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For more news about Alumni:
| J. Koerner Interview |
J. Przyblyski @ Commencement | Julia Bryan-Wilson Interview | Interviews with 4 Recent PhDs
Notes on some veterans of our program: The History of Art Department's Graduate Student Alumni |
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| Roger C. Aikin |
From 2011 Newsletter: Roger C. Aikin (Ph.D. 1977) retired from Creighton University in 2007. He and his wife, Judith (PhD in German Literature, UCB, 1975) now live in Bend, Oregon. Roger is writing the text for a nineteen volume series, The Portfolios of Brett Weston (Lodima Press, 2005ff), of which 10 volumes have so far appeared. He also gives presentations on art, architecture, and film in a lifelong learning program in Bend. He is member of Juniper Golf Club in Redmond, Oregon, and plays to a nine handicap. | |
| Bridget Alsdorf |
From 2011 Newsletter: Bridget Alsdorf (Ph.D. 2008) has spent the past year on leave as a fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her main projects were the completion of her book on the collective ideal in early avant-garde French painting (forthcoming from Princeton University Press) and continuing research for a new project on crowds and crowd psychology in fin-de-siècle French art. Articles on Fantin-Latour, Degas and Cézanne were also published this year. In the fall she returns to teaching at Princeton with a Bicentennial Preceptorship for 2011-2014. Besides the excitement of New York and two trips to Paris, Bridget has greatly enjoyed getting to know Atlanta, where her husband, Todd Cronan, is now a professor. In December, Bridget and Todd had an amazing (albeit very belated) honeymoon in Rome and Sicily. They ran into Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby on a little Roman side street while in search of gelato. | |
| Linda Graham Angel |
Linda Graham Angel (Ph.D. 1996) is presently Professor of Art History at the College of Southern Nevada, where she has learned a little about a lot of things and discovered there is actually a course entitled "Art Appreciation." Her husband, Dennis Angel, a painter, teaches studio foundation courses at CSN, and her nineyear- old daughter, Claire Zhao Hui Angel, is a mean chess player. | |
| Elise Archias |
From 2011 Newsletter: Elise Archias (Ph.D. 2008) has been an assistant professor of art history at CSU Chico and a scholar-in-residence at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center through July 2011. Recent activities include a presentation on the model of art operating in Yvonne Rainer’s new dances and a review of the exhibition “Eva Hesse Spectres 1960” in caa.reviews. | |
| Meryl Bailey |
Meryl Bailey (2003) completed her dissertation, "More Catholic than Rome: Art and Lay Spirituality at Venice's Scuola di S. Fantin, 1562-1605", in 2011. In 2011-2012, she will be working a visiting assistant professor of art history at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Her article on Jacopo Palma il Giovane's Purgatory Cycle for the Scuola di S. Fantin will be published by the Ateneo Veneto in 2012. When Meryl is not editing her work in the library, she can often be found editing her work in the stands at the Berkeley-Albany Little League field, where her son Gus (age 6) is training for a future career with the San Francisco Giants. | |
| Cristelle Baskins |
Cristelle Baskins (Ph.D. 1988) spent the year on sabbatical as an Aga Khan Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard working on a new project, "Picturing North Africa and the Levant in Early Modern Italy." She also made two trips to the Middle East, visiting Israel (October 2009) and Egypt (March 2010). She was an invited speaker at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Carleton College and Cornell University. She will be teaching summer school at Tufts Talloires, France campus. In early July she will be doing research in Genoa and Livorno. | |
| Catherine Becker |
From 2011 Newsletter: Catherine Becker (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her article, “Not Your Average Boar: The Colossal Varaha at Eran,” appeared in a felicitation volume of Artibus Asiae honoring Professor Emerita Joanna Williams. In 2011-12 Catherine will be on leave and a faculty fellow at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities, where she will be finishing her book manuscript on Buddhist sculpture from Andhra Pradesh. | |
| M. Elizabeth Boone |
M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone (M.A. U.C.B. 1985; Ph.D. Cuny 1987), Professor of the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta, has received a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant for her project "Spain at the American World's Fairs and Centennial Exhibitions, 1876-1915." Betsy loves living in Canada and welcomes hearing from other Berkeley History of Art grads. | |
| Patricia Fortini Brown |
From 2011 Newsletter: Patricia Fortini Brown (Ph.D. 1983) is in her first year as professor emeritus after 27 years at Princeton and has found that retirement does not mean relaxation. After a research trip to Istanbul and Venice, she gave several public lectures and visited Reed College as the Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts. A symposium, “Giorgione and His Times: Confronting Alternate Realities,” was held at Princeton in December in honor of her retirement. Activities in 2011 include a symposium, “Pietro Bembo e le arti,” in Padua and participation in sessions at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Montreal: “Geographies of Empire: The Venetian Stato di Mar and Stato di Terra Reconsidered.” Brown was elected Socio Straniero of Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and serves on the Board of Trustees of Save Venice. She is continuing her research for two books on the art and culture of the greater Venetian empire. | |
| Julia Bryan-Wilson |
