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Jessica Apuzzo (B.A. 2003 Phi Beta Kappa) has begun her fifth year working at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., a rare book and archives dealer in New York City. She has completed a Master's thesis on Mary McCarthy at Sarah Lawrence College; she will graduate in December 2008. This winter, she is going on holiday to Belgium on a self-guided Renaissance Art History tour.

Andrew (Steve) Arbury (Ph.D. 1992) professor and department chair at Radford University, has recently published a new art appreciation text book: ABOUT ART, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., ISBN: 978-0-7575-5161-1. For more information, contact: Curtis Ross, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. cross@kendallhunt.com or 804-285-9411.

Costanza Barbieri (Ph.D. 1999) is a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

Craig Eliason (Ph.D. 2002) was granted tenure and promotion to become Associate Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in September. He also curated an exhibition, entitled "Face the Nation: How National Identity Shaped Modern Typeface Design, 1900-1960," which appeared at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis from July 12 to September 21. The associated website is still up, at http://www.stthomas.edu/facethenation, and there are some pictures of the exhibition at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36789571@N00/sets/72157607666427822/ .

Emma Guest-Consales (Ph.D., 2005) teaches at William Paterson University (Survey of Western Art) and European Renaissance Art at Manhattan College (Riverdale, NY). Her article "Virgil in Venice, 1470-1507: Illuminated Books from the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection" was recently published in the Princeton University Library Chronicle. In June and July 2008 she was an invited fellow and participant at the XIX Seminario di Alta Cultura and the XXIX Congresso Internazionale di Studi Umanistici sponsored by the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Piceni, in Sassoferrato, Italy.

Missy Beck Lemke (MA, 1994)) spoke at Smith College on the photographer and former Smith art history professor, Clarence Kennedy in April 2008. An article based on her Kennedy research will be published in the November 2008 issue of The Burlington Magazine.

Stephanie Leone (Ph.D., 2001) published her book The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona. Constructing Identity in Early Modern Rome (Harvey Miller/Brepols) in the summer of 2008.

Tom Loughman (Ph.D., 2003) moved to Williamstown, MA, to begin work in the director's office at the Clark on October 15. In his new position, as Assistant Deputy Director, he will be helping move things ahead strategically as the Clark embarks on a major capital expansion centered around a $180m visitor and conference center designed by Tadao Ando, the reorientation of the campus, a renovation of its existing structures, and the amplification of its world-class programs. He and Kelley Helmstutler di Dio contributed to a book project that came out recently: The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art (edited by Jonathan Katz Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser) was released by Princeton University Press in September.

Ferris Olin (Ph.D., 1998) was named Director of the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers in 2008. She co-authored with Judith K. Brodsky an article: "'Stepping out of the beaten path’: Feminism and the Visual Arts,” SIGNS (Vol. 33, No. 2, (Winter 2008): 329-342; and they also co-curated three exhibitions: "Never Has She Ever: Rene Cox", New Brunswick, NJ, Douglass Library Galleries, September 22- December 8; "Never Has She Ever… (group show co-curated with LaToya Ruby Frazier)), New Brunswick, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, October 14-31; and "Passage to Jersey: Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora in our Midst" New Brunswick, NJ: Brodsky Center Gallery, The Heldrich; Jan 15–July 31. Ferris was named to three boards: Editorial Board, "Visual Resources", Advisory Board, "Neighborhood Narratives Project"; and Advisory Board, The Feminist Theorists Papers, Brown University. Lastly, Ferris received three awards: Art to Life Award, A.I.R. Gallery and Art and Living Magazine; Alice Paul Equality Award, Alice Paul Institute; and the Douglass Medal, Douglass College and Association Alumnae of Douglass College.

