If you are a former student in the Department of Art & Music Histories, and you would like to have your name, degree, and a short summary of your accomplishments listed on this site, please e-mail the site administrator amh@syr.edu
Amy Adams (M.A. 2004)
Amy was recently awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. She began her studies for a Ph.D. in Fall 2004, and she plans to specialize in early twentieth-century Russian art.
Charity Anderson (M.A. 2004)
Since graduating, Charity has contributed (as an author) to a forthcoming catalogue of the collection of the Jack S. Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and recently took a position at Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery in New York.
Dana Anderson (B.A. 2006)
After graduating, Dana completed internships at Spanierman Gallery, LLC and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City while obtaining her Master's Degree in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute. She is now a Junior Associate at a corporate and private art consulting and management firm in Manhattan.
Ruth Ann Appelhof (M.A. 1975)
Ruth Ann has been Director of Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, for several years, having previously held the post of Director of the Roanoke, Virginia Museum of Art and other curatorial and administrative positions in the museum.
Cathleen A. Baker (M.A. 1985)
Cathy's theseis on Syracuse University's set of J.J. Audobon's Bird's of America won a Graduate School Master's Prize in 1985. She has had a distinguished career as a paper conservator, both teaching and in private practice.
Ross Barrett (M.A. 2002)
Ross, a specialist in American art, entered the doctoral program in art history at Boston University during the Fall 2002 semester.
Kathleen Bice (B.A. 2006)
Kathleen recently received a Masters in Arts Management from City University in London, England. She is currently seeking gainful employment in the field here in the United States.
Laura Bintzer (B.A. 2006)
Laura is currently working at the Museum of the City of New York in the department of Public Programs.
Emily Gaines Buchler (M.A. 2003)
Emily is an Education Program Specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Renée George Burnam (M.A. Florence Fellow, 1982; Ph.D. 1988)
Renée is a member the American committee of the Corpus Vitrearum and has published the book Le Vetrate da Pisa (Italian Corpus Vitrearum, 2002).
Mary Ann Calo (M.A. 1981)
Mary Ann is Professor of Art History and former Chair of the Art and Art History Department, Colgate University. Her most recent book, Distinction and Denial: The Critical Construction of the African-American Arrtist (University of Michigan Press) appeared in 2007.
Cynthia Campbell (M.A. 1966)
Cindy's thesis on three works by a trio of twentieth-century American sculptors for a single site won a Graduate School Master's Prize. She is a member of the curatorial staff of the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester.
Jessica Del Fuoco (B.A. 2005)
Jessica, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program, currently resides in Syracuse and has been working for SU Abroad and Enrollment Management as the Senior Student Records Coordinator since 2005. She is currently taking classes part time at Syracuse and is working toward a Masters in Cultural Foundations of Education.
Carol Eggert (M.A. 1998)
Carol earned an M.S. in conservation from the University of Delaware and went on to work as a paper conservator at the Corcoran Art Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress. Since starting a family, she has gone into private practice as a paper conservator.
Erika Fiutak (MA.1998)
Erika's thesis on Edward Hopper won a Graduate School Master's Prize in 1998. She is a teacher of art at Christain Brother's Academy.
Robyn Fleming (B.A. 1997)
Robyn lives in New York City where she works as a librarian in the renowned library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Angela Garcia (B.A. 1997)
Angela is Manager for Cultural Services at
the Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, a collection of visual arts and anthropology in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Previously she earned an M.A. in art history at City College and worked in the Education Department of El Museo del Barrio in New York.
Eric Gleason (B.A. 2005)
Eric is currently employed by the Marlborough Gallery in Mahattan. In September 2007, he will take the position of Sales Director at the Gallery.
Monica Hahn-Koenig (M.A. 1995)
Monica is an adjunct professor of art history at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Marlene Hamann (M.A. 1993)
Marlene has for several years been associate curator of education at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester.
Sarah Humphrey (B.A. 2006)
Sarah has been accepted, with fellowship support, into the graduate program in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, beginning in fall 2006.
Alyce Jordan (B.A. 1981; M.A. 1987)
After receiving her M.A. in art history, Alyce went on to receive a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. Alyce is currently a faculty member at Northern Arizona University.
Jessica Kluck(B.A. 2008)
Jessica, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program, has been admitted to the M.A. program in opera at USC.
Julia Korona (B.A. 2006)
Julia, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program, currently lives in Mansfield, MA and is freelancing in the entertainment industry in the Boston area.
Stephanie Kuhlmann (M.A. 2004)
Stephanie works as an Art Consultant at Atlas Galleries in Chicago, which specializes in master prints, drawings, and contemporary painting and sculpture.
Dean Lahikainen (M.A. 1977)
Dean has been for several years the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative and Folk Art at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem. His responsibilities also include the American 18th-19th century fine art painting collection. He is author of exhibition catalogues and monographs, most recently his award-winning volume on Samuel McIntire.