From 2011 Newsletter: Julia Bryan-Wilson (Ph.D. 2004) had a busy year on leave from UC Irvine—in Fall 2010 she was a Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts in Oakland; in winter she headed to Leeds, England as a Senior Fellow in Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute; and in spring she lived in western Massachusetts as a Clark Art Institute Fellow. At these various places, she worked on her newest book project about handmaking in contemporary art, wrote several essays, and did a lot of wandering with her partner, Mel Chen, who teaches in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Berkeley. She will spend much of the summer in Shanghai, China. In Fall 2011, she enthusiastically joins the History of Art Department at Berkeley as Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art. (see Julia's Faculty Page) |  |
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| Jessica Buskirk |
Jessica Buskirk (Ph.D. 2008) is starting the second year of a post-doc in an interdisciplinary research project (called the Collaborative Research Centre 804) at the Technical University Dresden, where she is researching the origins of genre painting. This spring and last spring, she was lucky enough to spend a couple months in Brussels at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts. And since April of last year, she has been happily married to Bertram Kaschek. | |
| Kimberly Cassibry |
From 2011 Newsletter: Kimberly Cassibry (Ph.D. 2009), Assistant Professor of Ancient Art at Wellesley College, adjusted to her new life in the Boston area last year. She finally gained access to the inner sanctum of American academia, Harvard’s Widener Library, with her very own borrower’s card. She took her students on field trips near (Boston MFA), not so near (Worcester Museum of Art), and far (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC). And she presented new work to Boston University’s Classics Department (“The Roman Empire According to the Celts: Insights from a Parisian Pillar, a Treveran Tombstone, and Souvenirs from Hadrian’s Wall”). In May, she took part in a travelling seminar focused on “The Arts of Rome’s Provinces.” Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the seminar began with a two-week trip to sites around England, including London, Oxford, Bath, and Hadrian’s Wall. A second two-week trip will take the seminar to Greece in January 2012.< | |
| Kevin Chua |
From 2011 Newsletter: Kevin Chua (Ph.D. 2005) continues to teach 18th and 19th century European art history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He is working on a book manuscript on the 18th-century French artist, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, tentatively entitled Greuze and the Image of Incest. Recent projects – in both 18th-19th century European art and contemporary Asian art – have included an essay on tigers and posthumanism in 19th-century Singapore (for the journal FOCAS), an essay on vitalism and immortality in Girodet’s Sleep of Endymion (for the anthology Vital Matters, edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall), and an essay on a Chinese tapestry of the 1793 Macartney diplomatic mission to Beijing, presented at the 2011 CAA conference. His next project, titled “Chardin’s Leibnizian Unconscious” (for the 2011 Bloomington Eighteenth Century Studies Workshop at Indiana University), explores the French painter’s hidden debt to Leibniz in his late still life of the 1750s and 60s. With regard to living in Texas for five years, he enjoys the dry climate of West Texas, but often regrets not owning a full-size pickup (with gun rack). | |
| Rebekah Compton |
Rebekah Compton (Ph.D. 2009) specializes in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1600. Her dissertation examined the prevalence and exposure of Venus within the visual cultures surrounding love, sexuality, marriage, and politics in sixteenth-century Florence. Her article, entitled "Omnia Vincit Amor: The Sovereignty of Love in Michelangelo's Venus and Cupid," will be published in Mediaevalia this coming fall. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Rebekah held the position of lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art at Berkeley. | |
| Huey Copeland |
From 2011 Newsletter: Huey Copeland (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Art History and affiliated faculty in African American Studies at Northwestern University. In the past year, his writing has appeared in edited volumes such as Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art as well as in Artforum, Callaloo, and a special issue of Representations he co-edited with Krista Thompson and Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby. He is currently in residence at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Since completing his book manuscript Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Radical Imagination in Multicultural America—under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press—he has been focused on a new project exploring the foundational import of black femininity within modern and contemporary art. | |
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| Sharon Corwin |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sharon Corwin (Ph.D. 2001), Director and Chief Curator at the Colby College Museum of Art, is working with Los Angeles architects Frederick Fisher and Partners on a 24,000 square foot addition to the museum. Groundbreaking is scheduled for fall of 2011, and the new wing will open in summer 2013. | |
| Todd Cronan |
From 2011 Newsletter: Todd Cronan (Ph.D. 2005) has completed his first year as Assistant Professor of European Modernism at Emory University. Over that year he has also help launch a new online journal entitled nonsite.org. Nonsite.org is edited by art historians, literary critics, philosophers and artists including Walter Benn Michaels, Michael Fried, Ruth Leys, Robert Pippin, Jennifer Ashton, Charles Palermo, and James Welling. (We certainly encourage submissions from Berkeley colleagues!) In addition, Todd has completed two books on Matisse (for Univ. of Minnesota Press and Phaidon) and is at work on a new volume on architecture and design theory from Louis Sullivan to Richard Neutra. Beyond flying up and back between Atlanta and NYC (to visit Bridget, see above!), in December Bridget and he had a completely awesome, if woefully delayed, honeymoon in Rome and Sicily. | |
