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CommuniquéSummer 2006UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIADEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGYArt History’s Digital Ageby Scott de Brestian, Curator of Visual ResourcesThe use of technology has been essential to teaching arthistory for almost as long as the subject has been an academicdiscipline.The equipment to project images in an academic settingwas widespread by the late 19th century, and theDepartment of Art History and Archaeology still hasmany lantern slides from the turn of the century. By thetime the department was reborn in 1960, 35mmKodachrome slides had replaced lantern slides as the stateof the art. The department followed suit, building a collectionof morethan 100,000 slidesby the end of the20th century.Today, newtechnology is makingconventionalslides obsolete.Digital images,which can be storedelectronically andused by many peopleat the sametime, offer greaterflexibility, longevityand portability thanother media. Weare intent on takingadvantage of digitaltechnology andusing the images tokeep our collectionof art and archaeologyimages as currentas possible.The departmentalready hastwo digital projectors,one permanentlyinstalled in our auditorium in Pickard Hall andanother for portable use. To make better use of thisequipment, we have created a digital database to storeimages for classroom use. Graduate research assistantsJennifer Knapp, Cassandra Casperson and KateLivingston have begun scanning the images for the arthistory survey courses, and these will soon be accessibleto faculty and teaching assistants on the Web — anywhere,anytime.We also have been working with the College of Artsand Science to coordinate our efforts with other departmentsas well as otherUniversity of Missouricampuses. Our goal isto adopt a single softwareplatform thatwill allow all thedepartments and campusinstitutions thatuse digital images —the Department of ArtHistory andArchaeology, Museumof Art andArchaeology,Department of Artand others — to hosttheir collections on asingle server that canbe shared among theentire campus system.The story of the newcentury will be thetransformation of thehumble slide librarySurrounded by photos, Scott de Brestian uses digital technology to store imagesthat enhance the educational opportunities of art history and archaeology students.Brestian shares the department’s collection with other Mizzou departmentsand UM System campuses.into a virtual digitalcollection accessible toa far wider audience.

From the ChairBy Marcus RautmanThis is the tenth newsletter the department has producedover the years, and like its predecessors, this issue gives anoverview of recent events in Pickard Hall. At center stageare the students who pass through our classrooms, sharingwith us for a few years the challenge of learning and thethrill of discovery in the visual arts.Our undergraduate program continues to thrive underthe guidance of Anne Stanton, whose office sees a steadystream of students seeking to declare their major in art historyand archaeology, filing paperwork to qualify for thepopular departmental minor and seeking advice on postgraduatestudy or other sorts of life after graduation. Everyfall new master’s and doctoral students, now overseen bySusan Langdon as our director of graduate studies, join thefaculty in shaping the department, working as teachingassistants with our larger classes and helping us adaptfamiliar instructional methods to the potentials of emergingtechnologies.Charting a steady course through the digital maze isScott de Brestian, new curator of visual resources, whobrings his combined skills in teaching, research and computingat just the right moment. Yes, the 35mm slide projectorsare still in the classrooms, but the images we showare increasingly virtual in nature and available for studentsto explore at any time. Scott’s organization of a new digitizationlaboratory in Parker Hall may represent the singlegreatest change in our pedagogical toolkit since JohnPickard, Missouri’s legendary “Apostle of the Beautiful”and our department’s unofficial patron saint, first lit up thelecture rooms of New Academic Hall with lantern slidesand plaster casts.As our primary means of keeping in touch with alumniand friends, this newsletter brings you up to date on theinterplay of tradition and change that has always distinguishedour department. Your letters and e-mails contributeto our running dialogue; we enjoy hearing fromyou and sharing news of your lives with others. Your donationsto our fellowship funds make up another link in thechain joining yesterday’s graduates with today’s studentsand tomorrow’s scholars. You will read of their achievementshere next year.Help WantedFellowships provide essential support for the department’smost promising students and, at the same time, commemoratethe many contributions of alumni, faculty andfriends. Your contribution to any of the endowed fellowshipfunds makes a real difference. Please make checks inany amount payable to the University ofMissouri–Columbia, Department of Art History andArchaeology, and name the fund you wish to support:• The AHA Development Fund helps meet the mostpressing needs of the department.