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New Faculty Jessica Apuzzo (BA 03) Jessica continues to work for Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., a rare book and archives dealer in New York City. She is completing her second year in the Women's History program at Sarah Lawrence College, and hopes to graduate early with her M.A; she is writing her thesis on Mary McCarthy. Jessica will be published in the Encyclopedia of African American History, for which she is writing the entry for the poet and novelist Margaret Walker. Christopher Atkins (PhD 06) From January to June, Chris served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. In the fall of 2007 Chris began a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of Art History at Queens College of The City University of New York. He served as faculty advisor and discussant for the 42nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the Art Institute of Chicago in April and in November co-organized, moderated, and gave a paper at "The Legacies of Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt: A Symposium in Conjunction with The Age of Rembrandt - Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" held at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Chris also presented papers at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America and a symposium on Pieter Brueghel the Younger at the Nassau County Museum of Art, and gave public lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Currier Museum of Art. In July, Chris and Sharon Matt Atkins (PhD 04) welcomed the birth of their first child - Oliver Leo Matt Atkins. Lucia Carbajal (BA 03) Lucia completed her Master's Thesis, entitled "Reconsidering Edmonia Lewis's ‘Hagar’ (1875) within Reconstruction Attitudes," in October 2007, at The City College of New York, CUNY. My official graduation date is January 2008. Her degree is in Art History with a concentration in Museum Studies. Since October, she has moved from New York and now resides in Philadelphia. Brian Clancy (PhD 05) Brian, Amy and Katie are happy to announce the arrival of.Grace Arden Clancy, January 16, 2008. 8 lbs. 3 oz., 21 inches. Mother and baby are both home and doing well.
Dina Comisarenco (PhD 97) Dina has a growing list of publications: "Entre
la tradición y la modernidad: diseño industrial mexicano contemporáneo” in
Vida y diseño en México del siglo XX, Fomento Cultural Banamex,
2007; "Luna. Sol. ¿Yo? Frida o una alegoría real del México
posrevolucionario" in Frida Kahlo, México, D.F., Fomento Cultural
Banamex, 2007. México. “Diseño Industrial,” with
Manuel Álvarez, in Historia del Diseño en América Latina
y el Caribe. Industrialización y comunicación visual para la
autonomía, Gui Bonsiepe y Silvia Fernández coord., San Pablo,
Brasil, Edgard Blücher, and Nodal/ Nodo Diseño América Latina,
2008. Dina also delivered several lectures last year: Historia del Diseño
en América Latina y el Caribe. Industrialización y comunicación
visual para la autonomía Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires;
Vida y diseño. México Siglo XX.Centro de Diseño, Cine
y Televisión, Ciudad de México; and “Diosas y madres: los
arquetipos femeninos en Diego Rivera” in Diego Philip Earenfight (PhD 00), director of the Trout Gallery and associate professor of art history at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, edited A Kiowa’s Odyssey, which considers the 32-page sketchbook of drawings by the Kiowa warrier Etahdleuh Doanmoe. The sketchbook, which had been disassembled and divided between Dickinson and Yale, chronicle the experience of 72 Comance, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Caddo who were captured in 1875 during uprisings associated with the Plains Wars. The book accompanied an exhibition at the Trout Gallery, which marked the first attempt to reunite the materials and reconstruct the original sketchbook and its historical context. Sarah Falls (MA 00) is now working at ARTstor in the User Services division. Joseph Francaviglia (BA 96) left Christie's after nine years to become the director in charge of gallery operations at David Zwirner in New York. Emma Guest-Consales (PhD 05) In March 2007 Emma was hired as the assistant project manager of the Conservation Documentation Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Mellon Foundation Project designed to analyze material generated by the various conservation departments in the museum. The project includes the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and museums in the UK and Europe. Emma is also teaching an art history survey at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ. In addition, she had two articles accepted for publication in 2008, one for the Princeton University Library Chronicle, the other for the Rivista di Storia della Miniatura (published by Centro Di, Florence). Joanna Gardner-Huggett (PhD 97) is presenting "The Resurrection of Julia Thecla (1896-1973): Canonization or