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News from Art History Graduate Students
Recent MA Graduates
Several recent graduates have joined distinguished doctoral programs in art and architectural history.
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Gimo Yi (MA 2004) returned to Korea to teach art history and theory at the Duksung Women's University. In 2007, she became the Curator of the Nam June Paik Art Center, where she is in charge of international academic symposia, publication, research and exhibitions.
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Carissa Terranova (MA 2002) went on to receive her doctorate from Harvard, and in the Fall of 2007 joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University, where she taught in the areas of contemporary art and theory. In 2008, she was recruited away from SMU to join the faculty at the University of Texas, Dallas, where she teaches in the Aesthetic Studies area and directs the university's highly regarded Artists Residency Program.
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Jason Philip Gruen MA 2002), whose writing on tourism and the touristic landscape in the American West (begun here, completed in a Ph.D. from Berkeley) has been praised in venues as far-flung as the San Francisco Examiner and the Pacific Review, is now teaching at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where kayaking meets the Minutemen. He reports he is thriving.
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Jennifer Gray (MA 2001) is completing the Ph.D. program in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, writing a dissertation on the Progressive architect and social planner Dwight Perkins. In the fall of 2007, she returned to present her work to the department at the annual doctoral symposium.
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Heidi Galles (MA 2001) is continuing in the Ph.D. program in the University of Chicago's Department of Art History.
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Carmen Niekrasz (MA 2001) is in the doctoral program at Northwestern University's Department of Art History.
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Liz Olton (MA 1999) is continuing in the doctoral program in art history at the University of New Mexico
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Tamsen Andersen (MA 2002) received her Ph.D. in the doctoral program in the College of Environmental Design at University of California-Berkeley, where Phillip Gruen (MA 1996) also completed his Ph.D., submitting his dissertation on tourist experiences in nineteenth-century American cities. Tamsen is currently teaching at Depaul University in Chicago.
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Corinne Louw (MA 2002) is continuing in the Ph.D. program in History at UIC.
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Robert Blythe, one of the very first graduates of the MA program, went on to rise in the ranks of the National Parks Service, serving as a historic preservationist and a site supervisor at various important American parks. He has retired from the NPS and, as of 2008, is planning a career as a teacher and administrator in the fields of museum studies and preservation.
Recent graduates have been successful in obtaining teaching positions in higher education.
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Natalie Zebula (MA 2002) is teaching at three community colleges (Macomb, Wayne County and Washtenaw) in Michigan.
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Wayne Close (MA 2000) is teaching at New Trier High School.
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Meg Klinkow (MA 1997) is teaching at Dominican College (Riverside)
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Yvette Brackman (MA 1997) is teaching at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Other recent graduates of the MA program have positions in Chicago.
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Tiffany Stover (MA 2006) is Associate Director of the Donald Young Gallery in Chicago.
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Mary Gustaitis Beyer (MA 2006) is Director of the Thomas McCormick Gallery in Chicago.
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Shelly Roman is a Project Consultant developing special programs at the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Elisabeth Hedsund (MA 2002) is assistant curator at the Cuno House Museum.
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Colleen Thorne (MA 2003) is research assistant in modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Elliott Weiss (MA 2001) is designing and preparing displays at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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Brenda Hull (MA 2002) is associate program officer at the Chicago Community Trust.
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Lori Grove (MA 2002) has had her work on Chicago's beleagered Maxwell Street published by Arcadia Press, in a book-- Chicago's Maxwell Street: Images of America.
Continuing Graduate Students
Many of our continuing MA and Ph.D. candidates and recent degree recipients are also affiliated with local and national cultural institutions.
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Peter Blank is the Chief Librarian of the Art Libraries at Stanford University
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Laura Ellsworth is assistant director at the Allen Koppel Gallery
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Kate Reid is a research assistant at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Elizabeth M. Holland is Museum Specialist for the Special Collections and Preservation Division of the Chicago Public Library
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Shelly Roman continues her work with the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Claire Kunny left her position as associate director for Educational Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago to take the helm of the Public Education and Teaching Programs at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
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Vincent Michael is director of the Historic Preservation Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He is also the Department's first Ph.D. recipient.
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Marianne Richter is curator of the art collections at the Union League Club
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Closer home, Bobbie Katz and Margaret Denny (doctoral candidates) are both teaching courses in the Department of Art History.
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News from the Art History faculty
Bebe Baird completed her term as President of the College Art Association and a final year on the Board of Directors of the Association. She has been serving as Director of Graduate Studies for some time, interrupted by a Visiting Professorship at Tulane University in 2007.She is continuing her research on the American sugar mill company town in Puerto Rico, among many project.s
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Bob Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History, published by U. of Chicago Press, was a major academic bestseller, generating immense controversy and a demanding lecture-and-interview schedule that dominated his 2007 sabbatical. In the process, however, Bruegmann managed to revise the second volume of the Sprawl sequence, and move toward completion of monographs on Harry Weiss and HWA Associates, and a further volume on the Holabird&Root, Holabird&Roche dynasties.
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Peter Hales's new edition of his Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939 (University of Mexico Press, 2006) is almost half-again larger than the prizewinning earlier edition, with many more illustrations as well. He continues to work on two volumes on postwar American landscapes, Freeways and Outside the Gates, to be published by University of Chicago Press. His coauthored study of Depression-era photography, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration, is due out with Robert R. Godine Publishers in the Fall of 2008. He is also completing a volume on the public architecture and spaces of Chicago, for Acanthus Press. Meanwhile, he continues to serve as Chair of the department and Director of the American Studies Institute at the University.
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Hannah Higgins has been dividing her time between the Dean's office and the department; her history of the grid is coming out with MIT Press, and she has two other book-projects nearing completion.
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Victor Margolin has retired from the department, though he retains Emeritus status, an office, and a visible presence in the halls and classrooms.
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Virginia Miller, on research leave in 2004as a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., brought her research and writing to a state of near-completion for a major work on Chichen Itza. Over the 2007-2008 winter break she traveled to gather further materials for her work, and returned to teach both undergraduates and graduates.
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Bob Munman, continuing his research into Renaissance graphic art, is writing about the unpublished drawings of Italian painters Parmigianino, Federico Zuccaro, Cherubino Alberti, Giulio Campi and others.
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Martha Pollak was on sabbatical leave in Berkeley and Rome during the 2006-2007 academic year. After being promoted to the rank of full Professor, she has continued her program of research and publication, completing one manuscript while on sabbatical, and moving on to the next, a study of private dwellings in the Baroque.
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David Sokol has retired but will continue to teach his museology courses. As an Emeritus Professor, he works with graduate students, oversees College and University projects, and contintinues to advise the department.
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Heather Grossman was the recipient of a research fellowship from Princeton University which saw her in residence there for the Spring semester of 2008. She was also awarded an Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year.
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Nina Dubin, a Berkeley-trained specialist in European art, has spent the 2007-2008 academic year as a Fellow of the prestigious Institute for the Humanities; her work on the French painter Hubert Robert is to be published in a monograph by the Getty.
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Robin Schuldenfrei, the Department's Design Historian, received her Ph.D. from Harvard in the Fall of 2007 while on a fellowship before her teaching at UIC began. Her work on luxury goods is featured in a seminar in the Spring of 2008, and she has joined the graduate faculty in her supervision of theses and doctorates.
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Esra Akcan, a prized new colleague specializing in the global architectural environment, arrived in the Fall of 2007 to teach courses in the architecture of globalization, contemporary architecture, and a range of adventurous new courses. She was then awarded a Getty Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year, which will see her in residence at the Getty.
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