  |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana | |
ART HISTORY
Full-Time Faculty
Susan Ryan
Professor
218 Design Building
faryan@lsu.edu
BA Douglass College, Rutgers University
MA, PhD University of Michigan
Research Assistant Yale University (3 years)
Professor Ryan teaches contemporary and new media art history and is a Fellow of the LSU Center for Computational Technology (CCT). She helped found an interdisciplinary Art/Engineering undergraduate minor at LSU entitled AVATAR. Currently she is researching artists’ wearable technology. With Patrick Lichty, she curated Social Fabrics, an exhibition sponsored by the Leonardo Educational Forum, for the College Art Association, Dallas 2008 (http://www.socialfabrics.org/). She has lectured internationally on dress and creative technology, and contributed articles to Leonardo and the online journal Intelligent Agent. She has also published two books focused on artists’ autobiographical practices: she assembled, edited, and annotated American painter Marsden Hartley's autobiography (Somehow a Past, MIT Press, 1996 and 1998), and authored Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (Yale University Press, 2000). For more information about Professor Ryan’s work, please visit www.artistory.us
Matthew Savage, Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor
207 Design Building
msavage@lsu.edu
PhD University of Vienna (Austria)
Matthew Savage specializes in the art and architecture of Byzantium, and his primary research investigates architectural developments in Byzantine Constantinople. In his publications, Dr. Savage addresses issues related to the interrelationship of images, text and architectural space within the broader sphere of Byzantine influence, including the Balkans and the medieval West. He received a PhD in 2008 from the University of Vienna, and has recently presented papers in the United States at the Byzantine Studies Conference, in Great Britain at the Spring Symposium of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, and in Russia at an international conference on the architecture of Byzantium and Kievan Rus’ at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. In expanding his interests beyond Byzantium, Dr. Savage served from 2008-2010 at the University of Vienna as the Coordinator for a large, transdisciplinary research network funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that investigates the cultural history of the Western Himalayas after the 8th century.
Darius A. Spieth
Associate Professor
219 Design Building
dspieth@lsu.edu
BA University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MBA (Finance) International University of Japan
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other Affiliations: Mellon Visiting Professor 2011, California Institute of Technology
Prior to joining the Art History faculty at LSU, Professor Spieth served as Philip and Lynn Straus Curatorial Fellow at the Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), and worked for a commercial gallery dealing in Russian avant-garde art domiciled in Cologne, Germany, and Zug, Switzerland. A specialist in early modernism, Professor Spieth focuses in his scholarship on the interrelationships between art, intellectual history, and economics. Besides Prints from the Serenissima: Connoisseurship and the Graphic Arts in Eighteenth-Century Venice, an exhibition catalog written for the Fogg, he has published Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians (University of Delaware Press, 2007), which explores the Masonic contexts for the revived Isis cult in Napoleonic France. Recently completed book chapters and articles include: “Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Il mondo nuovo: Peepshows and the Politics of Nostalgia,” “The French Context of The Great Mirror of Folly: John Law, Rococo Culture, and the Riches of the New World,” “How Did Japanese Investments Influence Art Prices?” (with Takato Hiraki, Akitoshi Ito, and Naoya Takezawa). Supported by an NEH grant, Professor Spieth’s current research investigates Art, Auctions, and Public Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Mark Zucker
J. Franklin Bayhi Alumni Professor
208 Design Building
mzucker@lsu.edu
PhD Columbia University
A specialist in Renaissance art, Professor Zucker has contributed seven volumes on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian engraving to The Illustrated Bartsch, a definitive series of scholarly reference books on Old Master prints. He has also published on various aspects of Renaissance art in leading international journals and is currently working on relationships between Italian Renaissance art and literature. Professor Zucker was the recipient in 2001 of LSU's Distinguished Faculty Award and was named J. Franklin Bayhi Alumni Professor of Art in 2003. He chaired a sesion on "The Italian Renaissance Print" at the 2002 conference of the College Art Association, and his paper "Homeliness and Humor in Renaissance Italy: Tales of Ugly (and Witty) Artists and Other Paragons of Ugliness" won the award for the best article of 2004 published in the journal Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Zucker is currently Professor and Art History Area Coordinator in Renaissance and Baroque Art.
Yu Jiang
Visiting Asst. Professor
205 Design Building
yujiang@lsu.edu
BA Beijing University
MA, PhD University of Pittsburgh
Currently teaching at Southern University at New Orleans
Dr. Yu Jiang currently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Southern University at New Orleans. He received his BA in Chinese archaeology from Beijing University in 1997, and an MA (1999) and PhD (2004) in art history from the University of Pittsburgh. Between 2002 and 2005, he held a number of fellowship positions at the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.). From 2005-2010 He was a tenure-track assistant professor of art history in the Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University (on-leave 2008-2010) prior to joining Southern University at New Orleans. Dr. Jiang’s research investigates bronze and jade art of early dynastic China, particularly the Western Zhou from the 11th to 8th centuries BCE, with focus on material culture, identity, and socio-political discourse. Dr. Jiang’s publications cover much later periods as well, including the casting technology of bronze drums from Southeast Asia.
Johanna Sandrock, Professional in Residence
205 Design Building
jsandr1@lsu.edu
BA University of Iowa
MA, PhD University of Missouri-Columbia
Dr. Sandrock joined the art history faculty in 2011 as professional in residence in Greek and Roman art. She has a BA from the University of Iowa, and her MA and PhD are from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation, "Mythological Funerary Reliefs from the Roman Provinces of Noricum and Pannonia", combined her interdisciplinary interest in the ancient world with her love of Austria. She has traveled extensively as a student participant in the Vergilian Society Summer Program in Cumae and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Summer Session, as well as an instructor for LSU in Germany. She also spent three summers excavating at the Roman legionary fortress Lauriacum in Enns, Austria. Dr. Sandrock has presented papers at national and international conferences, on topics ranging from Hellenistic sculpture to the Gemma Augustea, and has taught as a visiting lecturer at the University of Graz. Her most recent contributions have been in the area of Roman and Celtic iconography.
 |
 |
|
|
School of Art |
||
| Copyright © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Official Webpage of Louisiana State University. | ||