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Faculty Kudos 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. 4
Marcus Rautman spent the past year on leave to work on a book about daily life in Byzantium. His article on “Valley and Village in Late Roman Cyprus,” appeared in Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside, edited by W. Bowden, L. Lavan and C. Machado. He contributed several entries to the exhibition catalog Testament of Time: Selected Objects from the Collection of Palestinian Antiquities in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, edited by Jane Biers and James Terry. In her third year at MU, Kristin Schwain continued to participate in the Young Scholars in American Religion Program, which brings together 10 junior faculty working on the history of religion in America from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Led by two prominent figures in the field and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Schwain attended two weekend conferences in Indianapolis to discuss scholarship and teaching. She traveled to Atlanta to deliver a paper at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in November. The subject of her talk, African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, will also be the subject of a chapter of her book, “Signs of Grace: Religious Experience and Visual Practice in Modernist American Art.” Thanks to a research leave funded by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, Schwain will spend next year in Santa Fe, N.M., completing the manuscript. Kathleen Slane was honored to be invited to participate in a classical colloquium in honor of the 250th birthday of the British Museum in November. The centerpiece was the newly discovered sculpture from Augustus’ victory monument near Actium, which anticipates the Ara Pacis reliefs. Attendees also heard from many other Greek ephoreias and about recent Italian finds in Libya as well. She attended a Roman pottery conference in Sicily and is therefore able to report that spring in Catania is exactly in step with spring in Columbia (the redbuds were in bloom everywhere), but Mt. Etna was invisible in a cloud bank. Next year she and her dog are off again to do research in Corinth. Professor Anne Stanton survived her first year as director of undergraduate studies for the department and hopes that next year will not add too many more gray hairs when new course numbers are implemented across the University. One pleasant development was the resurrection of Arts Spectrum, the undergraduate AHA group, under the capable leadership of Yang Wang and Hannah Johnson, who organized pizza nights, field trips and movie nights. Stanton enjoyed helping three of her graduate students, Kelli Bruce Hansen, Aimee Leonhard and Lisa Moore Hunt, complete their master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. Stanton’s professional events included acting as program co-chair, with history Professor Lois Huneycutt, for this year’s Mid-America Medieval Association meeting at MU in February. When bad weather forced the plenary speaker to cancel, Stanton gave a plenary lecture on “The Patronage of Isabelle of France.” She also organized and chaired a session for the International Center for Medieval Art on “Rulers and their Images: Patronage and Power” at the 39th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Mich. Her book chapter on “Isabelle of France and her Manuscripts, 1308-1358,” (Capetian Women, edited by Kathleen Nolan) was published in late 2003, and a chapter on “The Other Miss Rickert: Margaret Rickert (1888-1973) and the Study of Illuminated English Manuscripts,” (Women Medievalists in the Academy, edited by Jane Chance) should appear by December 2004. 5
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