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.

Randall Griffin with graduating Art History majors

Rachel Allen (BA 2011) was chosen as the SMU Outstanding Senior in Medieval Studies in 2011.

Ashley Bruckbauer (BA 2009) After graduation from SMU, Ashley spent a year in Shanghai teaching English and refining her language skills in Mandarin. In 2010/2011 she worked as a curatorial intern at the Dallas Museum of Art.  She has just accepted a full five-year fellowship the Ph.D. program five-year fellowship from UNC Chapel Hill to complete a Ph.D. in Art History.

Lauren Dodds (MA 2011) has completed her thesis on and has accepted a paid curatorial internship at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Leticia Salinas (BA 2009) After graduation from SMU, Leticia spent a year as a McDermott Intern in Museum Education at the Dallas Museum of Art. In the Fall she will enter the M.A. program in Museum Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Britten Larue (MA 2007) is currently working at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Her paper on Aubrey Beardsley and cross-dressing in his images of “Wagernians” was accepted for a 2011 conference on “The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores” sponsored by the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association.

Justine Andrews (MA 1995) has received tenure in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico.

Leu-Jiun Ten (MA 2009) and Ali Alibhai (Medieval Studies MA 2008) were accepted to the summer program below.  It is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute and the Getty and will be taught in Tangiers, Rabat, Fes, Marrakesh, Seville, Cordoba, Madinat-al-Zahra and Granada.

Natalie Boerder (junior Art History major) has been awarded The Cloisters Summer Internship for 2011, sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The nine-week internship is for undergraduate college students who are interested in art and museum careers, enjoy working with children, and have an interest in medieval art. Participants join the Education Office of The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art of medieval Europe.

Colby Kruger (Art History major) was awarded a research grant by the Provost Office’s QEP program to research how to empower young women to define “beauty” in their own way by teaching them photographic skills and developing a creative perspective.  Kruger is a double major in Art History and Business Marketing with a minor in Photography.

Pamela Patton & Christina Stanciau (alum)

Roberto Tejada

DMA's Olivier Meslay & Heather McDonald

Dr. Annemarie Weyl Carr

Pamela Jones, Lisa Pon & Jane Ginsburg (left to right)

Jessica May (Amon Carter) & Eric Stryker

Giles Knox and Pamela Patton

At the annual meeting of the Print Council of America in Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Pon will present her paper on “The Printmaking Matrix as Functional Object.” The PCA is the professional organization, open by nomination and election only, for leading scholars of print working in museums and universities.

Dr Pon will also deliver the lecture “The Printed Image in the Age of Miraculous Reproduction,” at the annual College Art Association National Meeting, New York City, February 2011.

Finally, at the Meadows Museum in April, she will also speak on the subject, “Before Toledo: Books and Reading in the Vatican Palace,” a lecture to be given in conjunction with the exhibition, “Lost Manuscripts of the Sistine Chapel.”

Melissa Moncrieff (BA 2006) has completed a Master’s in International Studies at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Developpement in Geneva.

Cristina Stancioiu (MA from SMU, PHD UCLA) has just published “I ever loved thee, lady mine, and yet my love increases: Rhodian Portrait Ceramics and Cultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean,” Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 22/2 (2010), 129-50.