@w Departmentof Art History Newsletter Spring2006 Vol.11 ':. ir* +-h- -" Chair's Letter Adjunctprofessorship at Delawareand will continueto advise %..F: and co-advisehis DelawarePh.D students. Our faculty* severalmembers of which were out on DearAlumni and Friendsof the Departmentof Art Historyat prestigiousfellowships for part of last year - was backfull "wholeness" the Universityof Delaware, steam in the Fall. This generateda nicefeeling of but one that is not goingto lastfor long. BothAnn Gibsonand year year The academic 2005-06marks the second of my PerryChapman are goingto be awayagain in Springand Fall tenureas ActingChair. ProfessorBernard Herman has been 2006with Guggenheimgrants, and LawrenceNees is planning appointedby the Deanas Chairbeginning in September2006. to take a whole sabbaticalyear off to devoteto his researchin 2006-2007. I use this opportunityto thankthe followingamong my for their colleagues supportand excellentwork on behalfof our Just as in years past,our currentlecture series, the resultof program: ProfessorLauren Petersen, Associate Chair and the hardwork of a graduatestudent committee advised by ProfessorDavid Stone, Graduate Studies Director. Professor Professor:Monica Dominguez Torres, features a set of LindaPellecchia worked ably and hardas Directorof distinguishedspeakers. They include,among others, Sarah Undergraduate Studies. Greenough,Curator and Headof the Departmentof Photographsat the NationalGallery who offeredthe Williaml. I am veryhappy to announcethe additionof a new memberto Homerlecture in Photographyin the Fall,an annualevent (Ph.D. our faculty,Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul Berkeley) madepossible by the generosityof Charleslsaacs and Carol joining (seep.2). pre-doctoral who will be us in Spring2006 A Nigro. In the springwe lookforward to anotherdistinguished past year, Gettyfellow during the Dr. Rujivacharakulis a native speaker,Oleg Grabar,professor emeritus of lslamicArt at the of Thailand.With recentfaculty hires specializing in varieties Institutefor AdvancedStudy in Princeton.Grabar will deliver fields, of non-westernart historical includingAfrican and Latin the Wayne CravenAnnual Lectureon the subjectof "Shared American Vimalin's art, specialresearch interest, Chinese Objects:7-Bth Century Silver from the Atlanticto the Pacificand further architecture,expands even the scopeof our course the Originsof lslamicArt." We are thankfulto BillAllen for his in fulfillment global offerings of our department'sall-embracing, supportover the yearsfor this lecture. visionof art history. Entering GraduateStudents Lookingahead, we are eagerlyanticipating the presence amongus of ProfessorAlan Wallach as DistinguishedVisiting Professorof AmericanArt in Spring2006. As a searchfor a scholarin Americanart beginsin the Fallof 2006to replace professorMichael Leja, we are delightedto be able to invite anothersenior Americanist to offer a graduateseminar next year. ProfessorElizabeth Johns, Professor Emerita of the Historyof Art at the Universityof Pennsylvania,has accepted our offerto join our departmentin Fall2006 as Distinguished VisitingProfessor of AmericanArt. ProfessorJohns is known for her path breakingscholarship on a numberof subjects relatingto 19tncentury American art and culture,including two prizewinningbooks, one on ThomasEakins, the otheron Americangenre painting. The topicof her seminarfor our department,Genre in AmericanArt from the lgth to the Earty 20thCentu4y, taps on researchstemming from that book and Bottom Left to Right: SarahRuhland, Jessica Waldmann, more recentresearch she is conductingin relationto a major Tess Schwab,Jennifer Kozerawski Top Left to Right: exhibitionin New York. Professor Leja,now at the University lsabelleHavet, Stephanie Lambe, Catherine Reed, Sarah of Pennsylvania,is thankfullynot too far away. He holdsan Rector An exceptionallydynamic group of new graduatestudents, eightin all,have joined the departmentbringing in their enthusiasmand fresh ideas. Amongthe moreseasoned group of oldergraduates, several are makingtheir markon the professionalscene. Janet Dees has been selectedto representthe departmentin the graduatesymposium held at the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art; lsabelleLachat will be our speakerat the Mid-AtlanticSymposium in April. I am delighted to announce,moreover, that the recipientof the first SewellC. Biggsaward - a fellowshipthat partlysupports students who will be completingtheir dissertationwithin the awardyear - is our very own Teresa Nevins. Terri is finishinga dissertationon a 9tn-centuryilluminated manuscript under the supervisionof professorLawrence Nees. It is a pleasure,finally, to announceanother addition to our department,Ms. TracieAlbanese who joined our officestaff this semester. Traciereplaces Tina Trimblewho movedup to