Alumni

  • Lauren Rosenblum

      Lauren Rosenblum (MA, 2012) headed to the Graduate Center in NYC for her PhD in Art History. After graduating from Temple, she was a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where she worked on many projects, including curating shows on Hayter, Oldenburg and Guston, Text & Image, and more. While she was a graduate student at Tyler, she initiated the MFA/MA-PhD collaborative catalogue and show (which continues to thrive), was a Curatorial Intern at the PMA, and worked for Locks Gallery .

  • Sophie Sanders

      Sophie Sanders (PhD, 2013) is a lecturer at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She has exhibited her works in venues across America, and has worked as a museum educator at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, South Street Seaport Museum, and the Museum for African Art in New York. She has published "A Review of Contemporary African Art since 1980" (African Arts, 2010), and for the Afro-American National Biography Project, the "Biography of John Biggers Parnassus" (2008).  She has lectured on the artist Nicolas Cave at the African Studies Association, co-curatored the exhibit "From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout" for the Crane Arts Gallery, and has exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and St. Joseph's University.

  • Erika Schneider

      Erika Schneider (PhD, 2007) is an Assistant Professor at Framingham State University. She has published The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800–1865  (University of Delaware Press, 2015) and was a 2015 recipient of a Fulbright-Terra Foundation Award in the History of American Art for a year of study in Holland.

       

  • Brian Seymour

      Brian Seymour (PhD, 2017) is an Associate Professor of Art History at the Community College of Philadelphia, where he earned the Lindback Award for teaching in 2011. His dissertation was a comparative study of the collecting practices of Philadelphia Collectors John G. Johnson and Albert C. Barnes. Follow his other work on www.brianseymour.com.

  • Elizabeth Shank

    • Contact: elizabethshank@hotmail.com

      • Dr. Liz Shank (PhD, 2003) is the U.S. Coordinator at INSTAP Study Center for East Crete. She specializes in the study of Aegean Bronze Age frescoes and is the Director of the Coprus of Aegean Frescoes, a project that helps archaeologists prepare their fresco material for publication. 

  • Suzanne Singletary

    • Contact: singletarys@PhilaU.edu

      • Suzanne Singletary (PhD, 2006) is a Professor in the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Philadelphia University. Her research interests include interdisciplinary aspects of art, architecture, literature and music. She has participated in international symposia and has been an invited speaker at the National Gallery of Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of London, the Tate Britain, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has published articles on Delacroix and Symbolism, Goya's paintings of cannibals, and contemporary art, architecture and visual culture. A catalogue essay for the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin on Impressionist Interiors, as well as a contribution to an anthology on Edouard Manet with Ashgate Publishing Co., were published in 2008. A manuscript for a book that analyzes the paintings and interiors of James McNeill Whistler relative to French art and design is in preparation. Singletary received the "President's Award for Teaching Excellence" at Philadelphia University in 2015, awarded each year to one faculty who excels in teaching, service, and professional development.

  • Tamara Smithers

    • Contact: smithers@apsu.edu

      • 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.”

       

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    Laura L. Watts

      Laura L. Watts (MA, 1993; PhD, 1999) is a Professor at Daemen University in Amherst, New York. Her publishing credits include "Italian Romanticism and Academicism in an Unidentified Rest on the Flight into Egypt" for Gazette des Beaux Arts (2002); "Shifting Identities: Politics, Poetry and Passion in Italian Nineteenth-Century Portraiture" for Visual Resources (2007), and "Regionalism and Ruskin in the Ottocento Art Historical Narrative," a chapter in the 2012 anthology Ruskin, Venice and Cultural Tourism.  Her book Italian Painting in the Age of Unification (2021, Routledge) won the Visual Arts Book Award from the American Association of Italian Studies in 2022.  She is currently teaching and developing a visual literacy curriculum for Daemen University from her home in Bermuda.

  • Giulio Sorgini

      Antongiulio Sorgini (BA, 2009) left Tyler to pursue a Master’s degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, before moving on to a PhD program in early modern Italian painting at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He held positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

  • Naomi Sosnovsky

    • Contact: naomi.sosnovsky@gmail.com

      • Naomi Sosnovsky (BA, 2013) completed her Master's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in the field of textile conservation/ fashion studies and attended Oxford to pursue a Master's in Archaeology degree.

  • Antonia Stamos

    • Contact: astamos@auk.edu.kw

      • Antonia Stamos (PhD, 2006) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Graphic Design at the American University in Kuwait.

  • Lea Stephenson

      Lea Stephenson (BA, 2015) received her MA in Art History from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2017 and is employed as the Decorative Arts Research Fellow at the Preservation Society of Newport County in Rhode Island. Previously, she worked at the Dallas Museum of Art as a Summer Research Associate in American Art and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as an intern in the American Art department.  

  • Kelley Stone

      Kelley Stone (BA, 2012 cum laude, minor in Ancient Mediterranean Studies) worked for 3 years in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Membership and Annual Giving department and as Director of Operations for Paperclips215, which has a focus on raising awareness of the creative events through a calendar and live coverage through social media (www.paperclips215.com).  She completed her MA in Art History and Archaeology at NYU's IFA.

  • Alyssa A. Stuble

      Alyssa A. Stuble (MA Fine Arts Administration, 2016; BA Art History, 2011 cum laude) has moved from her job as manager in the Marketing and Communications Department at National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, where she was in charge of all design, advertising, and budgeting for the museum marketing material.  She also freelanced at the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania) as a media buyer/strategist.  She is currently Communications Manager at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.

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