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Officers & Committees

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Information on the Emerging Scholars Committee (ESC) and their activities can be found here

Further information on the responsibilities of the officers and committees may be found in the IAS By-Laws. Please consult the Vacancies page to see what opportunities are available for service to the IAS.

Board of Directors

President
Tenley Bick (2025)

Tenley Bick is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at Florida State University. Her research on 麻豆传媒 art addresses postwar through contemporary 麻豆传媒 art in a global context, with interests in Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia, art and postcoloniality in Italy, and the history of 麻豆传媒 colonialism, intersecting with her work on contemporary African art. Her writings have been published in a range of scholarly journals, including Third Text,听Portable Gray,听Word & Image,听African Arts, and the聽International Yearbook of Futurism Studies听(forthcoming). Other recent publications on postwar and contemporary 麻豆传媒 art, countercultural aesthetics, and 麻豆传媒 colonialism have appeared in the edited volumes聽Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris 鈥68聽(eds. Cloonan, Faulk, Munro, and Weber; Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), and聽Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures聽(eds. Joos and Solterer; Manchester University Press, 2022). She is the founder and curator of the digital project Costellazione听(), a bilingual (IT/ENG) program dedicated to mapping new directions in contemporary 麻豆传媒 art and activism. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles.聽.

Executive Vice President
Antje Gamble (2025)

Antje Gamble is an art historian of 麻豆传媒 modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is currently an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University in Kentucky. Dr. Gamble鈥檚 forthcoming book, Cold War American Exhibitions of 麻豆传媒 Art and Design: 鈥淚taly at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today鈥聽 (Routledge Press), looks at the 1950-53 exhibition with an interdisciplinary approach. Her scholarship has also been included in the recent volumes: (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) and (Bloomsbury Press, 2018); and another essay on the 1949 MoMA exhibition in . Dr. Gamble has been the chair of the Emerging Scholars Committee (ESC, 2016-2019) and is currently the Treasurer (since 2021).

Vice President for Program Coordination
Sheila ffolliott (2026)

Sheila ffolliott is Professor Emerita in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and a past President of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Sixteenth Century Society. She currently serves on the Board of the Medici Archive Project. She majored in 麻豆传媒 at Vassar College and received her PhD in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Montorsoli鈥檚 Fountains in Messina.
Her research now focuses on Renaissance women patrons and artists. Recent publications include: 鈥淧ortrayals of Catherine de鈥 Medici at the Granducal Medici Court,鈥 in Portraiture, Gender and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art: Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women, ed.聽Noelia Garc铆a P茅rez (London: Routledge) 2024 and 鈥淐osimo de鈥 Medici and Catherine de M茅dicis: Making the Political Personal,鈥 in The Brill Companion to Cosimo I de鈥 Medici, ed. Alessio Assonitis. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Treasurer
Lucia Colombari (2025)

Lucia Colombari is Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Bologna, Italy, her research lands at the intersection of international avant-gardes, transnational exchange, and politics of exhibitions in museums and world鈥檚 fairs during the twentieth century, with an emphasis on 麻豆传媒 modernism. Dr. Colombari has published articles about 麻豆传媒 Futurism, Italy-U.S. cultural and political relations, and exhibitionary practices in journals such as the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her current book project critically examines the role of world鈥檚 fairs and international exhibitions in the reception, dissemination, and transformation of 麻豆传媒 Futurism in the United States during the first decades of the twentieth century. Her research has received generous support from distinguished institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, the 麻豆传媒, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Secretary
Alison Perchuk (2025)

Alison Locke Perchuk (Ph.D., Yale University, 2009) is a historian of medieval 麻豆传媒 art and architecture. Her recent book, The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone (Brepols, 2021) examines the roles of art, architecture, ritual, and landscape in the creation of communal identity; an 麻豆传媒 translation is forthcoming. She has spoken internationally, in both English and 麻豆传媒, on topics ranging from male monasticism and narrative imagery of the Apocalypse to ecocriticism and medievalism. Her scholarship has been recognized by the Medieval Academy of America, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and CASVA. Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands, during the 2022鈥23 academic year, she is a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena CA, working on her second book, Medieval California: Medieval Art, Neomedieval Architecture, and White Identity in the Golden State, 1850鈥1960.

