern Industry': Lewis Hine's Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age." Her dissertation research was supported by a Sarah Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery (joint appointment) in Washington, DC, a Walter Read Hovey Award for Dissertation Research (The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA), and various grants from Boston University. A chapter of her dissertation, "Lewis Hine, the Machine Age, and the Aesthetics of Labor," has been published on the Center for the Legacy of Photography's website (the CLP is a new, joint venture between George Eastman House and the University of Rochester). Over the past few years she has worked as a Department Photography intern at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; a curatorial research associate at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; and a research scholar at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, NM. Since September of 2007, Julia has been the Horace W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she curated Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection (2008), and Spectacle (2009), among other curatorial projects.
Douglas Dow (’97 M.A., ’06 Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he teaches courses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art in the Department of Art. His research interests center on issues of collective patronage and the production and consumption of art by non-elites in the sixteenth century. In 2008 he presented papers on these topics at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference and the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. In April 2010 he will present findings from his recent research at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Venice, Italy. In the summer of 2009, he was awarded an Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship to study a fifteenth-century manuscript in the collection of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. He has also received two grants from Kansas State that allowed him to travel to Florence in 2008 and 2009 to conduct research for his book project, which examines the art patronage of Florentine confraternities in the Age of Reform. He also has articles forthcoming in Source: Notes in the History of Art and Confraternitas.
David E. Gliem ('95 M.A., '02 Ph.D.) is a tenured Assistant Professor of Art History at Eckerd College, a liberal arts college located in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary art and architectural history and Japanese art history. His research interests are widespread and varied and he has published articles and curated exhibitions on French posters, Japonisme, Whistler, Japanese prints, and the rhetorical use of texts and images on BarackObama.com. Currently, he is working on a book about Robert O. Hodgell, a prolific printmaker, painter and sculptor and one of the founding faculty in the visual arts at Eckerd College. David is married to Valerie Gliem and has a daughter, Gretel, who just turned three in June. Alison C. Fleming ('01 Ph.D.) is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. She is engaged in a wide variety of research projects at the moment. She continues her study of early Jesuit art and representations of St. Ignatius of Loyola's "Vision at La Storta." She is preparing an article on this topic which will appear in a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Intersections, entitled Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in the Early Modern World, edited by Maarten Delbeke and Minou Schraven, forthcoming 2011. She has recently written four entries in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (forthcoming later this summer from Brill) and eight entries in The Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture (forthcoming from Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011). Her examination of the connections between art and popular culture is ongoing: she spoke on contemporary sculptures of athletes at sports arenas at a conference "The Visual in Sport" at the University of Bristol in England in June, and will speak on the use of Gothic Revival architecture in the "Harry Potter" series at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association conference this fall. She also regularly contributes book and exhibition reviews to journals such as the Sixteenth Century Journal, CAA Reviews, the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Gazette, and the SECAC Review.
Catherine [Reed] Jolivette ('03 Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Art and Design at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, where she teaches courses in modern and contemporary art and critical theory and has received a College of Arts and Letters Award for the high standard of her teaching. Her primary research interest is in British art since 1900. Over the past few years she has focused her work on the intersection of visual art with a variety of discourses including the role of women in contemporary society, the renegotiation of British national identity following the Second World War, developments in science and technology, and the renewed promotion of British art and culture at home and abroad. Catherine has delivered numerous papers on postwar British art including presentations at annual conferences of the College Art Association and the Association of Art Historians and her recent article "London pride: 1951 and figurative sculpture at the South Bank Exhibition" is featured in the current issue of Sculpture Journal (Liverpool University Press). Her book, Landscape, Art and Identity in 1950s Britain was published by Ashgate in May 2009. Catherine's current research project, Art and the Atom: British Art in the Nuclear Age, is supported by a Research Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London (Yale University).
Sarah Lippert ('09 Ph.D.) is an art historian of European art from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at the Louisiana State University Shreveport, where she teaches undergraduates in the Department of Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, and Humanities, as well as graduate students in the Master of Arts program. Dr. Lippert has presented many papers internationally, including most recently at the Association of Art Historians annual conference in Manchester (2009), on topics such as inter-arts relationships in nineteenth-century France and England, as well as aesthetic theory, and the French Renaissance. Her research has been supported by such grants as the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Sarah graduated from the Department of Art History at Penn State with her Ph.D. in May 2009; her adviser was Dr. Brian Curran.
