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Faculty ListQIANSHEN BAI 725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 301A Associate Professor; Asian/Chinese Art. B.A., Peking University; M.A. Peking University; Rutgers University; Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University. Associate Professor Qianshen Bai joined the faculty of Boston University in 1997. Having graduated from Beijing University with a B.A. in political science, Professor Bai came to the United States to pursue graduate studies in comparative politics at Rutgers University in 1986 where he received a M.A. Later he went to Yale University to study art history and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996. An art historian who also teaches studio art, Professor Bai is a renowned calligrapher and seal carver and has won a First Prize in the National Calligraphy Competition for University and College Students in China in 1982 and has participated in various international exhibitions of Chinese calligraphy. His research, which has won the support of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities, covers Chinese calligraphy, painting and seal carving. Professor Bai has published broadly on these subjects in refereed journals and edited volumes in both English and Chinese. Since joining the faculty of Boston University, he has taught Arts of Asia; Arts of China; Seminar on Chinese Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century; Colloquium in Chinese Art; and Seminar on Theory and Practice of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy, a course combining the study of history, theory of East Asian calligraphy and its hands-on performance which has attracted a considerable number of students (including graduate students) from the School of Fine Arts. Professor Bai has worked closely with Professor Emerita Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis to create the Master's Program in Asian Art with a strong component of museum studies, a program that aims at producing Asian art professionals for museums and other similar institutions. Professor Bai has raised funds from the Lucy Foundation (sponsored by alumna Diane Schaefer) and, with Professor Emerita ten Grotenhuis, a large grant from the Luce Foundation for the support of graduate students pursuing the study of Asian art.
CYNTHIA BECKER725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305B Assistant Professor; African Art. BA, University of New Orleans; MA, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Cynthia Becker is a scholar of African arts specializing in the arts of the Imazighen (Berbers) in northwestern Africa, specifically Morocco, Algeria, and Niger. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright grant and several grants from the American Institute of Maghreb Studies. Professor Becker has served as a consultant for numerous museum exhibitions and published articles on the visual and performing arts of the Imazighen as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. Her book Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity was published by the University of Texas Press in July of 2006. She is currently working on a book about the Afro-Islamic aesthetics and ceremonial practices of the Gnawa that considers the history of the trans-Saharan slave trade and its implications on material culture in both western and northern Africa. Other projects include the visual expression of Amazigh consciousness by contemporary painters/activists, the influence of Sufism on contemporary Moroccan art, and the visual culture and history of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans (her hometown). CLEMENCY COGGINS675 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 241 Professor; Maya Art and Archaeology. B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., San Jose State University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Professor Clemency Coggins (part-time faculty member) has been on the faculty of Boston University since 1989 in the Archaeology and in the Art History Departments. Professor Coggins received the B.A. from Wellesley College, after studying a year in France, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Fine Arts, with a dissertation on the reconstruction of historical context at the ancient Maya site of Tikal, Guatemala. In addition to Boston University, she has taught at Harvard, the University of Texas, and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. Coggins teaches 5 courses every two years: 2 each fall, and 1 every other spring. She has advised graduate students in Archaeology in Maya and North American archaeology, and in international cultural property subjects. Most of her research and publications concern Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology, international cultural property, museums, and the international trade in antiquities. In 1997 she received the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America, and awards for outstanding contributions from Rutgers University, the American Society for Conservation Archaeology, and for outstanding service from the United States Information Agency. JODI CRANSTON725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 302B Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor; Renaissance Art. B.A., Yale University, M.A., Columbia University, M.Phil, Columbia University, Ph.D., Columbia University. Associate Professor Jodi Cranston received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University and her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, and has taught at BU for seven years. She has received the Charles Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and is the author of The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and several articles in interdisciplinary Renaissance publications. An active participant in international scholarly conferences in art history and Renaissance studies, Professor Cranston is currently completing a book on materiality in Titian's later paintings. CLAIRE DEMPSEY 226 Bay State Rd., Rm 104 Director, Preservation Studies Program,Associate Professor of American and New England Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. AM, Wheaton College; MA, Boston University. Professor Dempsey has taught architectural history and research methods courses in the Preservation Studies Program since 1991. She has conducted preservation research within the compliance, identification, and evaluation areas for the Massachusetts Historical Commission and for a number of cities, towns, and research institutions. Research for New England area museums and historic sites has complemented her preservation work, for clients including the Haverhill Historical Society; Old Sturbridge