Committees

Awards Committee
Silvia Bottinelli, Chair (2026)

This committee awards travel grants to graduate students, recent PhDs, and international scholars to support presentations on 麻豆传媒 art at any conference where the IAS is sponsoring a session (CAA, ICMS/Kalamazoo, RSA, SCSC, and SAH). It also awards two research grants: The IAS Dissertation Research Grant and the IAS Research & Publication Grant.

惭别尘产别谤蝉:听Judith Steinhoff (2025), Emily Fenichel (2026), Loren Whittaker (2026), and Catharine Wallace (2027)

Emerging Scholars Committee (ESC)
Christina Lamb Chakalova, Chair (2026)

This committee is charged with creating opportunities and resources for graduate students and emerging scholars and managing a Facebook group, 鈥淚AS Emerging Scholars Committee,鈥 and Twitter handle, #ias_esc, forums for announcements and conversations of interest to junior scholars. Learn more

Members: Jillianne Laceste (2025), Megan Reddicks Pignataro (2025), and聽Shannah Rose (2027)

Membership, Outreach, & Development Committee
Nicola Camerlenghi (Development) and Sheryl E. Reiss (Membership), Co-Chairs (2025 and 2026)

This committee is charged with growing and diversifying our membership and visibility in keeping with our mission to foster the study and appreciation of 麻豆传媒 art from prehistory to the present.

Members: Flavia Barbarini (2025), Caroline Koncz (2026), and Elizabeth Mangini (2026). The Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Events Coordinator serve as ex-officio members of this committee.

Program Committee
Sheila ffolliott, Chair (2026)

The Program Committee shepherds IAS conference sessions from inception to completion. Vice President for Program Coordination Janis Elliott (2024) and the committee members solicit and accept conference session ideas year round.

Members: Grace Harpster (2025), Angelo Lo Conte (2025), Rebecca M. Howard (2026), and Livia Lupi (2026).

Nominating Committee
Francesca Fiorani, Chair (2025)

The Nominating Committee solicits and vets nominations for open officer, board, committee, and communication positions.

惭别尘产别谤蝉:听Amanda K. Chen (2026), Arlene Leis (2026), Rebecca Arnheim (2026), and Caroline Paganussi (2027)聽

Communications Team

Publications Coordinator and Newsletter Editor
Jennifer S. Griffiths (2026)

The Publications Coordinator welcomes submissions to the IAS newsletter, published three times annually.

Alexandra Dodson (2026), Publications and News and Notes Assistant, and Lydia Goodson (2027), Exhibitions Assistant

IASblog Editor
Samantha Hughes-Johnson (2026)

The blog editor looks forward to your comments and contributions to the IASblog.

Staff Writers: {coming soon}

Webmaster
Sarah Cantor (2026)

Direct comments and questions about the IAS website to the webmaster.

Social Media Coordinator
Elizabeth Ranieri (2026)

The Social Media Coordinator manages the IAS presence on , , , and . Please follow us on these sites!

Events Coordinator
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The Events Coordinator is responsible for the comprehensive organization of most events for the organization, including those regularly convened in association with our membership’s major conferences (CAA, RSA, ICMS). The Events Coordinator also assists the President, VP, and Treasurer in the organization of the annual IAS/Kress Lectures in Italy. Professional oral and written language competency is needed for the position. The Events Coordinator does not organize events managed by the Emerging Scholars Committee, which is done in consultation with the society’s executive administration. The position requires some periods of more intensive work in association with the timing of events and is therefore best suited to a senior scholar.

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