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PhD degrees
2009
During the summer of 2009, Noelle Paulson visited archives, libraries, and museums in England and Belgium thanks to generous support of a Samual H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art. The research she undertook n this trip allowed her to complete her dissertation, which she successfully defended in the fall of 2009. She now lives in Zürich, Switzerland.
2008
Mayu Fujikawa has awarded the Richard Maass Memorial Research Grant to conduct archival research at Prato, Italy. An analysis of her findings will soon be published in Italian Chapel Decoration in the Early Modern Era, edited by Lilian Zirpolo (The WAPACC Organization, 2010). After completing her dissertation, Mayu taught at Washington Unviersity as a lecturer and is currently an Assistant Professor at Ithaca College, New York. She has recently received The Renaissance Society of America's Rensselaer W. Lee Memorial Grant for her project on the fresco of Tsunenaga Hasekura located in the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome (Hasekura was a samurai ambassador who visited Europe in the early seventeenth-century). With this award, she is writing an essay for the anthology, Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age (1522-1671), edited by Christina H. Lee (Ashgate, 2011).
2006
Michael Murphy is now Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
2005
George Speer, after working for several years at the National Museum of American Arts, is now Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Northern Arizona, in Flagstaff, where he teaches and runs the university gallery.
2003
Felecia Else is now Associate Professor, Gettysburg College, in Pennsylvania, where she teaches Renaissance and Baroque Art History.
2002
Brad Fratello is now Associate Professor at St. Louis Community College, Meramec Campus. He recently published an article on Millet in Art Bulletin, and he gave a talk on Manet and urban space at the CIHA conference in Melbourne, Australia in January 2008. He spent fall 2009 on sabbatical in Paris, where he continued research on a project on Manet, and delivered a paper at the 210 CAA on this work.
Martha Ahrendt is now Program Officer at the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Terry Milhaupt received the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to study the conservation of Japanese textiles.
2001
Joan Stack spent several years as the Associate Curator of European and American Art at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Since October 2006, she has been the Curator of Art Collections at The State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia.
1998
Diane Mullin is an Associate Curator of the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota..
Patricia Tom is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana.
Alan Pascuzzi is Adjunct Lecturer, Syracuse University and Lecturer, Florida State University in Florence, Italy.
1997
Joyce Schiller is Assistant Curator of 19th century Painting, at the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware.
1994
Mikels Skele is Adjunct Professor and Contract Archaeologist for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
1993
Xiaoneng Yang is Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2004, he published New Perspectives on China’s Past: Chinese Archaeology in the 20th Century (Yale University Press, 2 volumes).
1992
David Butler is Executive Director of the Knoxville Museum of Art.
1990
Michael Cosmopoulos is Professor of Classical Archaeology at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
1989
Joni Kinsey is Professor of American Art History at University of Iowa. Recent publications include Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithographs and Controversy, University Press of Kansas in association with the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, 2005.
1986
Judith Mann is Curator of European Painting to 1800 at the St. Louis Art Museum. Current projects include an international exhibition that investigates how the Italian Baroque artist Barocci used drawing (2010), and a show “Painting on Stone,” which will examine the European practice from 1530 to 1750 (with the Getty Museum). Her landmark exhibition on Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi (2001-2) resulted in both a major exhibition catalogue (joint with the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and proceedings of the scholarly symposium Artemisia Gentileschi: Taking Stock with Brepols Press, 2005. In the fall of 2009 she taught a course in our Department on the Italian Baroque.
1985
Eleanor Scheifele has served as Photograph Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art. She also has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington and has taught recently at the Grand Rapids Community College.
1977
David Andrew is Professor at University of New Hampshire.
1976
Carol Purtle is Professor Art History at the University of Memphis.
MA degrees
2009
Emily Olson received her MA from Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2009. Her master's thesis, entitled "Tellus in the Augustan Age: Iconography and Ideology," focused on the intersection of the Roman goddess' imagery with the art, legislation, and literature of the Augustan period. She completed the project with Drs. Susan I. Rotroff, Judith A. Evans-Grubbs, and Sarantis Symeonoglou serving as her thesis advisors. Emily is currently working towards her PhD in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2008
Emilie Boone spent the summer after graduation as the University of Delaware researching the Paul R. Jones Collection. In September of 2008, she will begin a nine month Fulbright fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
2007
Nicci Cobb is now attends library school at the University of Texas in Austin.
Lindsay Girard taught a course in American Art in the Washington University summer school program.
Lauren (Melo) Barach now lives in New York City and is an Archivist at the Calder Foundation.
2006
Zooey Martin is now a Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art at the Houston Museum of Art.
2005
Kelley Bohanan (formerly Kramer) is now Editorial assistant to the Journal Ibero Americana, produced in the Romance Languages Department at Washington University.
David Morey will be teaching French at Parkway North High School in St. Louis in the fall of 2008.
Candace (Graham) Nalley works at the Division of Health Behavior Research at Washington University School of Medicine and is currently applying for matriculation in 2009.
2003
Monica Friel is Director of Exhibitions at Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York City.
Sonia Fulop works as an editor in Chicago.
2002
Joe Fox is teaching art history and theory courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Todd Hignite is Founding Editor and publisher of Comic Art Magazine. He is also the free-lance curator of several major shows on comic arts, and now serves as Modern Graphic History Curator at Olin Library, Washington University.
Rachel Keith is Associate Registrar for Exhibitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, where she recently curated the exhibition called The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape.
Jennifer Roberts is a Curatorial Assistant in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. She also helped work on a show of paintings by George de Forest Brush.
Marcella Rolwes is Assistant Visual Resources Curator, Washington University. She had her second child last spring.
Kelly Scheffer is an Arts Education Specialist at Springboard to Learning and an adjunct faculty member at Maryville University and St. Louis Community College--Florissant Valley.
2001
Victoria Durer served for a few years as an Education Assistant at the Morris Museum in Augusta Georgia. She is now in the sociology PhD program at the University of Leeds, England.
Sarah Phillips de Borja is teaching general art history courses at Principia College in Illinois.
Sarah Rowe Hignite is the former Chief Registrar at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University. She has recently moved to Dallas, Texas.
2000
C.D. Dickerson completed his PhD dissertation in Baroque art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is now Associate Curator of European and American Art at the Kimball Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
Rebecca Tipping is completing her dissertation in Italian Renaissance art at University of California Berkeley.
1999
Mayuko Kinouchi entered the PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.
1998
Holly Tasker is now teaching English as a second language in St. Louis.
1997
Melissa Brookhart entered the PhD program at Stanford University.
1995
Elizabeth Bilyeu is now Librarian and Instructor, at the Oregon School of Fine Arts in Portland.
Elizabeth Semmelhack is Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto.
Betha Whitlow is Curator of Visual Resources at Washington University.
1994
Cindy Buckner worked at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and is now in the PhD program at CUNY.
Molly Hutton did her PhD at Stanford University, and is now Director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
Louis Larocci is in the PhD program at Boston University.
John Butler-Ludwig has been a Visual Resources Curator at the University of Chicago.
1993
Anna Vemer is now Associate Professor of Art History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Diane (Vandegrift) Mallow is the Registrar's Assistant at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
1992
Lisa Pon completed her PhD at Harvard University, and is now Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University. She has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute, the Warburg Institute in London and Harvard University, and now holds a Ford Fellowship (2006-08) from SMU. Her book, Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print was published in 2004 by Yale University Press.
Samantha Krukowski is now Assistant Professor in the Department of
Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. She teaches Experimental Media in the Film and Video Production program. Her studio practice includes illustration, painting, video, and architecture. Her website is http://www.rasa.net
Emily Blumenfeld is Community Program Coordinator for “Arts in Transit,” at the Bi-State Development Agency, St. Louis.
1990
Isabel Balzer completed her PhD at Northwestern and after teaching at Webster University for several years, returned with her family to live in Switzerland.
1988
Susie Voce is Curator of the Birmingham Museum of Art.
1982
Michael Voligny is Director of Major Gifts, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
1980
Corine Schleif is a professor at Arizona State University.
1979
Margaret Conrads is Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City.
BA Degrees (Majors and minors)
2009
Emma Dent currently holds an internship position at the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, where she assists the staff with upcoming gallery exhibitions and grants-related projects. While working at RAC, Emma is also in the process of researching and applying to graduate art history programs. Hoping to begin graduate school in the fall of 2010, Emma is specifically interested in studying American art and visual culture from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
Jamison Liang is teaching English in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia for one to two years through a program called Volunteers in Asia.
Jennifer Lee will be interning in the registrar's office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The internship starts in September, and lasts for 10 weeks.
Britt Royal is participating in the summer archaeological excavation at the site Poggio Civitate in Vascovado di Murio, Italy. Britt will be blogging about her adventures abroad and at the Etruscan site. To follow her blog, please click here. The password is "royal".
Allison Shellito is working full-time in a graphic design internship at the advertising agency, Sullivan, Higdon, & Sink, in Wichita, Kansas. In Fall 2009, she plans to move to the San Francisco Bay area to look for work in museums, galleries, or as a graphic designer.
2008
Caroline Boeke is working on a master's degree in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. She is interested in how nutrition affects infectious disease outcomes in the developing world, especially in the case of breastfeeding with HIV.
Hannah Fullgraf is the recipient of the Interpretative Fellowship at Art Museums from the Kress Foundation in the late spring of 2009. The Kress Interpretive Fellowship was awarded jointly to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Saint Louis Art Museum. For the next year, she will be creating and implementing new programming at the Pulitzer in conjunction with the exhibition Ideal [Dis-]Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer. Following six months at the Pultizer, she will work with Dr. Judith Mann, the curator of European Art to 1800, and the Museum's Interpretation staff to rethink how the museum's European collection of 18th century art is communicated to the public.
Hyde Taidghin O'Brien is currently working at the Visual Resources Center for the Department of Art History, while working as a freelance graphic designer. He plans to apply to graduate programs in graphic design for the next school year.
Rachel Tucker was a curatorial intern at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for the Fall of 2008. She helped prepare and attend musuem committee meetings, provide administrative support, volunteer for exhibition openings, monthly art parties and the Guggenheim International Gala.
2007
Sarah Dieffenbach is attending medical school.
Orly Henry will be attending Northwestern University Law School beginning in the fall of 2008.
Rachel Hillery will begin Columbia University's Masters of Architecture program in the fall of 2008.
Jenna Huffman interned last summer in the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department of Bonhams and Butterfields Auctioneers in San Francisco. She now works as a Consignments Administrator at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hillary Kaufman is living in Castelli Romani near Rome, where she is enjoying learning Italian and caring for two children of an Italian family.
Sandra Krauthamer will attend medical school at Temple University beginning in August 2008.
Jessica Mantel moved to New York City and accepted a job working with Ms. Elizabeth Kujawski, the Curator of Ronald Lauder's private art collection.
Liz Rubin will be entering the Arts Management Program at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2008.
Hannah Solomon has been admitted to the Graduate Program at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Sarah Thomas interned in the Education and Curatorial departments at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She is currently a Curatorial Assistant at iCI (Independent Curators International), New York, a non-profit organization that plans traveling exhibitions of contemporary art.
2006
Faye Gleisser is pursuing a Master's degree at George Washington University in Washington D.C. She also works part time as an Education Assistant in the Adult Programs Division of the National Gallery of Art.
Emily Hollinger will attend the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in fall 2007. Her interests are in the history of photography.
Daniel Marcus is now a graduate student in art history at University of California Berkeley. He has written an essay on Picasso's Guernica that will be published in an exhibition catalogue for a show curated by Yves Alain Bois. The exhibition will be held next year at the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome.
Delia Solomons, after spending a year as an intern in Public Events at the Guggenheim Museum, will begin a PhD in Latin American and Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Joshua Straus has been admitted to Sotheby’s training program in New York City.
2005
Shana Klein is a grauate student in art history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she is studying Native American and Latin American Art.
Amy Shearer began working towards her Masters in Art History at University College London during the Fall 2008.
Rory Walsh was accepted to the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon to study zooarchaeology. She was also awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese.
2004
Kate Carcaterra was recently highlighted in an article in the Honolulu Stat-Bulletin for her work as a teacher of AP Art History at Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Leigh Anne Miller is Assistant Editor and Reviews Coordinator of Art in America Magazine, based in New York.
2003
Isabel Suchanek is completing her dissertation on Redon, color and French literary symbolism at the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoyed over a year of research time in Paris on this project.
1999
Nicole Meyers is completing her dissertation at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She is also working in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum,
where she worked on the major Vollard exhibition.
Annelise Madsen is completing her dissertation on American mural painting and pageantry of the Progressive Era at Stanford University. She is a contributor to a forthcoming book by Wanda M. Corn on the decorative program of murals and sculptures for the Woman's Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago (University of California Press, 2010), a topic that she first explored in her undergraduate thesis for the department.
1994
Carrie Lambert-Beatty completed her PhD at Stanford, taught at Northwestern University for several years, and is now Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.
1977
Susan Fisher Sterling was recently named Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. She received her PhD in art history from Princeton University and joined the curatorial staff at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1988.
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