| André Dombrowski |
André Dombrowski (Ph.D. 2006) finds that Philadelphia is becoming more and more home. The one thing he is dreading is Jonathan's move to Buffalo this summer- they have had their fill of long-distance intimacy. It's been an exciting year otherwise. He can, finally, see the end of the tunnel for his early Cézanne book: the manuscript is due to California Press this summer. He has started new work on Manet and Second Empire social policy, presented at Harvard and The Clark. The most exciting part of his year was a 6-day trip in March to St. Petersburg for a Cézanne-conference. | |
| Nina Dubin |
From 2011 Newsletter: Nina Dubin (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book, Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2010), was published this past October. That same month, she and Matthew Jackson celebrated the birth of their first child, Sarah Jane Shira Jackson, eleven years after they first met outside the slide library. (Nina would insert a witticism here about sleep having gone the way of slides but she is too tired to think of one. She would, though, like to thank Matthew for being as wonderful a father as he is a husband). |  |
| Sarah Evans |
Sarah Evans (Ph.D. 2004) is turning her dissertation on Cindy Sherman into a book about appropriation arts and the social. "There's No Place Like Hallwalls: Alternative-Space Installations in an Artists' Community" appeared in the Oxford Art Journal in 2009. Sarah teaches modern and contemporary art history at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where she had to take up drinking coffee because there is nothing else to do. | |
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| Charlotte Eyerman |
Charlotte Eyerman (Ph.D. 1997) joined the faculty at Union College in 1994 and was appointed the John T. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor, 1996-1997. In 1999, she took a leave to launch ElucidArt, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA. In 2002, she was appointed Assistant Curator of Paintings at the J.Paul Getty Museum, where she curated "Courbet and the Modern Landscape" (2006), among other exhibitions. In 2006, she became Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum and curated "Action / Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976." In November 2009, she joined Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, as a Director. | |
| Sarah E. Fraser |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sarah E. Fraser (Ph.D. 1996) is Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. During 2010 she was an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow and Member of School of the Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. There she was completing a book project concerning the Sino-Tibetan frontier, neo-colonialism, and modern Buddhist painting. She is also completing a project with the Academia Sinica on Qiang and Tibetan regions of Sichuan Province (Amdo and Kham) and the representation of ethnicity in architecture. This past year she also published articles concerning Chan (Zen) painting with the Shanghai Museum, 10th-13th century topographical and travel painting with the Palace Museum, Beijing, and Buddhist Archaeology with the British Academy, London. | |
| Amy Freund |
From 2011 Newsletter: Amy Freund (Ph.D. 2005) is an assistant professor of art history at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Her essay “The Revolution at Home: Masculinity, Domesticity and Political Identity in Family Portraiture 1789-1795,” was published in 2010 in Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity, 1789-1914 (Ashgate). She has another article forthcoming in The Art Bulletin in September 2011. | |
| Jean Givens |
Jean Givens-formerly, Jean Givens Wright (Ph.D. 1985) was the 2009 winner of the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize for Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. | |
| Carma Gorman |
From 2011 Newsletter: Carma Gorman (Ph.D. 1998) has just completed her thirteenth year of teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is looking forward to a productive sabbatical year in 2011-12. | |
| Robin Greeley |
From 2011 Newsletter: Robin Greeley (Ph.D. 1996) organized a two-day conference on Empire in the Middle East, from Antiquity to the British & French Mandates, as part of the larger World Congress on Middle Eastern Studies in Barcelona last July. To be published by Cambridge University Press (2013), the conference included a stellar cast of scholars from around the world. Additionally, Robin continued as co-director of the lectures series, Art & Politics in Contemporary Latin America, at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She also continues on the Executive Board of the New England Council on Latin American Studies. Finally, she gave a talk at the Getty on the current state of Latin American art history, and a talk at Harvard on the sculptural materialism of contemporary Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. Both these talks will be published as book chapters next year. | |
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| Stratton D. Green |
Stratton D. Green (Ph.D. 1992) is married to Susan Ballestero and has two children, Griffin (5) and Sophie (8). He is living in Prairie Village, KS, a wooded suburb of Kansas City, KS, and works as an Indexer for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At present, he is writing a short study of the history of public sculpture in Mission Hills, KS by J.C. Nichols, a prominent Kansas City developer. | |
| Anthony E. Grudin |