• The William R. Biers Fellowship helps undergraduatearchaeology students participate in the summerprogram of the American School of Classical Studiesin Athens.• The Edzard Baumann Fellowship supports travelabroad by graduate students in art history.• The Osmund Overby Fund supports projects pertainingto the study and interpretation of art and architectureof cultural and historic sites in Missouri and theAmerican Midwest.• The John Pickard Fellowship is given annually to oneor more outstanding full-time graduate studentsenrolled in the department.• The Herbert W. Schooling Fellowship, named inhonor of MU’s former chancellor, is awarded toadvanced graduate students.• The Saul and Gladys Weinberg TravelingFellowship supports overseas research by graduate studentsin classical archaeology.Regardless of which fund you choose to support, thedepartment appreciates your generosity.Communiqué is published by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.Editorial OfficeDepartment of Art History and Archaeology109 Pickard HallColumbia, MO 65211Phone: (573) 882-6711Fax: [573] 884=5269E-mail: aha@missouri.eduWebsite: www.missouri.edu/~ahawww/Editorial BoardMarcus RautmanNancy MoenDan GloverThe department appreciates hearing from alumni and friends. Send announcements or milestones to the address listed above.2

StudentActivitiesErin Walcek Averett, a Schooling Fellow and doctoral studentin classical archaeology, is working in the museumwhile finishing her dissertation. Last winter she presentedthe paper “The Human Face of Early Iron Age Religion” atthe annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute ofAmerica in Boston. In May she spoke on “A CypriotSanctuary: Religion between East and West” at the annualmeeting of the Association of Ancient Historians.Erin Blechle, undergraduate major in art history, spentsummer 2005 working as an intern in the archives atthe Harry S Truman Museum and Library inIndependence, Mo.Robert Darby and Stephanie Pryor, doctoral studentsin classical archaeology, spent most of summer 2005 inIsrael excavating at the Roman castellum at Yotvata.Plans are well underway for the 2006 season. Last winterPryor posed the question “Aurelian’s Temple of theSun or the Forum Suarium?” at the ArchaeologicalInstitute of America’s annual meeting in Boston.Nathan Elkins, doctoral student in classical archaeology,traveled in January to snowy Montréal to speak on “TheFunction and Distribution of Flavian Colosseum Sestertii:Currency or Largess?” at the annual meeting of theArchaeological Institute of America; his article on theseinteresting coins appears in the 2006 Numismatic Chronicle.Jessica Kelty, undergraduate major in art history, wasin Rome the past year attending the AmericanUniversity, visiting monuments and museums, and travelingthroughout Italy.Jennifer Knapp, doctoral student in classical archaeology,spent summer 2005 working on pottery excavated atthe site of Contrada Mella, near Oppido Mamertina(probably ancient Mamertion) in Calabria, Italy.Naomi Kaloudis, master’s student in classical archaeology,is looking forward to joining the Agora excavationteam in Athens this summer.Heidi Monnin, undergraduate major in classical archaeology,has been studying the Middle Ages as part of recentfield schools in Scotland and in F.Y.R. Macedonia. She isnow an intern in the Museum of Art and Archaeology.Sara Morrow, undergraduate major in art history, traveledoverseas last fall. She divided her time betweenParis and Florence while studying the art and architectureof each city. This winter she received an Arts andScience Development Scholarship.Meghan Munos, undergraduate major in art history, isworking as an intern in the Museum of Art andWelcome NewFacultyMonique Fowler-Paul is a visiting instructor of contemporaryart for 2005-06. She came to Columbiafrom London, where she is completing her doctoratein contemporary British artists of African descent atthe School of Oriental and African Studies. InOctober she presented her paper “No Place LikeHome: Theories of Displacement in the Art andLives of British Artists of African Descent” at theSecond International Colloquium for Vernacular,Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies.In addition to her courses in contemporary visual culture,she is offering an introduction to African art.In 2004-05, Shawna Leigh, a classical archaeologistwho specializes in the Roman period, shared awealth of experience from extensive travels and fieldresearch in Greece and Italy. Her special area of interestconcerns ancient aqueducts and water supply. In herfall presentation to the local AIA society, she showedhow these essential, yet poorly understood, features ofthe Roman countryside have important implications forunderstanding social organization, urban settlementand technology across the Mediterranean.Archaeology. She helped plan and advertise the annualHalloween event, and did research and writing for severalupcoming exhibitions.In January Nichole Papagni, master’s student in art history,gave a First Wednesday gallery presentation in theMuseum of Art and Archaeology on “Days of Their Lives:Manuscript Calendars and Their Use in the Middle Ages.”Kevin Prewitt, undergraduate major in art history, spentwinter semester 2005 in Rome. Last summer he wasan intern with the African, Oceanic and AmericasDepartment at the St. Louis Art Museum. He will spendsummer 2006 in Venice with the Peggy GuggenheimInternship Program.Maegan Reagan, undergraduate major in classicalarchaeology, is working as a McNair Scholar under theguidance of Susan Langdon. Her project is an investigationof female athletes in ancient Greece.Tabitha Schnurbusch and Rachel Stack, undergraduatemajors in classical archaeology, are spending wintersemester in Greece with a University of Missouri-St.Louis program.Last April Megan Thomsen, master’s student in classicalarchaeology, represented the department at the 38thannual graduate student seminar at the Chicago ArtInstitute. In her paper she explored images of Herakleson Tyrrhenian amphorae. In summer 2005 she was avolunteer in the Athenian Agora excavations.3

FacultyKudosKeith Eggener spoke at several venues duringthe year, including the Museum ofFinnish Architecture, Helsinki University ofTechnology, Berlin Technical University,Princeton University, Savannah College ofArt and Design and MU’s Museum of Artand Archaeology. He has recent or forthcomingarticles in Betonart and NationalIdentities, and his book AmericanCemeteries is forthcoming from W.W.Norton and the Library of Congress. In additionto teaching and advising MU students,Eggener is an outside reader for dissertations at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and Princeton. He continues toserve as associate editor of the Buildings of the UnitedStates series and to work on his manuscript Modernityand Mortality in 20th-Century American Architecture.In addition to teaching landscape history courses andIntroduction to Western art, Carol Grove spent most of2004-05 finishing the book Henry Shaw’s VictorianLandscape (University of Massachusetts Press and theLibrary of American Landscape History), which appearedin bookstores in November. She presented the paper“Assessing the Linear Landscape: Route 66 in Missouri”at the Fourth National Forum on Historic Preservation atGoucher College in Baltimore. She also completed herentry for Pioneers of American Landscape Design: AnEncyclopedia (University of Virginia Press). Her next projectdeals with suburban domestic architecture and landscapesof Missouri from 1880 to 1940. She enjoyedhelping plan Pat Crown’s retirement fête and workingwith student Vanessa Palmer in the MU UndergraduateResearch Scholars Program last summer. In October shesailed along the southwest coast of Turkey with her husbandand friends. She was appointed an adjunct assistantprofessor in fall 2004.John Klein was pleased that his most advanced student,Debra Byrne, successfully defended her dissertationin December 2004. Rebecca Roe completed a master’sthesis under his direction the following spring. Hehas delivered several speeches and papers: “The Bodyin Decoration” at Western Illinois University; “Upstairsand Downstairs with the Model” at the Association ofArt Historians annual conference in Bristol, England; andtwo papers on aspects of Fauve portraiture connectedwith the exhibition Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, unété fauve, held at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Céret, andthe Musée Matisse, Le Cateau. He spoke inCopenhagen on Matisse’s decorative projects in muralGraduate archaeology students meet with Nota Kourou, professor of archaeologyat