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Communiqué<br />
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA<br />
Fall 2004<br />
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY<br />
<strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> <strong>Crown</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Retire</strong><br />
Patricia <strong>Crown</strong> taught classes with densely<br />
worded lectures in a traditional style <strong>of</strong> teaching<br />
that required students <strong>to</strong> memorize dates<br />
<strong>and</strong> other facts. She won three teaching<br />
awards using that technique.<br />
After a long <strong>and</strong> distinguished career, <strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Patricia<br />
Dahlman <strong>Crown</strong> will retire at the end <strong>of</strong> the fall 2004<br />
semester. The department is organizing a daylong symposium<br />
on Nov. 13 as a tribute <strong>to</strong> her.<br />
Half a dozen scholars — all former students <strong>of</strong> hers —<br />
will read papers. There will also be a distinguished plenary<br />
speaker, <strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Anne Bermingham <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong><br />
California, Santa Barbara. A reception will follow the lectures.<br />
The department encourages alumni <strong>and</strong> friends <strong>to</strong><br />
attend the symposium, which is indeed a tribute, reunion<br />
<strong>and</strong> party. Further information will follow.<br />
Pat, as she is fondly known <strong>to</strong> her colleagues, joined<br />
the department in 1977, filling a newly created position in<br />
the his<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> 18th-century<br />
art. She had graduated<br />
Phi Beta Kappa<br />
<strong>and</strong> summa cum Laude<br />
with a bachelor’s degree<br />
in art his<strong>to</strong>ry from the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Southern<br />
California (USC) in<br />
1956. Later, she pursued<br />
graduate study at<br />
the University <strong>of</strong><br />
California, Los Angeles<br />
(UCLA), where she<br />
received a master <strong>of</strong><br />
arts in 1972 <strong>and</strong> a doc<strong>to</strong>rate<br />
in 1977.<br />
Osmund Overby<br />
was chair <strong>of</strong> the department<br />
in spring 1977 <strong>and</strong><br />
remembers recruiting<br />
<strong>Crown</strong> for a position at<br />
MU. “There were several<br />
really good new PhDs in 18th- <strong>and</strong> 19th-century art on<br />
the market,” he says. “We felt honored when Pat, our first<br />
choice, accepted our invitation <strong>to</strong> be a part <strong>of</strong> MU.”<br />
<strong>Crown</strong> <strong>to</strong>ok delight in her work. “I’ve never gotten<br />
over the basic psychological fascination <strong>of</strong> the visual arts,<br />
their aesthetic wonders <strong>and</strong> the mental delight <strong>of</strong> situating<br />
them in their his<strong>to</strong>rical contexts,” she says.<br />
Not only is that statement a tribute <strong>to</strong> her training at<br />
UCLA <strong>and</strong> the nearby Hunting<strong>to</strong>n Library, it is also a fitting<br />
description <strong>of</strong> what has distinguished <strong>Crown</strong>’s teaching<br />
<strong>and</strong> research during her MU career. She is highly<br />
regarded by her pr<strong>of</strong>essional colleagues for her many<br />
scholarly publications, the papers she has read for all the<br />
appropriate learned societies <strong>and</strong> the museums for which<br />
she has curated exhibitions <strong>and</strong> written catalogs.<br />
The same qualities that have distinguished those contributions<br />
have also infused her teaching. She holds<br />
numerous teaching awards, culminating last fall in the<br />
Maxine Chris<strong>to</strong>pher<br />
Shutz Award <strong>and</strong><br />
Lecture for<br />
Distinguished<br />
Teaching. Running<br />
through all this is her<br />
passionate commitment<br />
<strong>to</strong> equity for women,<br />
both in the workplace<br />
<strong>and</strong> in the sensitive<br />
focus <strong>of</strong> scholarly<br />
endeavor — another<br />
reason for the enormous<br />
respect accorded<br />
<strong>Crown</strong> by her students<br />
<strong>and</strong> colleagues.<br />
A few years after<br />
Patricia <strong>Crown</strong>, pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> art his<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> women’s studies, ends her<br />
teaching career with a tribute from her peers <strong>and</strong> former students. An art<br />
his<strong>to</strong>ry course she taught on Women, <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong> Society was cross-listed with<br />
the Women’s Studies program.<br />
<strong>Crown</strong>’s arrival, her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>, Keith, a distinguished<br />
watercolorist,<br />
joined Columbia’s<br />
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(<strong>Crown</strong>, continued from Page 1)<br />
