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Recent Faculty Achievements and Publications
- Drew Armstrong will be a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal in 2009.
- Kathleen Christian was awarded a grant from the Delmas Foundation to conduct research at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Venice.
Prof. Christian was also appointed a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, July 2 - July 16, 2007.
Prof. Christian received a fellowship from Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence for the coming academic year, July 2008-July 2009. The project is titled “Geniuses of the Place: Nymphs in Italian Renaissance Art.” - Josh Ellenbogen published "Camera and Mind" in Representations (issue 101, Winter 2008, p. 86-115).
- Gao Minglu's exhibition The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art opened in Beijing summer 2005 and in Buffalo fall 2005, It was reviewed enthusiastically in the New York Times August 18, 2005 and the Wall Street Journal November 29, 2005. The Journal critic wrote: "For all its actual and metaphorical monumentality and suggestions of enclosure, the Great Wall here suggests openings -- of doors and eyes and sensibilities."
- Ann Sutherland Harris was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art. She received the honor in February 2005 at the WCA conference in Atlanta. Prof. Harris published a major text, Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2004).
Prof. Harris was named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" by Pitt's fraternities and sororities in Fall 2005.
On April 6, 2008, Prof. Harris lectured at the Metropolitan Museum in April on "The Enigmatic Landscapes of Nicolas Poussin," the subject of the "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" exhibition which opened there February 12, 2008. - Fil Hearn's Ideas That Shaped Buildings (MIT Press, 2003) won the Silver Award in Architecture from Foreword Magazine and appeared in a Spanish edition entitled Ideas que han configurado edificios, published by Gustavo Gili in Barcelona, 2006.
- Kathy Linduff's groundbreaking collection, Gender and Chinese Archaeology (co-edited with Sun Yan), features essays by many past and present graduate students in the East Asian program. Kathy and HAA alum Yan Sun recently published a Chinese edition.
09/01/06 Kathy Linduff won the 2006 Provost's Award for Mentoring Excellence, one of four exceptional faculty at the University of Pittsburgh to be so honored. Read more » - Barbara McCloskey's book Artists of World War II (Greenwood), a comparative study of artists and movements from Europe, Russia, Asia, and the United States, received special commendation from Choice magazine: "excellent, thought-provoking art history. Highly recommended."
- Books by Kirk Savage and Terry Smith were singled out for high praise in an overview of scholarship on art of the United States published in Art Bulletin (September 2003).
- Terry Smith's book The Architecture of Aftermath (University of Chicago Press, 2006) is now available.
Prof. Smith was appointed a Fellow at the National Humanities Research Center, Raleigh-Durham, NC, to work on his new book on the concept of contemporaneity. He was also named a GlaxoSmithKlein Senior Fellow for 2007-2008.
On February 13, 2008, Prof. Smith gave the Kluge Distinguished Lecture at the University of Virginia on Contemporary Aboriginal Art.
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008) edited by Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, and Nancy Condee is now available. In this landmark collection—which developed from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2004—world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. More details »
- Alison M. Stones, who taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in spring 2006, returned in January, 2007
to the Section histoire-liturgie as Directeur d'études invité. Her seminars (given in French) were on the illustration of French liturgical books: sacramentaries and missals, antiphonaries and graduals, pontificals, breviaries and martyrologies.
Working with the ULS Digital Research Library, Prof. Stones and students from the department built the first comprehensive online image collection documenting the exterior and interior architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of Chartres Cathedral. Containing more than 3,000 photographs and diagrams, the online collection can be browsed, searched, and viewed at very high resolution.
Prof. Stones spoke on images of teaching and learning at the International Palaeography Conference in London in September, 2008. - Frank Toker's Fallingwater Rising (Knopf, 2003) received dozens of enthusiastic reviews from journals and newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Prof. Toker's book The Buildings of Pittsburgh (University of Virginia Press, 2007) is now available. - David Wilkins (Professor Emeritus of Italian Renaissance Art) won the 2005 College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. He received the award at the annual CAA conference, held in Atlanta. The award, established in 1977, "recognizes an individual who has been actively engaged in teaching for most of his or her career and who is an inspiration to a broad range of students in the pursuit of humanistic studies." To quote from the March 2005 issue of CAA News, "Wilkins is a beloved teacher whose dedication to generations of students has made a tremendous difference to our discipline and to the teaching profession."
Recent publication: Wilkins, David G., editor, A Reflection of Faith: St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, 1906-2006. Pittsburgh, 2007
- Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus John Williams was honored with a Festschrift, Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams (Brill, 2005), co-edited by alumnae Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris. In 2003 Prof. Williams won the Bishko Prize for the best article on medieval Iberian history written by a North American scholar for his essay "Meyer Schapiro in Silos: Pursuing the Iconography of Style," Art Bulletin 85 (2003), 442-68.