the University of Athens, to examine early Greek vases. Kourou, standingsecond from right, gave the presentation in the department seminar room.painting, stained glass, tapestry, printed fabrics andceramic tile, and participated in a colloquium on Matisseand modernism. He will deliver a paper on Matisse’ssculpture in light of the classic paragone debate at theNasher Museum at Duke University. In addition to hisrecent book chapter, “Paradoxe du portrait fauve,” twobook chapters are recently published or forthcoming:“Degree Zero of Self-Portraiture: Matisse’s Self-Portraitin a Striped Jersey, 1906” in Matisse 1905-1918 (2005),and “Inventing Mediterranean Harmony in Matisse’sPaper Cut-Outs” in Visualising the ModernMediterranean (2006). Klein recently completed hisfourth year as director of graduate studies. He is onleave during 2005-07.Norman Land was program chair for the South–CentralRenaissance Conference meeting at PepperdineUniversity last March, where he presented a paper on“Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Filippo Lippi and Apelles in aTale by Matteo Bandello.” He read a paper on“Michelangelo in Disguise” at the Southeastern CollegeArt Conference in Little Rock, Ark., in October. Recentarticles in Source include “Giotto’s Eloquence,”“Calandrino as Viewer,” “Giotto as Apelles” and“Apelles and the Origin of Giotto’s O.” His article on“Vasari’s Buffalmacco and the Transubstantiation ofPaint” appeared in Renaissance Quarterly. His newbook, Reading Vasari, co-edited with Anne Barriault,Andrew Ladis and Jeryldene Wood, includes an essayon “Titian, Michelangelo and Vasari.” Land serves asvice president of both the South–Central RenaissanceConference and the Society for Renaissance Art History.Susan Langdon continues study of the early Greek IronAge. Last spring she hosted Nota Kourou, professor ofclassical archaeology at the University of Athens,Greece, who gave a series of presentations during aweeklong stay in Columbia sponsored by the AlexanderS. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. Highlights of4

Kourou’s visit included a graduate seminar featuringearly Greek pottery in the Museum of Art andArchaeology and a performance of H.M.S. Pinafore inJesse Hall. Langdon’s paper on “Views of Wealth, AWealth of Views: Grave Goods in Iron Age Attica,” hasbeen published in Women and Property in the AncientWorld, on the Web site for the Center for HellenicStudies. In August she began the duty of directing graduatestudies. She is traveling frequently this year as theCharles Eliot Norton lecturer for the ArchaeologicalInstitution of America.Last year Marcus Rautman returned to the varied activitiesthat go into chairing the department. His coursesand research continue to focus on the eastMediterranean in late antiquity. Columbia’s slower summertimepace allowed him to spend several weeks inTurkey, where he was engrossed in the sixth century.The Belgian ROCT conference took him to Ghent inDecember to see the famous van Eyck altarpiece aswell as to discuss his work on Sardian amphoras.Recent articles include “The Villages of ByzantineCyprus,” in Les villages dans l’empire byzantin, a contextualizingassessment of his excavations at Kalavasos-Kopetra; and “A Stylite Ampulla at Sardis,” in MélangesJean-Pierre Sodini, about a terracotta flask recentlyexcavated in Turkey.Students who have taken her classes will not be surprisedto learn that Kristin Schwain was honored in2004 with the Arts and Science Purple Chalk Awardand the Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty TeachingAward. In 2004-05 Schwain was a fellow at the GeorgiaO’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, N.M.Between trips to Chaco Canyon, Taos Pueblo, theTrinity Site and the International UFO Museum andResearch Center, she worked on her book Signs ofGrace: Religion and Early Modern Art in America. Achapter of that book, on late-19th-century photographerF. Holland Day, appeared in American Art. In fall 2005Schwain presented a paper with her dissertation adviserand a former classmate at the 25th anniversary celebrationof the Stanford Humanities Center in Palo Alto.She read another paper at the annual AmericanAcademy of Religion Conference in Philadelphia. Shealready looks forward to her next project: the relationshipbetween folk and fine art in 1930s America.Kathleen Warner Slane and her cairn terrier, Jesse,spent 2004-05 with her pots — all six tons of them —in ancient Corinth. She left their cozy Greek apartmentto attend conferences and sightsee in Austria, Belgium,Croatia, Cyprus, France, Malta and Slovenia. Her articleon a third-century amphora