From 2011 Newsletter: Anthony E. Grudin (Ph.D. 2008) is beginning his third year as Assistant Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Vermont. His essay, “Culture and Myth in Warhol’s Early Newsprint Paintings,” is included in the National Gallery of Art’s Warhol: Headlines catalogue (also to be published in Italian and German). An expanded version of the essay, “‘except like a tracing’: Defectiveness and Accuracy in Early Warhol,” has been accepted for publication in October. | |
| Sarah Hamill |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sarah Hamill (Ph.D. 2008) has started a position as Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Oberlin College, and is re-adapting to winter. Recent publications include an essay on the photography of David Smith, in David Smith Invents (Phillips Collection/Yale Press); a monograph on the artist, David Smith: Works. Writings. Interviews (Ediciones Polígrafa, in English and Spanish); and an article on Smith’s color slide transparencies and the problem of polychrome sculpture (Getty Online Publications). She is currently revising her dissertation as a book, which is under advanced contract at the University of California Press, and co-editing, with Megan Luke, a volume on sculpture and photography, and recently presented her research at the Phillips Collection and the Museum of Modern Art. | |
| Joan Hart |
Joan Hart (Ph.D. 1981) will be publishing her book on Heinrich Wölfflin (Antinomies of Experience in Art) with Glasgow University Press-at long last-after a mutual parting of the ways with Cambridge. She is publishing an essay on Wölfflin and Max Weber, entitled "Heuristic Constructs and Ideal Types: The Wölfflin/Weber Connection," in the edited volume Beyond Formalism. She is at work on a book on art and perception, which is based on the course she teaches at Indiana University on perceptual psychological effects in art. Joan gave a talk at CAA in 2007 on "Threshold Effects in Modern Art," which will be part of this volume. | |
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| Christopher Heuer |
From 2011 Newsletter: Christopher P. Heuer (Ph.D. 2003) is entering his fifth year teaching at Princeton, where he is at work on a new book about movement and time in the Northern Renaissance. His first book, The City Rehearsed, based upon a dissertation written with Elizabeth Honig and Loren Partridge, was published by Routledge. |
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| Laura Hollengreen |
From 2011 Newsletter: Laura Hollengreen (Ph.D. 1998) recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia to take up a new position as Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Prior to that she was Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Chair of the Faculty of the College there, and the leader of two major campus groups, one of women faculty and the other of medievalist and early modernist scholars. In her final year at the UA, she also served as Interim Director of the School. Although the move back East has been a big change for Laura and her family after many years on the West Coast, it has brought new opportunities: the chance to advise Ph.D. students in architectural history and theory, to participate in study abroad programs, and to collaborate with local computing specialists in her scholarship and teaching. | |
| Brian Horrigan |
Brian Horrigan (Ph.D. 1975) began his 20th year as curator of exhibits at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul in 2010. He is currently working on a major traveling exhibition on the year 1968, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In 2011, he will begin a one-year leave of absence- supported by an NEH Fellowship- to complete his book on Charles Lindbergh and American culture. Quite the distance from the Sala del Cinquecento study he did for Loren Partridge, or the St.-Denis column-statues MA thesis he did for Jean Bony in 1975. Things change. | |
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| Eleanor Hughes |
Eleanor Hughes (Ph.D. 2001) came to the Yale Center for British Art in 2005 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate after a period of adjunct teaching and postdoctoral fellowships, during which she got married and had a baby. She is now Associate Curator and Head of Exhibitions and Publications and lives in Hamden, CT with Rodger, Rufus (7), Edith (3), and Puzzle the cat. | |
| Melissa Lee Hyde |
From 2011 Newsletter: Melissa Lee Hyde (Ph.D. 1996)’s most important news is that in October, she and her husband, Eric Segal (BA, UCB, 1989), adopted a baby boy from Taiwan. Jasper will be two in June, and they think he rocks!! Meantime, I was co-recipient of the inaugural Mellor Prize (a $50, 000 prize awarded by the National Museum of Women in the Arts), for a book entitled Women in French Art 1750-1830 to be co-authored with Mary D. Sheriff. This summer will see publication of a co-edited volume, Plumes et pinceaux d’Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun à Johanna von Haza. L’art français vu par les Européennes 1750-1850; an essay on Mme DuBarry and Marie Antoinette in Cultures de cour, Cultures du corps (PUPS) and a chapter on Boucher and Fragonard in Boucher: Man of the Enlightenment. She is currently writing on masculinity and embroidery in the work of C-G de Saint-Aubin, which will appear in a volume on Seeing Satire in SVEC. | |
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Matthew Jesse Jackson |
From 2011 Newsletter: Matthew Jesse Jackson (Ph.D. 2003) teaches art and art history at the University of Chicago. His 2010 book The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant Gardes recently won the 2011 Robert Motherwell Book Award for “outstanding publication on Modernism in the Arts.” Another project, Our Literal Speed, received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant (it’s also appearing at MoMA in May 2011) and his new book/exhibition project Vision and Communism will appear in September at the Smart Museum in Chicago. |  |
| Eik Kahng |
