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Study Abroad Program in Rome 
Christopher Atkins (Ph.D. 2006) successfully defended his dissertation in April and graduated in May. While at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he assisted with the organization of the exhibition "Five Centuries of European Portraiture," shown this past fall at the Nagoya-Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Japan, and contributed to the accompanying catalogue. He also published a review of Margaret Klinge and Dietmar Lüdke, "David Teniers der Jüngere 1610-1690. Alltag und Vergnügen in Flanderen" in Sehepunkte 6 (2006), Nr. 9.Beginning in January 2007, he will serve as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Gretchen Burch (MA 2006) received her Master’s degree in May of 2006. Gretchen is currently working at Sotheby's as a cataloguer in the American Painting department. Michael Bzdak (Ph.D. 2001) presented a paper entitled "Are Corporate
Art Collections an American Innovation? Why are Most Corporate Art Collections
Located in the US?" at the International Conference on the Arts in Society
held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in August, 2006. Aliza Edelman, Prof. Joan Marter and Caitlan Davis Craig Eliason (Ph.D. 2002) published “Theo van Doesburg: Italian Futurist?” in The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures, edited Ton Broos, Margriet Bruyn Lacy, and Thomas F. Shannon (Munster: Nodus, 2006): 47-56. Frima Fox Hofrichter, (Ph.D. 1979), Professor and Chair of the History of Art and Design Department at the Pratt Institute, is one of the authors of the new (7th) edition of Janson’s History of Art (2006). She wrote the Baroque and Rococo chapters. In November, Dr. Hofrichter gave a talk at the Johann David Passavasnt-Colloquium on The Masterpiece-Guilds, Corporations and Artistic Training in Northern Europe prior to 1800 in Frankfurt. She spoke on Judith Leyster’s Self-Portrait as her Master’s Piece for the Guild. Joanna Gardner-Huggett, (Ph.D. 1997)Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Depaul University. In October 2006 she co-chaired the conference “Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory” in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, with Lilian Zirpolo. The conference was sponsored by Aurora: the Journal of the History of Art. She also co-edited the seventh volume of Aurora. Additionally, she curated the exhibition "Julia Thecla: Undiscovered Worlds" at the DePaul Art Museum during the fall of 2006, which was accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, and was selected as one of the top ten museum shows by Time Out Chicago. Caroline Goeser (Ph.D. 2000) was awarded tenure in the School of Art at the University of Houston last spring. Her book, Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity, has just come out in the Culture America series edited by Karal Ann Marling and Erika Doss for the University Press of Kansas. Andrew Graciano (RC, BA 1995) got engaged in May 2006 to Holly Haroff, who is a photographer, and will be married in March of 2007. He is both editing and contributing to a book of essays on art and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that will appear in 2008 from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He is also editing and annotating The Memoirs of Benjamin Wilson, FRS: Portrait Painter and Electrical Scientist, which will be published in 2012 by the Walpole Society. His manuscript for a book on Joseph Wright of Derby is under review. He is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Art History Area in the Department of Art at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Dustin Hannah (UC, BA 2006) drafted and designed the façade for the Liberty Harbor North sales center on the corner of Grand and Jersey Street in Jersey City, NJ. He was the project manager for that project in the spring, summer and fall of 2006. The photograph of the showcase building, which was inspired by Monticello, shows the lintels over the windows that were salvaged and cast from a nineteenth-century building on Madison Ave in New York City. John Hanson (MA 1993) delivered the paper "Boys on the Box: Queer Desire in the Mythological Ivory Boxes from Byzantium" at the College Art Association conference in Boston last February. In August he was hired at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC as the Exhibition Associate for the Byzantine Collection. This involves, among many other things, working on the reinstallation of the Byzantine Galleries following the current renovations as well as researching and writing about the collection for museum publications and the collections database. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio (Ph.D. 2000) published "The chief and perhaps only antiquarian in Spain: Pompeo Leoni and his collection in Madrid," in the Journal of the History of Collections 18 (2006): 137-167. She recently signed a contract with Ashgate for a book, expanded from her dissertation, called Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist in the Late Renaissance. She is also about 5 months pregnant with her second child and will soon be off to Milan to do archival research. Meisha Hunter (MA 1997) reports that 2006 was indeed a great year. In April, at the Metropolitan Club in New York, she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation from the American Academy in Rome. Her 11-month study is a preservation assessment of the Aqua Vergine, a still-functioning 2000 year old aqueduct (see http://www.caup.umich.edu/archdoc/romeprizepr406.pdf for the press release). She was also awarded the German Chancellor Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to perform a comparative analysis of preservation legislation in New York and Berlin, which she declined in order to accept the Rome Prize. In June she presented a paper entitled "Croton Waterworks: The Manhattan Landmarks" at the Conference on New York State History at Columbia University. In August, she took a leave of absence from her position as Senior Preservationist at the Landmarks Commission to go to Rome after completing a number of successful projects. These projects included the restorationthe Metropolitan Museum of Art’s fifth Avenue façade, the restoration program at the Cloisters Museum, and the re-opening of the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center, which had been closed for over 20 years. These projects won numerous preservation awards from the Municipal Art Society, the Landmarks Conservancy, and the Friends of the Upper East Side. Patricia C. Kiernan (MA, 2003) married Michael Johnson (MCIS, Rutgers, 2000)
on December 9, 2006 in Dumont, NJ. Patricia is currently the Development & Marketing
Associate for New Jersey Opera Theater in Princeton, NJ. Patricia Kiernan and Mike Johnson Ilana Krug (MA, 1999) received a second master's degree in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto in 2000 and graduated in June 2006 with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies with an emphasis on history. She is currently a professor of history at Villa Julie College in Baltimore, MD. Stephanie Leone (Ph.D. 2001) participated in the curatorial team that organized the exhibition "Secular/Sacred: 11th–16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts," which was on view at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College from February to May of 2006. She also published the essay “In vogue in fifteenth-century Florence: the material culture of marriage” in the exhibition catalogue. Tom Loughman (Ph.D. 2003) is Curator of European Art at the Phoenix Art Museum. He recently acquired for the museum a glazed terracotta Bust of an Aged Apostle (Saint Mark?) by Andrea della Robbia, c. 1490, from Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. It is the first Italian Renaissance sculpture in the region. He also realized the following exhibitions: The Phoenix Art Museum’s presentation of "Collecting the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute" (Jan.-Mar., 2006); "Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from Seventeenth Century Naples" (Dec., 2006-Mar., 2007), including a catalogue published with Skira, Milan; the Phoenix Art Museum presentation of "Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam" (Jan.-May 2007). His first child, Anna Gray Loughman, was born on October 6, 2005. Ferris Olin (Ph.D. 1998) wrote an article for the current issue of Art Libraries
Journal on work at Rutgers related to developing scholarly resources for art
historians, curators, artists and students. The article is entitled “Institutional
Activism: Documenting Contemporary Women Artists in the United States,” Art
Libraries Journal 32 (2007): 10-18. She also gave four lectures in 2006: “The
Feminist Art Project and Contemporary Women Artists,” presented at the
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM in July; “How American
Women Artists Invented Postmodernism” presented at the Monmouth Museum
of Art, NJ, also in July; “The Garden State’s Women’s Art
History” presented at Evergreen Forum, in Princeton, NJ in October; and “Aristocratic
and Working Artists: The Long and Vital History of Women Artists in NJ,” presented
at the 23rd Annual New Jersey History Conference at New Jersey Forum in Trenton,
NJ in November. She also co-curated three exhibitions and produced the accompanying
exhibition catalogs. “In Passionate Pursuit: Capturing the American Women’s
Movement in Art (Photographs by Alessandra Comini)” ran from September
12 - October 15, 2006 as part of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Mabel
Smith Douglass Library at Rutgers and was co-curated with Sara Harrington and
Judith K. Brodsky. “May Stevens: Women, Words and Water – Works
on Paper” ran from November 1, 2006- January 25, 2007 as part of the
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglass Library at Rutgers
and was also co-curated with Sara Harrington and Judith K. Brodsky. “How
American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975” ran at the
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries from December 15, 2005- January 27,
2006 and traveled to the Monmouth Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, Morris Museum
of Art, and New Jersey City University Art Galleries between June 2006 and
June 2007. The exhibition was co-curated with Judith K. Brodsky. Judith Pineiro (MA 2001) left Christie's to become Manager of Upper Level Memberships at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York in 2006. Susan Pinto Madigan’s (MA, Art History, class of '75)Brian Madigan’s
(MA, Art History, class of '75) daughter, Cressida Madigan, is in the Ph.D.