art circles. He had remained on the art faculty at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Southern California, where he had been<br />
since 1946, then followed Pat <strong>to</strong> Columbia in 1983 when<br />
he retired from USC. Pat herself is a painter as well, <strong>and</strong><br />
some department members remember seeing her work in a<br />
dual exhibition with Keith in the Davis Gallery at<br />
Stephens College.<br />
In addition <strong>to</strong> her many other qualities, Pat <strong>Crown</strong> is<br />
known for a wonderful wit. “In recommending <strong>Crown</strong> <strong>to</strong><br />
us in 1977, a colleague <strong>of</strong> hers wrote about her collegiality,<br />
how great she is <strong>to</strong> talk with, how ‘her conversation falls<br />
naturally in academic cadences.’ What a line, <strong>and</strong> how<br />
appropriate!” Overby says.<br />
Gifts from Alumni, Friends<br />
Aid Students <strong>and</strong> Faculty<br />
The enduring contributions <strong>of</strong> former students, faculty<br />
<strong>and</strong> friends live on through the department’s student fellowships.<br />
Awards vary each year depending on available<br />
resources <strong>and</strong> student needs.<br />
Your donation <strong>to</strong> any <strong>of</strong> the fellowship funds makes a<br />
real difference in department programs. Please make<br />
checks in any amount payable <strong>to</strong> the MU <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Art</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> Archaeology, <strong>and</strong> specify the fund you<br />
wish <strong>to</strong> support.<br />
• William R. Biers Fund helps undergraduate <strong>and</strong><br />
graduate archaeology students attend the summer<br />
program <strong>of</strong> the American School <strong>of</strong> Classical<br />
Studies in Athens.<br />
• Development Fund, a general, unrestricted gift<br />
fund, helps meet the many pressing needs <strong>of</strong> the<br />
department.<br />
• Edzard Baumann Fellowship supports travel<br />
abroad by graduate art his<strong>to</strong>ry students.<br />
• Osmund Overby Fund is a resource for faculty<br />
<strong>and</strong> students whose research <strong>and</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
interests focus on American <strong>Art</strong>, architecture <strong>and</strong><br />
his<strong>to</strong>ric preservation. The fund supports projects<br />
pertaining <strong>to</strong> the study <strong>and</strong> interpretation <strong>of</strong> art<br />
<strong>and</strong> architecture <strong>of</strong> cultural <strong>and</strong> his<strong>to</strong>ric sites in<br />
"Near Williams<strong>to</strong>wn," a watercolor painting by Patricia<br />
<strong>Crown</strong>, features an autumn l<strong>and</strong>scape in the Berkshire<br />
Mountains <strong>of</strong> western Massachusetts. Most <strong>of</strong> her works are in<br />
watercolor, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>ten the subject is l<strong>and</strong>scape, in California, New<br />
Mexico, the Midwest <strong>and</strong> Engl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Missouri <strong>and</strong> the American Midwest.<br />
• John Pickard Fellowship provides annual support<br />
for one or more outst<strong>and</strong>ing full-time graduate<br />
students enrolled in the department.<br />
• Herbert W. Schooling Fellowship provides annual<br />
support <strong>to</strong> advanced graduate students in the<br />
department in honor <strong>of</strong> MU’s former chancellor.<br />
• Saul <strong>and</strong> Gladys Weinberg Traveling<br />
Fellowship supports overseas research by graduate<br />
students in classical archaeology.<br />
Communiqué is published by the <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> Archaeology at the University <strong>of</strong> Missouri-Columbia.<br />
Edi<strong>to</strong>rial Office<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> Archaeology<br />
109 Pickard Hall<br />
Columbia, MO 65211<br />
Phone: (573) 882-6711<br />
Fax: [573] 884=5269<br />
E-mail: aha@missouri.edu<br />
Website: www.missouri.edu/~ahawww/<br />
Edi<strong>to</strong>rial Board<br />
Norman L<strong>and</strong><br />
Nancy Moen<br />
Dan Glover<br />
The department appreciates hearing from alumni <strong>and</strong> friends. Send announcements or miles<strong>to</strong>nes <strong>to</strong> the address listed above.<br />
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From left, Stephanie Pryor, Megan Thomsen, Robert Darby, Mark Hammond <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Kathleen Slane following the AHA 401 presentations in fall 2003.<br />
401 Presentations<br />
Are a Ritual<br />
First-year graduate students were subjected in November<br />
<strong>to</strong> the ritual rite <strong>of</strong> passage commonly known as the 401<br />
Papers. The semester-long 401 course culminated in the<br />
public presentation <strong>of</strong> papers based on research conducted<br />
on objects from the Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong> Archaeology. This<br />
