Melinda W. SchlittProfessor of Art History, William W. Edel Professor of Humanities (1990).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 227schlitt@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1245
Barbara A. DidukCharles A. Dana Professor of Art (1980).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 202(717) 245-1656 | diduk@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., College of William and Mary, 1973; M.F.A., University of Minnesota, 1978.Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching,1999-2000.Professor Diduk is an artist who exhibits nationally; her work focuses on quasi-functional/sculptural ceramics developed from traditional vessel forms and modernist sculptural issues. She teaches courses in ceramics, three-dimensional design, and photography.
Melinda W. SchlittProfessor of Art History, William W. Edel Professor of Humanities (1990).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 227(717) 245-1245 | schlitt@dickinson.edu B.A., State University of New York at Purchase, 1981; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1983; Ph.D., 1991.Professor Schlitt teaches courses in art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Mannerism, and ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture. Her current research focuses on 16th-century Italian painting. She has published several articles on Francesco Salviati, Giorgio Vasari, and Michelangelo, and recently co-edited an important collection of new essays, "Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History," (Univ. of Rochester Press, 2001). Prof. Schlitt is currently completing a monograph on Francesco Salviati, an annotated edition of a 16th-century Florentine manuscript, and is editing a collection of essays in Renaissance and Baroque art.
Ward L. DavennyProfessor of Art (1992).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 325(717) 245-1305 | davenny@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, 1977; M.F.A., Yale University, 1982.Professor Davenny's works, primarily prints and drawings based on the landscape, are exhibited nationally.
Crispin Sartwell (on leave Fall 2012) Associate Professor of Art and Art History (2004).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 203(717) 245-1474 | sartwelc@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., University of Maryland, 1980; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1985; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1989.Author of "Political Aesthetics" (Cornell University Press, 2010), "Six Names of Beauty" (Routledge 2004), and many other books. Interests include hip hop and other popular musics, anarchist political theory, epistemology, Asian philosophy.
Anthony CervinoAssociate Professor of Studio Art (2006).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 326(717) 245-1714 | cervinoa@dickinson.edu B.F.A., University of North Carolina, 1997; M.F.A., Towson University, 2003.Mostly Harmless
Elizabeth LeeAssistant Professor of Art History (2006).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 225(717) 245-1259 | leee@dickinson.edu B.A., Wake Forest University, 1990; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1993; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002.Professor Lee teaches courses in modern, contemporary and American art as well as in art theory, art historical methods and the representation of gender and sexuality. Her current research explores the connections between turn-of-the-century American art and the history of the body, medicine and health. Her essay, "Therapeutic Beauty: Abbott Thayer, Antimodernism and the Fear of Disease," has appeared in the Smithsonian American Art journal and the medical humanities journal Hektoen International. She is working on a book-length project that examines how matters of health and illness inform artistic practice among Gilded-Age artists and collectors. She has recently received funding for this research from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, the Wolfsonian Institute and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she is a 2010-2011 Senior Fellow.
Todd ArsenaultAssistant Professor of Art (2007).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 328(717) 254-8414 | arsenaut@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., Dickinson College, 1999; M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 2003.Professor Arsenault works primarily with painting,drawing and digital media. One of his main interests is the merger of digital technology with traditional studio practices. His work has been shown throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has had solo exhibitions in New York and Spain and is represented by Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York City, and Galeria Fucares in Madrid, Spain.
Phillip J. EarenfightDirector of the Trout Gallery, Associate Professor of Art and Art History (2002).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 102B(717) 245-1709 | earenfip@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Washington, 1985; M.A., Rutgers University, 1990; Ph.D., 1999.He specializes in the art, architecture, and urban planning of late medieval Italy. He is currently working on a study of the Misericordia confraternity and its place on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence during the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Other projects include books and articles on the Carlisle Indian School, Richard Henry Pratt, and the drawings and photographs of the Plains Indians who held captive at Ft. Marion (St. Augustine, Florida: 1875-1877). Recently he completed a study on the works of contemporary painter Joyce Kozloff.
Christofilis MaggidisAssociate Professor of Archaeology; Christopher Roberts Chair in Archaeology (2001).Archaeology (717) 245-1014 | maggidic@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., University of Athens, 1988; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994.Maggidis is currently Director of Glas, Field Director and Assistant to the Director of Mycenae, with nearly three decades of field experience at major archaeological sites, including Mycenae, Glas, Crete (Archanes, Idaion Cave), and Akrotiri (Thera). Since receiving his post-doctorate from Brown University and a research fellowship from Harvard, his research and teaching interests focus primarily on Minoan and Mycenaean art and archaeology, but they also include topics in Greek sculpture and architecture. Maggidis is the author of many articles, international conference papers, and three forthcoming books.
Andrew S. BaleAdjunct Faculty in Art and Art HistoryWeiss Center for the Arts Room 336(717) 254-8983 | balea@dickinson.edu B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design, 1994; M.F.A., University of Delaware, 2005.
Lisa K. DorrillAdjunct Faculty in Art and Art HistoryWeiss Center for the Arts Room 224(717) 245-1474 | dorrilll@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Virginia, 1988; M.A., Northwestern University, 1989; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1998.
Jennifer KnieschVisual Resources LibrarianWeiss Center for the Arts Room 223(717) 245-1374 | knieschj@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., State University of New York at Purchase College, 2001; M.A., 2007; M.L.I.S., University of British Columbia, 2009.
James KrabielStudio Techniciankrabielj@dickinson.edu
Brooke WileyStudio TechnicianWeiss Center for the Arts Room W338(717) 245-1689 | wiley@dickinson.edu