Alumni

Joseph Albanese


Joe Albanese (PhD 2024) is assistant professor of Art & Art History at DePauw University. Joe specializes in the visual cultures of viceregal Peru. His first book examines the relationship between different artistic media in that viceroyalty. This project argues that printed and painted simulated statues highlight the importance of sculpture as a divine artistic medium, undermining traditional European discourses about the nobility of the art of painting. His work has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America and the Fulbright Foundation and he has held research...

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 (PhD 2022) teaches Medieval European art and visual culture in the History of Art Department at the University of Edinburgh. Previous to joining the faculty at Edinburgh, she was an Associate Lecturer of Medieval art history at University College London where her research was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship. Bailey's research considers the representation of the body and violence in Medieval European art with an attention to questions of gender, sexuality, and disability. Her PhD in Art History and Medieval Studies was advised by Professors Beate Fricke and...

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 (...