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Recent Alumni Achievements
- Elizabeth Anne Peterson (PhD 1991) was appointed to the U.S. Senate Curatorial Advisory Board by Senator Bob Bennett, R-Utah. The appointment is not full-time, allowing Elizabeth to keep her position as Chair, Art/Art History Department at the University of Utah.
- Sarah Zeffiro (BA HAA 2006) completed the MEd program in Arts Education at Chatham University.
- Emilie Arnold (BA HAA 2004) completed the Master of Heritage Preservation program at Georgia State Univeristy.
- Janet Marstine (PhD, 1993) is an Assistant Professor teaching in the MA
Program in Museum Professions and the undergraduate art history program at
Seton Hall University. In November of 2007 she was awarded a three-year
IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) 21st Century Museum
Professionals Grant to found an Institute of Museum Ethics (IME) at Seton
Hall. She has recently launched the Institute of Museum Ethics web portal
www.museumethics.org which includes a listserv, a newsfeed, opinion polls,
Q & A, reviews, and annotated bibliography. On Saturday, November 15, 2008 the IME will host its inaugural conference, "Defining Museum Ethics."
Conference agenda and registration at www.museumethics.org. Registration
is free to full-time students. - Karissa Pytlak (BA, AS 2006) is finishing her second year at the MArch program at North Carolina State University. She reports that Jesse Stock, (also AS 2006) is enrolled in the MArch program at the University of Washington in St. Louis.
- Rebecca Long (BA, HAA 2001), now a doctoral student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, has been awarded the Allen Whitehall Clowes Curatorial Fellowship at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for the academic year 2008-2009.
- Alison McQueen (PhD 1998) published "Women and Social Innovation during the Second Empire: Empress Eugénie's Patronge of the Fondation Eugène Napoléon," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 66 no. 2, June 2007.
- Charles Pearo's (PhD 2002) essay "Elizabeth Jane Gardner: 'The Best Imitator of Bouguereau'" was published in In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and his American Students, ed. Peck, James F., (Yale University Press, 2006).
- David Raizman (PhD 1980) published Literature, Audiences, and Objects: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design,co-edited with Carma R. Gorman, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
- Emily Romick (BA, HAA 2004) is employed at Laurel Hill, a historic cemetary in Philadelphia, as a Development Coordinator and Program Assistant. Emily received her MA in Museum Education from the University of the Arts.
- Lauren Owens (BA, AS 2006) is working in the marketing department of CORE architecture + design in Washington, DC.
- Christian Schoening (BA, HAA 2005) received a curatorial and education programs assistant position at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (in St. Paul).
- Jana Dambrogio won the American Academy in Rome Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation for "A Technical Study of Northeastern Italian Monastic Legal and Accounting Documents and Bindings at the Vatican Secret Archives. Dambrogio is a Conservator at the Document Conservation Laboratory, National Archives Administration
- Therese Martin (PhD 2000) published Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain, (Brill Publishers, 2006).
Martin also published an essay in Speculum (October 2005), "Art of a Reigning Queen as Dynastic Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain," which was honored by Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index as their November article of the month.
- Tsui-mei Huang (PhD 1992) published Methods in Art History and Archaeology, 2003, Cross-Straits Conference Proceedings, Graduate Institute of Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National University of the Arts, 2005.
The volume includes essays by Sun Yan (PhD 2001).
Huang was appointed Professor and Dean at Tainana Institute of Fine Arts, Taiwan. - Sharon Latchaw Hirsh (PhD 1974) was appointed President of Rosemont College, inaugurated September 30, 2006.
- Penny Rode (PhD 1999) received tenure at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
- Wang Ying (PhD 2000) recieved tenure at the University of
Wisonsin-Milwaukee. - Roger Crum (PhD 1991) published Renaissance Florence: A Social History. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. He co-edited (with Claudia Lazzaro) Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Cornell, 2005).
- Betsy Kennedy (MA 1991) of the Terra Foundation co-curated an exhibition at the Louvre, "American Artists and the Louvre," which was given advance notice in the New York Times 2/24/2006.
- Carol Solomon Kiefer (PhD 1987) co-edited the catalog The Empress Josephine: Art and Royal Identity (Amherst: Mead Art Museum, 2005).
- Anne Knutson (PhD 1997) co-authored Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic (New York: Rizzoli, 2005), an exhibition catalog for a show at High Museum of Art, Atlanta and Philadelphia Museum of Art.