year’s program focused on a host <strong>of</strong> ancient artifacts.<br />
• “The Sun, the Moon, <strong>and</strong> the Stars: Who’s Who on a<br />
Roman Bronze Military Medal” by Stephanie Pryor<br />
(BA, Minnesota State University–Moorhead; MA,<br />
Tufts University)<br />
• “What Goes Around Comes Around: Mirror Plaques<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Evil Eye in Late Antiquity” by<br />
Mark D. Hammond (BA, Brock University)<br />
• “A Roman Portrait <strong>of</strong> a Youth” by Robert<br />
N. Darby (BA, Minnesota State<br />
University–Moorhead; MA, Tufts<br />
University)<br />
• “Out <strong>of</strong> the Frying Pan in<strong>to</strong> the Fire?” by<br />
Megan L. Thomsen (BA, Indiana<br />
University)<br />
MU/KU<br />
Symposium<br />
The <strong>Art</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> Archaeology<br />
Graduate Student Association hosted<br />
its 12th Annual Graduate<br />
Student Symposium at MU in<br />
March, in conjunction with the<br />
graduate students <strong>of</strong> the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Kansas. This year’s theme <strong>of</strong><br />
“Exploring Boundaries: Concepts<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Liminal in <strong>Art</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>and</strong><br />
Archaeology” brought a wide range<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>to</strong>pics from graduate students at<br />
the University <strong>of</strong> Kansas, Florida<br />
State University, Bos<strong>to</strong>n<br />
University, Emory University <strong>and</strong><br />
University <strong>of</strong> Texas-Austin, as well<br />
as from MU.<br />
Alumna Nancy Locke presented<br />
the keynote speech, “Lost in<br />
(Liminal) Space?” Those presenting<br />
from MU’s department included Julia<br />
C. Menes with her paper, “The Tazza Farnese: Hellenistic<br />
or Roman?” <strong>and</strong> Abigail R. Haworth with “Sculpturae<br />
Vitam Insufflat Pictura: Pygmalion, Gerome <strong>and</strong> Tinted<br />
Sculpture.”<br />
Nearly all MU graduate students from the department<br />
were involved with the event: Haworth, as symposium<br />
coordina<strong>to</strong>r, Menes <strong>and</strong> Rebecca Roe, as co-presidents <strong>of</strong><br />
AHAGSA, <strong>and</strong> Robert Darby, Megan Thomsen, Stephanie<br />
Pryor, Nathan Elkins, Mark Hammond, Ethan Gannaway<br />
<strong>and</strong> Amy Benedict.<br />
The graduate students thanked the department faculty<br />
<strong>and</strong> staff, especially Daffany Hood <strong>and</strong> Beth Kopine, for<br />
their support.<br />
Degrees Awarded<br />
December 2003<br />
Ben Briggs, BA<br />
Kelli Bruce Hansen, MA<br />
Kimberly Herr, BA<br />
Tara Kempen, BA<br />
Ben<strong>to</strong>n Kidd, PhD<br />
Hajime Kuroda, BA<br />
Naomi Myers, BA<br />
R<strong>and</strong>y Temple, BA<br />
Devon Wilson, BA<br />
May 2004<br />
Shannon Bartel, BA<br />
Lisa Moore Hunt, PhD<br />
Kay Hunvald, PhD<br />
Aimee Leonhard, MA<br />
Julia Menes, MA<br />
Leslie Tilly, BA<br />
Yang Wang, BA<br />
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Faculty<br />
Kudos<br />
Pat <strong>Crown</strong> received the College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s <strong>and</strong> Science<br />
Purple Chalk Award for teaching <strong>and</strong> the Maxine Shutz<br />
Distinguished Teaching Award. The latter included a banquet<br />
in her honor <strong>to</strong> mark the occasion <strong>and</strong> publication <strong>of</strong><br />
the article “Images <strong>of</strong> Aged Women <strong>Art</strong>ists in the 18th<br />
Century” by the University <strong>of</strong> Missouri Press. <strong>Crown</strong><br />
gave a talk <strong>and</strong> colloquium on Dorothea Lisiewska-<br />
Therbusch at Northwestern University as part <strong>of</strong> its seminar<br />
in 18th-century studies, <strong>and</strong> she presented a paper<br />
on self–portraits by women artists at the Debar<strong>to</strong>lo<br />
Conference on 18th-century Studies at the University <strong>of</strong><br />
South Florida. She also chaired sessions at annual meetings<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in<br />
Chicago <strong>and</strong> Los Angeles. She will present a paper, “The<br />
Child in the Visual Culture <strong>of</strong> Consumption 1790-1830,”<br />
at Chaw<strong>to</strong>n House, Hampshire, Engl<strong>and</strong>, at the conference<br />
titled “Women <strong>and</strong> Material Culture.”<br />
Keith Eggener earned promotion <strong>to</strong> associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
with tenure in fall 2003. Among his publications during<br />
academic year 2003-04 were essays in Cruauté &<br />
U<strong>to</strong>pie: Villes et Paysages d’Amérique Latine, catalog for<br />
an exhibition held in Brussels, Belgium, at the Centre<br />
International pour la Ville, l’Architecture et le Paysage<br />
(now being translated in<strong>to</strong> English <strong>and</strong> published by<br />
Prince<strong>to</strong>n Architectural Press) <strong>and</strong> the Tokyo-based architectural<br />
journal A+U, in a special issue on modern<br />
