The Department continues to support as well the initiatives of the Mary H. In addition, the Department was proud to collaborate with the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions in presenting the exhibition, “Sacred Spaces: Photographs of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey by Mary Cross,” which opened in October 2008 at the Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich Hotel in downtown New Brunswick. Also last fall, Professors Andres Zervigon and Tanya Sheehan co-founded the “Developing Room,” a working group on photography drawn from several different departments under the umbrella of the Rutgers Center for Critical Analysis. In fall 2008, Professors Tod Marder and Laura Weigert served as respondents at the interdisciplinary symposium “Performances of Power: Architecture, Landscape, and the Stage in Absolutist France,” co-sponsored by Art History. The Art History faculty was engaged as usual in activities that crossed departmental borders. This past fall, graduate students enrolled in the Curatorial Studies Certificate Program and working under the supervision of its director Professor Joan Marter had the extraordinary opportunity to organize and contribute to the catalog of the stunning exhibition, “Pop Art & After: Prints & Popular Culture,” held at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Jacquelyn Tuerk, Kean University, “Sacred Space and Magical Amulets”. Nina Rowe, Fordham University, “Confrontation and Submission: New Approaches to Ecclesia and Synagoga” and Dr. Damian Dombrowski, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, “Apotheosis in Bernini's Later Portrait Busts” Dr. Jesus Escobar, Fairfield University, “Baroque Architecture in the Spanish World: History-Writing and Myth-Making” Dr. Giovanni Freni, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, “Visual Allegories and their Interpretive Paradigms” Dr. Kress Chair and Assistant Professor of Art History at Bucknell University, “Dali's Femininity” Dr.
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Our Graduate Students Organization invited prominent scholars to campus for the Distinguished Lecture series the impressive roster of speakers included: Dr.
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A crowning highlight was the inauguration in February 2008 of the annual Sydney Leon Jacobs Lecture in American Art, generously endowed by alumna Barbara Jacobs Mitnick-read further on for the full story. Beginning this year, our grad students are eligible to compete for Mellon summer fellowships and dissertation-year fellowships intended to support their timely progress towards completion of the degree.ĭuring the past year, the department has hosted numerous events, only a few of which can be singled out here. The excellence of our graduate program has been recognized by the inclusion of Art History among six Humanities departments in SAS singled out for funding by the Andrew W. We can look forward to future events such as the symposium organized last spring by Dr Marder and undergraduate students enrolled in the Historic Preservation certificate program: “Candlelight Vigil marking the 5th Anniversary of the looting of the Baghdad museum.” Developed by Professors Archer Harvey and Tod Marder from the certificate program in Historic Preservation, the program is now accepting applications for fall 2009-please see the full description of this exciting initiative further on in the Newsletter. Our graduate program has also expanded and taken a new direction with a Master’s track in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies, recently approved by Douglas Greenberg, Executive Dean of the School of Art and Sciences. His expertise in medieval Islamic art enriches Rutgers Art History’s traditional instruction in Western medieval art, and his familiarity with modern Islamic visual culture adds a broadened perspective to our offerings in modern European and American art. Kahlaoui brings an entirely new field of teaching and research to Rutgers, complementing offerings in the History department and the Middles Eastern Studies program.
His research centers on the cartography of the Mediterranean world in the 11th-16th centuries, Ottoman numismatics, early Islamic codicology and paleography, and the archeology of the Tunisian island of Jerba. Kahlaoui’s primary responsibility lies in the Department of Art History, his appointment is shared with the History Department, in which he teaches one course annually. Specializes in Islamic art, offering undergraduate and graduate courses in Islamic Art and Culture. Awarded his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008, Dr.
Harvey oversaw the astonishing growth of the department which now numbers nineteen faculty! We welcomed to campus this fall our newest faculty member, Tarek Kahlaoui. Clair Harvey stepped down as Chair of the department after serving for the past three years (with an interlude during which Susan Sidlauskas skillfully took over the helm).
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