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!
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.
Leslie Cone (MA 2005)
Leslie works for Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, which organized the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and Bodies: The Exhibition & Bodies Revealed.
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.
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.
Brianna Frank (MA 2007)
Brianna is continuing her education at Florida State University working on a Master of Library Science degree.
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.
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.
Jean Hudson (MA 1993)
Jean is the director of the Art History Media Center at Florida State University.
Sara Klein (MA 2005)
Sara is the Education Curator for school programs and tours for the Gilcrease: The Museum of the Americas in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Susan Kloman (MA 1999)
Susan is the former Assistant Vice President/ Department Head of Sotheby's African and Oceanic Art Department in New York, and is currently consulting with Sotheby's and other private collectors.
Jennifer Lemmer (MA 2006)
Jennifer is the Assistant Curator at the Circus Museum at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida.
Michael Matos (MA 2005, MLS 2006)
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 pursuing a degree through the Law School at Florida State University.
Michaela Merryday (PhD 2002)
Michaela is an Assistant Professor of 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.
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.
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.
Daniel Savoy (MA 2002)
Daniel is currently working on his doctoral degree at NYU and interning at the Met. 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.
Timothy Smith (PhD 2002)
Tim is an Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at Birmingham- Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.
Stephanie Tessin (MA 2007)
Stephanie is the Special Projects Coordinator of Art and State Buildings for the state of Florida.
Patrick Tomlin (MA 2002)
Patrick is completing his doctoral dissertation through Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois while pursuing a Master of Library Science at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Stephen Wagner (MA 1995)
Stephen received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in May, 2004. He is a professor at the Savannah college of Art and Design.
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. For three years, Miller Zohn was the 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.