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Newsletter 2000

Vol. 2, n. 1 - Fenruary 2000

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General News

NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENT

In the fall of 1999, Dr. Jane Sharp (Ph.D. Yale University) joined the Art History department as Assistant Professor.  She holds a joint appointment with the Zimmerli Art Museum where she is Research Curator of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist art.  Visit the Faculty page to learn more about Dr. Sharp’s research interests.

LUCE FOUNDATION AWARD

The department is delighted to announce the receipt of a $25,000 award from the Henry Luce Foundation to support graduate student research in the field of American art.  In acknowledgment of this distinguished honor, the Grad School has matched the grant so that the department can offer five full dissertation fellowships over the next three years.

DEPARTMENTAL FACELIFT

Come and visit to see the renovations to the main department office!

UPCOMING EVENTS

The department is sponsoring four lectures this spring to which you are all cordially invited to attend:

February 21, 4:30pm-- Sible de Blaauw, Dutch Institute, Rome, “The high altar of Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls, Rome:  The Early Christian Arrangement and its Reinterpretations, from Gregory the Great to Luigi Poletti, Zimmerli Art Museum, Education Room

February 22, 4:30pm—Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “German and Israeli Reactions to the Holocaust in Art,” The Inaugural Eig Family Lecture at Brower Commons, 145 College Ave.

March 1, 4:30pm—Sebastian Schűtze, University of Münster, “Discovering Parnassus: Cardinal Maffeo Barberini and the Felsina Pittrice

March 30, 4:30—Katherine Smith, New York Univeristy, “Ideology and Pedagogy: Context and Function of the Infancy Miracles in the Neville of Hornby Hours”, Zimmerli Art Museum, Education Room

The annual grad student symposium will take place on Monday, April 10. 

Also to attend: Prof. Tod Marder Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (March 2000)



TO ALL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY:
 This is the second issue of a department newsletter. 
Please send any suggestions for
new story items to Tod Marder, Chair.

 

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Department of Art History
Voorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-7041
Fax: 732-932-1261

Catherine Puglisi, Chairperson

Erik Thunø , Undergraduate Director

Susan Sidlauskas, Graduate Program Director

Cathy Pizzi, Department Administrator

Geralyn Colvil, Student Coordinator







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