ELIZABETH PETERSEN 205 Borland Building University Park, PA 16802 eap204@psu.edu EDUCATION Doctoral Candidate, University Park, PA PhD, History of Art Dissertation: Audience and Architecture in Donatello s Florentine Reliefs Committee: Sherry Roush, Elizabeth Smith, Robin Thomas, Daniel Zolli 2012 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN MA, History of Art Master s Thesis: Setting the Stage: On the Order of Architecture in the Early Tuscan Reliefs of Donatello Committee: Robert Randolf Coleman, Danielle Joyner, Charles Rosenberg 2010 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA Department of Art & Art History, May 2010 Capstone Thesis: The Color Purple and its History of Appropriation Advisor: Felicia Else Summa cum laude, Departmental Honors, Phi Beta Kappa 2008 Syracuse University in Florence, Florence, Italy Study Abroad TEACHING Gettysburg College 2018-2019 Adjunct Instructor, Western Art Survey 2016-2018 Instructor, Art History Foreign Study, Summer Study Abroad Program in Todi, Italy Fall 2016 Spring 2016 Fall 2015 Fall 2014 Co-Instructor with Brian Curran, Around and About Michelangelo (with graduate enrollment) Guest Lecturer/Teaching Assistant, Renaissance to Modern Architecture Guest Lecturer/Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Renaissance Art History Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Renaissance Art History E. Petersen, CV, pg. 1/5
Spring 2014 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Guest Lecturer/Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Art History Section Instructor, Ancient to Medieval Art Section Instructor, Renaissance to Modern Art Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Art History CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE 1/2012 The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame A Grand Flourish: Drawings of Architectural Ornament from the Permanent Collection 11/2009 Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College Ancient Ritual Objects of China 9/2009 Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College Frederic Remington: Sculpture from the Gettysburg College Collection CATALOUGE ENTRIES 2017 Recent Acquisitions, 2007-2017: Selections from the Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection, catalogue essay William Hogarth s A Rake s Progress, plate 6 The Gaming House (p. 20) 2012 Calendar of Events: The Snite Museum of Art, object entry Swan Service Charger (p. 17) PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE PAPERS: 3/2018 Framing Quattrocento Relief in the Work of Donatello, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA 3/2017 Donatello Architetto: The Marble Feast of Herod, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 4/2016 Raising the Roof: Donatello s Ascension of Saint John, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA 3/2016 Donatello Architetto: the San Lorenzo Pulpits, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Boston, MA E. Petersen, CV, pg. 2/5
3/2016 The Architecture of Civic Virtue in Donatello s Saint George and the Dragon Relief, Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 11/2015 Donatello Architetto: The Architecture of Civic Virtue in Donatello s Saint George and the Dragon Relief, Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University Winner INVITED LECTURES: 9/2017 William Hogarth s A Rake s Porgress, Gallery Talk with Art History Students and Alumni, Gettysburg College 3/2015 Saint George and the Dragon: Recent Research from Donatello Architetto: On the Order of Architecture in the Work of Donatello, Art and Art History Colloquium: Recent Research in Italian Renaissance Art History, Gettysburg College 3/2013 Setting the Stage: On the Order of Architecture in the Early Tuscan Reliefs of Donatello, Alum Lecture Series, Department of Art & Art History, Gettysburg College CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED 3/2018 New Research in Italian Quattrocento Sculpture I & II co-organized with Martha Dunkelman, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2018 Graduate Student Resident, Humanities Institute 2017 Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Art History Conference Travel Grant RSA, New Orleans, LA 2016 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship Nominee Creative Achievement Award, College of Arts and Architecture National Committee for the History of Art Conference Grant Comité international d histoire de l art Beijing Conference Travel Grant Eighth Quadrennial in Italian Renaissance Sculpture Research Grant Florence, Italy E. Petersen, CV, pg. 3/5
Conference Travel Grant RSA annual conference, Chicago, IL Research Grant Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Francis E. Hyslop Memorial Research Grant Florence, Italy 2015 Conference Travel Grant SAH, Pasadena, CA Research Grant The Huntington Library and The Getty Research Institute Conference Travel Grant RSA, Boston, MA Conference Travel Grant Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 2010-2012 Fellowship Recipient, University of Notre Dame 2010 Most Outstanding Student in Art History, Gettysburg College 2006-2010 Presidential Scholar, Gettysburg College RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014-2016 Research Assistant, Brian Curran, 2012-2013 Graduate Assistant, Visual Resource Center, 2011-2012 Higgins Intern, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame 2009-2010 Intern, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College Fall 2008 Intern, Museo dell Opera del Duomo, Florence Summer 2008 Intern, Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, Stony Brook, NY DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2016-2017 Search Committee Member, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Early Modern Art, Department of Art History, E. Petersen, CV, pg. 4/5
2013 Secretary, Graduate Student Association for Visual Culture, The Pennsylvania State University PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Italian Art Society Renaissance Society of America Western Association of Women s Historians RESEARCH LANGUAGES Italian (speaking/reading/writing) French, German (reading) E. Petersen, CV, pg. 5/5