Keli Rylance ('96 Ph.D.) is currently the Head of the Southeastern Architectural Archive and the School of Architecture Library at Tulane University. In January, she was appointed to the U.S. Board of DOCOMOMO (International Working Party for the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement). She is the recipient, along with Dr. Pablo Alvarez, of the Mark Samuel Lasner Fellowship in Printing History for their collaborative endeavor to complete a critical translation of a late seventeenth-century Spanish printing manual. In 2007, she was awarded a subvention from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in its summer seminar, "The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1700," which convened in Antwerp, Oxford and London. Her article, "Archives and the Intangible," published by the Canadian Association of Archivists (ACA), received the Hugh A. Taylor Prize for Archivaria, recognizing innovative archival writing.
Susan Clare Scott (M.A. '78, Ph.D. '95), is Associate Professor of Art History at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. She teaches Asian Art History (Japanese and Chinese Art), plus special topics courses (such as "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy," with a hands-on element, and the "Arts of the Edo Period in Japan"); and Honors courses. Dr. Scott has devoted much time since her arrival at McDaniel College to the establishment of an Asian Studies Major, which is now nearing realization. In connection with this goal, she has this summer toured Japan with seven McDaniel College students. In addition to Asian Art, she also teaches courses in Italian Renaissance and Italian Baroque Art and Architecture, and the department's Writing in the Discipline course. Dr. Scott has been especially active in research in Asian Art History, and has presented invited papers at four international congresses in China, and one in Japan. She is a founding member of the Chinese Architectural History Society. In addition, since beginning her tenure at McDaniel, she has presented fourteen invited papers in both her areas of research (Asian Art and Baroque Art), for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Cambridge and Oxford, for the Asian Studies Development Program in various venues in the U.S., for the Society of Architectural Historians and the Southeast Chapter of S.A.H., also in the U.S. For all of these conferences, she was awarded faculty development travel grants. Recent publications include: "The Representation of Architecture in Chinese Landscape Painting of the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties: Perspective, Iconography, and Imagination," in Ying Zao, Selected Papers from the International Conference on Chinese Architectural History, I, Beijing, 2001, pp. 509-524. "Sacred Earth: Daoism as a Preserver of the Environment in Chinese Landscape Painting ...", in East West Connections, Review of Asian Studies, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 6, I, 2006, pp. 72-98. "Chinoiserie and the Migration of the Chinese Garden Pavilion to the West,"in Selected Papers in Chinese Landscape Architecture, published in English, pp. 56-60, and in Chinese in the 2008 issue of the Journal of Chinese Landscape Architecture, vol. 24, 150, pp. 7-12.
Charlotte Stanford ('03 Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where she will be undergoing tenure review this fall. Charlotte's main research area is medieval art. She was a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute in medieval York (England), held on site during summer 2007, where she helped coordinate the creation of a DVD containing over 2,000 images of medieval cathedrals and parish churches in Yorkshire. She has published articles in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Gesta, and The Art Bulletin, and is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: Cathedral Building and the Book of Donors."
Jennifer Streb ('97 M.A, '04 Ph.D.) is currently an assistant professor of art history and curator at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA. In addition to teaching a range of art history classes from Medieval Art and Architecture to Modern Architecture, Jennifer also teaches Museum Studies and Museum Practicum courses. She has developed papers out of her dissertation on American painter and printmaker Minna Citron, presenting them at several Popular Culture/American Culture Association conferences, and is currently working on an exhibition of Citron's work to open at the Juniata College Museum of art in 2011 or 2012.
Anna K. Tuck-Scala (M.A. '93, Ph.D. '03) established her residence in Italy in 1994, and has taught courses and given on-site lectures on Ancient, Renaissance and Baroque art for numerous American study abroad programs in Italy. She currently teaches on-site courses on Baroque art in Rome for Temple University Rome Campus (since 1999) and for John Cabot University (since 2008). Her primary research interest is seventeenth-century Naples. Her publications include an article on Caravaggio's Seven Acts of Mercy and a literary guidebook to Sorrento, the town where she resides. Her book, Andrea Vaccaro (Naples, 1604-1670): His Documented Life and Art, on one of the leading painters in Naples around 1660, is in press (2008). She has recently expanded her research interests to Spain. An article, "Les Històries de Tobies d'Andrea Vaccaro: de Nàpols al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya," will be published in Catalan and Spanish in Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Bulletin. Another article, "Tracing the success of Andrea Vaccaro's paintings in Spain" has recently been accepted (June 2009) for publication in the leading journal in her field, Ricerche sul'600 napoletano. She is writing another article on Caravaggio and is continuing her work in the archives in Naples.
