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GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Stephanie Leone, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy for 1998-99  and a two-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1998-2000); Abigail McLaughlin Berler, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy (travel only) 1998-99; Pamela Phillips was named an alternate for a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, and Kimberly Byrd was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Turkey for 1998-99. 

Craig Eliason and Lois Munemitsu-Eliaison were invited to continue their dissertation research at the University of Leiden as fellows in the exchange program established between Rutgers and the University of Leiden.  They are the first graduate students in the department to do so.

Lois and Craig Eliason at the Rietveld House

 Alexis L. Boylan - "Strangers in a Strange Land: Zoffany's Cock Match", Third Annual Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art, March 1998 
 Adrienne DeAngelis, "Danese Cattaneo's Apollo Wellhead Project for the Mint of Venice," New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March 1998 
 Caroline Goeser, "Aaron Douglas and the Revision of African American Origins", National Association of African American Studies Conference, Houston, February 1998; and Chaired panel, "Feminist Art in a 'Postfeminist' Period", South Central Women's Studies Association Conference, University of Houston, March 1998 
 Gabriela Jasin, "God's Oddities:  Two Sculptures of Medici Dwarfs," Renaissance Society of America National Conference, March 1990 
 Stephen Lucey, "Image, Space and Program:  The Case of S. Maria Antiqua," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1998 
 Lois Munemitsu Eliason - "Donatello's Pulpit at Prato and the Vision of the Assumption," Frick Symposium in the History of Art [sponsored by the Frick Museum and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University] April 1998; and The Eleventh Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March 1998 
 Matthew G. Nichols - "Spotlight:  Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs", May 1998 
 Pamela Phillips, "Renaissance Art:  The Problem of Narrative," Zimmerli Museum, March 1998 
 Alison C. Poe , "Images of Cities in the Hypogaeum of the Aurelii," Polis and Urbs:  Interpreting Civic Space and Identity, Stanford University, February, 1998 
 Flavia Rando, "Linda Nochlin and Feminist Art History:  An Appreciation," Annual College Art Association Conference, February, 1998 

Congratulations to the following who received their PhDs last year.  Listed below are their dissertation topics: 

Nicholas Capasso, "The National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Context: Commemorative Public Art in America, 1960-1997" (J. Marter, adviser) 
Adrienne De Angelis, "La Virtù Fa Sempre Vivo: Danese Cattaneo and the Monument to Giano Fregoso in Sant'Anastasia, Verona" (S.B. McHam, adviser) 
Kathleen Enz  Finken, "The Programmatic Sources of the Earliest Christian Art: Salvation History in the Catacomb of Callistus" ( A. St. Clair, adviser) 
Joanna Gardner-Huggett, "English Constructive Art in the 1930s" (J. Marter, adviser) 
Gregory Gilbert, "The Alternate Aesthetic: Robert Motherwell's Early Collages and the Formative Years of Abstract Expressionism" (M. Baigell, adviser) 
Ferris Olin, "Consuming Passions: Women Art Collectors and Cultural Politics in the United States, 1945-1995" (J. Marter, adviser) 
Claire Renkin, "Correggio and the Art of Arousal in Religious Painting" ( S.B. McHam, adviser) 
ZB Smetana, "Titian's Mirror: Self-Portrait and Self-Image in the Late Works" ( R.Goffen, adviser) 

And to the Master's degree recipients: 

 Kelley Helmstutler (continuing to PhD) 
 Gabriela Jasin  (continuing to PhD) 
 Abigail McLaughlin Berler (continuing to PhD) 
 Lois Munemitsu (continuing to PhD) 
 JoAnn Telemdschinow
 Jennifer Tonkovich (continuing to PhD) 
 Julie Tulip-Walsh
 Ian Verstegen
 Kelly Winquist              (continuing to PhD) 

 Julia Alderson, Curatorial Assistant, Corporate Art Program, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick; Britt Beedenbender, Curatorial Staff, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N. H.;  Nicholas Capasso, Senior Curator, DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, Mass.; Holly Connor, Curator of American Art, The Newark Museum; Aliza Edelman, curatorial staff, The Jewish Museum, New York City; Donna Gustafson, Senior Exhibition Coordinator, American Federation of Arts, New York City; Ann Marie Iversen, Exhibition Coordinator, American Federation of Arts, New York City; Michele Marcantonio, Curator, Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire; Pamela Phillips, Associate Curator of Education, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Ct.; Claire Renkin, Curatorial Intern, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.; Nancy Siegel, Curator, Shoemaker Art Gallery, Juniata College, Juniata, Pa.; Jennifer Tonkavitch, Curatorial Staff, Department of Prints and Drawings, J. P. Morgan Library, New York; Michael Zakian, Museum Director, Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California 

 Constanza Barbieri, Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy; Philip Earenfight, Instructor and Director of Shoemaker Art Gallery, Juniata College, Juniata, Pa.; Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum School; Caroline Goeser, adjunct faculty, University of Houston 
 

Kelley Helmstutler escorting class  from the University  of Rochester to Florence

Kelley Helmstutler, part-time instructor, University of Rochester program in Arezzo, Italy, and Union College Program in Florence; Scott Montgomery, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; Amy Mooney, adjunct faculty, University of Illinois, Chicago; Dennis Raverty, Assistant Professor, Pittsburgh State University; Jenni Schlossman, adjunct faculty, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Priscilla Schwarz, adjunct faculty, University of Oklahoma; ZB Smetana, Instructor, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky; Stephanie Smith, Instructor, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio; and Elizabeth Vogel, Assistant Director, Writing Program, English Department, Rutgers University-NB

Meredith Arms Bzdak was named Director of Corporate Communications at the RBA Group, a consulting and design firm that has specialized in providing engineering, architectural, and planning services to public and private building and infrasturcture industry.  The firm has offices in the eastern US and in east Asia.  Her book Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity will be published by Rutgers University Press in 1999. 

 

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