|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quick Events Links:
Quick Links:
|
Notes from the Chair Alumni News
Elizabeth Ayer (PhD ‘91)> presided over the session “Art and Architecture of Medieval Pilgrimage III: Miracles of the Blood or the New Made Old: Relics for Veneration and Display in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art and Architecture” at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 8-11, 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI. Karen (Loaiza) Blough (PhD ‘95) presented a paper, “’Visionary’ Evangelist Portraiture: A New Perspective,” at the session Imaging Authority I: Art and Ideology in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe during the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held in May, 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI. Alexis Boylan (PhD ‘01) served on the panel of renowned scholars at a symposium at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton. The title of her talk was “Sculpting Sickness: Saint-Gaudens= Robert Louis Stevenson Medallion.” Louise Caldi (PhD ‘02) spoke on "Art as a Defense against Dante's Anti-Angevin Propaganda" at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 8-11, 2003, in Kalamazoo, MI. Lisa Victoria Ciresi (PhD ‘02) won the Graduate School’s Research Award for 2003. Lisa will deliver a paper, “The Cologne Dreikoenigenschrein - A Liturgical Approach,” at the conference Reliquiare in Mittelalter: Kunst, Kult, Kontext for the Internationale Tagung des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universitat Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, April 30-May 2, 2004. Sharon
Dale (PhD ‘84) presided over the session Giovanni Sercambi: Writing in the Renaissance at
the 38th International Congress on
Medieval Studies
Henry Duffy (PhD ‘01) currently curator at the Saint-Gaudens National
Historic Site, Philip Earenfight (PhD ‘99) was a speaker at the Early Italian Art Conference at the University of Georgia in November, 2003 Philip’s talk was entitled “The Iconography of Tobit at the Misericordia in Florence.” Annie Farrell (BA ‘99) has started the PhD program at Duke University, where she is studying the art and architecture of 19th and 20th Century Japan. Annie has been awarded the James B. Duke Fellowship, a competitive, university-wide grant that provides five years of support. Tracy Fitzpatrick (PhD ‘03) won the Graduate School’s Dissertation Teaching Award for 2003. As stipulated by the terms of the award, she is currently teaching an undergraduate seminar “American Art & Architecture in the Age of the Machine”, which is based on material from her dissertation.  Tracy Fitzpatrick and Professor Joan Marter, May 7, 2003 Joanna Gardner-Huggett (PhD ‘97) has started her tenure-track position at DePaul University, where she is teaching modern, contemporary, and women’s studies. This year, Joanna’s article, "Margaret Gardiner: Activist Collector," will be published in the British Art Journal and a short piece, "Art and Part-Time Labor," will be featured in the Radical Art Caucus Newsletter. Joanna reports that she and Lilian Zirpolo have completed editing the fourth volume of Aurora, dedicated to the history of women's art patronage and collecting from the Roman Empire to the present. On a personal note, Joanna gave birth to fraternal twin sons Kai Willem Huggett and Ivor Daniel Huggett on June 10, 2003. Greg Gilbert (PhD '98) is up for tenure in the Department of Art this year at Knox College, where he was awarded the Philip Green Wright/Lombard Prize for Distinguished Teaching for untenured faculty in the Fall of 2002. His article "Robert Motherwell's World War II Collages: Signifying War as Topical Spectacle in Abstract Expressionist Art" is forthcoming in the Oxford Art Journal. Gilbert wrote the original version of this article for Matthew Baigell's 2002 unpublished festschrift, which he compiled with Caroline Goeser. He also had an essay titled "Pyschological Integration and Pragmatist Aesthetics: the Role of Emotion in John Dewey's Theory of Art" accepted for the anthology Emotions and American Philosophy, which is being edited by Hans and Charlene Haddock Seigfried. This is part of his book project "Pragmatist Thought and the New York School: Redefining the Early Art and Writing of Robert Motherwell," for which he recieved Faculty Development Awards this past Fall from Knox College to complete his research on Motherwell at the Dedalus Foundation and the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. At the Midwest Art History Society Conference in Pittsburgh in Spring