Page 1 of 12 NEWSLETTER | Issue 38 Summer 2018 Department News Following a growing trend in our field, moving forward we will be known as the Department of Visual Studies and Art History! This name change recognizes the shifts that have taken place in the study of visual artifacts, which has moved away from a “canonical” approach to one that is much broader. The department schedules numerous events throughout the year to support current students and to reach out to our alumni. We also keep in regular contact with our alumni through a dedicated Facebook group, our Annual Newsletter, and a dense network of personal relationships. In addition to the field trips we planned as a part of our regular curriculum, the department organized the following events and activities during the 2017-18 academic year: • November 7, 2017 The Art History Department co- sponsored a calligraphy demonstration with the Muslim Students Association. This was held in conjunction with Professor Saleeby-Mulligan’s course on Islamic Art. • November 29, 2017 The Arthur M. Berger Lecture, presented by Dr. Virginia-Lee Webb, a consultant and expert on Oceanic and African art and photography who was formerly Research Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1975 – 2009), drew an enthusiastic audience. Her talk, titled “Envisioning a New Approach: New York Museums of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas,” explored the evolution of the display of indigenous arts over the course of the 20th century – away from an “ethnographic” focus to one that includes the work of artists from these great non-European civilizations in the canon of art history.
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NEWSLETTER | Issue 38 Summer 2018
Department News
Following a growing trend in our field,
moving forward we will be known as the
Department of Visual Studies and Art
History! This name change recognizes
the shifts that have taken place in the
study of visual artifacts, which has
moved away from a “canonical”
approach to one that is much broader.
The department schedules numerous events throughout the
year to support current students and to reach out to our
alumni. We also keep in regular contact with our alumni
through a dedicated Facebook group, our Annual Newsletter,
and a dense network of personal relationships.
In addition to the field trips we planned as a part of our regular
curriculum, the department organized the following events
and activities during the 2017-18 academic year:
• November 7, 2017 The Art History Department co-
sponsored a calligraphy demonstration with the Muslim
Students Association. This was held in conjunction with
Professor Saleeby-Mulligan’s course on Islamic Art.
• November 29, 2017 The Arthur M. Berger Lecture,
presented by Dr. Virginia-Lee Webb, a consultant and
expert on Oceanic and African art and photography who
was formerly Research Curator in the Department of the
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1975 – 2009), drew an
enthusiastic audience. Her talk, titled “Envisioning a New
Approach: New York Museums of the Arts of Africa, the
Pacific and the Americas,” explored the evolution of the
display of indigenous arts over the course of the 20th
century – away from an “ethnographic” focus to one that
includes the work of artists from these great non-European
civilizations in the canon of art history.
VISUAL STUDIES & ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER | Issue 38 Summer 2018
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• December 8, 2017 The Art History Department held its
Holiday Party at Professor Rafanelli’s home; it was
attended by students, current and former faculty, and
alumnae (see photos below: Gina Viggiano ‘11 and Katie
Johnson ‘10; Morgan Thomas ‘14 and Ali Hoyt ‘14).
• April 11, 2018 An Open House for students interested in
our proposed 2019 Rome Trip was well attended, and we
are hoping we will have ample enrollments for the study
tour to take place.
• April 13, 2018 The Spring Berger Field trip took faculty
and students to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where
tours were led by Professors Cifarelli, Rafanelli, Hannum
and Saleeby-Mulligan (see photos below).
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• April 17, 2018 Manhattanville College hosted Designing
Memory, an event exploring the relationship between
monuments and memory; while not a departmental event,
it was coordinated by Professor Megan Cifarelli, included
a film and presentation by Professor Lisa Rafanelli, an
exhibit by alumna Michelle Pings-Gaines ‘12, and other
members of the department devoted considerable time
and energy to ensuring the quality of this event (see
photos below).
• May 4, 2018 The Annual Spring Barbecue at Professor
Hannum’s home took place on a lovely spring day (see
photo).
• May 19, 2018 Professor Saleeby-Mulligan hosted a
“champagne toast” for our graduates and their families in
the Art History office prior to Commencement (see photo
below of Olivia Nairy and her family at the event).
VISUAL STUDIES & ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER | Issue 38 Summer 2018
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FACULTY NEWS Professor Megan Cifarelli
Professor Megan Cifarelli has had a busy year. She
completed the final year of her term as department chair,
chaired the Committee on Committees, and served as Chief
Curator of the Designing Memory event on April 17. She is
Incoming Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences faculty.
Beyond Manhattanville, she serves as Field Editor for reviews
of books on ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near
Eastern art and architecture for the College Art Association’s
CAAreviews.org. She is National Lecturer for the
Archaeological Institute of America, chaired the
Corresponding Members Committee, Archaeological Institute
of America (through 2018), and was appointed to the program
committee for the annual meetings of the Archaeological
Institute of America.
Articles or chapters by Professor Cifarelli recently published
and in press (should be published before the end of 2018):
• “Copper Alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran: A case study in
hybridization and heteroglossia in material culture,” (with
Roberto Dan and Manuel Castelluccia), Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 27 (June 2018).
