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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
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