Gabrielle Lawson (B.A. 2007)
Gabrielle, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program, is an assistant to Tony Melillo, the menswear fashion designer.
Rebecca Lawton (M.A.198 )
Becky is Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth. She previously held curatorial posts at the Delaware Art Museum and the Vassar College Museum.
SooJin Lee (M.A. 2003)
SooJin began her doctoral studies in twentieth-century art (the second half) at the University of Illinois at Chicago during the Fall 2005 semester.
Kate Lemay(B.A.2001)
Kate is a Ph.D Candidate in Art History and American Studies at Indiana University. She received a Fulbright Grant to research my dissertation in France 2008-2009. For the 2009-2010 academic year Kate is a Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Martha Lucy (M.A. 1995)
Martha completed her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2003,and has been appointed Associate Curator at the Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA
Jennifer Luzzo (B.A. 2007)
Jennifer, who graduated from the Music History and Cultures program, has been awarded a Graduate Assistantship in the Band Department at Syracuse University. She will be pursuing a Master's Degree in Music Education at the Setnor School of Music.
Meghan Maher (B.A. 2009)
has entered the M.A. program in Museum Studies at George Washington University.
Megan Manni (B.A. 2000)
Megan is a freelance writer based in New York. She writes features for online and print magazines, and writes/copyedits documents, web content, and marketing materials for small businesses.
Elizabeth Manton (B.A. 2000)
After completing her studies at Syracuse, Elizabeth received an M.A. in Italian Renaissance Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. She currently resides in the Netherlands
Elizabeth Maxwell (B.A. 2006)
Liz is currently an intern at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Catherine Nelson (B.A. 2003)
Catie is Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations for the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.
Tiffany Newhill-Leahy (B.A. 2009)
Tiffany, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program, has been admitted into the musicology Ph.D. program at SUNY-Stonybrook.
Jessica Noonan (B.A. 2006)
Jess has been accepted, with fellowship support, into the M.A. program in Art History at the University of Connecticut, where she will begin studies in the fall of 2006.
Brita Pagels (B.A. 2005)
Brita is the manager of Chateau Gallery in Westmont, Illinois.
Ulka Patel (B.A. 1995)
A year after graduating from Syracuse, Ulka entered law school at the University of Oregon. She currently practices law in the Washington D.C. area.
Nathan Peek (B.A. 1995)
Nathan, who lives in Washington D.C., is employed by the National Gallery of Art.
Edwina Phillips (M.A. 2007)
Upon receiving her MA in art history in May 2007, Edwina served as a summer intern at the St. Louis Museum of Art. She is currently the McDermott Graduate Curatorial Intern in the Department of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Chantal Pinard (B.A. 2005)
Chantal, a graduate of the Music History and Cultures program who specialized in ethnomusicology, has been accepted into the Languages and Cultures of Asia program at the University of Wisconsin.
Maureen Quigley (M.A. 1995)
Maureen received her PhD. from the University of Texas at Austin, with a speciality in medieval art. She is now an assistant professor of art history at the University of St. Louis.
Eric Ramirez-Weaver (M.A. 2002)
Eric completed his Ph.D. in medieval art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in May 2008. He is now an assistant professor in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.
Deborah Winderl Ryan (M.A.1994)
is chief curator of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. She was formerly registrar of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica.
Miriam Said (B.A. 2009)
has an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2009-2010 academic year..
Liam Schaefer (B.A. 2008)
Liam recently became an assistant researcher for Art Resource.
Meredith Schmidt (B.A. 2001)
Meredith will be attending Cornell for her Masters of Regional Planning. Currently she has an internship at the Albany Housing Authority.
Lindsay Schuckart (B.A. 1999)
Lindsay completed her M.A. in Art History at Boston University in 2001 and is now working as the Collections Manager of the private art collection of the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan.
Jeffrey Shurdut (B.A. 1989)
An artist by profession, Jeffrey now resides in New York City.
Lauren Sodano (M.A. 2008)
Lauren is the Collections Manager at Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY.
Darin Stine (M.A. 2009)
has entered the Ph.D. program in art history at the University of Manchester, England.
Wendy Streule (M.A. 1999)
Wendy is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, specializing in seventeenth-century Dutch art.
Christina Tripi (B.A. 2008)
Christina is a galltery assistant at Otto Naumann, Ltd. in New York City.
Colleen Truax (M.A. 2009)
Colleen is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in American art.
Christopher Wayner (B.A. 2006)
Christopher has been accepted, with fellowship support, into the graduate program in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, beginning in fall 2006.
Erick Wilberding (M.A. 1989)
After leaving Syracuse, Erick received a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He now lives in Rome where he teaches courses for American undergraduate students in Italy and continues to conduct research on Nicolas Poussin and his circle.
Helen Jackson Zakin (Ph.D. 1977)
Helen, a member of the American committee of the Corpus Vitrearum, is the Chair of the Art Department at SUNY Oswego.










