Alumni

Mont Allen

Mont Allen (PhD 2014) studies the art of ancient Greece and Rome, with the latter exerting the stronger pull on his heartstrings. Particular passions include mythological imagery in funerary art (especially Greek myths as they were carved on Roman sarcophagi) and ancient attitudes towards artistic facture and technique (notably as they bear on questions of iconography). He spent 2012-2013 in Berlin pursuing dissertation research at the German Archaeological Institute, thanks to generous fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation.

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Bridget Alsdorf

Bridget Alsdorf (PhD 2008) is Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art at Princeton University. Her book, Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (2013), is a study of the fraught dynamic between individual and group in the work of Courbet, Manet, Degas, Bazille, Renoir and (most extensively) Fantin-Latour. She has also published essays on Bonnard, Cézanne, Gaillard, Hammershøi, Manet, Poussin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo, and...

Elise Archias

Elise Archias is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has made great progress this past year on her book manuscript, The Concrete Body — Rainer, Schneemann, Acconci, and is looking forward to it being out in the world soon. She presented work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the ASAP and MSA conferences, chaired a panel at CAA, "Carolee Schneemann and the Long Sixties," and enjoyed participating in discussions at Gallery 400 (UIC) and the Block Museum at Northwestern. She was the recipient of the...

Jess Bailey

Jess Bailey studies Medieval art with Beate Fricke and Elizabeth Honig. Her work addresses the premodern art history of gunpowder, considering how shifts in imaging technologies of violence impacted the social construction of gender. Jess is interested in how manuscript cultures transmitted the science, medical ramifications, and cultural impact of the West’s military pedagogies. She is working on side projects that address sex work, disability, and early works on paper. She has taught for the Prison University Project in San Quentin State Prison and at the Institut für...

Meryl Bailey

Meryl Bailey (Ph.D. 2011) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Mills College. She recently completed a lengthy research project on the Venetian seventeenth-century painter Antonio Zanchi, and is currently preparing a manuscript on Venetian confraternal art after the Council of Trent. In the past academic year, she enjoyed working with Mills’ curators and librarians to incorporate the college’s collection of medieval and Renaissance prints and manuscript leaves into her teaching practice. Thanks in part to a Mellon grant, undergraduates in her Northern European Art course worked with...

Cristelle Baskins

Cristelle Baskins (PhD 1988), is Associate Professor at Tufts University where she has taught Italian Renaissance + Early Modern Art History since 1997. Her articles on Turkmens, Syrian Christians, Armenians, and Baroque travelers have appeared in Muqarnas, Renaissance Studies, the Journal for the Society of Armenian Studies, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. She has held fellowships including a Fulbright-Hayes to Italy, a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, an Aga Khan...

Catherine Becker

Catherine Becker (Ph.D. 2006) continues as Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book, Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh was published by Oxford University Press on October 1, 2014. She had the pleasure of presenting her paper, "There is on ‘I’ in Stupa: Building Community at Buddhist Sites in Andhra Pradesh," for a panel organized by Sonal Khullar (PhD 2009) at the 2014 annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Catherine has received a research fellowship from the...

M. Elizabeth Boone

M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone is professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta. Betsy works on nineteenth and twentieth-century art in the United States, Spain, and Latin America and is particularly interested in trans-nationalism, cultural diplomacy, art and masquerade, and animal studies. She is the author of essays and exhibition catalogues on such topics as the nineteenth-century reception of Jan Vermeer (1992), paintings of Spain by Mary...

Kimberly Cassibry

Kimberly Cassibry (2009, PhD; “The Allure of Monuments in the Roman Empire”) is Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley, where she was awarded the college’s Pinanski teaching prize in 2019. Her research focuses on the art and architectural history of the ancient Mediterranean. With support from the Getty Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her publications have explored glass cups depicting famous charioteers and gladiators (...

Letha Ch'ien

Letha Ch’ien (PhD 2014) is an assistant professor of art history at Sonoma State University. She works on identity, ethnicity, and race in late medieval and early modern Venice.