Mexico. Most recently, his American Architectural<br />
His<strong>to</strong>ry: A Contemporary Reader was published by<br />
Routledge, London. Eggener continues <strong>to</strong> serve as associate<br />
edi<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> the Buildings <strong>of</strong> the United States series,<br />
a project sponsored by the Society <strong>of</strong> Architectural<br />
His<strong>to</strong>rians, <strong>and</strong> he was recently named chair <strong>of</strong> that<br />
series’ interim edi<strong>to</strong>rial committee. Ongoing projects<br />
include a book on American cemeteries, which is forthcoming<br />
as part <strong>of</strong> the Nor<strong>to</strong>n/Library <strong>of</strong> Congress Visual<br />
Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, <strong>and</strong> Engineering<br />
series, <strong>and</strong> a book tentatively titled Modernity <strong>and</strong><br />
Mortality in 20th Century American Architecture.<br />
Eggener will be on leave during academic year 2004-05.<br />
John Klein gave an invited paper on Paul Gauguin’s<br />
legacy in the 20th century at an international Gauguin<br />
conference at the University <strong>of</strong> French Polynesia in<br />
Papeete, Tahiti; the paper was published in the proceedings<br />
later in the year. He traveled again <strong>to</strong> the Pacific<br />
during the summer <strong>to</strong> give lectures on a cruise ship <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>to</strong> participate in the Gauguin centenary festivities in the<br />
Marquesas Isl<strong>and</strong>s. Klein gave an invited lecture at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin-Madison on Henri Matisse’s late<br />
decorative projects, the subject <strong>of</strong> his book in progress.<br />
He continues as direc<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> graduate studies in the<br />
department <strong>and</strong> serves on the Honors Council <strong>of</strong> the<br />
College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s <strong>and</strong> Science <strong>and</strong> on the museum advisory<br />
committee <strong>of</strong> the Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong> Archaeology.<br />
Susan Langdon presented a paper, “Constructions <strong>of</strong><br />
Childhood in the Ancient World,” for a conference at the<br />
Hood Museum at Dartmouth College in November, <strong>and</strong><br />
her paper, “Power <strong>and</strong> Hierarchy in the His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong><br />
Civilizations,” was read in Moscow at the Third<br />
International Congress. She was very sorry not <strong>to</strong> attend!<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the highlights <strong>of</strong> her year was trying out a new<br />
undergraduate <strong>to</strong>pics course on <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong> Gender in the<br />
Ancient World. She continues progress on her book on art<br />
<strong>and</strong> society in early Iron-Age Greece, a project for which<br />
she received Research Council <strong>and</strong> Research Board grants.<br />
In fall 2003, Norman L<strong>and</strong> stepped down as direc<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong><br />
undergraduate studies <strong>and</strong> assumed the mantle <strong>of</strong> acting<br />
chair for the period <strong>of</strong> one academic year (2003-04). He<br />
managed, nevertheless, <strong>to</strong> publish one article “Poetry <strong>and</strong><br />
Anecdote in Carlo Ridolfi’s Life <strong>of</strong> Titian,” in The<br />
Cambridge Companion <strong>to</strong> Titian, edited by Patricia<br />
Meilman, <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> deliver one lecture, “Titian <strong>and</strong><br />
Michelangelo,” for the Southeastern College <strong>Art</strong><br />
Conference at North Carolina State University <strong>and</strong><br />
Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. In spring 2003, he completed<br />
terms on the faculty council <strong>and</strong> the research council.<br />
He also accepted an invitation from the South Central<br />
Renaissance Conference <strong>to</strong> serve as program chair for<br />
Exploring the Renaissance, 2005, a conference <strong>to</strong> be held<br />
at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, Calif., in March.<br />
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Marcus Rautman spent the past year on leave <strong>to</strong> work<br />
on a book about daily life in Byzantium. His article on<br />
“Valley <strong>and</strong> Village in Late Roman Cyprus,” appeared in<br />
Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside, edited<br />
by W. Bowden, L. Lavan <strong>and</strong> C. Machado. He contributed<br />
several entries <strong>to</strong> the exhibition catalog<br />
Testament <strong>of</strong> Time: Selected Objects from the Collection<br />
<strong>of</strong> Palestinian Antiquities in the Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
Archaeology, edited by Jane Biers <strong>and</strong> James Terry.<br />
In her third year at MU, Kristin Schwain continued <strong>to</strong> participate<br />
in the Young Scholars in American Religion<br />
Program, which brings <strong>to</strong>gether 10 junior faculty working<br />
on the his<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> religion in America from a variety <strong>of</strong> disciplinary<br />
perspectives. Led by two prominent figures in the<br />
field <strong>and</strong> sponsored by the Center for the Study <strong>of</strong> Religion<br />
<strong>and</strong> American Culture, Schwain attended two weekend<br />
conferences in Indianapolis <strong>to</strong> discuss scholarship <strong>and</strong><br />
teaching. She traveled <strong>to</strong> Atlanta <strong>to</strong> deliver a paper at the<br />
American Academy <strong>of</strong> Religion Annual Conference in<br />
November. The subject <strong>of</strong> her talk, African-American artist<br />
Henry Ossawa Tanner, will also be the subject <strong>of</strong> a chapter<br />
<strong>of</strong> her book, “Signs <strong>of</strong> Grace: Religious Experience <strong>and</strong><br />
Visual Practice in Modernist American <strong>Art</strong>.” Thanks <strong>to</strong> a<br />
research leave funded by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum<br />
Research Center, Schwain will spend next year in Santa<br />
Fe, N.M., completing the manuscript.<br />
Kathleen Slane was honored <strong>to</strong> be invited <strong>to</strong> participate<br />
in a classical colloquium in honor <strong>of</strong> the 250th birthday<br />
<strong>of</strong> the British Museum in November. The centerpiece<br />
was the newly discovered sculpture from Augustus’ vic<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
monument near Actium, which anticipates the Ara<br />
Pacis reliefs. Attendees also heard from many other<br />
Greek ephoreias <strong>and</strong> about recent Italian finds in Libya<br />
as well. She attended a Roman pottery conference in<br />
Sicily <strong>and</strong> is therefore able <strong>to</strong> report that spring in<br />
Catania is exactly in step with spring in Columbia (the<br />
redbuds were in bloom everywhere), but Mt. Etna was<br />
invisible in a cloud bank. Next year she <strong>and</strong> her dog are<br />
<strong>of</strong>f again <strong>to</strong> do research in Corinth.<br />
<strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Anne Stan<strong>to</strong>n survived her first year as direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
<strong>of</strong> undergraduate studies for the department <strong>and</strong><br />
hopes that next year will not add <strong>to</strong>o many more gray<br />
hairs when new course numbers are implemented<br />
across the University. One pleasant development was<br />
the resurrection <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Spectrum, the undergraduate<br />
AHA group, under the capable leadership <strong>of</strong> Yang Wang<br />
<strong>and</strong> Hannah Johnson, who organized pizza nights, field<br />
trips <strong>and</strong> movie nights. Stan<strong>to</strong>n enjoyed helping three <strong>of</strong><br />
her graduate students, Kelli Bruce Hansen, Aimee<br />
Leonhard <strong>and</strong> Lisa Moore Hunt, complete their master’s<br />
theses <strong>and</strong> doc<strong>to</strong>ral dissertations. Stan<strong>to</strong>n’s pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
events included acting as program co-chair, with his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
<strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Lois Huneycutt, for this year’s Mid-America<br />
Medieval Association meeting at MU in February. When<br />
bad weather forced the plenary speaker <strong>to</strong> cancel,<br />
Stan<strong>to</strong>n gave a plenary lecture on “The Patronage <strong>of</strong><br />
Isabelle <strong>of</strong> France.” She also organized <strong>and</strong> chaired a<br />
session for the International Center for Medieval <strong>Art</strong> on<br />
“Rulers <strong>and</strong> their Images: Patronage <strong>and</strong> Power” at the<br />
39th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies<br />
at Kalamazoo, Mich. Her book chapter on “Isabelle <strong>of</strong><br />
France <strong>and</strong> her Manuscripts, 1308-1358,” (Capetian<br />
Women, edited by Kathleen Nolan) was published in late<br />
2003, <strong>and</strong> a chapter on “The Other Miss Rickert:<br />
Margaret Rickert (1888-1973) <strong>and</strong> the Study <strong>of</strong><br />
Illuminated English Manuscripts,” (Women Medievalists<br />
in the Academy, edited by Jane Chance) should appear<br />
by December 2004.<br />
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Alumni News<br />
Lisa Auanger, PhD ’97, continues <strong>to</strong> enjoy teaching Latin in<br />
a secondary school at Hamp<strong>to</strong>n Roads, Va. She spent the<br />
spring hunting for an apartment in a quiet neighborhood.<br />
Claudia Einecke, PhD ’94, accepted a position in the<br />
European Painting <strong>and</strong> Sculpture <strong>Department</strong> at the Los<br />
