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Notes from the Chair Alumni News Karen Loaiza Blough (PhD, ’95) published six entries in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (John Jeep, ed.; Garland: New York) as well as a short article on "The Barberini Codex" in AMICI (Newsletter of the American Friends of the Vatican Library; Spring, 2001 issue). She delivered a paper entitled "Bread and Wine: The Wedding at Cana, the Multiplication of Loaves, and Epiphany in Southern Gaul" at the 28th St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies in St. Louis on Oct. 12, 2001. Sarah Boyd (MA, 02) is the Assistant Director of Communications in Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago as of September 2001. Pamela Merrill Brekka (MA, ’99) recently published: "Pieter de Hooch," "Nicolaes Maes," "Pieter Brueghel the younger," "Jan Breughel the elder," in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720, ed. Christopher Baker, Westport, forthcoming in 2002; "An Early Netherlandish Adoration of the Magi," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton 59 (2000), 57-63. She presented "Italy and the North: Artistic Exchange and Pan-European Thought circa 1450," at the North and South: Identity, Imagination and Memory in Medieval and Renaissance Culture conference, held at the University of South Carolina, March 2001. She is taking a temporary leave of professional pursuits in order to spend much needed time at home with her children, Adam and Maggie, and husband, Richard. Louise Belvedere Caldi (PhD, ’02) completed her dissertation, “The King and His Brother: Simone Martini's Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjou and the Visual Language of Power,” and has in press "From Poverty to Politics: Simone Martini's Image of the First Franciscan Bishop Saint, Louis of Toulouse," Poverty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Kate Forhan, New York. She presented two papers in 2001: "Simone Martini, Robert of Naples and Angevin Dynastic Dominion," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, in May 2001 and "From Poverty to Politics: Simone Martini's Image of the First Franciscan Bishop Saint," Poverty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Convivium Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Siena College in October 2001. She will deliver "The Conception of Simone Martini's Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjou," at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo in May of 2002. Andrea Campbell (PhD, ‘01) has been appointed Reader-Scholar at the Index of Christian Art, Princeton as of January 21, 2002. Adrienne DeAngelis (PhD, ‘97) published "Danese Cattaneo's Portrait Bust of Girolamo Giganti," Burlington Magazine 143 (2001), 747-52. She is also the creator of the Resources in Art History for Graduate Students website. Jennifer Dework (MA, ‘97) married Joel Katz on July 8, 2001 in Santa Barbara, CA. In February 2001, she started as the Education Associate for Public Programs at the Orange County Museum of Arts in Newport Beach, CA. Previously she was the director of the Peter Fetterman Gallery (Fine Art Photography) in Santa Monica. Felicia Messina-D'Haiti (MA, ‘95) gave birth to twins Victoria Alexandra (6lbs. 6oz.) and Matthew Gabriel (6 lbs. 13oz.) on August 22, 2001. Congratulations to the d’Haiti family. As of August 2001, Felicia was advanced to the status of Doctoral Candidate in the University of Maryland's Education Policy and Leadership Department.  Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio (PhD, ‘01), recent alumna of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, will present a paper entitled, "Leone Leoni Constructs His Identity: Status Signaling Through the Casa degli Omenoni" at the CAA Conference in Philadelphia (February 2002). Kathleen Enz Finken
(PhD, ‘98) is Associate Professor of
Art
History, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design,
Minnesota State
University, Moorhead. The department is a booming, exciting
place, with
400 studio art, art history and art education majors. She
has currently
in press "An Early Christian Construction of Time: Salvation
History in
the Catacomb of Callistus in Rome," Symbols of Time.
Selected papers
from Section Seven of the Thirtieth International Congress
of the
History of Art, September, 2000 (forthcoming, Spring, 2002).
She
presented "The Art Historian's Edge, or 'Seeing is
Believing'." Roland and
Beth Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Minnesota State
University
Moorhead (invited lecture, Feb. 2002). At present she
serves as
President of the Board of Directors, Plains Art Museum,
Fargo, ND (FY
2000) and continues to be a member of the Executive
Committee as well
as the Board of Directors, Plains Art Museum
Foundation. She leads
study tours abroad almost every year (Italy, Scotland,
England). As
per her family, she writes, “My oldest son, Colin,
graduated from high
school last spring, is doing great, and is currently living
in California.