Village; the Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA; the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Ledyard, CT; and the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor (National Park Service). Ms. Dempsey is the author of Building Hardwick: Community Histories in Landscape and Architecture, co-author of The Historical and Archaeological Resources of Central Massachusetts and The Historic and Archaeological resources of Cape Cod and the Islands, and contributor to Building Portsmouth: the Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City (1992) and The Early Architecture and Landscapes of the Narragansett Basin (2001). She serves as archivist for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and as president of its New England Chapter. EMINE FETVACI725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305A Professor Emine Fetvaci received her BA in Art History and Economics from Williams College in 1996, and her Ph. D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2005. Her dissertation "Viziers to Eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman Manuscript Patronage, 1566-1617" was a re-evaluation of the most prolific period in Ottoman manuscript production through a study of the networks of political and artistic patronage in court. She is interested in issues such as the codification of a historical record, the creation of collective memory, and the connections between artistic patronage and self-fashioning in early-modern courtly societies. Her research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture. MELANIE HALL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 205A Director of Museum Studies; Associate Professor; B.A., University of Leeds Melanie Hall is an Associate Professor, teaching courses in American and English architecture and preservation, decorative arts, and Museum Studies. She is currently the Director of Museum Studies. She joined the department in 1999 and has had extensive experience of museums and historical agencies. She studied Fine and Decorative Art History at the University of Leeds. Her career began as research assistant at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds City Art Galleries, York. For many years she worked for the Historic Monuments and Buildings Commission for England on a nation-wide survey of historic houses and towns. She has lectured on this work at Maddingley Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, Univeristy of Hull, and as a specialist lecturer to the National Trust. Prior to coming to the United States she was Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Prof. Hall is co-founder and director of the International Preservation Forum, which brings together specialists from many countries. She is an expert advisor to the Heritage Memorial Fund (England), the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, and Antiques America. Her publications include over 30 historic districts and towns reports for the British government, articles and reviews in Furniture History, Architectural History, and Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society. Her recent work on the origins of the English National Trust is in publication with Yale University Press, Studies in British Art series. Her current research focusses on museums dedicated to poets and writers, and landscape preservation in New England and England. She is a contributor to the Buildings of England series and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. PATRICIA HILLS725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 301B Professor; American Art. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., City University of New York, Hunter College; Ph.D., New York University Professor Hills teaches courses on American art and visual culture, and is a specialist in the history of American painting, African American art, and art and politics. Major books and catalogues for exhibitions she organized include: Stuart Davis (1996), John Singer Sargent (1986), Alice Neel (1983), Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s (1983), The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection (1980), Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910 (1977), The Painters' America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910 (1974), The American Frontier: Images and Myths (1973), Eastman Johnson (1972). She has also contributed essays to catalogues of major exhibitions, such as Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (1993), Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990 (1992), The West as America (1991), Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket (1990). Her articles have appeared in American Art, Oxford Art Journal, Prospects, Archives of American Art Journal, Dictionary of Women Artist, The Encyclopedia of New York City, American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts Vol. 2, Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850 (1998), and Redefining American History Painting (1995). Eastman Johnson: Painting America (1999), which she co-curated with Brooklyn Museum of Art curator Teresa A. Carbone, won the Henry Allen Moe Prize for most outstanding exhibition catalogue in the State of New York for the year 1999. She has held both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center and the W. E. B. Du Bois Center, both of Harvard University. Her textbook/anthology, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is currently writing a book on Jacob Lawrence. DEBORAH KAHN725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 302D Associate Professor; Medieval Art. B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Ph.D. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Deborah Kahn joined the BU faculty in 1996 after teaching for seven years at Princeton University, one year at Columbia University, and having worked for a year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has served as a consultant on Medieval sculpture for the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, from 1982-1988, and as consultant on medieval sculpture for the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral from 1986-1988. From 1980 to 1985 she served as chief research officer and administrator for the Hayward Gallery Exhibition, "English Romanesque Art 1066-1200", held in London in 1984. Her books include Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture (1991), The Romanesque Frieze and its Spectator (editor, 1992) and English Romanesque Art (1984). She is currently writing a book on Romanesque sculpture for Thames and Hudson. Professor Kahn teaches the medieval section of the survey to the history of art (AH 111), and upper level undergraduate and graduate classes in medieval art, and is advising four Ph.D. Students.
