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New Faculty Four new faculty members have joined the department during the current academic year: Tatiana Flores, a specialist in Latin American and modern art, Benjamin Paul as an Italian Renaissance expert, Tanya Sheehan, an Americanist, primarily working in nineteenth-century art and photography, and Laura Weigert, who has come as an associate professor in medieval art.
Tatiana Flores received her PhD from Columbia University. Her dissertation
was “Estridentismo
in Mexico City: Dialogues between Mexican Avant-Garde Art and Literature.” From
2003, she was an assistant professor at Florida State University. While at
Tallahassee, she organized an exhibition of contemporary painting, and previously
she organized
six exhibitions in New York. She is working on several publications on contemporary
Latin American artists. Benjamin Paul comes to Rutgers from Harvard University, where he received
the PhD. He works on Venetian topics, including Jacopo Tintoretto, and has
been
actively publishing in Renaissance Quarterly, Springerin, and other journals. Tanya Sheehan completed her PhD at Brown University in 2005, and has been
a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Recently she was awarded
a residency
at the Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College. She has published in
various journals including Journal of American History and Art History, and
has completed
a manuscript of a book on portrait photography as medicine. Laura Weigert received her PhD Northwestern University. Before coming to
Rutgers, she was an associate professor of Art History at Reed College. In
addition
to her many publications on French tapestries, Professor Weigert has organized
interdisciplinary
conferences. She will join Susan Sidlauskas as the new faculty team to offer
the popular Summer Program in Paris. 
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