Lori Verderame ('96 Ph.D.) is currently bringing art and antiques history to the masses through her television work, nationally syndicated column carried in 80 publications reaching 7.5 million readers monthly, and public appearances. As seen on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the Fine Living Network, Dr. Lori is an award-winning TV personality and TV talk show host. She serves as the guest art/antiques expert on the nationally syndicated "Daytime" TV program. She appears regularly as an arts authority on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. With 30 books and exhibition catalogues to her credit, Dr. Lori is the director of www.DrLoriV.com and a certified fine art and antiques appraiser. Dr. Lori conducts in-home appraisal consultation visits and presents more than 100 appraisal events and lectures every year to audiences nationwide. Dr. Lori makes people laugh with her straightforward and honest approach to the world of antiques as she evaluates approximately 20,000 objects a year for audience members across the country. Dr. Lori is currently planning her next antiques vacation cruise which will include exclusive seminars about art and antiques, appraisals of guests' objects, and informative talks about exotic ports of call. In 2009, Dr. Lori will lecture at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia and sites in Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Istanbul, and Italy. Dr. Lori currently resides in Bucks County, PA.
Spring 2009
2009 College of Arts and Architecture Alumni Award:
Efram Burk ('98 Ph.D.) recently published the book Clever Fresno Girl, The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach, 1908-1915, University of Delaware Press (ISBN: 978-0-87413-035-5). Dr. Burk is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Fine and Applied Arts Department at Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts.
Fall 2008
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has annouced that Dr. Thomas J. Morton ('95 BA in art history - with honors) will receive a 2008-09 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award. "The New Faculty Teaching Award is given jointly by ACSA and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). This award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career." Dr. Morton teaches architectural history as an assistant professor in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University.
Spring 2008
Genevieve Ellerbee (07 MA) is currently the associate registrar at the Sheldon Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After spending six years as associate registrar at the DAR Museum, where she helped care for a collection that ranged from paintings to ceramics to quilts, she has traded in Washington, D.C. for the prairie, a Philip Johnson museum building, and a modern and contemporary art collection.
Julia Triolo ('78 B.A., '96 Ph.D) received the College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History. She is a graduate of both Penn State's undergraduate and doctoral programs in Art History, receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation entitled The Armorial Maiolica of Francesco Xanto Avelli. Julia's dissertation on Francesco Xanto Avelli-an exceptionally productive and innovative Renaissance pottery painter, an artisan who also wished to be remembered as an artist and a poet-was recognized as an important contribution to the study of Italian Renaissance decorative arts, and established her firmly among serious scholars working in that field. In succeeding years, she has actively continued her investigation of Renaissance Maiolica while working full-time as the Affiliate Editor of the Getty Research Institute's Bibliography of the History of Art (the premier bibliographical resource in the field), where she is responsible for abstracting and indexing current Italian Art Historical literature for their international database. Over the past fifteen years, Julia has clearly established herself as an indispensable resource for scholars in Italian art history. Living in Rome and working at the Biblioteca Hertziana, she is situated at an international nexus for historians of Italian art. And there, over the years, numerous scholars have come to depend on her as advisor, editor and confidante, by virtue of her warmth, her modesty and her erudition.
Fall 2007
Michael Tomor ('83 B.A., '90 M.A, '93 Ph.D.) is currently the director of the El Paso Museum of Art: The mission of the institution is to provide education programs based on the strengths of its permanent collection of European, Mexican and American Collections to the surrounding tri-state region, which includes, Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico. In his brief tenure, he has brought from the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century , including the works of Sequiros, Orozco, Rivera, Kahlo, and Tamayo among twenty others and the Creative World of Peter Max: A Retrospective (curated in house). Upcoming features including Marsden Hartley: American Modern, and Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets (Glass and Textiles). He is also currently working on an Impressionist exhibition in collaboration with the Museo Soumaya, including the works of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Rodin and Degas, among others. In his position he works frequently with the Mexican Consulate and the American Consulate in Juarez as well as CONACULTA (like the NEA), the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza and the Embassy in Mexico City as well as officials of the Mexican Foreign Service affiliate with the INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes), INAH, and Municipio. With their assistance he developed the first binational simultaneous collaborative exhibition, Frontiers of Vision: Panoramas by Eric Jervaise - shown at the EPMA and Museo de Arte INBA in Juarez in the fall of 2006.