the full-timeadministrative position left vacant by the retirement of CarolynRifino. Her presencein the officeadds to our sense Dawn Morehouseand Dr. PerryChapman of privilegefor havingsuch an efficientand helpfulstaff to help us all along,indeed wonderfully, headed as alwaysby Eileen Larson. Eileen'schange of lastname, by the way, is the result of a happyevent: last springEileen married Marty Larson. Congratulations! Lastly,on December7 our annualholiday party brought us togetheronce againwith good food, and the warmthand good spiritthat is so distinctiveof our professionaland intellectual partnership. With warmestwishes, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer Holiday Event w t I tttt:tttt EileenLarson, Dr. NinaAthanassoglou-Kallmyer and Janet Dees Dr.Wendy Bellion and son Luke holdsa Master'sin Architecturefrom the Universityof Michigan New Faculty Profile at Ann Arbor,and a Bachelor'sin Architecturewith High Honorsfrom ChulalongkornUniversity in Thailand. Vimalin RujivacharakuI In April 2006, ProfessorRujivacharakul is co-chairinga session titled"Architecture, Anime, and AlternateLandscape" for the ProfessorVimalin Annual Meetingof the Societyof ArchitecturalHistorians. Rujivacharakulwill Delaware'sundergraduates are lookingforward to Professor join the facultythis Rujivacharakul'sspring lecture course, The Historyof springfollowing a Architecture,while graduatestudents are eagerlyawaiting a one-yearPre- seminaron Theoriesand Methodsof Non-Western doctoralResidential Architecturescheduled for the followingacademic year. She "looking Getty Research will be movingto Newarkin Januaryand is fonryardto Fellowshipat the joiningthe intellectualcommunity at the Universityof Getty Research Delaware." Institutein Southern AnnieCounter California. Professor Rujivacharakul's area of specializationis the historyand theoryof architecture. She previouslytaught courses in the art historydepartment at Faculty News the Universityof Californiaat Berkeleyon the historyof d.r'! architectureand urbanism. ProfessorRujivacharakul has held researchpositions at the NeedhamResearch Institute at the NinaAthanassoglou-Kal lmyer Universityof Cambridge,the Insti,tuteof ModernChinese Nina Kallmyercontinues for a secondyear as Acting Chair. ArchitecturalHistory and HistoricPreservation at Tsinghua Her impressionsfrom one year of chairingwere positive. University,and the lnstituteof EastAsian Studiesat the Undoubtedlythis is a demandingposition that taps skills much Universityof Californiaat Berkeley, She also co-organizedthe differentfrom those traditionallyexpected from a strictly exhibitionChrnese-styte Brackef Sysfems at the Universityof academicjob. Surprisingly,however, she finds that chairing Californiaat Berkeley. and scholarshipare not so far apart,indeed they have one "Architects (unexpected)feature in common:they are both incentivesthat VimalinRujivacharakul's publications include and rely on imaginativeand creativethinking. the Game of Heroicization:The Rise of Architectural Professionin China,1840s-1949i in Ciflesin Motion,eds. In betweengoing to meetingsand signingletters, therefore, ShermanCochran, David Strand, and Wen-HsinYeh "Reread she pursuedher currentresearch on Classicismand modern (forthco mi ng ; ing Chi nese Architectu ral Histo ) ry: art relentlessly.Several talks resultedfrom it: a CAA Cross-CulturalReading of the Riseof ChineseArchitecture, presentationin February;a presentationat the annualmeeting 1860s-1930s,"in WorldAnthology of ArchitecturalHistory, eds. of the Associationof Art Historiansin Bristol(England) in April; PaulaLupkin and ParkerJames (forthcoming); as wellas "Twentieth a lectureat BrownUniversity in May; and a lectureat the entriesfor CenturyArchitecture in Bangkok"and AmericanSchool of ClassicalStudies in Athens (Greece)in "Baiyok Tower," in Encyclopediaof Twentieth-Century November2005. At the same time, two of her essays Architecture(Chicago, London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2003). She "The appearedin the collectedpapers of past conferences,Re- is currentlypreparing articles titled Emperor,the Jesuits, 'China penserla Restaurationand Paris 1820,both held in Paris and a Concubine:Contested Meanings of and the West' "Toyo (France). She has just sent in the manuscriptfor yet another in Early ModernArchitecture," and Dongyang:Japanese paperto be publishedin a volumeof essaysfrom a conference ArchitecturalHistorians and the Searchfor'Oriental' Roots in "Preserve held in Torontoon the theme of the Mediterraneanin the China,"and China:Meanings of a Templeand Sino- modernartistic imag inary. JapanesePolitics of Historicization." Exhibitionsalso becamea focus of her activitiesthis year and ProfessorRujivacharakul has just receivedher Ph.D.from the for the year to come. Part of her contributionto the exhibition Universityof