Microbiology program at Harvard Medical School. Susan Pinto Madigan and daughter Cressida Roberta Mayer (BA 1993) is Visual Arts Area Head in the Department of the
Arts at Bucks County Community College and was promoted to Associate Professor
in 2006. Her book, Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion
for India, was accepted for publication by the University of Delaware Press.
The project was recently awarded a $7,000 grant from Furthermore, a Program
of the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Barbara Mitnick (Ph.D. 1983) publisheda book on commission from New Jersey's
Hyde and Watson Foundation entitled The Hyde and Watson Foundation: A History
in May, 2006. She relates that it was a fascinating project dealing with the
story of two foundations that consolidated in 1984. These foundations have
supported the capital projects of many of the region's most important hospitals,
schools, cultural institutions, and others.wasto American art history except
for the inclusion of portrait illustrations of some of the nation's leaders
in philanthropy, a subject she became interested in when she wrote the biography
of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge a few years ago for the Dodge Foundation. Victoria Reed (Ph.D. 2002) published "Walter Westfeld (1889-1943?), Art Dealer in Nazi Germany," in Vitalizing Memory: International Perspectives in Provenance Research (Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 2005): 154-59. She gave the following lectures and conference presentations: "Puzzling Out Provenance," at the Houston Seminar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on October 30, 2006; "Art with a Past: World War II Provenance Research and the Museum Community,” at the Claremont, Southwest Harbor, ME on July 27, 2006; "Nazi-Era Provenance Research in the 21st Century" (co-chair and presenter), American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Boston, MA on April 28, 2006; "Puzzling Out Provenance" (with George Shackelford), as part of the Sunday Lecture Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on March 19, 2006; "Decapitation, Desire, and Devotion in Luini's Salome," at the College Art Association 94th Annual Conference, in Boston on February 24, 2006. Diane Reilly (BA 1990) published the book The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, v. 128 (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Marice Rose, (Ph.D. 2001)Assistant Professor of Art History at Fairfield University, published an article entitled “The Trier Ceiling: Power and Status on Display in Late Antiquity” in the April issue of the Journal Greece and Rome, and presented the following conference papers: “Early Christian Funerary Portraits” at the 15th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies” in Sarasota, Florida, and "Late Antique Images of Slaves in Domestic and Funerary Contexts" at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Quebec. John Beldon Scott (Ph.D. 1982) has stepped down as Interim Director of the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa. For the spring 2007 term, he will be Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Amanda Smith (BA 2006) began working at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, NJ in July of 2006. David Rago can be seen regularly on Antiques Roadshow, and their auction house specializes in Arts and Crafts decorative arts and furniture as well as Modern decorative arts and design. They also have a fine art department and an estate department, which also deals in fine and antique jewelry and silver. Amanda is the cataloguer for the Estates Department, and is responsible for helping to create the auction catalogues, and is the client contact for contracts and consigning. She also researches items that come in for auction. She reports that it is a great place to work, and that she has a wide range of responsibilities and has been able to learn about a wide range of items. The first sale she was responsible for, the Great Estates auction, allowed her to learn a great deal about Asian antiques, which came from a single owner estate, and had the largest jewelry silver selection Rago's has ever had. adds that it has certainly been a learning experience –there is a lot of money circulating around the antiques industry and she is glad to learn about its process. is not sure it is something she could see herself doing the rest of her life, so she is considering going back to school to study Cultural and Historic Preservation. William Stargard (BA 1979) gave a paper entitled "Charity, Repression, and Reform in the 18th-Century Savoyard State" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Montreal