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Placement

Name

Advisor

Paper Title

Date of PhD

Initial Placement

Subsequent Placement
Sarah Bromberg Stones The Context and Reception History of the Illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam: Fifteenth-Century Case Studies 12/2012 Adjunct Professor, Washington and Jefferson College, Spring 2013  
Cristina Albu Smith Mirror Affect: Interpersonal Spectatorship in Installation Art since the 1960s 4/2012 Assistant Professor, tenure track, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City  
Robert Bailey Smith Art & Language and the Politics of Art Worlds, 1969-1977 4/2012 Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA Department  
Brianne Cohen Smith Contested Collectivities: Europe Reimagined by Contemporary Artists 4/2012 Two-year post-doctoral joint position at the Université catholique de Louvain and Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography  
Julia Finch Stones Bibles en images: Visual Narrative and Translation in New York Public Library Spencer Collection ms. 22 and Related Manuscripts 12/2011 Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA Department  
Rebekah Perry Stones Sacred Image, Civic Spectacle, and Ritual Space: Tivoli's Inchinata Procession and Icons in Urban Liturgical Theater in Late Medieval Italy 12/2011 Adjunct Instructor, University Studies Abroad Consortium in Viterbo, Italy, affiliated with the Università degli Studi della Tuscia.  
Maria D'Anniballe McCloskey and Savage Urban Space in Fascist Verona: Contested Grounds for Mass Spectacle, Tourism, and the Architectural Past 12/2010 Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA Department Visiting Professor, Ohio University, Art History Department
Shalmit Bejarano Gerhart Picturing Rice Agriculture and Silk Production: Appropiation and Ideology in Early Modern Japanese Painting 8/2010 Post-doctoral fellowship from the Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Program for 2010-2011  
Kathy Johnston-Keane Harris Caravaggio’s Drama: Art, Theater, and Literature during Italy’s ‘Spanish Age’ 4/2010    
Annie Kellogg-Krieg McCloskey The Walls of the Confessions:  Neo-Romanesque Architecture, Nationalism, and Religious Identity in the Kaiserreich 4/2010 Visiting Instructor of Art History, Lawrence University Visiting Instructor of Art History, Washington and Jefferson College
Leslie Wallace Linduff Chasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs (25-220 CE) from Shaanxi and Shanxi 4/2010 Visiting Professor, Gettysburg College, Art History Department Visiting Assistant Professor, Hood College, Department of Art and Archaeology
Karen Webb Stones Medieval Manuscripts, Architectural Structures, and their Relationships 4/2010 Part-time lecturer, West Liberty University  
Jui-Man Wu Linduff Mortuary Art in the Northern Zhou China (557-581 CE): Visualization of Class, Role, and Cultural Identity 4/2010 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011-2012  
Travis Nygard Savage Seeds of Agribusiness: Grant Wood and the Visual Culture of Grain Farming 1862-1957 12/2009 Assistant Professor of Art, Ripon Collge  
Sheri Lullo Linduff Toiletry Case Sets Across Life and Death in Early China (5th c. BCE-3rd c. CE) 12/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow at Dickinson College Assistant professor, tenure-track, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Smith Cultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The History and Impact of the Havana Bienniale 1984 to the Present
 4/2009 Director of NC Latin American Film Festival,
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Duke University		  
Cornelie Piok Zanon Weis The Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon: Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Attalid Capital 4/2009    
Kristen Harkness McCloskey "The Phantom of Inspiration: Elena Polenova, Mariia Iakunchikova and the Emergence of Modern Art in Russia" 4/2009 Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department