of 2003, he presented the paper "Caricature as Commodity in Andy Warhol's Pop Art" for a session titled "Andy Warhol and His Impact, " which was chaired by Tom Sokolowski, director of the Andy Warhol Museum. Dr. Gilbert delivered a shortened version of this talk this past October at "Excellence in Research - 30 Years of Art History at Rutgers," which was the symposium held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Graduate School. In November 2003, Greg was invited to deliver a talk titled "Robert Motherwell's Collage and Cutout Aesthetic" for a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition "American Cutout" at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. The other panelists included Robert Rosenblum, Irving Sandler, Carter Ratcliff, Robert Storr, Jack Flam and Katy Siegel. Caroline Goeser (PhD ‘00) was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University for the 2003-2004 academic year. The fellowship will support the completion of her book, Making Black Modern in Harlem Renaissance Print Culture, which is forthcoming in the Culture America series edited by Karal Ann Marling and Erika Doss for the University Press of Kansas. Kelley Helmstutler-Di Dio (PhD ‘00) is organizing and will preside over the session Artistic Relations between Italy and Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries II at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America on April 2, 2004. Current graduate student Lisandra Estevez and Rutgers alum Zbynek Smetana will be two of the presenters for the session. Norman Kleeblatt (BA ’71) has had several articles published recently, including: “Istanbul Biennial” in Reviews: International, ARTNews (Dec 2003; “Great Dictation - Norman Kleeblatt on Blindspot: Hitler’s Secretary,” Artforum, vol. 41, no. 5 (Jan 2003); “The Nazi Occupation of the White Cube: Piotr Uklanski’s The Nazis and Rudolph Herz’s Zugzwang,” in Plastika, no. 4 (Winter 2002) and reprinted in Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt & Laurence Silberstein, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2003). On December 6, 2003, Norman presented “The Distanced Mirrors of Memory: Contemporary Artists Respond to Nazi Imagery and Evil” at the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester. He served as a panelist for Art, Interpretation, Meanings at the Museums and Difference Conference, The Center for 21st Century Studies and the Milwaukee Art Museum in November, 2003, and for the Museum Program for the New York State Council on the Arts, 2001-2003. He also participated in Race, Racism and Identity: A National Meeting of Museums at The Field Museum in Chicago, April, 2003. Missy Lemke (MA ‘94) organized the show “Revelations from Reproductions: 15th Century Italian Paintings in the National Gallery of Art” for the National Gallery Library in Washington. The exhibition will be on view through March, 2004. Thomas Loughman (PhD ‘03) has been named Curator of European Art at Phoenix Art Museum. In May, 2003, he organized and presided over a session entitled “Vita Benedicti in Italy: Cycles in Panel and Mural Painting” at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 8-11, 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI. In November, he was a participant at the Early Italian Art Conference held at the University of Georgia, where he spoke on “Fashioning Civic Identity in Totila’s Encounters with St. Benedict of San Miniato al Monte, Florence.” Thomas also recently received a Chester Dale Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stephen Lucey (PhD ‘99) delivered the paper “Who’s Who in Early Medieval Rome: Image and Audience at Santa Maria Antiqua” at a session entitled Medieval Rome I: Patrons and Patronage, at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held last May in Kalamazoo, MI. Scott Montgomery (PhD ‘96) was a guest speaker at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo last May. During the session Medieval Art, Pilgrimage, and Violence, Scott delivered the paper “Establishing the Loca Sancta: Cephalophory and Relic Cults.” Allison Palmer (PhD ‘94) married Michael Kelley in Norman, Oklahoma on March 22, 2003, and announces the birth of their son, Evan.  Allison Palmer, husband Michael Kelley, and son Julian welcome new arrival Evan Neil Palmer Kelley Betsy Parkyn (MA ‘03) is the Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Betsy was recently engaged, and plans to marry in Mexico during January, 2005. Mark B. Pohland (M.A., 1986) is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at DePaul University in Chicago, where he has taught since 1992. In 1994, he received his PhD from the University of Delaware, where he was a student of Rutgers alum Patricia Leighton. Mark has published primarily in the area of photohistory, and is now at work on a book on Marcel Duchamp, the subject of his dissertation. Jennifer