From 2011 Newsletter: Eik Kahng (Ph.D. 1996) after eight years at the Walters Art Museum, where she was curator and head of the department of 18th- and 19th-century art at the Walters Art Museum, has taken a new position as Chief Curator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Ironically, her first exhibition at SBMA was a traveling show she organized for the Walters of their finest 19thcentury European paintings. She has just completed her second exhibition at SBMA, Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-12, which is scheduled to open at the Kimbell Art Museum on May 29, 2011. The show then goes to Santa Barbara, where it will open on September 17. The accompanying book, edited by Eik and distributed by Yale University Press, features essays by Annie Bourneuf, Harry Cooper, Christine Poggi, and Charles Palermo with a conservation study by Claire Barry and Bart Devolder. Eik lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, Joakim Tan. | |
| Padma Kaimal |
From 2011 Newsletter: Padma Kaimal (Ph.D. 1988) has been spending a wonderful year as a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. The Festschrift she edited for Joanna Williams was published this year as issues 69.2 and 70.1 of the journal Artibus Asiae. Her book, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis is forthcoming in 2011 from the Association of Asian Studies Press, Ann Arbor. | |
| Sarah Kennel |
Sarah Kennel (Ph.D. 2003) co-curated an exhibition on photographic processes at the National Gallery in 2009. It was accompanied by a book she recommends only if you always wanted to know exactly what a gum dichromate print is, or suffer from insomnia. She is currently preparing an exhibition of the photographs of Charles Marville, which is an excellent excuse to travel to Paris this summer with her husband, John, and son, Ariel, who arrived in the world (and rocked hers) on December 29, 2009. | |
| Sonal Khullar |
Sonal Khullar (Ph.D. 2004) began an appointment as Assistant Professor of South Asian Art at the University of Washington, Seattle in September 2009. She is settling in nicely to life in the Pacific Northwest. She and Catherine Becker (Ph.D. 2006) organized a pair of sessions on "The Marga and the Desi in the Art of South Asia" to honor the career of Professor Joanna Williams at the Annual South Asia conference of the University of Wisconsin, Madison in October 2009. | |
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| Christina Kiaer |
From 2011 Newsletter: Christina Kiaer (Ph.D. 1995) teaches modern art at Northwestern University. She will be a fellow next year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she will be completing her book on Soviet Socialist Realism. Although she and her family love living in Chicago, they look forward to spending a year in the pastoral surroundings of Princeton. | |
| Jinah Kim |
From 2011 Newsletter: Jinah Kim (Ph.D. 2006) (Vanderbilt University/Rutgers, State University of New Jersey) finished her book manuscript, Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book-cult in South Asia, in the fall 2010, and the book is currently under review at the University of California Press as part of the South Asia Across the Disciplines series. She has accepted a new position at Rutgers as assistant professor of South Asian art, and will be moving to New Jersey with her family during summer. She is happy to report that her son, Aroon, is as happy and healthy as ever as he is turning 3 this June. | |
| Linda Kim |
From 2011 Newsletter: Linda Kim (Ph.D. 2006) will leave her visiting position at Smith College and begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at Drexel University in Fall 2011. | |
| Sung Lim Kim |
Sung Lim Kim (Ph.D. 2009) completed her dissertation, "From Middlemen to Center Stage: The Chungin Contribution to 19th-century Korean Painting," in 2009. That year, she began teaching the first Korean art history classes at UC Berkeley and presented a paper on the material culture of the Choson dynasty at the AAS Annual Meeting and a paper on colonial photographs of Korea at the Korean Studies Conference in Seoul. This summer, she will present papers at the AAS Western Regional Conference and at the Kyujanggak International Symposium in Seoul. Sung Lim will continue to teach Korean art at UC Berkeley in 2010-2011. | |
| Sabine Kriebel |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sabine Kriebel (Ph.D. 2003), has enjoyed travel this year. Perhaps the impromptu weekend trip to Berkeley for Anne’s farewell symposium ignited a beneficent cosmic spark. Since then she’s received (and giddily accepted) several invitations to speak abroad. Highlights include Calgary, Canada in January for a week-long symposium on Popular Sex inspired by Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, a gallery talk on Rosemarie Trockel in Edinburgh, and a weekend at Harvard University as a discussant for the latest research on Soviet and German interwar art. She’s just returned from Singapore and Vietnam (all pleasure except for a visit to the Hanoi Burn Unit), and is off to Edinburgh again this weekend for a symposium on August Sander’s photography. It has all been tremendously exciting and intellectually stimulating, but she looks forward to just staying put this summer to finish up her book manuscript on John Heartfield’s photomontages. | |
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Katherine Kuenzli |
From 2011 Newsletter: Katherine Kuenzli (Ph.D. 2002) serves as Associate Professor at Wesleyan University. Her book, The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siècle (Ashgate, 2010) appeared this past October. She received funding from the DAAD and Klassik Stiftung to begin a new project on Henry van de Velde, and is spending a year and half in Germany with her husband, Michael Printy and two children, Oliver (10 years) and Nora (6 years). They are living in Goettingen for Mike’s research, and Katherine is enjoying working there and traveling to archives throughout Germany and Brussels. She will deliver a paper at the upcoming conference on the “Total work of Art” sponsored by the Institut de l’Histoire de l’Art (Paris) next winter, and is otherwise taking lots of fitness classes and guiding her children through the rigorous but fun (!) German school system. |  |
