LaNitra Berger won a CHSS Faculty Research Development Award to work on her book about Jewish themes in Black art, and researched at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture over the summer.
Robert DeCaroli conducted field work in India in January 2024, the first since the pandemic, and his co-edited book, Buddhism and the Senses; A Guide to the Good and Bad, is now out in print.
Heidi Gearhart taught a new seminar on Medieval Art Theory and is currently completing an edited volume, A Cultural History of Craft in the Medieval Age, to be published next year by Bloomsbury.
Lisa Bauman served as the Art History expert for two Smithsonian summer programs—a week-long program in Holland and a two-week one through France.
Christopher Gregg was invited to deliver a lecture on the Imperial Cult sanctuary in Roman Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France) at Kenyon College and a lecture for the Smithsonian Associates on Roman Gaul.
Michele Greet is an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) for the 2024-25 academic year. Last spring she won the Stearns Center Teaching Excellence Award.
Angela Ho returned to teaching full time after her time at CASVA last year, and presented a part of her book project at the Renaissance Society of America conference in May 2025.
Deepthi Murali joined the faculty in fall 2024. She specializes in 18th and 19th century decorative arts of South Asia. She started at GMU as a postdoctoral fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in 2020.
Vanessa Schulman's book Art during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North was published by the University of Massachusetts Press last summer. In January, she was appointed to the editorial board of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.
Jacquelyn Williamson traveled to Egypt last spring for research, and gave several talks and invited lectures at a variety of institutions. She also worked with noted documentary producer Nicolas Brenal for a film on King Ramses II.
May 28, 2025