Alison Poe and her husband, Tim Lyons, welcomed baby Jasmine Martina Lyons on December 16, 2008. Jasmine weighed 9 pounds and 1 ounce and measured 21 inches long. In May, Alison will give a paper entitled "Doctors as Teachers and Students: A Possible Collegium Medicorum in the Via Latina Catacomb, Rome" at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With a colleague, she will also speak at the "Classical Receptions in Children’s Literature" conference at the University of Lampeter (Wales) in July, presenting a paper entitled "Narcissus in Children's Contexts: Didacticism and Scopophilia."

Jasmine Martina Lyons

Mark Pohlad (M.A., 1986) regularly gives lectures on Abraham Lincoln in photography and American art at public sites throughout Illinois as part of the Illinois Humanities Council's "Road Scholars" program.

Katie Poole (Ph.D. 2007) moved to Ohio to begin her year as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Kenyon College, home to another RU alumna and fellow Italian Renaissance art enthusiast, Kristen Van Ausdall (Ph.D. 1994). Katie presented a paper, "Set in Stone: Ferdinando I de'Medici, Public Sculpture, and the Creation of a New Grand-Ducal Iconography," at the annual Renaissance Society of American Conference in Chicago in April.

Marice Rose (Ph.D., 2001) continues to teach at Fairfield University. Her article "Constructions of Mistress/Slave Relationships in Late Antique Art" was published in Woman's Art Journal in November. In March, she chaired a session on Late Antique Art at the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at which fellow Rutgers alums Alison Poe and Stephanie Smith delivered papers.

As a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow, Sascha Scott (Ph.D. 2008) finished her dissertation on interwar art production in the American Southwest and graduated in May. In August, she began a position as the assistant professor of American Art at Syracuse University. Last spring, she was invited to speak about her work at The Colorado College, where she taught as a visiting professor, as well as at the University of Oklahoma, CSU-Chico, Auburn, Towson, UTEP, Texas Tech, and Utah State University.

Amanda L. Smith (B.A. 2006) is currently working as a Fine Art Cataloguer at Rago Arts and Auction Center (Lambertville, NJ). She manages the biannual sale of 19th/20th Century American and European Art as well as assists in cataloguing of the biannual Discovery Auction and the annual Great Estates Auction. She is currently cataloging and managing a sale of a single-owner collection of fine photographs. She is also continuing personal studies of the history of photography and its processes.

Mary Tinti (Ph.D. 08) received her Ph.D. in May of 2008. In August, Mary joined the staff of WaterFire Providence as Assistant to the Artist and Executive Director, Barnaby Evans. In October, Mary was a panel participant in the symposium for “A Thousand Ships: A ritual of remembrance at WaterFire marking the bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade” held at The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. Her recent publications include: “Celebrating the Public Art of Alice Aycock,” Woman’s Art Journal 29 no.2 (Fall/Winter 2008), “Airport Art Revisited: Site Responsive Lessons from The Acconci Studio’s Flying Floors for Ticketing Pavilion,” Collections 4 no.3 (Summer 2008), and “The Refreshing Relevance of Rather Roundtable,” an invited essay for The Field Guide to the Rather Roundtable, a 2008 catalogue published by artists Russ Anderson, Heather Hart, Joelle Howald, Morgan Page, Tom Russotti, Nathan Shafer and Shane Whilden.

Elizabeth Weinfield (B.A., 2002) is a second-year Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She holds a Master's degree in music from Oxford University and is currently the Content Editor of the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elizabeth has also worked as a researcher of French nineteenth-century art at the Met, and recently held a curatorial fellowship at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, where she designed an exhibition of baroque plucked strings. During the summer, she teaches art history for Oxford at L'Académie de Paris, a summer study abroad program, and currently serves as an adjunct in the department of music at City College. She is also an avid violist and gambist and teaches and performs throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Jennifer Zarro (Ph.D., 2007) teaches Modern Art and a senior Internship class at Moore College of Art. She reviewed the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art's Cecilia Beaux exhibition and accompanying catalogue for the Women's Art Journal and is working on publishing a dissertation chapter, as well as other small writing and criticism projects in Philadelphia. She is also busy taking care of Lucy (5) and Asher (3), and encourages anyone in Philadelphia to get in touch!

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