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Alumni News
Lisa Auanger, PhD ’97, continues to enjoy teaching Latin in
a secondary school at Hampton Roads, Va. She spent the
spring hunting for an apartment in a quiet neighborhood.
Claudia Einecke, PhD ’94, accepted a position in the
European Painting and Sculpture Department at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. She is working on an
exhibition of the late (i.e. post-1881) paintings of
Auguste Renoir, everybody’s favorite. The show is
scheduled to open in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2005
and will be in Los Angeles in early 2006.
Alice Fugate, MA ’80, received an appointment to the
Landmarks Preservation Commission of Chesterfield,
Mo., which is developing a local historic register of buildings
and archaeological sites. Fugate and her husband,
Steve LoGrasso, are celebrating their 15th wedding
anniversary with a trip to Portugal, Spain and France.
Rachel Gagnon, an art history minor who graduated in
May 2004, is a summer intern at the Pulitzer Institute
of the Arts in St. Louis. She works in promotion and
public outreach.
Leslie Hammond, PhD ’98, has been appointed director
of curatorial affairs at the Appleton Museum of Art at
Florida State University and Central Florida Community
College in Ocala, Fla.
Kelli [Bruce] Hansen, MA ’03, finished her master’s thesis
on medieval Spanish manuscripts in December 2003
and works as manager of print collections in the Division
of Special Collections and Rare Books at MU’s Ellis Library.
Christian Hill, BA ’92, Phi Beta Kappa, has published an
article, “Narrative Aesthetics of Time and Space in the
Comics Series ‘Broussaille,’” in the International Journal
of Comic Art. He is a comic artist and a member of the
steering committee of the National Association of
Comic Art Educators.
Lisa Moore Hunt, MA ’96, PhD ’04, wrote her dissertation
on “Illuminating the Borders of Northern French
and Flemish Manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310,” and reports
that the defense went well. In fall, she will be a visiting
assistant professor of medieval art at the College of
Wooster in Ohio.
Elizabeth Kramer, MA ’99, presented a paper, “Rethinking
‘Japan Mania’: Popular Consumption and the
Gendering of Japan,” at the College Art Association,
where she reunited with other MU art history students
Debra Byrne and Elizabeth Hunt. She also published an
article, “The Feminization of Japan,” which is on the
influence of Japanese decorative art in 19th-century
England. She continues to research Japanese and
Anglo-Japanese textiles for her dissertation and teaches
part time at the University of Manchester, England.
Julia Menes, MA ’04, is moving to China in August to
teach English at Capital Normal University. She recently
won Photograph of the Year honors from Columbia
Photo in Columbia for an image she captured during a
recent trip to Machu Picchu, Peru.
A book by Frankie Morris, PhD ’85, Artist of Wonderland:
The Life, Political Cartoons and Illustrations of Tenniel, will
be published by the University of Virginia Press.
Danielle Parks, PhD ’99, was promoted and awarded
tenure in the classics department at Brock University in
March 2004.
Julie Plax, PhD ’89, gave a paper at the National Gallery
of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in a
symposium for the exhibition “French Genre Painting in
the Eighteenth Century.”
Breanne Robertson, BA ’03, just completed her first
year of graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin.
She was selected to present a paper at the Eleanor
Greenhill Symposium in spring and invited to return to the
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.,
as an intern in summer 2004. In the fall, she will begin a
paid internship in the education department at the
Blanton Museum at the University of Texas.
William Rossi, MA ’79, teaches at the University of
Oregon and has recently edited a book on Henry
David Thoreau.
Joe Stumpf, PhD ’03, received a CAORC postgraduate
fellowship from the American Center for Oriental
Research. He plans to be in residence in Amman, as
well as traveling around Jordan, from May 25 to Aug. 25.
Billur Tekkok, PhD ’96, spent most of the year in
Cincinnati as Margot Tytus visiting fellow while working
on the final publication of the Hellenistic and Roman
pottery from Troy. This summer she returns to Turkey,
where she will be working with the Granicus and Tarsus
projects as well as visiting Samothrace, Greece and Troy
before she returns to Cincinnati in the fall.
Yang Wang, BA ’04, completed an honors thesis,
“Contemporary Chinese Painting: Redefining the
Images of the Cultural Revolution,” in which she examined
how four contemporary Chinese artists deployed
the popular culture of the Revolution to explore the
Communist legacy and its influence on personal and
national identity. Wang later delivered a paper based on
her thesis at the Portland State University National
Spring Symposium in Portland, Ore. She is working for
the summer in the Asian art department at the St. Louis
Art Museum.
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