Alumni

  • Whitney Kruckenberg

      Whitney Kruckenberg (PhD, 2014) is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Northern Virginia Community College in Springfield, Virginia.

  • Brian Kunkel

      Brian Kunkel (PhD, 2017) teaches at Hunter College in New York.

  • Laura Labriola

      Laura Labriola (MA, 1998) is a web producer for Military.com in Concord, Massachusetts.

  • Alison Leedy

      Alison Leedy (MA, 2011) is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado. Previously, she was an adjunct instructor at Delaware College of Art and Design. Her area of focus is late 20th-century photography. 

  • Erin Moran Lehman

      Erin Moran Lehman (PhD, 2014) has been appointed Lecturer and Director of the Towson University Art Galleries in Towson, Maryland starting August, 2015.

  • Joseph Liberatore

      Joseph Liberatore (BA, 2014) was accepted into four graduate programs in Higher Education and Student Affairs: NYU, Columbia, Boston College, and Boston University. He attended Columbia in the fall of 2015 to pursue an MA in Higher and Post-Secondary Education.

       

  • Gary Liu

      Gary Liu (BA, 2005) earned a Master's Degree in Art History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he now teaches.

  • Peter M. Lukehart

      Peter M. Lukehart (MA, 1980) is Associate Dean at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2001-present). He was educated at Eckerd College (BA, 1977) majoring in French literature. He received an MA, in art history, in 1980 from Temple University, and a PhD, also in art history, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He taught at George Mason University from 1988-1990, and then served as Mellon assistant curator of Southern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art from 1990-1992.  From 1992 until 2001, he held a joint appointment at Dickinson College where he was director of the college’s museum, The Trout Gallery, and also assistant (1992-2000) and then associate (2000-2001) professor of art history. In 2000, Lukehart organized the exhibition and related website Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, which won the Dibner Award in the History of Science. He has a longstanding interest in the education and incorporation of artists in the early modern period. His publications on this subject include contributions to the exhibition  catalogue Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (J. Paul Getty Musuem, 2007) and to The Artist’s Workshop, published under his editorship in the Studies in the History of Art series at the National Gallery of Art (1993). He also served as editor of the Accademia Seminars (2009), for which he wrote the introduction and an essay “Visions and Divisions in the Early History of the Accademia di San Luca.”  He is project director for an online research database entitled “The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma” 

  • Regina (Reggie) Lynch

    • Contact: rlynch@biggsmuseum.org
    • Upon graduation, Regina (Reggie) Lynch (MA, 2012) worked as Curator of Education Fellow at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware; she is currently Associate Director of Interpretation and Engagement at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.

  • Rosie May

      Dr. Rosie May (PhD, 2011) is Associate Director of Public Programs and Interpretive Practices at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

  • C.W. Markham

      C.W. Markham (MA, 2004) is the Developement Director for Roanoke Symphony Orchestra in Roanoke, Virginia.

  • Joan Marter

      Dr. Joan Marter, one of the first students to receive BA in Art History at Temple (1968, magna cum laude), is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. Named to the “Board of Governors” at Rutgers, she is the recipient of many prestigious awards and grants, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art and a Temple University Diamond Achievement Award in the Humanities.

      Dr. Marter has written and edited scores of books and catalogues, organized exhibitions, published articles and book chapters, overseen symposia and panels, and lectured and given papers widely. Highlights include editor of the 2011, 5-volume Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, which earned an “Outstanding Reference Source Award” from the American Library Association, editor and principal essayist of the catalogue and exhibition, Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-63, and editor of Abstract Expressionism: The International Context from 2007. Her 1997 show, Women and Abstract Expressionism, was honored by the International Association of Art Critics. Dr. Marter is Editor of the Woman’s Art Journal and has been Director of the Certificate Program in Curatorial Studies at Rutgers for 17 years.

        

  • Rachel McCay

      Rachel McCay (MA, 2013) is an assistant curator at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia

  • Tamryn McDermott

      Tamryn McDermott (MA, 2005) currently teaches sculpture as an adjunct professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In 2015, McDermott received an MFA in fibers and sculpture from the University of Missouri. In 2005, McDermott completed an MA in Art History and Arts Administration at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University where she also received a BFA in Sculpture and Painting. McDermott has exhibited her artwork at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA; University of St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and the Crane Arts, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA, among many others.  McDermott was the Fiber Artist-in-Residence at the Craft Alliance in St. Louis, MO in 2015.  She was Director of Admissions for Tyler School 2016-18, and now works for Penn State.

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