Graduate Alumni

Today our Art History and Archaeology program comprises about eighty majors and twenty graduate students. Our PhD program is one of the oldest in the midwest, and we have a long record of placing our MA and PhD students in academic and museum positions, as well as in non-profit and gallery positions. Recent graduates have accepted positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, University of Oklahoma, New York University, Covenant College, Wright State University, Northern Arizona University, Gettysburg College, Bucknell University, University of Illinois at Springfield, Ithaca College, Saint Louis Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum and Southern Methodist University, among others.

Department Alumna Nicole Myers Named Chief Curatorial and Research Officer at the Dallas Museum of Art

Dr. Myers graduated with a BA from the Department in 1999.

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Where are they now?

PhD Alumni

2022

Tola Porter, Museum Educator for Academic and Public Programs at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

2021

Kirsten Marples, Curatorial Associate, Menil Drawing Institute
Lindsay Sheedy, Assistant Director, National and International Scholarships Office, Purdue University
Orin Zahra, Associate Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts

2020
Amanda Beresford, Independent Art Historian, France
Max Valsamas, Curatorial Assistant, European Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University

2019
Kate Harnish, Senior Tutor, Writing Center, Washington University in St. Louis 
Mia Laufer, Associate Curator, Des Moines Art Center

2018
Stephanie Kaplan, Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design
Jennifer Padgett, Associate Curator and Acting Windgate Curator of Craft, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Heather Read, Provenance Research Consultant

2017
James Anno, Associate Curator of European Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston

2015
Clara Barnhart, Lecturer, Smith College
Bryna Campbell, Co-owner of Art Nature Place in Portland, Oregon
Erin Sutherland, Adjunct Instructor, Meramec Community College

2014
Jodi Kovach, Director of Academic Programs, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College 
Theresa Huntsman, Associate Director, Special Stewardship, Office of Development, Yale University
Matthew Bailey, Director of Windgate Gallery and Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith

2013
Emily Burns, Associate Professor of Art History, Auburn University
Sarah McGavran, Editor, National Portrait Gallery
Anna Warbelow, Director of Equity and Inclusion, Whitfield School
Elissa Weichbrocht, Associate Professor of Art History, Covenant College 

2011
Ling-Yu Hung [deceased 2018], former Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University-Bloomington

2009
Carrie Hillard, Associate Professor, Wright State University
Noelle Paulson, Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zurich, Switzerland 

2008
Mayu Fujikawa, Senior Assistant Professor, Meiji University

 

 

MA Alumni

2021
Emily Bryan, Upper School History Teacher, The Fulton School at St. Albans
Jenny Wu, Fellow, Tulsa Artists Fellowship

2020
Hannah Wier, Research Assistant in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum; and Digital Art History Lab Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis
Hua Zhao

2019
Victoria Barry, Senior Editorial Associate, University of Chicago Press
Holly Chen, Collections Assistant/Department Manager, East Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2016
Lindsay Sheedy, Assistant Director, National and International Scholarships Office, Purdue University
Margaret Sherer, Research and Curatorial Associate, Barrett Barrera Projects

2014
Sarah Griesbach, journalist, co-founder of All the Art, arts journal in St. Louis

2013
Elizabeth Wolfson, Ph.D. in Classical Art, University of Missouri-Columbia
James Gardner, Library Associate, Kranzberg Art and Architecture Library, Washington University 
Winnie Tsang, Teaching as adjunct instructor at several colleges in upstate New York

2012
Emily Hanson, Head of Study Abroad Cortona Program, University of Georgia
Aliya Reich, Program Manager for Conferences and Events - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Ashley Eckhardt, a Ph.D. student in Classical Art and Archaeology, Emory University

2011
Eric Hupe, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
Maria Fierro, Cultural Programs Officer at the French Cultural Center in Boston, MA
Julia Reardon, Law School graduate, University of Michigan 

2010
Samantha Wilson, English Faculty and Soccer Coach, Saint Mark’s School, Boston, MA

2008
Emilie Boone, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University