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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
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