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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Art History Faculty News, Fall 2025

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Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Ph.D., professor, Art History
Kelly Donahue-Wallace has published her research essay, "La luz que merecen. El círculo de pintores y grabadores en México 1720-1780," [The Light They Deserve: The Circle of Painters and Engravers in Mexico 1720-1780] in "La circulación de imágenes entre los pintores y grabadores mexicanos del siglo XVIII" [The circulation of images among Mexican painters and engravers of the 18th century] (Madrid: Silex Ediciones). With essays by leading scholars of Mexican colonial art, including Paula Mues Orts, Jaime Cuadriello, and Luisa Elena Alcalá, the book addresses the complex network of artists and images within and beyond Mexico. Donahue-Wallace's chapter demonstrates that printmakers participated with painters in previously unrecognized collaborations in the mid-18th century.
 
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Carey Gibbons, Ph.D., assistant professor
Carey Gibbons, assistant professor, will have an article in print in the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History. Her essay is titled “The Vulnerability of the Body and the Latent Potential of Sleep: The Influence of James George Frazer and Christian Larson on Jessie M. King." Gibbons examines King's engagement with global belief systems and proposes new possibilities for interpreting the sleeping figures in her series of illustrations titled Seven Happy Days. Additionally, Gibbons recently edited the summer 2025 special issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, which features a digital art history project by Temi Odumosu and David Schwittek titled, “Annotating The New Union Club: A Case Study on Ethical Praxis for Digital Art Histories."
 

A digital art history project edited by Carey Gibbons, “Annotating The New Union Club: A Case Study on Critical Praxis for Digital Art Histories,” was recently published in the journal "Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide."

Authored by Temi Odumosu, an art historian and curator, and David Schwittek, associate professor of graphic design and digital media at Lehman College, Bronx, New York, the project examines "The New Union Club" (1819), a racist caricature by George Cruikshank (d. 1878) and Frederick Marryat (d. 1848) that satirizes antislavery efforts. Using critical annotation as a curatorial strategy, the project contextualizes this complex and troubling print while exploring broader questions about the description, reproduction, and online circulation of problematic artworks made freely available through open-access digital collections. 

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Paula Lupkin, Ph.D., associate professor
Paula Lupkin, associate professor,  has been writing, presenting and editing galleys from Chicago to Belgium. She is currently researching the interior design of the famed American architect, artist, and craftsman Bruce Goff. In April, she presented “Reconstructing a Memory Palace: The Many Lives of Joe Price’s Shin’enkan” at the Lived Interiors: Narratives and Memories Symposium at the University of Hasselt, Belgium. Her scholarship on Goff is also featured in an upcoming exhibit and catalogue, Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, to be released by Yale University Press in early December.
 
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Lisa N. Owen, Ph.D., associate professor
Lisa N. Owen, chair of the Art History Department and associate professor, recently presented academic papers at two specialized conferences on global medieval art. One paper addressed new theories that she developed on unfinished medieval sculpture in India, while the second focused on rock-cut architecture as an environmental art practice. In September, her essay on the multireligious site of Ellora, India, will be available on Grove Art Online (part of Oxford Art Online/Oxford University Press).
 
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Heidi Strobel, Ph.D., professor
Heidi Strobel, professor and associate dean of Academic and Student Affairs, has three publications scheduled for release in fall 2025, associated with her work on artist Mary Linwood. These include an article in the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Life, a co-authored essay for The Cambridge History of Women and Romanticism, and material for an educational module for the Royal School of Needlework’s forthcoming History of Embroidery course (launching online September 2025).
 
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Jennifer Way, Ph.D., professor
Jennifer Way, professor, presented and published on craft and care in humanitarian contexts across a century, including “Racial Ambivalence: Photographic Messages about American Red Cross Craft Therapy, 1920” (Health and the Health Humanities Consortium, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia) and “Caring with or for? Reappraising the Dynamics of Care Shaping Liza Lou’s Craft-Centered Communities” (College Art Association, New York). Her essay “Where Taste Meets Intention: Fallingwater’s ‘Asian’ Collection,” in Fallingwater: Living with and in Art (Rizzoli International Publications, 2025), investigates objects not initially intended for secular domestic settings nor acquired through intentional collecting at Frank Lloyd Wright’s UNESCO World Heritage–listed house in Western Pennsylvania.