Tamara Smithers (PhD, 2012) is Associate Professor of Art History and Internship Coordinator at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. She was awarded a grant to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar “Art, History, and Culture in Rome, 1527–1798,” at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (summer 2011). She has published papers in Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music. Literature and the Visual Arts (ed. J. Hendrix and L. G. Cheney) and Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day (ed. G. Smith and J. Gadyene). Smithers published a volume she conceived and edited called Michelangelo in the New Millennium (Brill), with a foreword by William Wallace, an afterword by Marcia Hall, and an important article by Jonathan Kline interpreting the Sistine Ignudi: “Christ-Bearers and Seers of the Period Ante Legem: On the Male Nudes in Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo and the Sistine Ceiling Frescoes.”