Spring 2007
The Very Reverend Archimandrite Joachim Cotsonis ('86 M.A., '92 Ph.D.) received the 2007 Alumni Award in Art History. John A. Cotsonis received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. from Penn State in Art History, and is director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is one of two leading scholars in North America on Byzantine lead seals, the topic on which he did his dissertation here. The seals are the richest body of evidence for the iconography of the saints and their cult in Byzantium, and key documents for the study of both orthodox piety and the political use of religious art. Beyond numerous articles on these matters, Father John is the author of a book that is now regarded as the standard work on the subject. He also holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland and his Master of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.
Spring 2007
Valerie Grash ('98 Ph.D.) has been awarded the 2007 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, where she is a tenured associate professor of fine arts. In addition to receiving a cash stipend and additional funds for professional development endeavors, Valerie will be the keynote speaker at the fall 2007 Freshman Convocation ceremony. Currently, she is on sabbatical, completing her first book, tentatively titled, Forging the Steel City: A History of Commercial Skyscrapers and Pittsburgh Industrialists, 1880-1990.
Fall 2006
William Hauptman ('75 Ph.D.) co-curated the exhibition "Charles Gleyre: Le génie de l'inspiration" at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, on view from October 7, 2006-January 7, 2007. Dr. Hauptman is an independent scholar in Lausanne, Switzerland and the author of the catalogue raisonné on the work of Charles Gleyre (1996).
Fall 2006
Rosa J. H. Berland ('95 B.A) is currently an assistant curator in the department of painting & sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Rosa holds her M.A. in Art History from the University of Toronto with a specialization in modern and contemporary art and has worked as a curator and visual arts program manager for the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, New York City (2000-2001) and in the curatorial department at the Frick Collection (2001-2002) and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2003-2006). In addition to her work at MoMA, Rosa is also currently working on an independent research project on the early graphic work of Oskar Kokoschka.
Fall 2006
Charles Fox ('88 B.A.) is historic site administrator at the Somerset Historical Center. As museum director for the center, he recently assembled an exhibit examining the service of Somerset County's National Guard Unit, Company C, 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, during World War I. Company C played a pivotal role in the Second Battle of Marne, fought along the Marne River in France in July 1918. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Somerset Historical Center published a catalogue and a book containing a series of articles Fox wrote on Company C.
Fall 2006
Heidi Hornik ('87 M.A., '90 Ph.D.) professor of art history at Baylor University, has had her third book published. Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting was published by T&T International, New York and London, in 2005.
Fall 2006
Efram Burk ('98 Ph.D.) assumed the position of Associate Professor of Art History at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. He had been teaching at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort since fall of 1998. His specialty is in American and European prints and drawings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His dissertation was on the graphic work of William and Marguerite Thompson Zorach, an American couple active in the first half of the twentieth century but regarded for their artistic work in other media. Dr. Burk has published articles on the Zorachs' printmaking activity in the Print Quarterly and the Woman's Art Journal. He is currently writing a book on the art and travel-related articles by Marguerite Thompson Zorach that were published in her hometown newspaper, the Fresno Morning Republican, from 1908-1915, roughly corresponding to her period of study abroad. Dr. Burk is also involved in planning future exhibitions on the prints by the Zorachs. Altogether he has curated nearly a dozen exhibitions, including: "Walt Kuhn Paintings, Drawings, Prints A Study of Related Works" (at, among other sites, the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1989-1990); "The History and Techniques of Printmaking" (at, among other sites, the McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina at Columbia, 2002); "Broadening Horizons, Changing Viewpoints, Landscapes from the Burk Collection," (at the Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine in Gorham, 2004).
Summer 2006
Keli Rylance ('96 Ph.D.) recently completed an M.L.S. (Master's of Library Science) degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ('05), and is now working as a Special Collections Librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Libraries. She has a forthcoming article, "Archives and the Intangible," appearing in the Canadian archives journal Archivaria this winter, and will be presenting a paper titled "Ex Fumo Dare Lucem: The Performance of the Printing Press in the Habsburg World" at the Renaissance Society of American Conference in Miami next May.