| Chris Lakey |
From 2011 Newsletter: Chris Lakey (Ph.D. 2009) spent the year as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He looks forward to seeing articles of his appear in the Getty Research Journal and the Oxford Art Journal sometime soon. | |
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| Evelyn Lincoln |
From 2011 Newsletter: Evelyn Lincoln (Ph.D. 1994), Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies at Brown University has begun a three-year stint as Director of the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Brown, which is like herding very interesting cats.. | |
| Felicity Lufkin |
Felicity Lufkin (Ph.D. 2001) is a Lecturer in the Folklore and Mythology concentration at Harvard University. She is working on a book about the position of folk art in intellectual discourse and practice in China in the 1930s and 1940s. She lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband Iain Johnston and their 6-year-old daughter, Kaliher. During the 2010-2011 academic year, she will be in Beijing with her family. | |
| Kate Lusheck |
From 2011 Newsletter: Kate Lusheck (Ph.D. 2000), joined the Department of Art & Architecture at the University of San Francisco as Assistant Professor of Art History/Arts Management specializing in Renaissance & Baroque Art in August 2010. Kate currently teaches a range of upper-division, early modern seminars as well as museum studies and survey courses to undergraduates. Her primary research interests continue to revolve around Rubens, drawing, and early seventeenth century Neostoic culture in Antwerp. She is mightily looking forward to a short stint in Rome this summer where she will be conducting an abbreviated ‘Grand Tour of Rubens in Rome’. She and her husband, Brian, happily reside in San Francisco. | |
| Amy Lyford |
From 2011 Newsletter: Amy Lyford (Ph.D. 1997) was recently promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her second book, “Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation: Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism, 1930-1950,” is under advance contract with the University of California Press, Berkeley. | |
| Vanessa Lyon |
Vanessa Lyon (Ph.D. 2011) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, OR. She completed her dissertation as a Fulbright fellow in Madrid. Affiliated with the Museo del Prado, she researched religious confessionalism and the gendering of allegory in Baroque Spain and the Spanish Netherlands. | |
| Heather MacDonald |
From 2011 Newsletter: Heather MacDonald (Ph.D. 2004) continues to live and work in Dallas, Texas, where she is the Associate Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy, which was awarded the Associate of Art Museum Curators’ prize for Outstanding Small Exhibition of 2010. She is currently developing exhibitions on Joseph Vernet, George Grosz, and Paul Gauguin. | |
| Jessica May |
From 2011 Newsletter: Jessica May (Ph.D. 2010) is associate curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2010 she published American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White (UC Press) with fellow UCB alum Sharon Corwin and Terri Weissman. On May 14, she will open an exhibition of recent work by photographer Subhankar Banerjee, entitled Subhankar Banerjee: Where I Live I Hope to Know (ACMAA). Jessica has organized a symposium celebrating the museum’s 50th anniversary for the fall of 2011 which will feature Professor Margaretta Lovell as the keynote speaker and fellow alumna Linda Kim as a participant. Jessica and her partner Karen welcomed Noah Josef Bala May into their lives in September 2009 and are pretty much hanging on for dear life as their baby becomes a very active little boy. |  |
| Abby McGehee |
From 2011 Newsletter: Abby McGehee (Ph.D. 1997) is an associate professor at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland. Her research focus remains Late Gothic architecture in France and her most recent project concerns the Norman church of Caudebec-en-Caux. Most recently, she co-edited a collection of essays entitled New Directions in Medieval Architecture for Ashgate due in spring 2011. | |
| Sujatha Meegama |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sujatha Arundathi Meegama (Ph.D. 2011) filed her dissertation, “From Kôvils to Devâles: Patronage and ‘Influence’ at Buddhist and Hindu Temples in Sri Lanka.” Her article, “South Indian or Sri Lankan: The Hindu Temples of Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka,” was published in Artibus Asiae Vol. 70.1 (2010). She will continue to teach at UC Berkeley in 2011-2012. | |
| Eve Meltzer |
Eve Meltzer (Ph.D. Rhetoric 2003) is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Visual Culture at the Gallatin School, NYU, and an affiliate member of the Department of Art History faculty. In July 2010, she will serve as faculty at The Stone Summer Theory Institute, Beyond The Aesthetic and The Anti-Aesthetic. She is currently completing her first book (based on her 2003 dissertation) for The University of Chicago Press, and is in the beginning stages of work on Group Photo: The Psycho-Photographic Process and the Making of Group Identity, a book that will propose that group identity is formed through libidinal investments that make themselves apparent in images that are, at once, psychic and photographic. She is also expecting her second child in September. | |
| Ara H. Merjian |
From 2011 Newsletter: Ara Merjian (PhD. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Art History at New York University. He has spent 2011 thus far teaching for NYU in Florence, while finishing revisions on his book, Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City, due out next year with Yale University Press. He is very happy to have missed the winter in NYC. | |
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| Richard Meyer |
