Alumni

  • Rebecca McEwen

      Rebecca McEwen (MA, 2018) previously the Office Assistant for the School of Continuing Studies, became staff on a fundraising team in charge of a stewardship program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Rebecca has now moved on to become a project manager for a medical education consulting company in Montreal. She reports, "I'm really excited about it....so many of the skills I strengthened at Temple (e.g., pairing down complicated information for educational purposes, developing presentations, and more)" apply to her position.

  • Barbara McNulty

      Dr. Barbara McNulty (PhD, 2010) is director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College in Annville Pennsylvania. She was awarded a Temple University Dissertation Completion grant in 2009 for he dissertation entitled “Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family,” which interpreted Crusader- and Renaissance-era wall paintings with a focus on families, women and children.  An article, "The Panel Painting as a Choice for Family Commemoration: The Case of 15th-Century Patrons on Cyprus," appears in Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2018).

  • Melissa Miguelez

      Melissa Miguelez (BA, 2013) completed her Masters (MSt.) in History of Art and Visual Culture at Kellogg College, Oxford University with Distinction. She is currently teaching in the Council Rock School District and as an adjunct professor in the Art History Dept at Rowan University.

  • Allyson Mitchell

      Allyson Mitchell (BA, 2010) is currently the Outreach Programs Manager for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Throughout her professional and scholastic careers, she has focused on how technology can act as a bridge to connect formal and informal educational spaces and programs. At the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Allyson is responsible for the revamping and coordinating all of their Distance Learning and Loan Box Programs. Prior to joining the Penn Museum, she served as the Curator of Education at the Delaware History Museum, where she created a new Distance Learning studio and supporting programs. Allyson has held a variety of positions within the Education Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she continues to volunteer her time in the Wachovia Education Resource Center. She graduated with honors from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University with a BA in Art History and earned a MA in Museum Education at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (2013). 

  • Margaret Morse

      Margaret Morse (BA, 1995) received her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2006, where she studied 15th and 16th century Italian Art. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art History at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Margaret is currently working on a book titled, "The Arts of Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Venice: Rituals, Spaces and Goods." 

  • Anne H. Muraoka

    • Contact: amuraoka@odu.edu
    • Anne H. Muraoka (PhD, 2009) specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, particularly Counter-Reformation painting. She is currently Associate Professor of Art History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she also serves as the Art History Program Director. She is a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Rome, Italy, 2006-2007) and a Summer Research Fellowship (2013) from the Office of Research at Old Dominion University. Among her publications are two lengthy contributions to Oxford Bibliographies Online. She has presented her research on Caravaggio, Gabriele Paleotti, and Carlo Borromeo at several professional conferences, including the Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, and College Art Association conferences  Her book, The Path of Humility, Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo is now available through Peter Lang Publishing (2015).

  • Susan Nalezyty

      Susan Nalezyty (PhD, 2011) is the Archivist and Historian at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. She will be preserving the school's documents, photographs, and objects spanning their history, which began in 1799. 

  • Ellen Oanes

      Ellen Oanes (BA, 2016 cum laude) pursued her MA in Art Therapy and Counseling at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago after weighing several offers of acceptance.

  • Eileen Owens

      Eileen Owens (MA, 2016) is a Research and Exhibition Assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Previously, she served as the Suzanne Andree Curatorial Fellow in the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

  • Ariel Pearce-Chalikias

      Ariel Pearce-Chalikias (PhD, 2017) is living and teaching in Philadelphia.

  • Sarah Peterson

      Sarah Peterson (PhD, 2017) works as an editor at INSTAP Press in Philadelphia and is the supervisor of the Pottery Study Team of the Dickinson College excavations at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae, Greece.

  • Alice Price

      Alice M. Rudy Price (Ph.D,  2014) specializes in nineteenth-century European art and culture. Her dissertation on the Danish artist, Anna Ancher (1859-1935), addressed the artist in relation to the intersecting cultural contexts of rural Denmark, the Skagen Art Colony, Copenhagen, and Paris. Her review of the spring 2013 show on Anna Ancher at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) appeared in the autumn issue of 19th-Century-Art-Worldwide. She is the author of “Gendered Interiors” published on NMWA’s website. Dr. Price teaches modern and contemporary art and architecture at Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture and at Philadelphia University. She has also taught at Arcadia University. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Price earned a master’s degree in education from LaSalle University, a master’s degree in history from American University, and taught history in private and public secondary schools for twenty years. 

  • Heike Rass

    • Contact: hrass@pafa.org
    • Heike Rass (MA, 1993) formerly the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and in marketing and communications for the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill and the Settlement Music School, is a strategic consultant and innovative visual art promoter with a particular focus on underrepresented artists, arts organizations and projects. Rass is committed to community engagement through intercultural marketing and asset-based approaches, focusing on each community’s strength. She is currently Director of Communications and Marketing, Michener Museum. 

  • Nicole Restaino

      Nicole Restaino (MA, 2016) is the Manager of Public Programming at the International Center of Photography in New York. She was previously the Manager of Library Communications and Public Programming at Paley Library, Temple University.

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