Art History and Music majors have entered a wide variety of careers. Some of the activities of departmental alumni include:
Margaret Richter (FCRH '83) completed her dissertation under Robert Rosenblum in 1998 (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) on the nineteenth-century German painter Gabriel Max. Margaret has worked at the Frick Art Reference Library, and has taught at Rose Hill, the University of South Carolina at Columbia, Westfield State College in Massachusetts, and is currently the editor of the Art Index and the Humanities Index at the H.W. Wilson Company.
Giovanna Fiorino-Iannace (FCRH ‘88) received her Ph.D (art history) from CUNY’s Graduate Center (dissertation topic: American Genre Painters in Venice 1877-1893) in June 2004; married with two sons, she has been for many years the Collections Manager of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Katherine Bourguignon (FCRH ’90) completed an MA (art history) at Case Western Reserve, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania (dissertation topic: Matisse and his female models); Katie taught for two years at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Married with a baby son, she now lives in France where she is the Associate Curator of the Musee d’Americain at Giverny. Her first exhibition, “American Artists’ Books in Europe, 1960-2000" opened in July and runs through October. She encourages Fordham students and faculty to visit the museum.
Kathy Battista (FCRH’92) has a MA (art history) from the Courtauld Institute (University of London) and is currently completing a Ph.D. at the London Consortium where she was a Research Fellow from 2001-2003. From 1997 to 2002 she was Head of Interaction, a program that she founded at Artangel, an institution that commissions art projects in unusual spaces. Kathy is the co-author of Recent Architecture in The Netherlands (1998) and Art New York (2000); a contributing author to Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (2003); she is also Books Editor of Contemporary Magazine. She has served as a lecturer in MA programs at Birkbeck College and Kings College, London.
Rachael Atkinson (FCRH '96) was awarded a Fellowship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice following graduation and then began work at Christie’s (NYC) where she is currently in the Estates and Appraisals Department.
Josephine Dobkin (FCLC ’98). After an internship in the Department of European Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Josephine became a staff member as a Research Assistant.
Patricia Kiernan (FCLC ’99) is completing a doctorate in Medieval/Renaissance Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. She will be giving a paper at a conference on relief sculpture to be held in March at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK.
Erin Rother, (FCLC ’99). After working as librarian at Knoedler Galleries in New York, she entered the Columbia University Graduate Program in English literature last year.
Danielle Archibald (FCRH’01) has just begun as Department Assistant in the Art of the Americas department at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where she just completed an internship in the Registrar’s Office. Danielle is finishing an MA (anticipated 2005) in Museum Studies at Harvard University’s Extension School.
Kerin Sulock (FCRH '04) recievd her MA in Art History in 2006 from Williams College. She wrote her thesis on the Insular manuscript the Lichfield Gospels. She is currently living in Vermont and working for an artist.
Claire Lynch (FCRH '06) will begin graduate art history studies at the School of Oriental and Afrrican Studies, London (SOAS) in the Fall 2008. This past year she spent time working with a volunteer program in India.
Elizabeth Masella (FCRH '07) in the Fall 2008 Elizabeth will be starating the MFA program in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts.
Michelle Pastor (FCRH '07) will begin graduate study at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Jonathan Hogan (FCRH '08), a double major in Art History and Communications, has received a Fulbright Award to Brazil.