• “Entangled Relations over Geographical and Gendered
Space: Multi-Component Personal Ornaments at
Hasanlu,” in Proceedings of the Workshop Exhibiting an
Imaginative Materiality, Showing a Genealogical Nature:
the composite Artefacts in the Ancient Near East, edited
by Silvana di Paolo. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
• “Hasanlu, the southern Caucasus, and early Urartu,”
invited contribution to a Festschrift for Mirjo Salvini, edited
by Pavel Avetisyan, Roberto Dan and Yervand Grekyan
(Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018), in press.
• "A Decorated Bronze Belt from Gargul, Iran,” (with Kazem
Mollazadeh and Ali Binandeh), (accepted for publication in
Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies).
• “East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of
Assyrianization,” in Assyrian Peripheries, edited by
Virginia Herrmann and Craig Tyson (Boulder: University
Press of Colorado, 2018), in press.
• “Gendered Artifacts and Costly Signaling Theory at
Hasanlu, Iran,” in Studying Gender in the Ancient Near
East, edited by Agnès Garcia Ventura and Saana Svärd
(Lake Winona, IL: Eisenbrauns, 2018), in press.
Conference presentations and invited lectures this year
include:
• “The Hasanlu Decorated Belts in Context,” (with Roberto
Dan), Section: Images in Context, (ICAANE) International
Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (April 3-7, 2018).
• “Again with the Hasanlu Lion Pins,” Symposium Outward
Appearance vs. Inward Significance: Addressing Identities
through Attire in the Ancient World, The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago (March 1-2, 2018).
• “Lion-pins from Hasanlu, Iran: Unusual artifacts in a
unique archaeological context,” in the session Bodies,
Death and Adornment at the Annual Meetings of the
Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA (January
3-8, 2018).
• “Hasanlu and Urartu,” Southern Caucasus Colloquium,
Columbia University Department of Anthropology
(December 9, 2017).
• “Sex, Gender, and Identity in Antiquity,” Staten Island
Archaeology Society, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
(January 28, 2018).
Professor Cifarelli has also been asked to be the keynote
speaker at an international workshop on gender in the ancient
near east, which will take place in April 2019 at the University
of Ghent, Belgium.
Finally, she is engaged in the following ongoing projects:
Article: “Again with the Hasanlu Lion Pins,” in Outward
Appearance vs. Inward Significance: Addressing Identities
through Attire in the Ancient World, edited by Aleksandra
Hallman, Oriental Institute Symposia 14 The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago (forthcoming 2019).
Article: “Dress and Other Genders at Hasanlu, Iran,” in
Fashioned Selves: Approaches to Dress in Antiquity, edited
by Megan Cifarelli (Oxford: Oxbow Books, under contract for
2019 production).
VISUAL STUDIES & ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER | Issue 38 Summer 2018
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Professor Gillian Greenhill Hannum
Professor Gillian Greenhill Hannum took over as department
chair on July 1, 2018. She, too, has had a busy year, serving
as Director of the Atlas ePortfolio Program, Secretary of the
Faculty Compensation Committee, co-advisor to the
Manhattanville chapter of the National Society of Leadership
and Success, and President of the Manhattanville Faculty
Alliance. She was a First-Year Program Instructor and co-
taught the Castle Scholars Capstone (Fall and Spring) with
Lauren Ziarko, Special Collections Librarian and College
Archivist. She also sat on an Orientation sub-committee, the
Retention Committee, and the Center for Inclusion Advisory
Board. In broader service to the discipline, she judged
photographic competitions at Westchester Photographic
Society, Westchester Color Camera Club, and Stamford
Photography Club. She also continues to serve as Vice
President and newsletter editor for The Print Club of New
York (an art collecting organization).
Professor Hannum’s publications this year include:
• (with Alison Carson and Christine Dehne) “Rising from the
Ashes: Blazing a New Trail for the Manhattanville Portfolio
Tradition,” in Bret Eynon and Laura Gambino (eds.)
Catalyst in Action (Stylus Publishing, forthcoming Fall
2018).
• (with Alison Carson and Christine Dehne) “Manhattanville
College’s Atlas Program: Designing a Roadmap for
Success in College and Beyond,” International Journal of
ePortfolio, Vol. 8, no. 1 (2018), 73-86.
• “No Typical Tourist: Photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf in
Meiji Japan,” in Sarah J. Lippert (ed.) Artistic Responses
to Travel in the Western Tradition (Routledge 2018).
She also gave several conference presentations and invited
lectures:
• (with Michaela Muckell ‘17 MAT ‘18) “Charting a Course
from Classroom to Career: Manhattanville College’s Atlas
Compass Class,” AAEEBL/CRA International Seminar
ePortfolios & More: The Developing Role of ePortfolios
within the Digital Landscape held at Dublin City University,
Ireland from May 23-25, 2018 (see photo).
• “Women Photographers 1840 – 1940,” Stamford
Photography Club, Stamford, CT, April 18, 2018.
• “The Golden Age of Irish Art,” Scarsdale Women’s Club,