River, now 14, is in high school and is a super kid. Jerry,
my husband, has a Joanna Gardner-Huggett (PhD, ‘97) co-edited vol. II of Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art (2001) with Lilian Zirpolo. Andrew Graciano (BA, RC '95) recently returned to Virginia from England, where he had been conducting doctoral research on Joseph Wright of Derby. He now plans to finish his dissertation and graduate in May with a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Up until December 20, 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. Maria Romina Gutierrez (MA, '01) is a full-time Research Assistant in the European Paintings Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sandhya Jain (BA), is in her third year as a graduate student, specializing in paper, in the Conservation Department at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Last summer she interned at the Villa La Pietra in Florence. Biljana Kesic (MA, ‘01) is the Education Coordinator at the Phippen Museum of Art in Prescott, AZ (Art & Collectors of the American West). Melissa Beck Lemke (MA, '94) spent two weeks in Italy in March 2001, on a National Gallery Robert H. Smith Fellowship sponsored trip, to study the high altar and surrounding monuments by Giuseppe Mazzuoli and his shop in the church of San Martino in Siena. She is currently the Archivist for Italian Art in the Photographic Archives of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Stephanie Leone (PhD, ‘01) is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History in the Fine Arts Department at Boston College since September 2001. Amy Liebman (BA, January 2002), an Art History and Landscape Architecture double major has been hired right out of school to join the New York office of Michael van Valkenberg. Michael Van Valkenberg has the most prominent and exciting landscape firm now working in the United States, and it is a tremendous feather in all of our caps to have a graduate placed there. Michael's work has been covered extensively in the professional journals and popular press, including the New York Times; and he was until recently the Chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at Harvard, the oldest such program in the country. Amy has been an outstanding student in our courses, and particularly distinguished in her architectural studies. She was interned to the local firm of Timothy Marshall Associates during her junior and senior years at Rutgers. Occasions like this prove that our academic programs can mesh nicely across campuses, and that our internship experiences can and often do lead to exciting career opportunities. As the commitment to architectural studies continues to grow in Art History, it's nice to know that we can look forward to successes like this one. Sharon Lorenzo
is completing course work for the Ph.D. in Non- Natalie McMeans (MA, ‘01) is presenting “Art Explorers,” an art appreciation program for 4th through 6th graders at the Highland Park Library. Dina Comisarenco Mirkin (PhD, ‘97) received the "Trofeo Alfil de Rey" this past May, which is the most important academic prize given to professors at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de Mexico. She is a lecturer there on the history of art, culture and design. Barbara Mitnick (PhD, ‘83) currently serves as Chair of the New Jersey Historic Trust, a division of New Jersey's Department of State, responsible for granting "bricks and mortar" funds to non-profits organizations for buildings in New Jersey on the State and/or National register. Over the last ten years this program has been instrumental in the restoration of more than 125 completed projects, and currently has more than sixty projects in progress. In February the Trust will receive applications for a new grant round. She also recently mounted a new exhibition (with co-curator, Mark Lender) entitled “George Washington and the Battle of Trenton: The Evolution of an American Image” at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, which will be on view until February 24, 2002. She is also working with New Jersey’s 225th Celebration of the Revolution Commission, serving as the General Editor of a book of twelve essays entitled New Jersey in the American Revolution, scheduled for publication by 2004. Scott Montgomery
(PhD, ‘96) was hosted as a Visiting Scholar
in
April at the Department of Art at SUNY/Plattsburgh. He gave
a talk on
the cult of St. Ursula and a lecture on the pilgrimage to
the upper- Amy M. Mooney (PhD, ‘01), Assistant Professor at Washington State University, will be co-chairing a session at CAA 2003 on identity and portraiture, “The Passing Portrait.” She was the recipient of a Travel Grant (2001) and a Research Initiation Grant (2002), both from Washington State University. Her recent publications include: "Archibald J. Motley, Jr.: Conflating Class and Countenance," Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Cary Wintz, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (forthcoming, 2003); "Singularity, Chance and the Shuffle of Things," The Raw and the Cooked, exh. cat. (University of Washington Press, 2001); and To the Observing Subject: The 2001 MFA Exhibition, exh.cat., (Pullman Museum of Art, Washington State University, 2001). In 2001, she presented three lectures: "Literal or Metaphorical? Illustrating Harlem Renaissance Literature" Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA; "Class, Consciousness, and Countenance: An American Portrait," Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; and "Passing By: Archibald J. Motley, Jr.'s Portrait Types," American Studies Colloquium, Washington State University. Allison Palmer (PhD, ‘94) received tenure at the University of Oklahoma last year and will be on sabbatical spring of 2002 traveling and completing a variety of research projects spanning the Milanese trecento through the Roman Baroque. She is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Art. She recently published "The Walters' Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Italian Renaissance Italy," in The Journal of the Walters' Art Museum 59 (2001). She presented a paper on the quattrocento sarcophagus of St. Columban in Bobbio, outside Piacenza, at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference held in Denver in October 2001. Dr. Wayne Roosa (PhD, ’90) is currently the Department Chairperson at Bethel College in St. Paul Minnesota. Stephanie Smith (PhD, ‘99) will co-chair the session, "Monumental Narrative: Construction of Space and Ritual" at Kalamazoo, MI, in 2002. Francesca Toffolo (BA, RC, ‘97) is organizing a workshop on Monasticism in the Renaissance at Princeton, (where she is a PhD candidate), this spring at which she will be giving a paper. Ian Verstegen (MA, ‘98) completed his dissertation, "Federico Barocci, the Art of Painting and the Rhetoric of Persuasion" in January 2002, at Temple University under the supervision of Marcia Hall. Teresa A. Urspruch (BA, RC ’96; MLIS ‘01) is currently working at Baker & Taylor in Bridgewater, a book and entertainment distributor, as a Cataloging Librarian, creating library cataloging records for media items including motion pictures and music. Lilian Zirpolo
(PhD, ‘94) had an article published in the
Gazette
des Beaux-Arts (March 2001) entitled "Images of Privilege
and Power in
Pietro da Cortona's Frescoes at the Villa Sacchetti in
Castelfusano."
She will be presenting a paper at CAA in February 2002
entitled "Death,
Philosophy, and Civic Duty in Lanfranco's Sacchetti Chapel
Frescoes at S.
Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome." She is co-editor with
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