Angeles County Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>. She is working on an<br />
exhibition <strong>of</strong> the late (i.e. post-1881) paintings <strong>of</strong><br />
Auguste Renoir, everybody’s favorite. The show is<br />
scheduled <strong>to</strong> open in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2005<br />
<strong>and</strong> will be in Los Angeles in early 2006.<br />
Alice Fugate, MA ’80, received an appointment <strong>to</strong> the<br />
L<strong>and</strong>marks Preservation Commission <strong>of</strong> Chesterfield,<br />
Mo., which is developing a local his<strong>to</strong>ric register <strong>of</strong> buildings<br />
<strong>and</strong> archaeological sites. Fugate <strong>and</strong> her husb<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Steve LoGrasso, are celebrating their 15th wedding<br />
anniversary with a trip <strong>to</strong> Portugal, Spain <strong>and</strong> France.<br />
Rachel Gagnon, an art his<strong>to</strong>ry minor who graduated in<br />
May 2004, is a summer intern at the Pulitzer Institute<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Art</strong>s in St. Louis. She works in promotion <strong>and</strong><br />
public outreach.<br />
Leslie Hammond, PhD ’98, has been appointed direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
<strong>of</strong> cura<strong>to</strong>rial affairs at the Apple<strong>to</strong>n Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> at<br />
Florida State University <strong>and</strong> Central Florida Community<br />
College in Ocala, Fla.<br />
Kelli [Bruce] Hansen, MA ’03, finished her master’s thesis<br />
on medieval Spanish manuscripts in December 2003<br />
<strong>and</strong> works as manager <strong>of</strong> print collections in the Division<br />
<strong>of</strong> Special Collections <strong>and</strong> Rare Books at MU’s Ellis Library.<br />
Christian Hill, BA ’92, Phi Beta Kappa, has published an<br />
article, “Narrative Aesthetics <strong>of</strong> Time <strong>and</strong> Space in the<br />
Comics Series ‘Broussaille,’” in the International Journal<br />
<strong>of</strong> Comic <strong>Art</strong>. He is a comic artist <strong>and</strong> a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
steering committee <strong>of</strong> the National Association <strong>of</strong><br />
Comic <strong>Art</strong> Educa<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />
Lisa Moore Hunt, MA ’96, PhD ’04, wrote her dissertation<br />
on “Illuminating the Borders <strong>of</strong> Northern French<br />
<strong>and</strong> Flemish Manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310,” <strong>and</strong> reports<br />
that the defense went well. In fall, she will be a visiting<br />
assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> medieval art at the College <strong>of</strong><br />
Wooster in Ohio.<br />
Elizabeth Kramer, MA ’99, presented a paper, “Rethinking<br />
‘Japan Mania’: Popular Consumption <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Gendering <strong>of</strong> Japan,” at the College <strong>Art</strong> Association,<br />
where she reunited with other MU art his<strong>to</strong>ry students<br />
Debra Byrne <strong>and</strong> Elizabeth Hunt. She also published an<br />
article, “The Feminization <strong>of</strong> Japan,” which is on the<br />
influence <strong>of</strong> Japanese decorative art in 19th-century<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong>. She continues <strong>to</strong> research Japanese <strong>and</strong><br />
Anglo-Japanese textiles for her dissertation <strong>and</strong> teaches<br />
part time at the University <strong>of</strong> Manchester, Engl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Julia Menes, MA ’04, is moving <strong>to</strong> China in August <strong>to</strong><br />
teach English at Capital Normal University. She recently<br />
won Pho<strong>to</strong>graph <strong>of</strong> the Year honors from Columbia<br />
Pho<strong>to</strong> in Columbia for an image she captured during a<br />
recent trip <strong>to</strong> Machu Picchu, Peru.<br />
A book by Frankie Morris, PhD ’85, <strong>Art</strong>ist <strong>of</strong> Wonderl<strong>and</strong>:<br />
The Life, Political Car<strong>to</strong>ons <strong>and</strong> Illustrations <strong>of</strong> Tenniel, will<br />
be published by the University <strong>of</strong> Virginia Press.<br />
Danielle Parks, PhD ’99, was promoted <strong>and</strong> awarded<br />
tenure in the classics department at Brock University in<br />
March 2004.<br />
Julie Plax, PhD ’89, gave a paper at the National Gallery<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong> Center for Advanced Study in the Visual <strong>Art</strong>s in a<br />
symposium for the exhibition “French Genre Painting in<br />
the Eighteenth Century.”<br />
Breanne Robertson, BA ’03, just completed her first<br />
year <strong>of</strong> graduate work at the University <strong>of</strong> Texas at Austin.<br />
She was selected <strong>to</strong> present a paper at the Eleanor<br />
Greenhill Symposium in spring <strong>and</strong> invited <strong>to</strong> return <strong>to</strong> the<br />
