Curriculum Vitae
Personal Interests
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Contemporary Latin American Art
Identity Theory
Liturgy and Ritual
Illuminated Manuscripts
Classes
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ARTH 400: Artists: Early Renaissance Art
This course will study an artist or artists or major issues in the history of art. Typical offerings are Michelangelo, Picasso and Matisse, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Women and Art.
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ARTH 484: Baroque Art
A seminar on the art of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Baroque was an era of artistic diversity and religious change that ushered in the Modern Era. Here, Baroque art will be explored within the societal and religious controversies that gave it aesthetic and ideological purpose.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.F.A., Princeton University
M.A., Hunter College, CUNY
B.A., Queens College, CUNY
Awards and Fellowships
2014 Rothkopf Scholar Award, Lafayette College
2009 SUNY Chancellor?s Award for Research and Creativity
2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Summer Seminar for College and University Professors, "Negotiating Cuban-American Identity in Philosophy, Literature and Art" Held jointly with, Jorge Gracia, Distinguished Professor, University of Buffalo, and Isabel Alvarez Borland, College of the Holy Cross
2005 Daniel Silberberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2004 Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
1998-1999 - Bunting Institute Fellowship, Radcliffe College, Harvard University
1998 Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
1997 Michael L. Walzer Research & Teaching Award, Brandeis University
1991 New York State Decentralization Grant, SUNY, Cortland, N.Y. Arts council, lecture series on "Women, Art and Religion"
1989 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1989 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Award
1986 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Award
1986 American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant
1984 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1983 Fulbright/Spanish Government Grant, declined for an AAUW Fellowship
1983 American Association of University Women Fellowship
1979 Renaissance Society of America, Summer Paleography Workshop Grant, tuition and Support
Publications
Books:Art, Liturgy and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada, Penn State Press, 2000 given the Eleanor Tufts Book Prize (2001) from the American Society of Hispanic Art Scholars
The Artistic Splendor of the Spanish Kingdoms: The Art of Fifteenth-Century Spain, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, with Judith Berg Sobre, 1996
Life Streams: The Cuban and American Art of Alberto Rey, SUNY Press, 2014, Co-Editor with Mark Denaci and Contributor
Cuban-American Literature and Art, SUNY Press, 2009, Co-Editors Jorge Gracia and Isabel Alvarez Borland, Contributor of Essay on Cuban-American Art
Identity, Memory and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Philosophers, Writers, Poets and Artists, SUNY Press, 2007, Co-Editors: Jorge Gracia, Isabel Alvarez Borland, Lynette M.F. Bosch, Contributed Interviews/Essay on Cuban-American Artists
Cuban-American Art in Miami:Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque, Ashgate Books, 2004, Author
Ernesto Barreda: Contemporary Chilean Painter, Morgan Press, Santiago de Chile, 1996, Author
In Press:Agnolo Bronzino: The Muse of Florence, New Academia Press, forthcoming, Editor Liana de Girolami Cheney, Contributor of Chapters on The Chapel of Eleonora de Toledo and Bronzino's Paintings for Bartolomeo and Lucrezia Panciatichi
Work in Progress/Under Contract:Mannerism, Spirituality and Cognition: Vividity and the Meaning of Style in Italy, France and Spain
Employment
2016 – SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, SUNY Geneseo
2015 - Continuing – Chair, Department of Art History, SUNY, Geneseo
2014 –2017 Coordinator Museum Studies Minor, SUNY, Geneseo
2005 – Professor of Art History, SUNY, Geneseo
2000 – Associate Professor of Art History, SUNY, Geneseo
1999 – Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY, Geneseo
1992-98 - Assistant Professor of Art History, Brandeis University
1990-92 - Assistant Professor in Art History, SUNY, Cortland