Professor Crown to Retire - Department of Art History and ...

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Pat Crown received the College of Arts and Science
Purple Chalk Award for teaching and the Maxine Shutz
Distinguished Teaching Award. The latter included a banquet
in her honor to mark the occasion and publication of
the article “Images of Aged Women Artists in the 18th
Century” by the University of Missouri Press. Crown
gave a talk and colloquium on Dorothea Lisiewska-
Therbusch at Northwestern University as part of its seminar
in 18th-century studies, and she presented a paper
on self–portraits by women artists at the Debartolo
Conference on 18th-century Studies at the University of
South Florida. She also chaired sessions at annual meetings
of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in
Chicago and Los Angeles. She will present a paper, “The
Child in the Visual Culture of Consumption 1790-1830,”
at Chawton House, Hampshire, England, at the conference
titled “Women and Material Culture.”
Keith Eggener earned promotion to associate professor
with tenure in fall 2003. Among his publications during
academic year 2003-04 were essays in Cruauté &
Utopie: Villes et Paysages d’Amérique Latine, catalog for
an exhibition held in Brussels, Belgium, at the Centre
International pour la Ville, l’Architecture et le Paysage
(now being translated into English and published by
Princeton Architectural Press) and the Tokyo-based architectural
journal A+U, in a special issue on modern
Mexico. Most recently, his American Architectural
History: A Contemporary Reader was published by
Routledge, London. Eggener continues to serve as associate
editor of the Buildings of the United States series,
a project sponsored by the Society of Architectural
Historians, and he was recently named chair of that
series’ interim editorial committee. Ongoing projects
include a book on American cemeteries, which is forthcoming
as part of the Norton/Library of Congress Visual
Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering
series, and a book tentatively titled Modernity and
Mortality in 20th Century American Architecture.
Eggener will be on leave during academic year 2004-05.
John Klein gave an invited paper on Paul Gauguin’s
legacy in the 20th century at an international Gauguin
conference at the University of French Polynesia in
Papeete, Tahiti; the paper was published in the proceedings
later in the year. He traveled again to the Pacific
during the summer to give lectures on a cruise ship and
to participate in the Gauguin centenary festivities in the
Marquesas Islands. Klein gave an invited lecture at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Henri Matisse’s late
decorative projects, the subject of his book in progress.
He continues as director of graduate studies in the
department and serves on the Honors Council of the
College of Arts and Science and on the museum advisory
committee of the Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Susan Langdon presented a paper, “Constructions of
Childhood in the Ancient World,” for a conference at the
Hood Museum at Dartmouth College in November, and
her paper, “Power and Hierarchy in the History of
Civilizations,” was read in Moscow at the Third
International Congress. She was very sorry not to attend!
One of the highlights of her year was trying out a new
undergraduate topics course on Art and Gender in the
Ancient World. She continues progress on her book on art
and society in early Iron-Age Greece, a project for which
she received Research Council and Research Board grants.
In fall 2003, Norman Land stepped down as director of
undergraduate studies and assumed the mantle of acting
chair for the period of one academic year (2003-04). He
managed, nevertheless, to publish one article “Poetry and
Anecdote in Carlo Ridolfi’s Life of Titian,” in The
Cambridge Companion to Titian, edited by Patricia
Meilman, and to deliver one lecture, “Titian and
Michelangelo,” for the Southeastern College Art
Conference at North Carolina State University and
Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. In spring 2003, he completed
terms on the faculty council and the research council.
He also accepted an invitation from the South Central
Renaissance Conference to serve as program chair for
Exploring the Renaissance, 2005, a conference to be held
at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, Calif., in March.
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