Instructor, Division of Art and Design, West Virginia University

 
Karla Huebner McCloskey Eroticism, Identity, and Cultural Context: Toyen and the Prague Avant-garde 12/2008 Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA Department Assistant Professor, tenure track, Wright State University, Art and Art History Department
Sue Zitterbart Gerhart Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan 8/2008 Part-time instructor, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department  
Kate Dimitrova Stones Unraveling Christ's Passion: Archbishop Dalmau de Mur, Patron and Collector, and Franco-Flemish Tapestries in Fifteenth-Century Spain 4/2008 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Wells College Assistant Professor, tenure track, New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University, School of Art and Design
Marion Dolan Stones The Role of Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
in the Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Middle Ages		 12/2007 Semester at Sea instructor Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department
Cindy Persinger McCloskey The Politics of Style: Meyer Schapiro and the Crisis of Meaning in Art History 12/2007 Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University Assistant Professor, tenure track, California University of Pennsylvania
April Eisman McCloskey Bernhard Heisig and the Cultural Politics of East German Art 8/2007 Assistant Professor, tenure track, Iowa State University Associate Professor with tenure, Iowa State University
Naoko Gunji Gerhart Amidaji: Mortuary Art, Architecture, and Rites of Emperor Antoku's Temple 8/2007 Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowship from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Assistant Professor, tenure track, Augustana College, Rock Island IL
Carolyn Butler-Palmer Savage and Smith I Won't Play Primitive to Your Modern: The Art of David Neel (Kwagiutl), 1985-2000 8/2006 Legacy Chair in Modern and Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest, tenure-track, University of Victoria  
Patrizia Costa Frezza Harris and Wilkins The Sala delle Asse in the Sforza Castle in Milan 4/2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX Part-time instructor, University of Pittsburgh, HAA Department
Azar Rejaie Wilkins Defining Artistic Identity in the Florentine Renaissance: Vasari, Embedded Self-Portraits and the Patron's Role 8/2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Humanites, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston TX Tenured at University of Houston-Downtown
Mayu Tsuruya Rimer War Campaign Record Painting: Japan's National Imagery of the "Holy War" (1937–1945) 8/2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison College, Granville, OH  

Paul Scolari

 Savage Indian Warriors and Pioneer Mothers: American Identity and the Closing of the Frontier in Public Monuments, 1890-1930 4/2005 Historian and Indian Liaison, National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area  
Ying Yong Linduff The Status of Noble Women in the Spring and Autumn Period China-Evidence from Their Burials 8/2004 Tenure Track, Edinboro University  
Xiaolong Wu Linduff Stylistic Traditions, Patronage and Cultural Identity in Ancient China: Bronze Artifacts of the Zhongshan State, Warring States Period (476-221BC) 8/2004 Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Art History, Hanover College  
Yu Jiang Linduff Statecraft and Cemetery in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Arts in the Zhou 8/2004 Postdoc-National Gallery, Washington DC TT-Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida Atlantic
Univ. Honors College
Sylvia Rhor McCloskey Mural Painting and Public Education in Chicago, 1905-1941 4/2004 Tenure Track, Assistant Professor, Art History, Carlow College Tenured at Carlow College
Leesa Rittelman McCloskey Constructed Identities: The German Photobook from Weimar to the Third Reich 4/2003 Non-tenure Track, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY Associate Professor with tenure, Visual Arts and New Media, SUNY Fredonia
John Chvostal Harris Rethinking the Reform: A Study of the Early Careers of Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carraci 8/2002 Director, Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles  
Charles Pearo Savage Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922): Tracing the Construction of Artistic Identity 4/2002 Independent Scholar  
Judith Golden Stones Patronage and the Saints in the Devotional Miscellany British Library MS Egerton 745 12/2001 Cataloguer, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University  
Yan Sun Linduff Negotiating Cultural and Political Control in North China During the Early Western Zhou Period: Elite Art and Its Use in Mortuary Ritual and Practice in the Yan State 4/2001 Case Western Reserve University Tenured at Gettysburg College
Mikiko Hirayama Rimer The Restoration of Realism: Kojima Kikuo (1887-1959) and the Growth of Art Criticism in Modern Japan 4/2001 Tenure Track, Assistant Professor, School of Art, University of Cincinnati Tenured at the University of Cincinnati
Wang Ying Linduff Rank and Gender in the Bone Art at Anyang, the Late Shang Center 4/2001 Tenure Track, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Tenured at the University of Wisonsin, Milwaukee
Deborah Gatewood Stones Illustrating a Thirteenth Century Natural History Encyclopedia: The Pictorial Tradition of Thomas of Cantimpre's "De Natura Rerum" and Valencienne's Ms. 320 12/2000 Manuscript cataloguer, Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft  
Anne Bertrand Harris Art and Politics in Counter-Reformation Paris: The Case of Philippe De Champaigne and His Patrons (1621-1674) 12/2000 Non-tenure Track, Bard, Vassar

Teaching Associate for Core Art History, Marist College
Jian-jing Liu Linduff Mapping Artifacts of the Frontier: An Approach to the Study of the Yan Mountainous Area in the Eastern Zhou Period (8th - 3rd Century B.C.) 12/2000 Postdoc-Academia Sinica, Nangkang, Taiwan Tenure Track,
Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Therese Elliot Martin Williams and Toker San Isidoro de Leon: From Palatine Chapel to Pilgrimage Church 8/2000 Tenured, University of Arizona Tenure position at the Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain