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» Jeffrey Crane
» Susan DeMaio
» Lori DiCola
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» Robert Ingersoll
» Jaclynne Kerner
» Ellen Konowitz
» Sarah Lepinski
» Virginia OBrien
» William Rhoads
» Lori Schmidt
» Fran Smulcheski
» Jaimee Uhlenbrock
» Brian Wallace
» Beth Wilson
» Reva Wolf
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Elizabeth Brotherton |
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Professor Brotherton (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992; B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1976) teaches surveys and seminars on the arts of China and Japan. Before joining the Art History faculty at New Paltz in 1994, she held temporary teaching positions at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and at McGill University; earlier she had completed course work for an M.A. in History at Taiwan University, and also served as interpreter for a conservation specialist during visits to Chinese museums located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Dunhuang. Her research centers on Chinese painting and calligraphy, with special interest in later painting and painting theory, archaism, relationships between painting and poetry, farewell paintings, popular New Year's prints, aesthetics, and the rhetorical uses of art. Her dissertation and subsequent work considers illustrations of Tao Yuanming's Returning Home, along with related issues of court patronage and reclusion. She has published articles on the relationship between painting and poetry in Artibus Asiae and Archives of Asian Art.
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Kerry Dean Carso |
Professor Carso teaches courses in American art and architecture, with a special emphasis on the Hudson Valley region. Her research focuses on interconnections between the arts and literature in nineteenth-century America. Her essays on Gothic Revival architecture and Romantic painting have appeared in Winterthur Portfolio; Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations; Hudson River Valley Review; and James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art. Professor Carso has two on-going research projects: a study of the influence of Gothic literature and historical romances on American art and architecture, 1800-1850, and a study of follies, prospect towers, ruins, and summerhouses in the nineteenth-century American landscape. Her research has been supported by fellowships and scholarships at the Huntington Library; the Attingham Summer School; the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library; the Library Company; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.
Professor Carso received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Boston University, and an A.B. from Harvard University. She has taught previously at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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Jeffrey Crane |
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Susan DeMaio |
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Lori DiCola |
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Fax Machine |
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Robert Ingersoll |
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Jaclynne Kerner |
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Professor Kerner teaches courses in the art and architecture of the Islamic world and medieval Europe. Her scholarly interests include the Classical heritage in Islamic art, cross-cultural contact and artistic exchange between Europe and the Islamic sphere during the Middle Ages, and text-image relationships in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Her publications include contributions to the proceedings of a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a Festschrift honoring her dissertation advisor. She also served as assistant editor to the Festschrift, which was published by Artibus Asiae. Her ongoing research focuses on inscribed Islamic textiles and their reuse in Christian contexts.
Professor Kerner received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from New York University. Before joining the faculty of SUNY New Paltz in Fall 2008, she taught at Pepperdine University, California State University at Long Beach, and Fordham University. She has also held curatorial fellowships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Ellen Konowitz |
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Ellen Konowitz teaches courses in Renaissance and Baroque art. Her publications focus on art of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlands, and include the book Images in Light and Line: Dirk Vellert's Stained Glass, Drawings, and Prints (forthcoming from Brepols) and articles in Master Drawings, Oud Holland, Simiolus, and the Art Bulletin. She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, including ExtravaGant! A Forgottten Chapter of Antwerp Painting, 1500-1530 (Antwerp-Maastricht, 2005-06) and The Luminous Image: Stained Glass Roundels from the Low Lands 1480-1560 (New York, 1995). Professor Konowitz's work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Thyssen Foundation, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Study of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she was a faculty fellow, the Vanderbilt University Research Council, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. She is a member of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, an international research organization devoted to the study of stained glass.
