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Janna Israel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

205 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-4884
jbi1@psu.edu

Education
Ph.D. in art & architectural history, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
M.A. in art history, (University of Chicago)
B.A. in anthrolopology/art history,(State University of New York, Binghamton)

Dr. Israel is a visiting faculty member at Penn State for 2007-08 and teaches Renaissance-Baroque architectural history. She completed her dissertation, “The Picture of Poverty: The Patronage of Doge Christoforo Moro in Renaissance Venice” in 2007. Her research has been supported by The American Academy in Rome and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. As the editor of Thresholds during 2002, she received a Graham Foundation Grant for an issue that focused on visual culture and religion. Her current research focuses on the translation of relics to Venice and early modern metallurgical practices.

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