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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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University <strong>of</strong> Missouri-Columbia<br />

College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s <strong>and</strong> Science<br />

317 Lowry Hall<br />

Columbia, MO 65211<br />

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PAID<br />

Columbia MO<br />

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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