Disease" at Dallas CAA. This spring, she will be a guest juror for the exhibition "Feminist Interrogations" to be held at the women artists' cooperative ARC Gallery in Chicago. Joanna recently published “The Women Artists’ Cooperative Space as a Site for Social Change: Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (1973-79)” in Social Justice, and she continues to co-edit Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art with fellow Rutgers graduate Lilian Zirpolo (http:aurorajournal.org). Dustin Hannah (BA 05) Three of Dustin’s original works of art were accepted into the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in LA. The pieces -- an oil painting, a charcoal drawing and a photomontage – had also been exhibited in the New York metropolitan area, and are now part of ONE’s permanent collection. Heather Hess (PhD 06) is finishing her final year as the Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, where she has been researching the Museum’s collection of 18th-century German porcelain for an exhibition and symposium that will take place this spring. Her essay, “The Lure of Vienna: Paul Poiret and the Wiener Werkstaette,” was published in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition catalogue, Poiret. She also published “The Wiener Werkstaette and the Reform Impulse,” in Producing Fashion, edited by Regina Blaszczyk for the Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press. Heather is presenting the paper “Setting the Modern Table in Imperial Vienna” at the 2008 CAA Annual Conference. Gabriela Jasin (PhD 03) is publishing her first article, "Newtonian Science and Lockean Epistemology in Chardin's Soap Bubbles" in Art and Science of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Andrew Graciano, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Ilana Krug (MA 99) was hired as an Assistant Professor by the History and Political Science DepartmentYork College of Pennsylvania, starting in the fall 2007. Christine Kuan (BA 66) In December 2007, Christine became the new Director of Collection Development for ARTstor. Christine had previously served as the Senior Editor of Grove Art Online/Grove Dictionaries of Art at Oxford University Press. Melissa Beck Lemke (MA 94) Missy is the Image Specialist for Italian Art in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Image Collections (a.k.a. Photo Archives). She curated an installation of photographs at the National Gallery entitled Character of Form: Clarence Kennedy and the sculpture of Desiderio da Settignano to coincide with the Gallery's Desiderio exhibition. She gave lectures on Clarence Kennedy at National Gallery and CASVA colloquies. The most challenging and rewarding part of 2007 was learning the ropes of raising her daughter, Siena Rose Lemke, born November 21, 2006. Gail Levin (PhD 76) Last year, Gail was Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the Roosevelt Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands. A recipient of the National Association of Women Artists’ Award for Biography and Art History, Rutgers’ Award for Distinction in the Humanities, A Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant, the Pollock-Krasner/Stony Brook Research Fellowship, she published two books, Becoming Judy Chicago and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. Gail’s recent articles include “Art Meets Politics: How Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party Came to Brooklyn” in Dissent and “Censorship, Politics and Sexual Imagery by Jewish-American Feminist Artists” in Nashim. She was also the author of “Modern and Postmodern Art and Architecture” in A Companion to the Classical Tradition. Gail presented numerous guest lectures in Belgium, The Netherlands, and the United States, as well as professional papers on Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner at symposia in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York, respectively. She was co-curator of “Judy Chicago: Jewish Identity” at Hebrew Union Institute of Religion Museum, for which she also wrote a catalog essay. In August, the Cape Cod Museum of Art exhibited a show of Gail’s own photographs, “Hopper’s Places and Other Works.” Felicia Messina-D'Haiti (MA 95) In October 2007, Felicia presented a paper at the Maryland Art Education Association Convention at Towson University. In December, she graduated with an Advanced Graduate Specialist (A.G.S.) certificate in Education Policy and Leadership from the University of Maryland College Park. Mary Kate O’Hare (PhD 04). 2007 was a big year for Mary Kate. She celebrated the birth of Mila Anne Edelson on April 9, and was promoted to Associate Curator of American Art at The Newark Museum, where she organized the exhibition "At the Movies: Edward Hopper's The Sheridan Theatre." Another major show, investigating geometric abstract art made between the wars in North and South America, will open at Newark during September, 2009, the museum’s centennial.
