Amy Buono, recipient of a 2011 SMU Golden Mustang Faculty Award, has received post-doctoral fellowships from both the J. Paul Getty Foundation and the A.A.U.W. (American Association of University Women). Buono will be in residence during 2011/12 at the Getty in Malibu, California, completing work on her book manuscript Feather Techné: Tupinambá Interculture in Early Modern Brazil and Europe, while also completing work on an edited translation of the 1766 illustrated Jesuit medicinal Collecção de varias receitas de segredos particulares des principaes boticas da nossa companhia de Portugal, da India, de Macao e do Brasil, for which she has a book contract with E. J. Brill Publishers. Last summer Buono won a residential New World Comparative Studies Summer Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Adam Herring was one of six distinguished scholars invited to respond to Byron Ellsworth Hamann’s “The Mirrors of Las Meninas”– a consideration of Velázquez’s work within a transatlantic visual archive–for the March–June 2010 issue of The Art Bulletin. He also has an article, “’Shimmering Foundation’: The Twelve-Sided Stone of Inca Cusco,” forthcoming in Critical Inquiry.
Randall Griffin’s article, “Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World: Normalizing the Abnormal Body,” will appear in the summer issue of the Smithsonian Journal of American Art. He also received an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award.
Eric M. Stryker was invited to present his research on Eduardo Paolozzi and the Independent Group at the symposium “Lawrence Alloway Reconsidered” at Tate Britain in London. An article based on the delivered paper, “Parallel Systems: Lawrence Alloway and Eduardo Paolozzi” will be published by Tate Papers.
Roberto Tejada, Distinguished Endowed Chair of Art History, was asked to serve in 2011/2012 as a juror for the National Book Award.
Alessandra Comini received a 2011 Distinguished Alumna Award from Barnard College. The award is given each year to an alumna who personifies the ideals of excellence of a liberal arts education and who has achieved considerable public or professional distinction and recognition in her chosen field of endeavor. Honorees are selected by the Alumnae Association Awards Committee based on nominations from alumnae. Comini is one of two recipients of this year’s award, which will be presented at the Annual Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner during Barnard’s Reunion Weekend, June 2-5, 2011.
Pamela Patton received a 2009-10 President’s Associates Outstanding Faculty Award that honors tenured faculty who have sustained high achievement as both teachers and scholars in their professions. This year, Patton also gave an invited research seminar at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid : “Jews, Muslims, and the Re-Imagination of the Other in Reconquest Spain.” She later joined up with Bonnie Wheeler and Jeremy Adams to lead a week-long, site-based course in Toledo (Spain) for a group of 15 SMU students, which included Art History majors Rachel Allen, Natalie Boerder, and Rebecca Quinn. Patton also spoke in the series “Medieval Encounters: Cultures in Contact, Convergence, and Conflict,” at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Lisa Pon will publish two articles this year. “Breast Cancer Between Faith and Medicine: The Peres Maldonado Ex-Voto” is forthcoming in the December 2010 issue of Medical Humanities (with James Amatruda) and “Rewriting Vasari,” a solicited essay for David Cast, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Vasari. She is also set to publish reviews of Bernadine Barnes’ Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century, Stephanie Buck’s Michelangelo’s Dream an exhibition catalogue for the Courtauld Gallery, and “Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel,” an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.