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Art History Alumni

We are proud of our students’ great professional success. What follows is a sample of some of our students’ achievements. We encourage our alumni to keep in touch with us and to send us updates.

(BA 2008) received an MA from Christie’s Education London and is Community Engagement Manager at the Tampa Museum of Art.

Anne H. Albritton (MA 1988) received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is Professor of Art History at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL.

(MA 2018) is Associate Curator at the Margulies Collection, the Warehouse, Fort Lauderdale.

(MA 2008) is Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions Manager at ÎÞÂëרÇø’s Contemporary Art Museum.

(MA 2021) is a doctoral student studying Medieval Art under Elina Gertsman at Case Western Reserve University.

(MA 2022) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Eckerd College.

(MA 2013) is Senior Graduate Success Advisor at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Jean Marie Carey (MA 2012) received her PhD in art history from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Laura Colkitt (MA 2015) is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Florida.

Devon Larson Dargan (MA 2006) is Chief Registrar of Collections at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA.

(BA 2000) received her PhD from Bryn Mawr and is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute.

(MA 2019) has been accepted to University of Wisconsin, Madison to pursue a PhD in Art History.

(BA 2017) earned her master’s degree in art history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently Director of Education at the Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina.

(MA 2018) is Assistant Professor at Daytona State University.

(MA 1996) was recently promoted to Full Professor of Art History & Museum Studies at the University of San Francisco. Prof. Fraser, who earned her PhD at Stanford University, is the author of Photography and Japan (2011) and Behind the Camera 1.0: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography, ed., Carrie Cushman and Kelly McCormick (2022), as well as several peer-reviewed research articles.

(MA 2005) is Associate Professor of History and Dorothy and Dale Thompson Missouri Endowed Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

(MA Art History 2022) is a doctoral student studying the arts of colonial New Spain at the University of Florida.

(MA 2022) is Gallery Programs Coordinator at the Tampa Museum of Art.

Auguste Grillo (BA 2023) was accepted into the Art History MA program at the University of Georgia for fall 2024.

(MA 2023) is Assistant Director, Global Program Management, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education.

(MA 2011) just completed her PhD at UC Santa Cruz and has accepted a position as assistant professor at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Al.

(MA 1999) received his PhD from Emory University and is Professor of African Art History at Princeton University, Princeton NJ. His most recent books are Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text  (Milan, 2016) and Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Durham, NC, 2015).

r (MA 2006) received her PhD in art history from Northwestern University. She is Diana Chapman Walsh Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College, Wellesley, and author of  Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French Indias

Valerie Palazzolo (MA 2011) is pursuing her PhD in art history at the University of Florida and is tenured Instructor of Art History and Humanities at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa.

(MA 2013, PhD 2023) accepted a full-time Assistant Professor of Art and Design position at University of Tampa teaching Art History and Museum Studies.

(formerly Preuss) (MA 2015) is Director of Gallery 221 at Hillsborough Community College, Tampa.

Loryn (Heffner) Pretorius (BA in Art History/Anthropology, ÎÞÂëרÇø, 2012, and MFA in Wig and Makeup Design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts) served as Hair and Makeup Supervisor for the Fall 2024 Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard. Loryn’s previous credits include work with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Manhattan School of Music, and assorted other Broadway and off-Broadway productions.

(MA 2023) is Program Associate, Collections Department at the Ringling Museum of Art.

(MA 1995) served as Deputy Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, ÎÞÂëרÇø and Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art until 2021s

Michelle Sticht (BA 2011) received her master’s degree in Medieval Studies at the University of York in England.

(BA 2014) is Objects Conservator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

(MA 2014) earned her PhD from Boston University in 2023. She has recently accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Delaware. Ali is currently working on a monograph about Ottoman sultans’ portraits, which is based on her master’s thesis. The book is scheduled to be published by Brill Academic Publishers.

(BA 2014) is pursuing his PhD in art history at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is also lecturer of African and African Diaspora Studies. He published reviews in African Arts italics (Spring 2017) and E3W Review of Books (Spring 2017).

(MA 2001) is Curator of Education at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL.

(MA 2012) is Director of Humanities at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.

(MA 2017) is pursuing her PhD in museum education at Florida State University. She is Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Gadsden Art Center and Museum.

(MA 2016) is pursuing her PhD at Southern Methodist University.