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Recent Graduates

Olga Viso, M.A., 1992
Director of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Formerly director of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Virginia Gardner Troy
Summer 1997, Modern European
Associate Professor of Art History, Berry College
- Book published 2002: "Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From the Bauhaus to Black Mountain," Ashgate, Aldershot, England, and Burlington, VT.
- Book published 2006: "The Modernist Textile: Europe and Amrica 1890 - 1940," by Ashgate/Lund Humphries, London.

Sheramy Bundrick
Spring 1998, Ancient
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of South Florida

Catherine Chastain
Spring 1998, American
Associate Professor of Art History & Director of Summer Honors Program, North Georgia College & State University

Virginia Henderson
Spring 1998, Medieval
Independent scholar
Spring 2005, Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene

Dinah McClintock
Fall 1998, American and Modern
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History
Kennesaw State University

Lacey T. Jordan
Fall 1999, American
Independent scholar

Anne M. Bolin
Summer 2000, American
Adjunct, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Jacqueline R. Francis
Fall 2000, African American
Wm. Wilhartz Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sunanda Sanyal
Fall 2000, African
Assistant Professor of Art History, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

Lisa D. Freiman
Spring 2001, Contemporary
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Director, Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

* Dr. Freiman organized a retrospective exhibition of the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (February 25-June 3, 2007). Freiman's research on Campos-Pons began as an MA thesis in the Art History Department. The catalogue of the exhibition, which includes essays by Freiman and Okwui
Enwezor, is co-published with Yale University Press.
* Dr. Freiman was accepted into the Getty Leadership Institute's Museum Leadership Institute for 2007.

Pamela Franco
Spring 2001, African Diaspora
Assistant Professor, Newcomb Department of Art, Tulane University

Peri Klemm
Spring 2002, African
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge

Katrina Dickson Lah
Spring 2002, Ancient
Fall 2000-Spring 2001,Online Course Instructor, The Alliance for Lifelong Learning,Oxford, Stanford and Yale Universities.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics Department, Emory University

Elizabeth Morton
Spring 2003, African Art
Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Bayeux Program, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

Karen O'Day
Spring 2003, Ancient Americas
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI

Jane Rehl
Spring 2003, Ancient Americas
Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Catherine Caesar
Fall 2005, Ph.D., Modern
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Dallas, Irving, TX

Angi Elsea Bourgeois
Fall 2003, Italian Renaissance
Assistant Professor,Department of Art, Mississippi State University

Jennifer Lee
Summer 2003, Medieval
Assistant Professor of Art History, Herron School of Art, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

Megan C. McShane
Spring 2004, Modern
Asst. Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University
Awarded a Fulbright-Luce Fellowship to China to develop a curriculum for Western Art History survey courses.

Chika Okeke
Summer 2004, Ph.D., African Art
Assistant Professor of Art History, Princeton University
(formerly Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University)
Awarded the 2007 Roy Sieber Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Nigerian Art in the Independence Decade: 1957-1967." (Advisor: Sidney Kasfir)

Suzanne N. Spencer
Spring 2005, Ph.D., Modern Architecture
Long-term Senior Lecturer, Dept of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska

Jessica J. Stephenson
Fall 2005, Ph.D., African Art
Associate Curator of African and Ancient American Art
Michael C. Carlos Museum

Jeffrey Thompson
Summer 2006, Modern
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
(Formerly Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)

Shelley J. MacLaren
Summer 2007, Ph.D., Italian Renaissance
Director of the University Art Gallery at the University of the South, Sewanee,TN

Anthony F. Mangieri
Spring 2008, Ph.D., Greek Art/Architecture
Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

Jennifer Palinkas
Spring 2008, Ph.D., Greek Art/Architecture
Instructor, Arcadia University Center for Education Abroad, Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Mediterranean, and Balkan Studies, Athens Greece

Amy Sowder
Spring 2009, Ph.D., Greek Art/Architecture
Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Art, Towson University, Baltimore, MD

Laura Wingfield
Spring 2009, Ph.D., Greek Art/Architecture