Alumni News
See what some of our graduates are up to now...
If you're an Art History alumnus, please drop us a line (with "ARH Alumni" in the Subject) and tell us what you're doing now. We'd like to feature your story and help you keep in touch with your grad school colleagues!
David S. Areford (MA 1995)
David completed his PhD at Northwestern University in 2001. He is currently Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His first single-authored book The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe will be available in 2010.
Ceil Bare (PhD 2009)
Ceil is the Director of Faculty Services at Florida State University International Programs.
David Butler (BA 1976, MA 1980)
David in the Executive Director of the Knoxville Museum of Art, which opened in March 1990 and houses a collection of 20th- and 21st-century works on paper, canvas, mixed-media, sculpture and fine craft.
Hollie Beekman (MA 2004)
Hollie works in Registration at the Art Institute of Houston, Texas.
Martha Blackwelder (MA 1999)
Martha is the Executive Director of the Asia Society Texas, a regional center of the Asia Society New York. She recently co-authored At the Edge of the Sky: Asian Art in the Collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Stephanie Chadwick (MA 2009)
Stephanie is a student in the PhD program in the Department of Art History at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Steve Choate (PhD 2002)
Steve teaches art history and painting at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas.
John Cone (PhD 1998)
John is teaching art, photography and videography at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Leslie Cone (MA 2005)
Leslie works for Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, which organized "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" and "Bodies: The Exhibition & Bodies Revealed."
Keidra Daniels (MA 2007)
Keidra is the head of corporate relations for the Orlando Museum of Art.
Aaron DeGroft (PhD 2000)
Aaron was recently appointed Director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg,
Virginia. Previously he served as Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida.
Ramiro Fernandez (BA 1974)
Ramiro Fernandez is an art historian and a recently retired photo editor of 30 years with Time-Life and People magazines. In 2007 he published selections from his extensive private archive of Cuban photographs in I Was Cuba: Treasures From The Ramiro Fernandez Collection.
Brianna Frank (MA 2007)
Brianna is continuing her education at Florida State University working on a Master of Library Science degree. In 2008 she interned at the FSU Florence Study Center and at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Holly Garner (BA 2000)
Holly received her MA in Art History with Museum Training from George Washington University, Washington, DC. She is currently working at the National Gallery of Art in the Department of Loans and the National Lending Service, Washington, DC.
Denise Giannino (MA 2006)
Denise is pursuing a PhD at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
Katilyn Gormley (MA 2006)
Katilyn is now teaching Art History and United States History at Ponte Vedra High School, where she is the Department Chair for Social Studies.
Anne Heath (MA 1998)
Anne completed her dissertation, “Architecture, Ritual, and Identity in the Cathedral Saint-Etienne and the Abbey of Saint-Germain in Auxerre, France” for Brown University in 2005. Anne is currently Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the DePree Gallery at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Bernadine Heller-Greenman (PhD 2002)
Bernadine is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Elizabeth Heuer (PhD 2008)
Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
Jean Hudson (MA 1993)
Jean is the director of the Art History Media Center at Florida State University.
Irene Kim (MA 2008)
Irene is a Corporate Development Associate at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art.
Sara Klein (MA 2005)
Sara is the Teacher and School Programs Manager at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.
Susan Kloman (MA 1999)
Susan is the International Specialist for the Department of African and Oceanic Art at Christie's, NYC
Jennifer Lemmer (MA 2006)
Jennifer is the Assistant Curator at the Circus Museum at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida.
Annette LeZotte (MA 1995)
Annette is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque and Decorative Art History and Associate Director of the School of Art and Design at Wichita State University.
Lesley Langa (MA 2006)
Lesley works as a research specialist at the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, DC. She works on national research initiatives that pursue the public value of libraries and museums as centers of informal education and cultural history.
Lesley Marchessault (MA 2009)
Lesley is the curator of LeMoyne Art Foundation in Tallahassee.
Beth Marrier (MA 2006)
Beth is a contributing writer to Art Nexus magazine and the Project Manager for Lincoln Schatz, a New Media artist with a studio in Chicago.
Juan Martínez (MA 1977, PhD 1992)
Juan is a Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Florida International University. He is the author of Cuban Art & National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters 1927-1950 (University Press of Florida, 1994) and of monographs on Carlos Enríquez and María Brito, scheduled for publication in Fall 2009.