Summer 2006
Sara Detweiler Loughman ('93 B.A.) resides in Phoenix, Ariz., with her husband, Dr. Thomas J. Loughman, and their new daughter, born on October 6, 2005. Loughman is the program manager of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) of the College of Design at Arizona State University. She was formerly the registrar for special exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she worked for eight years. Her husband (former visiting assistant professor in Penn State's Department of Art History) is the curator of European art at the Phoenix Art Museum. http://www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/news/newsletter/sp06/Sp06_p09.html#notes
Spring 2006
Mary E. Dohne ('97 B.A.) Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, received the 2006 College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History. After completing her B.A. with a double major in art history and French at Penn State and the Shreyer Honors College in 1997, Mary E. Dohne moved to New York City. She earned an M.A. from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the History of Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, with a Master's thesis on "Masculinity at Home: Bachelor Pads and the Seduction of the American Dad." She began her career in art galleries at the Babcock Galleries on 5th Avenue, working for one of our distinguished alumni, John Driscoll. Since 2001, she has been at the Charles Cowles Gallery on West 24th Street and quickly became its Director. This contemporary art gallery was started by the founding editor of the Artforum, Charles Cowles. As Gallery Director, Ms. Dohne "collaborates with museums on exhibitions and public appearances for gallery artists, " as well as "advise private collectors and public institutions on acquisition of artworks." She has also guest curated an exhibition of American Mingei potters at the O'Keefe Museums in Biloxi, Mississppi, and an exhibition on "39 Unforgettable Women" for the Women's Museum in Dallas. This year's Alumni Award honors the remarkable and young career of Mary Dohne, who in less than a decade after her graduation from Penn State is accomplishing great things as the director of a major contemporary art gallery in New York City.
Spring 2006
Thomas J. Morton (BA '95 - with honors.) earned his Ph.D in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania (2003). In his dissertation he reconstructed the forum of the Roman city of Meninx on the Tunisian island of Jerba. His dissertation research was supported by a William Fulbright Fellowship to Tunisia and the Woodruff Traveling Fellowing from the Archaeological Institute of America. During his graduate studies he participated in two archaeological field projects, one on the island of Jerba and the other in Carthage. In addition, he was affiliated with the Division of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For two years he taught at Swarthmore College before accepting in 2005 a tenure-track position to teach architectural history in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University.
Spring 2006
Katherine M. Bentz ('03 Ph.D.) is completing her two years (2004-06) as a Mellow Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University (New York, N.Y.). She will begin this fall a tenure-track position in the Department of Fine Arts at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she will teach Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture.
Summer 2005
Maggie Monrad (’04 M.A., Art History) is a reasearch assistant at the American Institutes for Research, a "think tank" in Washington, D.C. She is working in the Education and Human Development division.
May 4, 2005
Heidi J. Hornik ('87 M.A., '90 Ph.D.) received the 2005 College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History. After completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Penn State, Heidi J. Hornik began teaching at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1990. She is now a full professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history at Baylor and was the Director of Baylor's Martin Museum of Art for fourteen years. During fall 2004, she was a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund's College at Cambridge University in England. She has co-authored four books with her husband, Mikeal C. Parsons: Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative of Christ in Italian Renaissance Painting (2003), Interpreting Christian Art (2004), Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance Painting (2005). Professors Hornik and Parsons are currently researching a third book in their Illuminating Luke series, this one focuses on The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting. Dr. Hornik is also completing a Catalogue Raisonné on the 16th-century Italian painter Michele Tosini. Her interest in this artist (the subject of her dissertation) was initially sparked by the Palmer Museum's acquisition of Tosini's painting, Madonna and Child with St. John.
Katherine Bentz (’03 Ph.D. Art History) hadn’t planned on earning a Ph.D. Always interested in art history, she thought she’d get her master’s degree and find a job in a museum. But then, while attending graduate school at George Washington University, she fell in love - with the research topic that ultimately became her dissertation. Read more in the Arts and Architecture Spring 2005 Newsletter
Fall 2004
How does it feel to be responsible for bringing more than 165,000 people into a museum during a three-month period? Frances Terpak (’70 B.A., ’72 M.A. Art History) knows. She co-curated the Getty Research Institute's Devices of Wonder exhibition, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 2001 until February 2002, which was so popular that Terpak herself could barely get past the line of people outside who were anxious for a final peek on the exhibition's last day. Read more in the Arts and Architecture Fall 2004 Newsletter
Summer 2004
Michael Tomor (’93 Ph.D., ’90 M.A., ’83 B.A. Art History) got more than an education at Penn State-he got an experience. While a graduate assistant at the Palmer Museum of Art (then the Museum of Art), Tomor worked alongside administrators, curators, registrars and other staff, giving him an inside look at the museum’s operations. "There’s a big difference between a job and an ‘experience,’ and I definitely had an ‘experience’ at the museum," he explains. See Arts and Architecture Alumni News |
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