Professor Konowitz received a PhD. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, an M.A. from Yale University, and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. Before coming to New Paltz in the fall of 2000, she taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Sarah Lepinski |
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Virginia OBrien |
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William Rhoads |
The focus of Professor Rhoads' teaching and writing is American art and architecture, especially from the 19th and early 20th centuries. He has published a book The Colonial Revival (Garland 1977) and several articles on Colonial Revival architecture and craft, as well as articles on Franklin D. Roosevelt's patronage of art and architecture. His interest in the architecture of the Hudson Valley has resulted in essays on artists studios in the region and on buildings in Poughkeepsie and the Catskill Mountains. The Friends of Historic Kingston and Black Dome Press published his Kingston, New York: The Architectural Guide in 2003. More recently he has published studies of the Kingston architects Teller & Halverson and of the the Architecture of Hervey White's Maverick colony near Woodstock. Currently he is working on an architectural guide to Ulster County.
Professor Rhoads received a B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D from Princeton University.
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Lori Schmidt |
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Fran Smulcheski |
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Jaimee Uhlenbrock |
Professor Uhlenbrock teaches courses that focus on the art of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as on ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. For over 20 years she also was the director of On-Site Studies in Art History Abroad. As a classical archaeologist, Professor Uhlenbrock's principal area of research involves the votive terracotta figurines of ancient Greece, the industry that produced them, and the popular piety that encouraged their manufacture. Historiography and archaeological biography are other areas in which she has conducted research, and she has also curated seven exhibitions on aspects of ancient art. Among her most recent publications is Il santuario delle nymphai chthonai a Cirene: Il sito e le terrecotte (Rome 2000), a collaboration with three members of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Cyrene, Libya. Aside from a number of articles and book reviews, she has written The Terracotta Protomai from Gela: A Discussion of Local Style in Archaic Sicily (Rome 1988), and was the principal author for The Coroplast's Art: Greek Terracottas of the Hellenistic World (New Rochelle 1990). She was also a contributor to the Dictionary of Art (London/New York), writing the entries on Greek and Roman terracottas. The focus of her current research is the votive terracottas from Sicilian Naxos and the votive terracottas from the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya.
Professor Uhlenbrock has been awarded grants and fellowships from organizations such as the American Numismatic Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel Kress Foundation, the State University of New York Research Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, among other state and local agencies.
After earning her MA in classical art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, she pursued post-graduate study in classics at the University of Wisconsin, before returning to the Institute of Fine Arts to complete a Ph.D in classical archaeology in 1978. In 1967 she participated in the New York University's excavations of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace and since 1981 has been Expedition Research Associate of the University of Pennsylvania's Archaeological Expedition to Cyrene, Libya. Professor Uhlenbrock is Vice-President for the United States for Instrumentum: A European Working Group for the 1999-2002 term.
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Brian Wallace |
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Beth Wilson |
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Beth E. Wilson is an art historian, critic, and curator. She holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Georgetown Univeristy, and graduate degrees in Art History from Hunter College and from CUNY Graduate Center, where she is completing a dissertation on the World War II work of photographer Lee Miller. She regularly teaches History of Photography, History of Film, and courses in late 19th and early 20th century art at SUNY New Paltz. In addition to teaching in the Art History department, she continues to work at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, where she curated the exhibition The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography in 2005, and most recently organized Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography, on view during Spring 2009. Off campus, she served as the resident art critic for Chronogram magazine from 1999 to 2008, and was the curator of the 2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial and The Camera Always Lies, the 2008 Regional Triennial of the Photographic Arts, which appeared at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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Reva Wolf |
Professor Wolf teaches courses in and writes about modern art and art-historical methodology. Among her most notable publications are two books, Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and Goya and the Satirical Print (Godine, 1991). Among her recent publications include an essay in a book of Warhol's interviews (Carroll & Graf, 2004), and an article about The Simpson's (Art Journal, 2006).
Professor Wolf also has been the recipient of a number of fellowships to support her research. She was an NEH Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1995-96, an Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University in 1990-91, and in addition has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art, an NEA Special Exhibitions grant, and a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Professor Wolf received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a B.A. from Brandeis University. Prior to coming to SUNY New Paltz, where she is Associate Professor of Art History, she was Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College.