in March 2006. Jennifer Tonkovich (Ph.D. 2002) was a contributing author to the catalogue for two exhibits at the Pierpont Morgan Library: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings and Leonardo to Pollock: Master Drawings from the Morgan Library. She published "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot," in Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 56-75. She worked on the exhibitions “Fragonard and the French Tradition and From Rembrandt to van Gogh: Dutch Drawings from the Morgan Library,” both at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Dorothy Verkerk (Ph.D. 1992) published Art of the Middle Ages, 2nd ed., with J. Snyder and H. Luttikhuizen (Prentice Hall, 2006). She gave the following lectures: “God’s Right Hand: Ambiguity on the Crosses at Clonmacnois and Monasterboice” at the “Medieval Art: Those Slippery Images” SECAC/MACAA conference in Nashville, TN in October; “The Southern Cross is a Celtic Cross: Funerary Monuments of North Carolina” at the Celticity Conference “21st Century Celts,” Truro and Cornwall in September; “The Blessing Hand: Liturgical Stations in Early Medieval Sculpture” at the Art, Liturgy and Religious Cult in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, in June. She also received the W.N. Reynold's Competitive Leave Award. Aileen Wang (Ph.D. 2005)has been working in the Client Advisory Group at Christie's since March 2006. She is an in-house art advisor for Christie's top clients, and is in charge of developing business with Asian clients. She reports that her knowledge of both Italian and Chinese has come in handy in this job. Judith Pineiro, another Rutgers alum who used to work at Christie's until recently, introduced her to hiring managers within the company. Elizabeth Weinfield (BA, Hon.'02) graduated with a Master's degree in Music from Oxford University in July 2006 and now works at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments.the summer she taught an art history class for the Oxford study abroad program in Paris, something she hopes to do again this summer. Midori Yoshimoto (Ph.D. 2002) has served as the chair of the Committee on
Women in the Arts of CAA since February, 2006. In collaboration with the Feminist
Art Project and Women's Caucus for Art, she is currently preparing for the
Annual Recognition Awards Ceremony to acknowledge seven women in the arts on
Saturday, February 17, 2007. In March, she was invited to participate in Fluxus
performances orchestrated by Ay-O during his retrospective exhibition at Fukui
Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan. In April, she organized a major exhibition
entitled "For My People: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett" at New Jersey
City University Gallery with a grant received from NJ State Council on the
Arts. During the summer, her article, "Women Artists in the Japanese Postwar
Avant-Garde" appeared in Woman's Art Journal, and she presented a paper, "Between
Art and Crime: Performance That Pushed the Envelope of Japanese Art" at
the Performance Studies International 12th Conference at University of London. Midori Yoshimoto among others
performing George Maciunas' "
In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti" at Fukui, Japan on March 11. Lilian H. Zirpolo (Ph.D. 1994) was commissioned by Scarecrow Press to write
the Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art as part of the A to Z Series to
be published in 2007. She also organized and hosted, with Joanna Gardner-Huggett,
the “Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference” at
the Woodcliff Lake Hilton, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey in October, 2006, and
edited the conference abstracts and proceedings. She published two book reviews:
Juan van der Hamen y León & the Court of Madrid by William B. Jordan
(Yale University Press, 2005) in the Renaissance Quarterly 59/4 (2006) and
Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens by Lisa Rosenthal (Cambridge
University Press, 2005) in the Woman’s Art Journal XXVII/1 (2006). Her
review of Raphael and the Beautiful Banker by D. A. Brown and J. van Nimmen
(Yale University Press, 2005) will be published this year in Art History, as
will the 25 dictionary entries she wrote for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle
Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press). She continues to co-edit and co-publish
Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art with Joanna. On a personal note,
she became a grandmother for the second time. Ella Louise was born on November
20th, 2006 weighing 7.5 lbs. and measuring 20 inches.
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