Faculty News

• Art History Director Robert DeCaroli’s recent activities include presenting a paper at the University of Virginia as part of the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation Lectures in the Arts of Asia. His recent publications include a book chapter for a volume on Indian Buddhist architecture and the entry on Buddhist sculpture for the recently published Encyclopedia of India. In January, DeCaroli will begin a residential fellowship at the prestigious Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In addition, DeCaroli and Lawrence Butler are making plans for an Art History major trip to Indonesia to visit the islands of Java and Bali in summer 2008.
• Our newest faculty member, Michele Greet, received research support from the Hazel Junior Faculty Award and an Allan and Gwen Nelson Travel Grant for work on her book manuscript, Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960. In 2006, she published two articles in Global Studies Review and Revista de Historia Procesos and presented papers at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., and the Latin American Studies Association annual conference. She will present a paper, “Depolarizing American Modernism, 1915-1940,” at the upcoming conference of the College Art Association in New York. And last April, she gave birth to her second daughter, Kaylee.
• Ellen Todd spent the winter and spring quarters as a distinguished visiting professor at Stanford University. She taught a seminar on women artists from 1890 to 1935 and a cheerfully titled lecture course, “American Art from Ragtime to Swingtime.” The two cross-country journeys took her through much of the scenery she teaches, including Moran’s Grand Canyon, Bierstadt’s Yosemite, Remington’s Cody, and finally, Thomas Easkins’ Badlands. Happy to be back, she serves as coordinator of the new Art History MA program and continues to work on her 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire imagery book project.