Michael Matos (MA 2005)
Michael is the Reference and Instruction Librarian at American University in Washington D.C.
Pete Mauro (MA 2001)
Pete received his PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2007 and is teaching at Queensborough Community College and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Bill McKeown (PhD 2005)
Bill is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.
Preston McLane (PhD 2006)
Preston is an attorney in Tallahassee. His practice areas include environmental, art, and cultural resource law.
Michaela Merryday (PhD 2002)
Michaela is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School of Art at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Kara Morrow (PhD 2007)
Kara is an Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at Albion College
in Albion, Michigan.
Debra Murphy (MA 1979)
Debra went on to complete her Ph.D. at Boston University, and is now an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Florida. Additionally, Debra serves as the Southeastern College Art Conference’s First Vice-President and Chair of the Awards Committee for the Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Art Award.
Irene Nero (PhD 2004)
Irene is an Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, which is located near her hometown of New Orleans. Currently the only art historian in the Department of Visual Arts, she teaches primarily modern and contemporary art and architecture. She continues her research into technology and contemporary architecture, focusing mainly on the works of Frank Gehry.
Lori Neuenfeldt (MA 2009)
Lori is currently a Curatorial and Registration Intern at the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville. In the summer of 2009 she completed an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Megan Paquette (MA 2005)
Megan is the Arts Administrator for the Seminole Cultural Arts Council in Central Florida.
James Peck (BA 1995)
James is the curator of European and American Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Cassandra Pettiford (MA 2002)
After working as a registrar at Sotheby's in New York, Cassandra has gone back to school and is pursuing a degree in Moving Image Archive Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Kevin M. Sandridge (MA 2003)
Kevin is an Adjunct Professor in the Humanities Department at Polk Community College and the Imaging Technology Coordinator for the Florida Technology Student Association in Winter Haven, Florida.
Seung Yeon Sang (MA 2008)
Seung Yeon is pursuing a PhD in Japanese and Korean Art History at Boston University.
Daniel Savoy (MA 2002)
Daniel completed his doctoral degree at NYU and is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Vassar College. While a graduate student at FSU, Savoy interned at the Getty Museum, MoMA, and the Guggenheim in Venice.
Courtney Shimoda (MA 2004)
Courtney is in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
Kelli Shultz (BA 2003)
Kelli is an Archaeology Research & Conservation Specialist with Odyssey Marine Exploration located in Tampa, Florida. She researches and appraises shipwreck artifacts, sets up new museum exhibits, and writes papers for industry conferences.
Elise Smith (BA 1973)
Elise received her MA from Vanderbilt University and her PhD from the University of North Carolina. She is the Chair of the Art Department at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS.
Timothy Smith (PhD 2002)
Tim is an Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at Birmingham- Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Tim teaches Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture as well as Etruscan and Roman art and archaeology.
Cheryl Sowder (BA, MA)
Cheryl is Associate Professor of Art History at Jacksonville University.
Stephanie Tessin (MA 2007)
Stephanie is an adjunct professor at Edison State College, following two years as the Special Projects Coordinator of Art in State Buildings for the state of Florida.
Patrick Tomlin (MA 2002)
Patrick received a Master of Library Science from UNC, Chapel Hill and is now the director of the Art & Architecture Library at Virginia Tech. He is also completing his Art History doctoral dissertation through Northwestern University.
Stephen Wagner (MA 1995)
Stephen received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in May, 2004. He is a professor of Art History and coordinator of the Art History Department's graduate studies program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Andrea Bonilla Wells (BA 2005)
Andrea was appointed Assistant Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City.
Marian H. Wooten (MA 2002)
Marian received her doctorate in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management from Clemson University in 2006. She is a Professor of Recreation Administration at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.
Jean D. Young (MA 2002)
Jean is the Registrar, Fiscal Officer, and Combined Talents Coordinator for the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts.
Kristen Miller Zohn (MA 1996)
Kristen is the Curator of Education at the Columbus Museum, where she oversees public programs and educational initiatives. After receiving her MA from Florida State University, she worked as the Director of Visual Arts at the Arts Council of Wilson in North Carolina and as Curator of Art at the Albany Museum of Art. She joined the staff of the Columbus Museum in July of 2001, and is also a part-time professor of Art History at Columbus State University.