Smithsonian American <strong>Art</strong> Museum in Washing<strong>to</strong>n, D.C.,<br />
as an intern in summer 2004. In the fall, she will begin a<br />
paid internship in the education department at the<br />
Blan<strong>to</strong>n Museum at the University <strong>of</strong> Texas.<br />
William Rossi, MA ’79, teaches at the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Oregon <strong>and</strong> has recently edited a book on Henry<br />
David Thoreau.<br />
Joe Stumpf, PhD ’03, received a CAORC postgraduate<br />
fellowship from the American Center for Oriental<br />
Research. He plans <strong>to</strong> be in residence in Amman, as<br />
well as traveling around Jordan, from May 25 <strong>to</strong> Aug. 25.<br />
Billur Tekkok, PhD ’96, spent most <strong>of</strong> the year in<br />
Cincinnati as Margot Tytus visiting fellow while working<br />
on the final publication <strong>of</strong> the Hellenistic <strong>and</strong> Roman<br />
pottery from Troy. This summer she returns <strong>to</strong> Turkey,<br />
where she will be working with the Granicus <strong>and</strong> Tarsus<br />
projects as well as visiting Samothrace, Greece <strong>and</strong> Troy<br />
before she returns <strong>to</strong> Cincinnati in the fall.<br />
Yang Wang, BA ’04, completed an honors thesis,<br />
“Contemporary Chinese Painting: Redefining the<br />
Images <strong>of</strong> the Cultural Revolution,” in which she examined<br />
how four contemporary Chinese artists deployed<br />
the popular culture <strong>of</strong> the Revolution <strong>to</strong> explore the<br />
Communist legacy <strong>and</strong> its influence on personal <strong>and</strong><br />
national identity. Wang later delivered a paper based on<br />
her thesis at the Portl<strong>and</strong> State University National<br />
Spring Symposium in Portl<strong>and</strong>, Ore. She is working for<br />
the summer in the Asian art department at the St. Louis<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Museum.<br />
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Emeriti<br />
Faculty<br />
William Biers continued his travels during the fall<br />
semester. He s<strong>and</strong>wiched a lecture <strong>to</strong>ur for the<br />
Archaeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America <strong>to</strong> Williamsburg,<br />
Va., Buffalo, N.Y., <strong>and</strong> Toron<strong>to</strong> between an extended<br />
trip <strong>to</strong> Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales for a family wedding <strong>and</strong> a<br />
visit <strong>to</strong> Paris <strong>and</strong> Norm<strong>and</strong>y in November. Annual<br />
trips <strong>to</strong> Northern California <strong>and</strong> Vancouver, as well as<br />
<strong>to</strong> New York, Chicago <strong>and</strong> the January AIA Meeting<br />
in San Francisco rounded out his journeys. The second<br />
semester was taken up in a revival <strong>of</strong> AHA 222:<br />
Ancient Technology, which enrolled 53 students,<br />
with engineering students forming the majority.<br />
Howard Marshall stays extremely busy with<br />
research <strong>and</strong> writing projects — not <strong>to</strong> mention helping<br />
Margot keep track <strong>of</strong> the cows, sheep, horses,<br />
chickens <strong>and</strong> dogs at their farm in Callaway County.<br />
He continues <strong>to</strong> present programs on the fiddle<br />
music <strong>of</strong> the Lewis <strong>and</strong> Clark era for museums, his<strong>to</strong>rical<br />
societies, festivals <strong>and</strong> such. In March, he<br />
was in Irel<strong>and</strong> doing archival research for a project<br />
on the his<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> traditional fiddle music in Missouri.<br />
His article on opera singer Jenny Lind — The<br />
Swedish Nightingale — <strong>and</strong> her 1840s polka, which<br />
is still played throughout the U.S. <strong>and</strong> Canada, is in<br />
the forthcoming issue <strong>of</strong> Missouri Folklore Society<br />
Journal. Marshall’s 2003 book, Barns <strong>of</strong> Missouri:<br />
S<strong>to</strong>rehouses <strong>of</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry, sold out <strong>and</strong> is in its second<br />
printing; it seems <strong>to</strong> be selling well enough that the<br />
publishers (www.ruralmissouri.org) have not yet<br />
made it widely available in books<strong>to</strong>res. Marshall<br />
reports that if he hadn’t taken MU’s early retirement<br />
<strong>of</strong>fer, he could not have completed his “barn book,”<br />
which he worked on for 30 years. He continues <strong>to</strong><br />
work with Osmund Overby on their forthcoming<br />
<strong>to</strong>me, Buildings <strong>of</strong> Missouri. He encourages alumni<br />
<strong>to</strong> contact him at MarshallH@missouri.edu.<br />
Osmund Overby is still giving major attention <strong>to</strong><br />
Buildings <strong>of</strong> Missouri, a volume in the series<br />
Buildings <strong>of</strong> the United States, sponsored by the<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Architectural His<strong>to</strong>rians. Others with AHA<br />
