Faculty News
- Susan Verdi Webster's long awaited Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito has recently been published by the University of Texas Press (September 2017).
- Cristina Stancioiu took up a one-year fellowship (2017-18) at the Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne to work on Medieval Portraiture and Fashion.
- Brian Kreydatus was selected to show in The Third International Printmaking Triennial, Belgrade, Serbia, and invited to exhibit at IMPRESSIONS 2017, l'Estampe à Barbizon: Sur les pas de Rembrandt, visages et personnages, Barbizon, France.
- Eliot Dudik introduced a new class this spring in our photography area which teaches students the art of bookmaking.
- Nicole Santiago's paintings were showcased in two solo exhibitions hosted respectively at First Street Gallery and Shoestring Studios in New York.
- Catherine Levesque co-curated the William & Mary Swem Library Special Collections exhibition, "The World in a Book: Travel for Curiosity, Adventure, and Profit in Early Modern Europe" which runs through January 21, 2018.
- Sibel Zandi Sayek received the 2017 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, in recognition of her achievements in research, teaching and governance.
- Xin Conan-Wu received the 2016-17 Kluge Fellowship Library of Congress, where she worked on her new project: "Gardens & Landscape as neo-Confucian Metaphors: Vision, Memory and Place-making in Song Academies."
- Alan Braddock spent a sabbatical year at Princeton as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor and a Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France. He also co-edited A Greene Country Towne, Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination published by Penn State Press (2016).