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Skidmore College
Filene Building
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Katherine Hauser
Telephone: (518) 580-5054
Office: 118A
Office Hours Spring 2013
Mondays: 10:00-12:00 pm and Fridays: 9:00-10:00 am, by appointment.
See Prof. Hauser for: signature on study abroad forms, major/minor forms, and AP credit.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Terri Brandt
Office: 113
S. MICHAEL EIGEN ’87 PRIZE IN ART HISTORY
Established by Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Eigen by the College on the recommendation of the Department of Art History to an outstanding Art History Major.
Recipients:
2013 Hilary Knecht
2012 Bryn Schockmel
2011 Hillary Reder
2010 Frances Gubler
2009 Heather Gilchrist
2008 Rebecca Perry, Meredith Mowder
2007 Sarah Mintz
2006 Caitline Hinz
2005 Diane Woodin
2004 Rebecca Pristoop
2003 Stephanie Green
2002 Sarah Rubin
2001 Anna Piperato
2000 Hillary Shugrue
1999 Abigail Guay
1998 Elizabeth Clemen
1997 Tala Klinck
1996 Jonathan Kauffman
WHITMAN FAMILY PRIZE IN ART HISTORY
Awarded by the Department of Art History to a student who completes an outstanding project in an art history course.
2013: Kathryn Moynihan
"An Introductory Unit to Lakota Beadwork: Usage,
Importance, and Changing Perceptions Over the Past
Two Hundred Years"
2012 Hannah Kagan-Moore
"Portrait of the King: Gabrielle d'Estrees and One of Her
Sisters, the Duchesse d'Villars, in the Bath as Self-
Fashioning at Sixteenth-Century Fontainebleu"
2011 David Serotte
"Sugarcoated Subversion: Drag and Disindentification in
Kalup Linzy's Lollypop"
"Josef Alber's Photographs: A Contradictory
Representation of Bauhaus Architectural Ideals"
2009 Emily Schenkein
De Humani Corporis Farbica"
2008 Emily Jones
"The Other Side of the Tracks: Twentieth-Century
Urban Planning and Pittsburgh's North Side"
2007 Laura Beshears
"The Politics of Pain: Meanings of Masochism in
Contemporary Chinese Art"
2005 Christina Bruno
"Appease, Defeat, Adore: Interpreting Sanchi Stupa 2"
2004 no award
2003 Molly Porter
"Images of a Queen: The Adaptive Iconography of
Elizabeth 1"
2002 Elisabeth Manzi
"Ernest Fenollosa and Arthur Wesley Dow: Orientialists
Ahead of Their Time"
2001 Ruth Battaglia
"Transforming Mariana: John Everett Millais, Tennyson,
and the Victorian Woman"
2000 Laura Burns
1999 Ben Affleck
1998 Lauren Knopf
"My Sole Negation"
1997 Emily Greenwood
1996 Sarah Boyd