FRED S. KLEINER725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 302E Chair, Art History Department, Professor of Art History and Archaeology; Etruscan and Roman Art. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Professor Fred Kleiner joined the BU faculty in 1978. He has served as both Chairman and Director of Graduate Studies of the Art History Department, and from 1985-1998 was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. In 2002 he received Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the College Prize for Excellence in Academic Advising. Professor Kleiner's publications number well over 100 and include The Arch of Nero in Rome (1985), A History of Roman Art (2006), and co-authorship of the 10th (1996), 11th (2001), and 12th (2005) editions of Gardner's Art through the Ages, as well as Art through the Ages:The Western Perspective, Art through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives, and Art through the Ages: A Concise History. In 2001 Art through the Ages won both the Texty and McGuffey book prizes for the best college textbook in the humanities and social sciences. His articles on classical art and architecture have appeared in all the major archaeological journals of North America and Europe. Professor Kleiner has also been awarded several national grants and fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1988-1989. He teaches AH 111, Introduction to Art History I, every fall and a variety of undergraduate and graduate lecture courses and seminars on topics that cover the full range of Roman art and architecture and extend into late antiquity and the Early Christian period.
NAOMI MILLER - Emerita725 Commonwealth Ave Professor; Renaissance Art, History of Architecture/20th Century Architecture. B.S., City University of New York; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University A former book review editor and editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, she has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities award and fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, Villa i Tatti, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts. She is the author of French Renaissance Fountains, Heavenly Caves, Renaissance Bologna, and co-author of Boston Architecture 1975-1990. Decades of teaching at Boston University have been punctuated by visiting professorships in the U.S. and abroad. Specializing in the history of architecture and urbanism, she teaches courses open to the university at large, for example, "Introduction to Architecture" as well as 20th-century architecture and Renaissance art. In 2000, she authored the catalogue for an exhibition "Mapping Cities," the result of a curatorial seminar. At present, she is part of a team working on a guidebook to Boston architecture. Professor Miller has served as a Senior Fellow in the Humanities Foundation's Society of Fellows.
KEITH N. MORGAN725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210A Director of Graduate Studies, Professor; American and European Architecture. B.A., The College of Wooster; M.A., Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware; Ph.D., Brown University A scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century American and European architecture, Professor Morgan is interested in the relationships between architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture. Professor Morgan has taught at Boston University since 1980. He has served as the director of the Preservation Studies Program and of the American and New England Studies Program and as the chairman of the Art History Department on two occasions. He is a former national president of the Society of Architectural Historians. His recent publications include Shaping a New American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt, Boston Architecture, 1975-1990, which he coauthored with Professor Naomi Miller, and a new introduction for the republication of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect. He is the editor and one of the principal authors for Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston and serves as the architecture editor for The Encyclopedia of New England. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Buildings of the United States project, several committees for the restoration of historic landmarks and is a trustee of the Hancock Shaker Village.