connections are helping — Howard Marshall, Keith<br />
Eggener, Deb Sheals <strong>and</strong> Becky Snider — as well as<br />
colleagues from Truman State University <strong>and</strong> Drury<br />
University. Because St. Louis has been a focus <strong>of</strong><br />
many <strong>of</strong> his scholarly publications <strong>and</strong> preservation<br />
efforts over the past 40 years, Overby was especially<br />
gratified <strong>to</strong> receive the President’s Award from the<br />
L<strong>and</strong>marks Association <strong>of</strong> St. Louis for 2004. The<br />
award was presented by their president, Jamie<br />
Cannon, at the annual membership meeting at the<br />
venerable St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church.<br />
This congregation <strong>of</strong> extraordinarily dedicated parishioners<br />
manages <strong>to</strong> hold its own, even prosper, in the<br />
urban battlefield <strong>of</strong> north St. Louis, a welcome success<br />
<strong>to</strong> preservationists.<br />
Students at Work<br />
Summer jobs, internships <strong>and</strong> presentations<br />
engage MU’s students<br />
In addition <strong>to</strong> being coordina<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> the annual MU/KU<br />
graduate symposium, Abby Hayworth presented papers at<br />
three events this year. At the 28th annual meeting <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mid-American Medieval Association, she presented “The<br />
Becket Windows at Canterbury: Their Importance in the<br />
Cult <strong>of</strong> Becket.” At the MU/KU graduate student symposium<br />
<strong>and</strong> the 39th annual graduate student symposium<br />
hosted by the <strong>Art</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> Chicago, she presented<br />
“Sculpturae Vitam Insufflat Pictura: Pygmalion, Gérome <strong>and</strong><br />
Tinted Sculpture.”<br />
Lauren Kling is working this summer as an intern at<br />
<strong>Art</strong> St. Louis, a not-for-pr<strong>of</strong>it visual arts organization that<br />
promotes local artists. She is setting up exhibits <strong>and</strong> writing<br />
for their magazine.<br />
Kristin Patterson, a junior, will spend her summer<br />
working as an intern at the St. Louis <strong>Art</strong> Museum<br />
(SLAM). As one <strong>of</strong> eight summer interns, she will work<br />
under the museum’s cura<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> early European art. SLAM<br />
is beginning <strong>to</strong> reinstall its nine galleries in the early<br />
European department, requiring intern assistance in verifying<br />
<strong>and</strong> completing a catalog <strong>and</strong> bibliography for each<br />
work in that collection. Patterson’s main responsibility will<br />
be researching his<strong>to</strong>ries <strong>of</strong> works by followers <strong>of</strong> Hugo van<br />
der Goes, Rogier van der Weyden <strong>and</strong> others.<br />
Kaitlyn S<strong>to</strong>ut, a minor in art his<strong>to</strong>ry, worked as an<br />
intern <strong>to</strong> the cura<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> the education division <strong>of</strong> the New<br />
Orleans Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>. She will create teacher-workshops<br />
<strong>to</strong> help educa<strong>to</strong>rs integrate the museum’s collection in<strong>to</strong><br />
classroom activities.<br />
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Permit No. 31<br />
From the Acting Chair<br />
By Norman L<strong>and</strong><br />
Norman L<strong>and</strong><br />
I have had the honor <strong>and</strong> privilege <strong>to</strong> serve as acting department<br />
chair during academic year 2003-04 while Associate <strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong><br />
Marcus Rautman was on leave <strong>to</strong> finish his latest book. Because <strong>of</strong><br />
the goodwill <strong>and</strong> generous assistance <strong>of</strong> my colleagues, the task<br />
was not as difficult as I had expected it <strong>to</strong> be. Indeed, on the<br />
whole, the time has been enjoyable <strong>and</strong> rewarding. I need hardly<br />
mention that our <strong>of</strong>fice staff — Daffany Hood, Beth Kopine <strong>and</strong><br />
Erin Squires — deserve all <strong>of</strong> the credit for making the course <strong>of</strong><br />
our days run smoothly. We would be lost without them.<br />
As I blithely return <strong>to</strong> my normal duties, I am pleased <strong>to</strong><br />
report that the department continues <strong>to</strong> welcome new undergraduate<br />
majors as well as new graduate students in<strong>to</strong> its program.<br />
In addition, I am happy <strong>to</strong> announce that when Marcus<br />
again takes the helm as chair on Aug. 1, he will assume a new<br />
<strong>and</strong> well-deserved title. Congratulations <strong>to</strong> <strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>essor</strong> Marcus<br />
Rautman on his recent promotion!<br />
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