Graduate Students
Rebekah Perry
Europe before 1750
CV Highlights
Education
PhD dissertation in progress: "Public Piety, Invented Tradition, and Civic Identity in the Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Tivoli"
MA: History of Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publications
"Death and Devotion in Renaissance Venice: Giorgione’s Boy with an Arrow and the Cult of St Sebastian," Athanor, December 2007.
Presentations
"Portraiture, Piety, and Plague: Giorgione’s Boy with an Arrow and the Renaissance Tradition of St Sebastian Iconography," University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences Grad Expo, March 2007. Awarded first-place prize.
"Death and Devotion in Renaissance Venice: Giorgione’s Boy with an Arrow and the Cult of St Sebastian," Florida State University Art History Symposium, February 2007.
Honors and Awards
History of Art & Architecture Dissertation Development Grant, summer 2007 and summer 2008
Wilkinson Travel Grant, summer 2007
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant, spring 2007
Arts & Sciences Graduate and Professional Student Association Travel Grant, spring 2007
College of Arts & Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, fall 2006-spring 2007
Teaching
University of Pittsburgh
Instructor, Introduction to Medieval Art, summer 2007
Teaching Fellowship, Introduction to Western Architecture, fall 2008
Grading Fellowship, Introduction to Modern Art, spring 2008
Grading Fellowship, Introduction to Renaissance Art, fall 2007
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Grading Fellowship, Introduction to Art, fall 2005
Teaching Fellowship, Introduction to Art, spring 2005
Grading Fellowship, Introduction to Art, fall 2004
Academic and Scholarly Organizations
Student representative, College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
Vice President, Graduate Student Organization, History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2007
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
International Center of Medieval Art
Medieval Academy of America
Internships
Curatorial intern, North Carolina Museum of History, summer 2006
Education intern, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 2005-2006