Richard Meyer (Ph.D. 1996) is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program and The Contemporary Project. With Catherine Lord, he recently completed the survey text Art and Queer Culture, 1885 to the present (Phaidon, forthcoming). Meyer is currently writing a short history of 20th-century art in the United States titled What Was Contemporary Art? | |
| Julian Myers |
Julian Myers (Ph.D. 2006) lives in San Francisco and is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts. He recently published "Form and Protopolitics," on the 1969 sculpture exhibition "Other Ideas," in The Exhibitionist. Forthcoming in Fillip 12 is "Riot Show," on his archive of recordings of crowds attacking bands at rock concerts. He has also edited two collections out this summer: a catalogue for the Wattis Institute, and a book of essays on the curator Harold Szeemann. | |
| Sarah Newman |
From 2011 Newsletter: Sarah Newman (Ph.D. 2005) is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She will be opening an exhibition of paintings by Chris Martin, Painting Big, in June. | |
| Jeanne Nuechterlein |
From 2011 Newsletter: Jeanne Nuechterlein (Ph.D. 2000) has published Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric (Penn State, 2011), coming out of (but, she hastens to add, much expanded and revised from) her 2000 dissertation “Holbein’s Reformation of Art”. She is currently writing a very different second book, Fictionalized Histories of Early Netherlandish Art, which uses fictional scenarios to imagine how people in the 15th century might have engaged with artworks. She is profoundly grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding research leave to work on the project, including an imminent 3-month research trip to Brussels. Any Berkeley alums who find themselves in Belgium this summer are warmly invited to get in touch! | |
| Bibiana Obler |
From 2011 Newsletter: Bibiana Obler (Ph.D. 2006) happily ensconced at George Washington University, recently moved to an apartment in Dupont and encourages visitors. She will spend next spring as a James Renwick Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. | |
| Shalon Parker |
From 2011 Newsletter: Shalon Parker (Ph.D. 2003) is Associate Professor of Art History at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, where she was granted tenure in 2010. She and her husband, Michael Pringle, welcomed their first child, Rosalind Miranda Pringle, into the world on January 10, 2011. | |
| Todd Presner |
From 2011 Newsletter: Todd Presner (PhD, 2003) is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at University of California Los Angeles. He is the Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the new Digital Humanities Program (http:// www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu). His recent work focuses on the field of digital cultural mapping, bringing qualitative story-telling, social media, and map visualizations together with Geographic Information Systems through projects such as “HyperCities” (http://www.hypercities.com). He is also completing a collaborative volume called “Digital Humanities 2.0,” which is forthcoming with MIT Press in 2012. In terms of personal news, his son, Mateo, is almost three years old and has mastered the art of talking back to his daddies. Todd, Mateo, and his partner of 18-years, Jaime, live in Los Angeles. | |
| Jeannene Przyblyski |
From 2011 Newsletter: Jeannene Przyblyski (Ph.D. 1995), Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs & External Relations at the San Francisco Art Inistitute, just returned from Beijing China, where she participated in the 2nd Experimental Art Symposium as a guest of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Floz-n-Eddies, her waterborne time traveling experiment debuts on the Wild & Scenic Sudbury River in Massachusetts in June. | |
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| Patricia Reilly |
From 2011 Newsletter: Patricia Reilly (Ph.D. 1999) is Associate Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College and has been appointed Associate Provost of the college starting July, 2011. Her recent publications are: “Raphael’s Fire in the Borgo and the Italian Pictorial Vernacular,” The Art Bulletin (December 2010), and “Artists’ Training and Workshops”, Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, ed. Michael (Wyatt Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She also organized 5 panels on “Vasari at the 500 Year Mark” for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Montreal last month. Mark Rosen delivered a paper at one of the panels. | |
| Mark Rosen |
From 2011 Newsletter: Mark Rosen (Ph.D. 2004) is in his third year as Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He recently completed a book manuscript called The Painted Map in the Age of Print and the Era of Exploration and is currently at work on several articles dealing with the image of Ottoman Turks in Early Modern Italy. The kids (Theo, 5, and Hannah, 3) are all right, too. | |
| Alexa Sand |
From 2011 Newsletter: Alexa Sand (Ph.D. 1999) was recently elected to a second term as a councilor for the arts and humanities for the Council on Undergraduate Research, and was named Undergraduate Research Mentor of the year for the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Forthcoming publications include an essay in Push Me, Pull You: Art and Devotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, edited by Laura Gelfand and Sarah Blick, and an entry on “Visuality” for a special volume of Studies in Iconography dedicated to “Medieval Art History Today: Critical Terms.” She enjoyed running into a good contingent of Berkeley alums at CAA in New York in February. Her summer plans include completing the final revisions on her book manuscript, finally seeing the Grand Canyon, and spending some time in the Bay Area. | |
| Kirk Savage |
