Student and Faculty Travels, Exhibitions, Presentations, and Publications
Spring 2026
Five Art History students presented their research in the 26th annual FSU Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 1: Gabriela Gutierrez and Eros Suarez Dorta (directed by Kyleelise Holmes Thomas) presented “Grupo Puré: Cuban art In and Outside Cuba 1986-2026;” Julia DeBardeleben (directed by Erika Loic) presented “Man-Eating Manticores in Manuscripts: The Spread of Antisemitic Iconography in Relation to Jewish Expulsions;” Leasah Jean-Francois (directed by Lynn Jones) presented “The Face of Christ: Early Christian Iconography on Byzantine Coins;” and Sofia Nuonno (directed by Stephanie Leitch) presented “Illustrating Continuity: Narrative and Movement in Early Modern European Print.”
Doctoral students Isabel Brady and Lydia McCollum attended the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, hosted by the Five Colleges Consortium, March 19th–21st, 2026. Isabel Brady presented on her dissertation topic with the paper, “Who Hope in Talamone: City, Sea, and Countryside in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Good Government.” Lydia McCollum presented on her dissertation topic with the paper, “Maiden, Mother, Murderer: Medea as Monster in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Both Isabel and Lydia also presented at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May.
After graduating this spring, MA student Madison Appleton is beginning a new position as a Museum Technician at the National Park Service’s Blue Ridge Parkway (BLRI) in Asheville, NC. In this role she will work on backlog cataloging of BLRI’s herbarium and natural history collections. Madison has worked as a Collections Intern at the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) for the past year and a half. During her time at SEAC she has assisted with data migration, archaeological artifact analysis, cataloging, and exhibit development at Andersonville National Historic Site.
In June 2026, Associate Professor Tenley Bick will attend the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference, to be held in Sassari, Sardinia (Italy). She will present her paper, “‘Visualizzare una rappresentazione di soggetti neri all’interno del territorio italiano’ (To Visualize a Representation of Black Subjects in Italian Territory): On Italian Landscape, Race, and Environmental Vision in the Work of Silvia Rosi.” Dr. Bick is also teaching a new specialty course this summer in FSU’s Florence Program, on “Modern and Contemporary Italian Art in Florence,” along with a Florence edition of ARH 2000.
This spring, doctoral student Olivia Turner presented two conference papers: “From Seville’s Plague to Madrid’s Court: Luisa Roldán’s Marian Sculptures of Maternal Resilience” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in San Francisco, and “Inherited Spaces, Shared Devotions: Women Artists and Transatlantic Networks in Early Modern Iberia” at the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies conference in Toronto. Olivia also received a generous fellowship to participate in the 2026 CIHS (Center for Iberian Historical Studies)/ CSA (Center for Spain in America) Madrid Research Workshop in Archives, Libraries, and Art Collections, which will take place in Madrid in June 2026.