Poole (B.A. ‘98) is the Acting Director of Visual Arts and Director of the International Artist
in Residence Program
at the Newhouse Center
for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Jennifer recently edited
three catalogs, Landfill Victoria
Reed (PhD ‘02) delivered the paper "Lucas
Cranach's Feast of Herod Jane Rehl (MA ‘73) earned her PhD in art history with a concentration in ancient American art from Emory University in May, 2003. Her dissertation was entitled “Weaving Metaphors, Weaving Cosmos: Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru, 300 BCE-1540 CE.” In January, 2003, Jane began teaching at Savannah College of Art and Design. John Beldon Scott (PhD, 1982) has published his most recent book, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, which has been awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Zbynek Smetana (PhD ‘97) will present a paper entitled “Titian Reborn (in Velasquez)” at the annual mee t i ng of the Renaissance Society of America on April 2, 2004. The session is being organized by Rutgers alum Kelley Helmstutler-Di Dio. William Stargard (BA ‘79) has been awarded tenure at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, where he is Associate Professor of Art History. He received his MA and PhD from Columbia University. Jan Newstrom Thompson (PhD ‘80) and her husband, Paul Goldstein, have “downsized” now that their daughter is a student at New York University and are enjoying life back at the Stanford campus’s faculty neighborhood. Kristen Van Ausdall (PhD ‘94) presented “Doubt and Faith: Legitimacy in Host-Miracle Pilgrimage Shrines in the North and South” at the session Art and Architecture of Medieval Pilgrimage III: Miracles of the Blood or the New Made Old: Relics for Veneration and Diplay in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art and Architecture during the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 8-11, 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI. Dorothy Verkerk (PhD ‘92) was a speaker at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held last May in Kalamazoo, MI. Dorothy delivered a paper entitled “Life after Death: The Afterlife of Sarcophagi in Medieval Rome” at the session Medieval Rome I: Patrons and Patronage. Midori
Yoshimoto (PhD ‘02) has received a tenure track position as Assistant Lilian
H. Zirpolo (PhD ‘94) has published numerous articles, including “Artemisia
Ge n t i l es ch i ’ s Spada Madonna and the Trauma of Loss,” in
Essays on Women Artists: “The Most Excellent,” Liana De Girolami
Cheney, ed., (Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen Press, 2003), Vol.
I; and “Bernini’s Faun Teased by Children,” Discoveries:
South-Central Renaissance Conference News and Notes (Fall 2003). Forthcoming
articles include “The Mirror of Truth Revealed by Time: Christina of
Sweden’s Patronage of Gian Lorenzo Bernini,” Woman’s Art
Journal; and “Marriage Practices in Early Modern Rome: The Case of Giovanni
Francesco Sacchetti and Beatrice Tassoni Estense,” Explorations in the
Renaissance. Lilian’s reviews include Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s
Ginevra de’ Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women by David Alan Brown,
ed. (Princeton University Press, 2001)," in Woman’s Art Journal
XXIV: 1 (2003); Women Who Ruled by Annette Dixon (Merrel Publishers, 2002)
in Woman’s Art Journal XXIV: 2 (2003); Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi,
Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, eds. (Metropolitan Museum of Art and
Yale University Press, 2001),” in CAA Reviews (April 2003); Artemisia
Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity
by Mary D. Garrard (University of California Press, 2001) in CAA.Reviews (April
2003). We look forward to reading her reviews of Velazquez’s Las Meninas,
edited by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Renaissance
Quarterly; and Giovanni Baglione: Artistic Reputation in Baroque Rome by Maryvelma
Smith O’Neil (Cambridge University Press, 2002)” in Sixteenth Century
Journal. Lilian continues to co-edit and co-publish Aurora, The Journal of
the History of Art, now in its fifth year, with Rutgers alum Joanna Gardner-Huggett.  |
 Department of Art History |
The Department Website is maintained by the Art History Webmaster. |