Ferris Olin (PhD 98) During 2007, Ferris co-curated (with Judith K. Brodsky) “Favorite Elements: Works by Orlan”; “Brenda Goodman: Self-Portraits 2003 – 2007”; “Eccentric Bodies: The Body as a Site for the Imprint of Age, Race and Identity”; and “On Either Side: Berni Searle” for the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series. “How American Women Artists Invented Post-modernism,”also organized by Olin (and Brodsky), traveled throughout New Jersey. Ferris’s article, “Institutional Activism: Documenting Contemporary Women Artists in the United States,” appeared in Art Libraries Journal, and she wrote the forward to the catalog Visceral Mappings: Transdiasporic Art Practice, for an exhibition held at the National Women’s Studies Conference in Illinois last June. Ferris gave the keynote address, “Intersectionalities in Feminist Art,” at the 31st annual Women’s Studies Conference of the Women’s Studies Consortium the University of Wisconsin, and she led a teacher development workshop for the Morris Museum of Art. Ferris is principal investigator for a General Program Support Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Project Director of the Women Artists Archives National Directory (http://waand.rutgers.edu). Ferris serves on the Resource Council of Philgrafika (an international festival celebrating the printed image, scheduled for 2010 in Philadelphia); was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Visual Resources and the CAA Task Force on Professional Practices; and she serves on the National Committee of The Feminist Art Project, based at the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers. She received the Annual Recognition Award from the College Art Association Committee on at a ceremony chaired by Midori Yoshimoto (PhD 02). Alison Poe (PhD 07) Alison is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at Drew University in Madison, NJ, where she teaches ancient and medieval art. She also team-taught a multidisciplinary course entitled "Classical Antiquity" in the Humanities Program in fall, 2007. She will present the paper “Painted Portrait Galleries in Late Antique Tombs and their Precedents" at the New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies in Sarasota, FL in March 2008. Katie Poole (PhD 07) Katie was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University for the spring semester 2007. She continued at ECSU in adjunct capacity through summer and fall, 2007. Katie reviewed the catalog for the exhibition “Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque,” held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. Her review will appear in the Woman’s Art Journal during 2008. Victoria Reed (PhD 01) Torie has an article (with Frederick Ilchman), "The Birth of Saint John the Baptist by Tintoretto in the Church of San Zaccaria: Conservation and Iconography," in Arte Nelle Venezie: Scritti di amici per Sandro Sponza, ed. Chiara Ceschi et al., Padua, 2007, pp. 107-114, 294-295. Marice Rose (PhD 01) Marice’s review of the book Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones was published in Cloelia (Fall 2007), 26-27. She also published a review of Byzantine Women and their World by Ioli Kalavrezou was published in Woman’s Art Journal vol. 28 (2007), 67-70. Marice presented the paper “Heavenly Rome in the Apse Mosaic of Santa Pudenziana” at CAA in New York, 2007. Stacy Shultz (PhD 04). Stacy and son Logan are now living in the Lone Star State, where she’s a visiting assistant professor of Art History. It was there that Stacy recently presented “Copyright: Fair Use, Access, and the Threat to Creativity,” a lecture on copyright laws, with Rita Lasater, director of visual resource commons, and Bart Weiss, associate professor and area coordinator of film/video. Stacy was a panel participant in “Revealed: Women, Art, Life, Success” at Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, and she presented “Southern California Feminism and Body Image: A Performative Response” at the Art Historians of Southern California Session at CAA. Her forthcoming publications include “Latina Identity: Reconciling Ritual, Culture, and Belonging,” Woman’s Art Journal 30, no. 1 (Spring /Summer 2008) and“Naming in Order to Heal and Redeem: Violence Against Women in Performance,” n. paradoxa (Violence Issue: Vol. 21, January 2008). Ute Tellini (PhD 91) Ute has moved to New Hampshire to be closer to her daughter and family. Ute will remain the Book Review Editor for the Woman's Art Journal, a Rutgers Publication. Anyone interested in reviewing a book or writing an article on women and art may contact Ute at utellini@womansartjournal.org.
Lilian H. Zirpolo (PhD 94) Lilian published The Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, and was commissioned by the same publisher to write The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art, forthcoming in 2010. Her review of Rome, edited by Marcia B. Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2005), is in the December 2007 issue of Discoveries, the online publication of the South-Central Renaissance Conference. Lilian continues to co-edit Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art with Joanna Gardner-Huggett, now in its ninth year, and is the editor of the WAPACC Text and Studies Series, which will be publishing an anthology on Early Modern Italian chapel decoration by the end of this year. 
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