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General News Alumni News Jennifer Argenta (B.A. 1996) is the Assistant Director of Gallery Henoch in Chelsea, New York City. She and George Shechtman, who is the Gallery Director and also a Rutgers Art History alum, have provided lectures and discussions to classes visiting New York City with Professor Eidelberg and Dean Gopin. Meredith Arms Bzdak (Ph.D. 1995) is currently working as the Architectural Historian for Ford, Farewell, Mills and Gatsch, Architects, in Princeton, NJ. On Feb. 8, 2000 Meredith Bzdak was hosted at a book-signing for her volume "Public Sculpture: Monuments to Collective Identity" at the Montclair Art Museum. Barbara Butts co-authored with Lee Hendrix, curator of drawings at the Getty Museum, the very successful catalogue, Painting on Light: Drawing and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein (Getty Trust Publications, 2000). The publication of Painting on Light was accompanied by an exhibition of drawing for stained glass at the Getty Museum (July-September 2000) and the Saint Louis Art Museum (November-January 2001). Barbara Butts was formerly curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Among the catalogue’s glowing reviews, the journal Stained Glass considered it a “feast for the eyes as well as the intellect. This all-the-frills book is one to savor and save. Long after the exhibition is dismantled, you’ll be revisiting, appreciating, studying and absorbing.” Nick Capasso (Ph.D. 1998) was promoted to full Curator at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. His daughter, Maya, was born on May 4, 1998. Anthony Colantuono (B.A. 1980) is presently Associate Chair of the Art History and Archeology Department, University of Maryland, College Park. M. Marian Clough (B.A., M.A.) is an attorney with Clough & Clough, part of whose practice focuses on Art Law, representing artists, galleries, museums, copyright, etc. She was recently elected as a Trustee of the New Jersey Bar Association and she previously held the position of President of the Hunterdon County Bar Association. Anne De Vivo (M.A. 1994) was recently promoted to Development Officer at the Jersey City Museum where she has been working for the past year and is involved in a $12 million capital campaign. Regina D’Innocenzi (M.A. 1990) is currently writing her dissertation in the field of Medieval History/Gender Studies at the Historisches Seminar Universität Basel Phillip Earenfight (Ph.D. 1999) will present the following papers in March 2001 in Chicago: “Florence as the New Jerusalem: The Metaphor and the Real on the Piazza San Giovanni” at the College Art Association meeting; and, “Mnemonics, Catechism, and the Allegory of Divine Misericordia: How a Trecento Florentine Confraternity Instructed its Members in Christian Theology through Image and Text,” at the Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting. Marianne Ficarra (M.A. 1994) is working as an art research consultant and curatorial consultant at Gary Snyder Fine Art and has moved to Fair Haven, N.J. Marilyn Fish (M.A. 1986) is Managing Editor of Style 1900 as of March 2000. This is a quarterly (semi-academic) journal concerned with the Arts and Crafts movement. Pamela Goldsteen [formerly Cohen] (Ph.D. 1996) and her husband, David, have a fourteen-month old daughter, Sarah Madeleine, born April 1999. Pamela is working as a freelance fundraiser; her clients include the Guggenheim Museum. John Hanson received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute. In 1999, he presented the paper “New York Deesis Casket and 12th-century gospel frontispiece” at the Byzantine Studies Conference. Kelly Helmstutler is the recipient of a three-year fellowship with the Medici Archive Project. She has just published “Leone Aretino: New documentary evidence of Leone Leoni’s birthplace and training,” in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 2/3 (1999). Kelly was married to G. Del Dio in San Lorenzo, Florence, in June 2000. Meisha Hunter-Bove (M.A. 1996) works as a Landmarks Preservationist at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Among her duties, she reviews proposed changes to designated landmarks, and in particular, telecommunication installations at historic buildings. She married Rob Bove in September 1998. Susanne Hillman and her husband Matthias Vogel had a second child, Stella Catherine Vogel Hillman, in November 2000. Linda Koch (Ph.D. 1991) was granted tenure at John Carroll University in February 1999. Jessica Laino (1996) is currently working at the American Museum of Natural History as a Generalist. Ginette Lospinoso (a recent undergraduate) is now working at
Christie’s, New York, in the Wine Department.
Patricia Ann McDermott (M.A. 1983) started a museum consulting practice in 1999 after working fourteen years for small to mid-size museums in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. Scott B. Montgomery (Ph.D. 1996) traveled via foot the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago de Compostela, taking off from Le Puy en Velay, a distance of approximately 1,000 miles completed in a remarkable 67 days. His recent publications include: “Il Cavaliere di Cristo: Peter Martyr as Dominican Role Model in the Fresco Cycle of the Spanish Chapel in Florence,” in Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, vol. 1 (2000); and, “Caput sancti regis Ladislai: The Reliquary Bust of St. Ladislas and Holy Kingship in Late Medieval Hungary,” in Decorations for the Holy Dead, ed. Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo and Stephan Lamia (Brepols Press, forthcoming 2001). Rachel Mullen (M.A.) is presently an art critic for Recorder Publishing Co., Bernardsville, N.J., and an antique dealer at the Morristown Antique Center. Maria Munoz-Blanco is presently the Deputy Director of the Fulton County Art Council in Atlanta, GA. You can visit the Council’s web site at www.fultonarts.org. Alison Palmer (Ph.D. 1994) was granted tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art at the University of Oklahoma. Diane Reilly (B.A. 1990) received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1998. She was awarded a British Neitker Memorial Fund Award to study in England and France (Summer 2000). She chaired the conference session, From Consort to Queen to Dowager: Royal Women in Transition, at Kalamazoo. In July 2000, she will chair the session, After the Darkened: The Construction of Monastic and Episcopal History for the Age of Reform, and present the paper on “Gerard of Cambrai and the Politics of Nationality” at the University of Leeds. At the Rutgers conference on Canterbury and the Bible (March 2000), she presents her paper “The French Giant Bible and its English Relations: Blood Relations or Adopted Children.” Claire Renkin (Ph.D. 1998) moved back to Melbourne, Australia, in December 1999. She is teaching Art History at the Yarra Theological Union. Marice Rose successfully completed her doctorate with a dissertation
on “The Iconography of Female Adornment in Late Antiquity.” She was a collaborator
on the catalogue, Art of Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, (Abrams, 2000). In September 2000,
she presented tours of the Cypriot Galleries in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art to, among others, the President of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides, the
Cyprus Ambassador to the United States, Andreas Jacovides, and members
of the Cypriot Parliament. Presently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor
at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
Nancy Siegel (Ph.D. 1999) has authored The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers (Juniata College Press, 2001). She is presenting the paper, “The Intimate Panorama: Recently Discovered Works by Thomas Moran,” at the American Culture Association annual meeting in Albuquerque, NM, March 2001. Other recent publications include: “Municipal Parks in New York City: Olmsted, Riis, and the Transformation of the Urban Landscape, 1858-1897,” co-authored with Dr. Mary Hague, in Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2001); “Painted Image, Inspirational Text: Thomas Cole and the Influence of John Bunyan,” in Image and Text: American Creativity and the Relationship between Writing and the Visual Arts, ed. Mark Andrew White (Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, 2000); and Uncommon Visions of Juniata’s Past (Arcadia Publishing, 2000). Stanley Yeager is moving in a new direction. He is a dentist
but also worked at the Artexpo held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
in March 1999.
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