deposit appeared inSeptember 2004, and her discussion of Italian sigillataat Corinth was published in May 2005. Her article“Corinth: Late Roman Horizons,” co-written with GuySanders, MA ’87, appeared in Hesperia in August. InOctober Slane was one of a group conducting a weeklonggraduate workshop in Roman pottery for studentsat the universities of Lecce and Catania in Italy. She hasbeen named the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professorin the Humanities for 2005-10.Anne Stanton has made it a priority to incorporate digitaltechnologies into her teaching at every level. As aresult she spends a great deal of time scanning materials,exploring online repositories of digital images andphotocopying and faxing readings to Ellis Library’s electronicreserves system. She agreed to take over productionof the newsletter of the International Center ofMedieval Art. In addition to working on classes andcommittees and advising a growing number of undergraduatemajors, she reviewed several books and wrotean essay on “Devotional Art” for Women and Gender inMedieval Europe, which should appear this year.Stanton presented the paper “Art and Identity in theEarly 14th Century: Isabelle of France as Princess Brideand Queen Mother” at the 40th International Congresson Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich., in May. Forthe fall 2005 Central Renaissance Conference inColumbia, Mo., she organized a session on “TheIlluminated Manuscript in the Renaissance: Traditionsand Transitions,” where she presented the paper“Liminal Spaces in a Liminal Time: ManuscriptMarginalia in the Fifteenth Century.”MU/KU SymposiumGraduate students from across the nation presented11 papers at the 14th annual jointly sponsoredMU/KU Art History and Archaeology GraduateStudent Symposium in Columbia on March 11.The theme was “Urbs et Rus. Exploring Aspects ofthe Urban and Rural.”Mark Hammond and Stephanie Pryor representedMU, and Nathan Elkins, Jennifer Knapp,Stephanie Pryor and Megan Thomsen organizedthe 2006 event. Susan Alcock, professor of classicsand director of the Institute for Archaeology andthe Old World at Brown University, delivered thekeynote address.In April 2005, symposium participants gatheredin Lawrence, Kan., with the theme of“Encounters and Intersections: Meeting Points inArt History.” Sixteen students spoke at the event,including MU representatives Robert Darby,Nichole Papagni and Megan Thomsen. GenniferWeisenfeld of Duke University delivered thekeynote address.The AHAGSA Web site maintains a completelist of MU/KU symposia. Visitors to the site can viewa chronicle of MU’s graduate programs since 1992.5

Alumni NewsJessica Aberle, BA ’01, is a doctoral student in architecturalhistory at the University of Virginia. She is winteringin Rome and Florence as a graduate assistant for acourse on “Renaissance Architecture on Site.”Belle Asante, BA ’98, is a doctoral candidate in theGraduate School of Asian and African Area Studies atKyoto University in Japan. For four years she has beenconducting anthropological research on the traditionalbasketry of the Harari ethnic group in Ethiopia. Nextyear she expects to write a dissertation that will combineher interests in folk crafts, material culture preservationand cultural heritage policy. She writes that hercurrent path is a blend of her undergraduate Mizzouexperiences, which center on the department andMuseum of Art and Archaeology.Jennifer Beisel, MA ’97, is an assistant professor ofpublic history at Stephen F. Austin State University.Scott de Brestian, MA ’97, PhD ’03, is the department’snew curator of visual resources. Last March hepresented the paper “Vascones and Visigoths: Creationand Transformation of Identity in Northern Spain” at thesixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conferenceat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.In May he spoke on “Resistance or Romanization? ACase Study in Northern Spain” at the annual meeting ofthe Association of Ancient Historians.In fall 2005, Matthew Hannon, BA ’03, began the graduateprogram in landscape architecture at the Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.J. Frederich Hanson passed away in June 2004. Hewas a graduate student in the department for severalyears around 1970 and served for a longer period as theart, archaeology and music librarian in Ellis Library.Katie Hart, BA ’03, is working at Searl and Associates,an architecture firm in Chicago. She was a finalist forthe American Institute of Architects–Chicago “Rethink,Recycle, Redesign” competition. She has been acceptedto Archeworks, a post-graduate design school wherestudents work