BRUCE REDFORD745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 605 University Professor; Professor of Art History and English, College of Arts and Sciences, Director of the University Professors Program. B.A., Brown University; B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton University. Professor Redford is a literary historian, editor, and critic, with a strong interest in classical studies and the visual arts. He has published essays on topics as diverse as medieval hagiography, rococo portraiture, and the religious poetry of W.H. Auden. During the past decade and a half, his scholarship has centered on eighteenth-century British culture. The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (1986) was followed by The Letters of Samuel Johnson (five volumes, 1992-94), Venice and the Grand Tour (1996), and the second volume of Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (1998). In 2001/2002 he delivered the Lyell Lectures in bibliography at Oxford University; the lectures have been published as Designing the "Life of Johnson" (2002). A past president of the Johnson Society, he has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, All Souls College, Oxford, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center. In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
JONATHAN P. RIBNER725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210B Director of Graduate Admissions; Associate Professor; Nineteenth-Century and Modern Art. B.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D. New York University. Professor Ribner was appointed to the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1985. A specialist in European painting and sculpture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Professor Ribner researches the art of France and England in relation to the history of politics, law, literature, religion, and science. The author of Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix (University of California Press, 1993), he is currently working on a book concerned with art and Anglo-French rivalry in the age of Victoria. He regularly presents papers at the annual meetings of the College Art Association and the Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and has published articles and book reviews in The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, The British Art Journal, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and The American Historical Review. He teaches two courses each semester, including one graduate course, and the modern section of the spring survey course. In addition to AH 790 "Colloquium in 19th-Century Art, Professor Ribner offers courses with various topics under the rubric AH 889 "Seminar in 19th-Century Art. These topics include "Art and Nationalism in Europe, 1774-1900," "Impressionism through Symbolism," and "The Age of Victoria." Professor Ribner also teaches a graduate seminar in the art of Picasso. He has served as first reader for two dissertations on 19th-century European art, and has regularly been the advisor for Master's Scholarly Papers in topics covering twentieth-century and contemporary art, as well as that of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ribner was awarded a Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. from the American Council of Learned Societies (1987) and Junior Fellowships from the Humanities Foundation, Boston University (1993-94, 1987-88).
PAOLO SCRIVANO725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202C Assistant Professor; Modern Architecture; D.Arch., Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino Paolo Scrivano joined Boston University after having taught at the Politecnico di Milano (1997-2001) and at the University of Toronto (2002-2007). He graduated in Architectural History from the Politecnico di Torino in 1992 and, from the same university, received a PhD in History of Architecture and Town-Planning in 1997. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995), Post-doctoral Fellow at the Politecnico di Torino (1997-99), Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2002), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art (2003), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant recipient (2005-08).
JESSICA SEWELL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305A Assistant Professor, Art History and American Studies; American Material Culture, Architecture, Gender and Architecture, B.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Professor Jessica Sewell has been teaching at Boston University since 2003. She is a scholar of American material culture, and gender and architecture. Her classes include Sex, Gender, and Architecture; Studies in American Material Culture; Introduction to Architecture; and many others. She has taught at the Binghamton University and New York University. Her current book project is Gendering the Spaces of Modernity: Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915, and she has published articles on gender and urbanism in a number of recent anthologies. KIM SICHEL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202E Associate Professor; History of Photography and Modern Art. A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University Professor Kim Sichel has been teaching at Boston University since 1987. A scholar of photographic history and European modernism, she served as Chair of the Art History Department from 2002 to 2005, as Director of Museum Studies, and as Director of the Boston University Art Gallery from 1992 to 1998. Professor Sichel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern European art and the history of photography. She advises a large number of graduate students studying photography and modern art, as well as advising dissertations in the American and New England Studies Program. Her research specialties are in the history of photography. Recent books include Germaine Krull/Monte Carlo (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), and Evelyn Hofer (Steidl, 2004). She is the author of Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity, (1999), published in English by MIT Press and in German by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. This book was a finalist for the Kraszna-Kraus Foundation awards for best photographic history book of 1999, and won an award for best photography monograph for 1999 from the Maine Photographic Workshops. In addition, she has published numerous articles, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues in Europe and the United States. The catalogues include Street Portraits 1946-1976: The Photographs of Jules Aarons (2003); Brassai: Paris le jour, Paris la nuit (1988); From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography (1995); Black Boston: Documentary Photography and the African American Experience (1994); Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library (1992); Turn of the Century Photographs by Robert Demachy (1983); Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity, and the Documentary Mode (1998); and Philip Guston 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles (1998) . Current projects include a study of historical and contemporary aerial photography, and a book on documentary photography in the 1970s. Professor Sichel has received a Fellowship for University Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-1995), a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1994-1995), has been a Junior Fellow at the Boston University Humanities Foundation (1996-1997, 1989-1990) and served as a Senior Fellow in 2005-2006.
ELIZABETH ten GROTENHUIS - EmeritaAsian Art. AB, Radcliffe College; MA, PhD, Harvard University.
