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Department of Archaeology and Art History
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Alumni/Departmental News 2007 The mailed-out "newsletter thing" has not worked well, since the alumni office has a difficult time keeping track of where people are. This is not too surprising, since people tend to be more mobile from ages 20-40 than at any point in their lives. As I hear from our alumni, I will try to do a better job of putting alumni news up. Probably the biggest change here, for those of you who haven't been back for awhile, is that we are now ensconced on the 4th floor of Olmsted Hall, with somewhat better and more spacious digs than what we had on the 3rd floor. If I get ambitious, I will put up some pictures. Occasionally I get (flippant) questions such as "do you still wear hoodies all the time?" Well, yes. You can have my hoodies when you pry them off my cold dead body! Also, as my "hair coverage" decreases, the hood part becomes increasingly necessary in cold weather. Below: view from the fourth floor of Olmsted as the William Ridgeway Center is being constructed. Expected completion date is 1/2009.
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12/2007 Rob Wanner (2002) has a nice treatment of the Battle of Kadesh at Military History Online He has an MA from Tufts University and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Leicester. Robin (Gonnam) Goodman (2004) finished her MA in Art History at Penn State in 2006. She is married to fellow department alum Jack Goodman (2004), who is doing graduate work in Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Robin is working as a collections intern at the Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, Michigan and is planning to begin work on a Ph.D. in Art History next year. She sends word that Katie Nelson (2003) is the collections manager at the same museum. Rachel (Herzberg) Greenlee (2003) is an archaeologist working for the Indiana Department of Transportation's environmental division in Indianapolis. Nathan Elkins (2002) has an article "Why
coins matter: Hugh Corley (1998) is now Archaeological Information Systems Manager at English Heritage in Portsmouth, England. Hillary Conley (2007) is settling into graduate studies at Florida State and sends greetings. Amanda Douglas (2006) is working for the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (ITARP) as a lab tech. She recently became a mom: Robert Micheal Douglas was born earlier this summer. Julie Cluster (2007) finished a summer internship at the British Museum. Josh Zars (2006--Arch & Chem) is working as a chemist for Valley Research in South Bend, IN and investigating graduate work in archaeology. Nathan Elkins (2002) has an article out on Flavian coinage: "The Flavian Colosseum Sestertii: Currency or Largess?," The Numismatic Chronicle 166 (2006) pp. 211-221. Jodi Pinkley (2001) completed an MA in Classics at Florida State and now teaches Latin at The John Cooper School in The Midlands, Texas Stephanie Blue (2004) has finished her MA in art history at the Univ. of Illinois and will be doing a full-year internship at the National Gallery in Washington DC next year. Andrew Reinhard (1994) is now the eLearning and IT Coordinator for Bolchazy-Carducci, a well-known publisher of Classics texts. He and his wife, Jayni, have a 3-1/2 year old daughter, Rhiannon. Andrew received an MA from the University of Missouri-Columbia after his graduation from UE. Erik Risser (1995) is assistant conservator of antiquities at the Getty Museum in Malibu, California. Hannah Braxton (2006) is working for HRA Gray & Pape, LLC as a field technician. She has been doing Phase I work for several pipeline projects in Texas. Rachel Debold (2004) works for the St. Louis Science Center Museum, after spending a year working for the Missouri Department of Transportation's contract archaeology unit. Alexis Christensen (1994) is a visiting assistant professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. Susan Miller is working on a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool in the U.K. Ilenia Colon-Mendoza (1998) is an assistant professor of art history at IUPUI in Indianapolis. She and her husband, Adam, moved there last fall. I hear from Ilenia that Jaime Grant (1998) is completing her Ph.D. at U.Conn. I noticed an abstract for a recent paper she gave last fall at the Geological Society of America, "HISTORIC PLANFORM DYNAMICS OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER: IMPLICATIONS FOR ALLUVIAL GEOARCHAEOLOGY." Theo Kopestonsky (2000) was a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens during 2005-2006. She is an associate member this year, working on her Ph.D. at the University of Buffalo. A. J. Iovanna (2000) finished an M.S. in Geoscience from Western Kentucky University in November of 2004. Since then he as worked an analyst for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In Feb. 2006, he married UE alumna Jessica Bakker. Samantha Simmons (2003) finished her MA in French at NYU in 2006. Kristen Hostetler (2000) finished an MA at Florida State and is now teaching at the Spartanburg Day School in South Carolina. Sara (Rowe) Hignite (1999) is registrar of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. Kristen Kimberling (1999) works for the The Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. Jodi Straus (1998) came back to UE and received an Masters degree in Health Services Administration in 2003. She is the Activities Director at the HealthSouth Transitional Rehab Unit in Evansville. She has also been an alumni representative at the "Major Affair" event sponsored by Career Services here. Andrew McFeaters (2006) is working on an MA in historic archaeology at the University of Nebraska. He is especially interested in battlefield sites. Patrick Haynes (2004) has been working as a field tech for the Cumberland Research Group. He is planning to go to graduate school with the intention of eventually working in the area of historic preservation and the study of vernacular architecture. Haley Tallman (2004) is a program assistant at Angel Mounds; I see her frequently since I'm a volunteer in the gift shop. She is responsible for much of the educational programming at Angel Mounds. Don Miller (1997) is working on a Ph.D. at Newcastle University in the U.K. He holds an MA from the University of Arizona. Adam Howard (1997) is settled in Indianapolis; he and his wife have three kids. He is a manager for the Kroger Company. I would give you the kids' names, but I accidentally deleted the e-mail! I saw a number of graduates and old faculty colleagues at the annual AIA meeting a week ago: Dr. Steve Tuck is now at the University of Miami-Ohio, where he received tenure last year. Ever energetic, he read two papers at the convention, one for the AIA and another for the APA. Dr. Tony Tuck is now at UMass-Amherst, and enjoying his new position. He is still returning to Murlo every summer as its co-director. Dr. Shirley Schwarz is retired and living in Washington, DC. The department awards an annual prize for the best research paper on an art historical topic in her honor. Melissa Eaby (1996) read a paper on her research into Early Iron Age burial practices on Crete. She is scheduled to defend her dissertation at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this spring. Nathan Elkins (2002) had a paper in the Roman coin session and the paper that he delivered last year at the AIA convention was awarded the runner-up prize for the best paper by a graduate student; it was entitled "The Function and Distribution of the Flavian Colosseum Sestertii: Currency or Largess?" He is working on a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. I also saw Deb Trusty (2005), now finishing an MA at Florida State and Chris Parr (2005), now working on a MA at the University of Arizona. Both are doing well and enjoying their graduate studies.
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