in multidisciplinary teams with nonprofitpartners to create design solutions for social concerns.Hart is part of a team that is designing products forstroke survivors to improve their work and home lives.Elizabeth Moore Hunt, MA ’96, PhD ’04, expects topublish her dissertation, Illuminating the Borders ofNorthern French and Flemish Manuscripts, in theStudies in Medieval History and Culture series.In March Katharine Hunvald, PhD ’04, spoke about“Breaching a Seventh-Century Artistic Frontier: TheWarnebertus Reliquary” at the Shifting Frontiers in LateAntiquity conference at the University of Illinois.After graduating from MU, Annie Kampinen, BA ’02,held internships in archaeology and architectural historywith the Missouri Department of Transportation. Sheworked in city planning and historical preservation forthe city of Minneapolis and now is working for a privatecompany specializing in preservation, archival researchand context studies.Tara Kempen, BA ’03 has entered the graduate archaeology/anthropologyprogram at Iowa State University in Ames.Benton Kidd, PhD ’03, is associate curator of ancientart in MU’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.Elizabeth Kramer, MA ’99, completed a doctorate atthe University of Manchester in England. In July shebegan a research appointment at the Arts andHumanities Research Council Research Centre forTextile Conservation and Textile Studies. She is workingon a book, The Material Culture of Mania, which looksat Japan mania textiles as a way to evaluate how historiesand theories of consumption and material cultureinform us on the phenomenon of mania.Julia Menes, MA ’04, is in her first year of doctoral workat Ohio State University. She reports that all is going wellbut the quarter system takes some getting used to.Frankie Morris, PhD ’82, published Artist ofWonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, andIllustrations of Tenniel with the University of VirginiaPress. This definitive study of Sir John Tenniel’s life andwork gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonistwho mythologized the world for generations of Britons.Kathleen Morris, BA ’81, is director of exhibitions andcollections and curator of decorative arts at the Sterlingand Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.Previously she was associate director for exhibitions andcollections management and curator of European sculpture,decorative arts and prints at the Virginia Museumof Fine Arts. She received a doctorate from theUniversity of Virginia in 2005 and wrote a dissertationthat dealt with contemporary sources on the life and artof Gian Lorenzo Bernini.After graduating from MU, Julia Di PierdomenicoMoser, BA ’83, continued her studies in the pharmacyschool at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Sheand her husband, Hershel, live in Salem, Mo., and operatetheir own pharmacy. She has been to Italy severaltimes since graduation and recalls fondly her courses inRenaissance art with Norman Land.A splendid photograph of a solitary sycamore leaf takenby Scott Myers, MA ’97, was featured on the 2005 commemorativeposter for the Columbia Festival of the Arts.James Newhard, BA ’94, is an assistant professor inthe Department of Classics, German, Italian, Japaneseand Russian, as well as the director of the new interdisciplinaryprogram in archaeology at the College of6

Charleston. Since 2003 he has coordinated the GöksuArchaeological Project, a multidisciplinary investigationof the upper Göksu river valley in southern Turkey.Danielle Parks, MA ’91, PhD ’99, recently had her master’sthesis published by the Cyprus Numismatic Societyas The Roman Coinage of Cyprus (Nicosia, 2004).Breanne Robertson, BA ’03, completed a master’s inAmerican art history at the University of Texas at Austin.After an internship at the Smithsonian American ArtMuseum, she enrolled in the doctoral program at theUniversity of Maryland-College Park. She plans to writea dissertation on the role spiritualism played in the workof early 20th-century American artist Marsden Hartley.Thomas Spencer, BA ’91, prepared an exhibition onSaint-Quentin de Troyes, du prieuré au pèlerinage, whichopened in June. This year he is teaching early Christianand early medieval architecture at the universities ofReims and Troyes. He is collaborating on a new officialatlas of monuments in the Champagne region. His recentarticle on Saint-Quentin appeared in the journal La Croix.Philip Montague Smith died in December after a long illness.He was a graduate student in art history in the 1980s.Joe Stumpf, PhD ’03, spent summer 2004 in Aqaba,Jordan and finished his section of