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Retired & Emeritus Faculty

Jerry Draper

Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus

Dean Emeritus Dr. Jerry L. Draper (BA, Art History, Yale University; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Professor Emeritus, Art History, Florida State University) was founding Dean of the College of Fine Arts (then School of Visual Arts, Theatre, and Dance), serving from 1973-2002.

 

 

 

 

Jack FreibergJack Freiberg

Professor Emeritus, Italian Renaissance Art
freiberg@fsu.edu

Dr. Jack Freiberg (PhD, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts) retired in August, 2021, after serving for twenty-nine years as a faculty member in the Department of Art History and fifteen years (2003–2018) as associate dean of the College of Fine Arts. His research and publications focus on the art and architecture of Renaissance Rome. He has been awarded fellowships by the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the American Academy in Rome, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. His most recent book, Bramante’s Tempietto, The Roman Renaissance and the Spanish Crown, was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press. Read more about Jack Freiberg.

 

Paula GersonPaula Gerson

Professor Emerita, Medieval Art
pgerson@fsu.edu

Paula Gerson (PhD, Columbia University) served as chair of the FSU Department of Art History from 1996 to 2006. She also held appointments at Washington University, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, UNC, and Rutgers, and was the executive manager of the International Center of Medieval Art at the Cloisters in New York City. In addition to her scholarship in Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, Dr. Gerson is an avid photographer who has exhibited work in solo and group shows. She retired in the spring of 2013, at which time she was honored with the title of Professor Emerita. In 2014 an all-day symposium in honor of Professor Gerson was held at Columbia University, supported by the Columbia Department of Art History and Archaeology; the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University; Young Harris College; and Prof. Gerson’s students, friends and colleagues.

 

Roald Nasgaard

Professor Emeritus, Contemporary Art & Abstraction

Roald Nasgaard (PhD, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts) was Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art Department at Florida State University from 1995 to 2006. His teaching career began at the University of Guelph in 1971. In the years between, before returning to academia, he had a long and distinguished museum career. From 1975 to 1978 he served as Curator of Contemporary Art and then, until 1993, as Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Among the many exhibition catalogues he authored are Yves Gaucher: A Fifteen-Year Perspective (1979); The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940 (1984); Gerhard Richter: Paintings (1988); and Pleasures of Sight and States of Being: Radical Abstract Painting Since 1990 (2001). He has held several Canada Council fellowships and grants as well as a Research Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives and a Cornerstone (AHPEG) Grant. He won an OAAG Curatorial Writing Award in 1991 for his essay in Individualités: 14 Contemporary Artists from France. His Abstract Painting in Canada: A History was published in August 2007. His exhibition, The Urge to Abstraction, opened on September 15, 2007 at the Varley Art Gallery, Unionville Ont. His exhibition project for the Varley Art Gallery, Bourduas and the Automatistes, showed at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo in summer 2009.

Patricia RosePatricia Rose

Professor Emerita, Northern Renaissance Art

Patricia Rose (PhD, Columbia University) retired in 2002 after teaching art history at Florida State University for 30 years and serving as chairman of the art history department for 17 of those years. During her time at FSU, she brought together an outstanding faculty, handled the demands of her position with unwavering grace, patience and humor, and treated generations of students with dedication and respect. The faculty, students and staff of the department and of the College showed their affection for Dr. Rose with a retirement celebration in April, 2002, and she was named Professor Emerita. She also made a generous donation to the department that year of her extensive collection of art books, which became the foundation of the Patricia Rose Library – now the Art & Design Library. In retirement, Pat enjoyed travel and FSU basketball, visiting with her many friends and assisting neighbors in her community, and spending as much time as possible playing with her grand-niece and -nephews. She passed away on August 27, 2020. Read more about Pat Rose.

 

Lauren WeingardenLauren Weingarden

Professor Emerita, 19th and 20th Century Art and Word & Image Studies

Dr. Lauren S. Weingarden (PhD, University of Chicago) was a Professor of Art History at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, from 1983–2020. She became Professor Emerita in 2021. Weingarden specializes in modern and contemporary art, architecture, critical theory, and word-and-image studies.  She is the author of several books and articles on the late nineteenth-century American architect Louis H. Sullivan. She has published and presented extensively in the United States and internationally. Her single-authored books include Louis H. Sullivan: The Banks (MIT Press, 1987), Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament (Wasmuth and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1990), and Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th–Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture (Ashgate, 2009).  Read more about Lauren Weingarden.

 

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