Kirk Savage (Ph.D. 1990) has been settled in Pittsburgh for nearly two decades and has four daughters who are all in double digits now. Two of them will be applying to college next year. On the professional side, his Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (UC Press, 2009) just won the 2010 Charles Eldredge Prize in American art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He continues to chair his department (History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh) seemingly in perpetuity; his goal is to outlive his tenure in the post! | |
| Michael Schreyach |
From 2011 Newsletter: Michael Schreyach (Ph.D. 2005) is Assistant Professor and Berger Junior Faculty Fellow at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His monograph on Cy Twombly is (still) forthcoming from Phaidon Press, and an essay on Barnett Newman is forthcoming in Common Knowledge. | |
| Joshua Shannon |
From 2011 Newsletter: Joshua Shannon (Ph.D. 2003) is back at the University of Maryland after a year away in Berlin. His 2011 publications include an article on conceptual photography for the upcoming exhibition Light Years at the Art institute of Chicago, and an article on art in the desert for Raritan. He is working on a book called The Recording Machine: Photography, Painting, and the End of Modernism, 1968 and living happily in the Mt. Pleasant district of Washington DC. |  |
| Jennifer L. Shaw |
Jennifer L. Shaw (Ph.D. 1994) was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford, 1995-1997, and since 2000, she has been Professor of Art History, Sonoma State University. In 2000, she published Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism and the Fantasy of France. She has recently published on Impressionism, Symbolism and photography. Her current project is Claude Cahun's Disavowals: Writing Sexuality and Representation, forthcoming 2012 (Ashgate). She feels lucky to live in Berkeley with her husband John and our two wonderful kids, Emily (13) and William (11). | |
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| Deborah Stein |
From 2011 Newsletter: Deborah Stein (Ph.D. 2005) received her Ph.D. from Berkeley in December of 2005 and has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College for four years and then at U.C. Santa Cruz. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is revising her book, The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone, and raising her two bilingual sons, Ariel (7) and Aiden (4). This year she published two new articles, “The Theft of the Goddess Amba Mata: Ontological Location and Georges Bataille’s Bas- Matérialisme” (RES); and “Curating in the Field: 21st-century Praxis and the Aesthetic ‘Legislation’ of Antiquity in India” (Contemporary South Asia). Stein is in the process of founding the first global Works Progress Administration (WPA) online. She serves as Provost and Professor of South Asian Art History for this global virtual think tank, Université Imaginaire. Her current goal is nothing short of saving the Arts and Humanities in times of deep economic crisis. | |
| Regina Stefaniak |
Regina Stefaniak (Ph.D. 1989) is an independent scholar in Berkeley, California. She has published extensively on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art in its cultural context, including essays on such artists as Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Correggio, Rosso Fiorentino and Parmigianino. | |
| Kirtana Thangavelu |
From 2011 Newsletter: Kirtana Thangavelu (Ph.D. 1998) has recently been appointed Reader in Art History, at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication at the University of Hyderabad. She is also Continuing Lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California at Santa Cruz. | |
| Melissa Trafton |
Melissa Trafton (Ph.D. 2003) and her family continue to live in eastern Idaho. She spends most of her time at home with her three girls, Mary (9), Frances (6), and Elizabeth (4), enjoying their rural life - she has learned to bake bread and is learning to quilt! - but she has also recently completed an article about the drawings that John Frederick Kensett made in 1852 to illustrate an American travel book. | |
| Orna Tsultem |
Orna Tsultem (2009) completed and filed her dissertation, "Ikh Khüree: a Nomadic Monastery and the Later Buddhist Art of Mongolia," in December 2009. Her main advisor is Pat Berger. Greg Levine was her second reader, and two professors in Buddhist Studies (Alex von Rospatt and Jake Dalton) were other readers. | |
| Gregory Waldrop |
From 2011 Newsletter: Gregory Waldrop (Ph.D. 2009) has been an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Music at Fordham University since 2009, where he also teaches in the Medieval Studies Program. He is currently working on a book on sacerdotal iconography and its intersection with images of so-called “holy women” in Italian art, ca. 1250-1650; and a chapter on visual representations for an edited volume on the medieval reception of the Old Testament figure Job. In 2011 Gregory has been a guest lecturer at Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies, moderated a panel discussion on the “Man of Sorrows” motif held in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, and delivered a paper at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Montreal. Most recently he was a panelist for a one-day conference co-sponsored by Rutgers and Seton Hall Universities, “Hide/Seek: Museums, Ethics, and the Press”. | |
| Marnin Young |
From 2011 Newsletter: Marnin Young (Ph.D. 2005) was recently elected Outstanding Professor of the Year at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. More significantly, his son turned one in April. Marnin will be on sabbatical in Fall 2011. | |
| John Zarobell |
John Zarobell (Ph.D. 2000) was relieved to see his book, Empire of Landscape: Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria, come out in time for the CAA conference this year. He presented a paper there on Kerry James Marshall's SFMOMA murals, and he also traveled to Paris to speak at the Musée Rodin, where he talked about Rodin's reputation in New York in the 1950s. His wife, Keally McBride, was granted tenure by the University of San Francisco! |  |