the Roman excavationreport. He teaches at Montgomery College outsideWashington, D.C.Billur Tekkök, PhD ’96, is associate professor and headof the new Program in Culture Heritage andConservation of Ancient Sites at Baskent University inAnkara. Last summer she worked with pottery from theGranicus survey in northwest Turkey and the VillaMaxentius Project outside Rome.Gary Walters, BA ’02, began law school in fall 2005 atCreighton University in Omaha, Neb.Yang Wang, BA ’04, entered the graduate program inart history at Ohio State University, where she is studyingthe visual culture of contemporary China.Emeriti FacultyWilliam Biers continued his peripatetic lifestyle withtrips to both coasts and additional visits to Chicago.Some of the trips were for business, including a lecturetour for the Archaeological Institute of America toWinnipeg, Manitoba, Lincoln, Neb., and Kansas City,and lectures at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Winter semesterhe reprised his phenomenally popular trademark coursein ancient technology. Most of the 60 participants camefrom outside the College of Arts and Science.Early spring found Patricia Crown in Los Angeles,where she was conducting research at theHuntington Art Collections, Library and Gardens, andvisiting the Getty Museum. Crown spent a day at theLos Angeles County Museum of Art with ClaudiaEinecke, PhD ’94, who is working as a curator on anexhibit of Renoir paintings. She lectured at MeramecState University on Pre-Raphaelite images ofwomen’s work and attended a William Morris exhibitionand symposium at Northwestern University. Lastsummer she worked at the Paul Mellon Centre forStudies in British Art in London. In January she lecturedat the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in itsCultures of Childhood Research Institute. She presenteda paper at the annual meeting of the BritishSociety for 18th-Century Studies in Oxford.Howard Marshall continues his so-called retirement.He is busy researching and writing about Missourifiddle history and inching ahead on his work withOsmund Overby on the Missouri volume of theBuildings of the United States. Last December heconducted a Folk Arts Residency for home-schooledstudents in the Columbia area on the topic of “TheFiddle/Violin in Missouri Life.” The Missouri Folk ArtsProgram and Missouri Arts Council sponsored theresidence. In February he presented a fiddle workshopfor orchestra string players at the University ofIllinois-Springfield. Marshall’s most recent publication,“Irish Echoes in Outstate Missouri,” MissouriHistorical Review, fall 2005, investigates the legacy ofIrish itinerant railroad workers and their fiddle musicin northern Missouri after the Civil War.Osmund Overby, with Howard Marshall, is givingmajor attention to Buildings of Missouri, a volume inthe Buildings of the United States series sponsoredby the Society of Architectural Historians. Thenational project has been reorganized recently, witha 2006 deadline for the Missouri manuscript leadingto publication next year. Overby has been lecturingmore than usual lately: on the Buildings of Missouriat the annual meeting of the Society of ArchitecturalHistorians in Vancouver; in Toronto at the annualgathering of American Pilgrims on the Camino deSantiago on the architecture along that historicroute; on St. Louis architecture at the annual meetingof the Landmarks Association of St. Louis; andon the architecture of William Adair Bernoudy toboth the Mid-Missouri chapter of the AmericanInstitute of Architects and the Museum Associatesof the Museum of Art and Archaeology.7

University of Missouri-ColumbiaCollege of Arts and Science317 Lowry HallColumbia, MO 65211Non Profit Org.U.S. PostagePAIDColumbia MOPermit No. 31The 401sA distinctive lecture series known as The 401s hasbecome an enduring department tradition. Eventhough the venerable Introduction to Graduate Studycourse now goes by a new number (4996, 7996 or8110, depending on who takes it and when), studentsand faculty still refer to the annual presentation ofpapers on objects in the Museum of Art andArchaeology as The 401s.Early every fall, all honors majors and first-yeargraduate students research an understudied work in themuseum’s collections and present their discoveries in aformal setting the week before Thanksgiving. The401s bring together students, faculty and friends for anafternoon of learning about art and remembering whywe study it.Activities such as The 401s, visiting lecturers and socialevents unite the department’s students and faculty. Enjoyingthe fall picnic are, from left, students Megan Thomsen,Nichole Papagni and Stephanie Pryor.