ALICE Y. TSENG725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210C Assistant professor, Japanese art and architecture; B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Professor Tseng joined the faculty of Boston University in fall 2004. Her specialization encompasses the art and architecture of Japan, with particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific topics of research interest are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions, and transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America. She offers lecture courses on the arts of Asia; the arts of Japan; and modern Japanese architecture; and seminar courses on Japanese print culture; the Edo-Meiji transition; and constructs of the Japanese art canon. Professor Tseng has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute (Harvard University). She is a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2006-07 year, and the recipient of the 2006 Founder’s Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for her article “Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo.” Her book on the Imperial Museums of Japan is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. HILDA WESTERVELT725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 215D Assistant Professor; Greek Art. B.A., Colby College, Ph.D. Harvard University Professor Westervelt joined the Art History Department at Boston University in 2004, after receiving her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Harvard University. She spent two years traveling and conducting research in Greece as a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies (2001-2002) and as the Edward Capps Fellow (2002-2003), also at the American School. Her dissertation, "The Centauromachy in Greek Architectural Sculpture", examines the sculptural programs of four major temples of the fifth century. She is currently revising it for publication. Professor Westervelt’s areas of special interest include sculpture and painting of the Archaic and Classical periods, and Greek literature, especially of the Epic, Lyric and Tragic genres. GREGORY WILLIAMS725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 215C Assistant Professor; Contemporary Art. BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA, Tufts University; PhD, City University of New York. Gregory Williams received his PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2006. His dissertation examines humor and jokes in the work of West German artists of the late 1970s and 1980s, including Martin Kippenberger and Rosemarie Trockel. An editor-at-large of Brooklyn's Cabinet Magazine, he has published art criticism in numerous periodicals, including Artforum International and Texte zur Kunst, and has contributed several essays to international exhibition catalogues. His current area of research is contemporary German art, as well as art criticism and theory from the 1960s to the present. JAMES WISEMAN675 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 351B Professor of Archaeology, Classical Studies, and Art History; classical art and archaeology. A.B., University of Missouri; A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago Professor James Wiseman, is Professor of Archaeology, Art History, and Classics at Boston University, whose faculty he joined in 1973. He earned a B.A. from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, all degrees with a major in Classics and concentration in Classical Archaeology. He also studied at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and began his teaching career at the University of Texas at Austin. At Boston University he has served as Chairman of the Department of Classical Studies (1974-1982); was founder and Chairman of the Department of Archaeology (1982-1996); and continues as Director of the Center for Archaeological Studies. He teaches courses in archaeology, especially Greek and Roman archaeology and art, each semester both on the undergraduate and graduate level; usually one course in the fall and two in the spring. He also advises students at both levels in the three departments of which he is a member. He is a long-time officer of the Archaeological Institute of America, and served as its National President (1984-88); he is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has been Guggenheim Fellow, Mellon Fellow and Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks (Center for Byzantine Studies), NEH Fellow, ACLS Fellow (three times), and Visiting Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. He has also been the recipient of numerous grants in support of field research and academic programs. Other honors include the Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science, 1989; Gold Seal Award from the Archaeological Institute of American in January 1989 for "distinguished leadership, commitment and significant achievements as President;" Artemis and Martha Sharpe Joukowsky Distinguished Served Award of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1999. Annual Award in his name for Best Book on Archaeology was established by the Archaeological Institute of American in 1987 and the first award presented in December, 1989. He has lectured widely in this country and abroad, and is the author or editor of six books. He also has written approximately 200 articles on archaeology, Greek and Roman history and art, inscriptions, remote sensing, and literature.
MICHAEL ZELL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 205B Associate Chair, Art History Department, Associate Professor; Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art. BA, McGill University; PhD, Harvard University Associate Professor Michael Zell received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts in 1994 and has been teaching at Boston University since 1996. His area of research is seventeenth-century Dutch art, with a particular focus on Rembrandt. His book, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam was published by the University of California Press in 2002. He is the author of articles in the journals Art History, Simiolus and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and has co-edited the volume Rethinking Rembrandt (2002), to which he contributed an essay on Rembrandt and gift giving. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his current book project For the Love of Art: Liefhebbers and Gift-Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Professor Zell teaches courses that cover a wide range of themes in his field of specialization, European art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He regularly offers the survey classes "Northern Baroque Art" and "Southern Baroque Art", as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars on focused topics such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, “Print Culture in Seventeenth-Century Holland”, and “The Alliance of Art and Power in the Baroque”. |
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