Phone: 940-369-7204 | Email: abel@unt.edu

Mickey Abel received her B.A. and M.A. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. She has been at UNT since 2003. Her scholarly interests center around Medieval Architectural space-its historical analysis, its contextual setting, its liturgical and experiential perception, and its geographical determinants. Dr. Abel's current research is bifurcated between work in Northern Spain and Western France. In Spain, she is engaged in a project of surveying and mapping the geographical parameters of the post-conquest (12th and 13th Century) churches built on the Sorian plain. Some of this work has been undertaken in collaboration with the departments of Geography and Archaeology employing GIS technology. Summer 2008 she took three students abroad to carry out the field work for this project. Her work in France examines the spatial/geographical relationship between the Abbey of Maillezais and its parish churches within the ancient Gulf de Picton and in the context of the historical events surrounding the Peace of God movement, as well as the political agenda of the Duke of Aquitaine, his wife, and descendents, and the social/economic life within the monastery and its landed domain. This work includes the surveying and drawing of the abbey's tower/narthex in order to determine the configuration of the now lost western portal. Future work is to include the GIS mapping of the abbey's geographical position in relation to its development of a system of dykes, levies, and canals within the gulf's marshy wetlands. Full Curriculum Vitae 

Phone: 940-565-3986 | Email: baxter@unt.edu

Denise Amy Baxter received her MA and PhD in Art History with a Women's Studies doctoral emphasis from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies affiliated faculty member at the University of North Texas, where she teaches courses on European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, history of photography, gender and the visual arts, and theories and methods of art history. Her research focuses on the relationships between material culture and the constitution of the modern self. Her publications include: "Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Life and "Parvenu or Honnête homme: The Collecting Practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin," in Journal of the History of Collections. She is currently working on an extended collaborative project on the visualization of the maternal and writing a book titled Fashion and the Roots of Modernism in J.-F. de Troy's tableaux de mode. 

Phone: 940-565-4777 | Email: kwallace@unt.edu

Kelly Donahue-Wallace received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of New Mexico in 2000. She is currently an associate professor of Latin American art and chairperson of the Department of Art Education and Art History at the University of North Texas. Dr. Donahue-Wallace teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American art, the history of prints, and European early modern art. Her research addresses the history of prints in eighteenth-century Mexico City and the function of prints in the colonial context. Dr. Donahue-Wallace's findings have been published in Print Quarterly, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Review, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Tiempos de América (Spain), Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (Mexico), and Aurora. Her book, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America 1521-1821, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2008. Dr. Donahue-Wallace has also researched and published on art history pedagogy and learning objects and is a contributing co-editor of the book, Teaching Art History with New Technologies: Reflections and Case Studies. Dr. Donahue-Wallace has been the recipient of a Humanities Texas grant, a Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, the Bernardo Mendel Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University, a Telecommunications Infrastructure grant, and many UNT faculty grants. Full Curriculum Vitae  

Phone: | Email: Paul.Niell@unt.edu

Paul Niell, Assistant Professor of Art History, received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2008. His teaching areas include many aspects of Colonial Spanish American, Caribbean, and Early Modern Atlantic World art and material culture. His research specialty focuses on late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Cuban colonial art and architecture. His work engages such issues and theoretical domains as slavery, postcolonial studies, and visual culture. Courses that he will offer at the University of North Texas include the arts of the African Diaspora, Cuban and Caribbean architecture, and cities and cultural landscapes in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Dr. Niell chaired the Association for Latin American Art-sponsored session at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Los Angeles in 2009, titled “The Americanization of Neoclassicism in Latin America.” He is transforming this project into a co-edited volume with Stacie G. Widdifield, Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona. He has published his work in the graduate journal, Hemisphere: Visual Culture of the Americas and is currently writing a book on nineteenth-century Cuban society and the ambiguity of late colonial classicism. Full Curriculum Vitae

Phone: 940-369-7236 | Email: lowen@unt.edu

Lisa N. Owen, Assistant Professor of Art History, joined the University of North Texas in 2006. While her teaching areas include all aspects of Asian art, her research specialty is the art of ancient and medieval India. Her research centers on Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain rock-cut temples. Dr. Owen is interested in the way that sacred space is articulated in this medium and what this means for worshippers and devotional practice. Her interests also include the production of imagery in ancient India, patterns of patronage, and how visual forms express certain religious values and goals. Dr. Owen has presented her work at numerous venues, the most recent being the University of Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is also frequently invited to give lectures at art museums including the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Norton Simon Museum. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Owen has received a total of four faculty research grants to support her work on Indian monuments. Her current project examines Jain rock-cut monuments in Tamil Nadu and questions the saliency of employing traditional art historical categories such as "sculpture" and "architecture" to these sites that clearly function as both and more. Dr. Owen has published in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies and in the Jain journal Jinamanjari. She is currently working on a book on Ellora's Jain monuments.

Phone: 940-565-4027 | Email: shabout@unt.edu

Nada Shabout is an Associate Professor of Art History. Her teaching interests are in the area of Arab and Islamic visual culture, theory and history, imperialism, Orientalism and globalization. She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, University of Florida Press, 2007. She is the curator of the traveling exhibition, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, 2005-2008. Her current project is Recovering Iraq's Modern Heritage: Constructing and Digitally Documenting the Collection of the former Saddam Center for the Arts. Her awards include: TAARII fellow 2006, 2007; and Fulbright Senior Scholar Program, 2008 Lecture/Research fellowship to Jordan. Dr. Shabout has published numerous articles on modern and contemporary Iraqi art as well as examines legal and ethical responsibilities of the US in Iraq after 2003. Full Curriculum Vitae

Phone: 940-565-4029 | Email: JWay@unt.edu

Jennifer Way's primary areas of scholarship and teaching are histories and methodologies of art, art history and visual culture since 1900, including African American since 1900 and emphasis on British and Irish art since 1945. She held visiting fellowships at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin and the Yale Center for British Art. She received a Fulbright Senior Fellowship Award to Trinity College, Dublin, support from Humanities Texas and from UNT, a Teaching with Technology Grant, Learning Enhancement Grant, Quality Enhancement Plan III Grant, Hispanic and Global Initiatives Fund grant, three Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund grants, three faculty research grants, four Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowships and the President's Council Teaching Award for a record of outstanding teaching over a five-year period. Her research is published in numerous journals and she serves as editor of the Historians of British Art Newsletter. Recent refereed conferences include "New Critical Perspectives in African American Art History," David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland; "Research into Practice," Royal Society of Arts, London; and "Neither Here nor There: Writing the Irish Diaspora," University of Limerick, Ireland. Way has lectured at the Dallas Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum Fort Worth and led a new education program at the latter called E-Merge. She organized two study abroad trips to London and co- organized lecture series and symposia including "Women Art Technology," "Collections, Collaborations and Cultures," "Transnation, Contemporary Art and China (and the Art of Wenda Gu)," "Art School, California, Then and Now," "Studio Practice, Art History, and Women's Studies, A Panel Discussion" and "Vietnam: Visual Arts and the Multiculture of Post-Military Relations." Way has chaired more than 25 thesis and research projects and she has been instrumental in shaping the MA art history program. She established the methodologies course for undergraduate art history at UNT, obtained grant funding to revise the modern/postmodern sequence and offers a wide variety of seminar topics. Full Curriculum Vitae

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