To my mind, the ability to do “good looking” and ask probing questions is not only a fundamental aspect of the world of art history, culture, and the study of Europe and elsewhere, but also an integral part of BYU’s mission. I consider student mentoring a great honor and responsibility, and take a sincere interest in my students and their life journey. I issue a special welcome to students who are LGBTQIA+, to minority and first generation students, to students with disabilities, neurodiverse students, students with mental health issues, and those experiencing the vicissitudes of their spiritual journey.
2024-25 COURSE SCHEDULE
Fall 2024: ARTHC 301: Women in Art; ARTHC 337: Eighteenth-century European Art
Winter 2025: ARTHC 340: Nineteenth-century European Art; GWS 392R: Global Women’s Studies Colloquium; GWS 492: Global Women’s Studies Capstone
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE WORK
External Examiner. Anna Rigg, “’The mute who speaks’”: Women’s voices on pre-Revolutionary art,” Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2021.
RECENT MASTERS THESES [CHAIRED]
Kendall Clawson da Silva, “Navigating Displacement: Jewish-Brazilian Identity in Lasar Segall’s Encontro,” 2024.
Brandon Johnson, “The Eternal and the Transitory: An Analysis of Giovanni Boldini’s La Zingara,” 2021.
Hannah Miller, “Gustav Klimt and the Representation of Maternity,” 2017.
Megan Cousin, “Representations of Judith and Salomé in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna,” 2017.
Elizabeth Pusey, “James Tissot’s and Emile Zola’s Shopgirl: The Working Girl as La Parisienne,” 2016.
Trenton Olsen, “Fallen Womanhood and Modernity in Ivan Kramskoi’s Unknown Woman (1883), 2014.
RECENT UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES [CHAIRED]
Meredith Hanna, “The Gentlemen’s Masquerade: The Carnivalesque and the Continental in George Knapton’s Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti,” 2020.
Marianna Thurston, “Marisa Merz: Forming the Feminine in the Burgeoning Era of Women Heroes,” 2014.
RECENT STUDENT MENTORED LEARNING PROJECTS [SUPERVISED]
Maren Kennedy, “Placing the Art of Dorothy Kennedy in the Utah Art World,” Humanities Mentored Learning grant, 2024.
Cordelia McPhie, “Yoko Ono: A Case Study of Feminist Exhibition Practice at the Tate Modern,” Humanities Mentored Learning grant, 2024.
Makenzie (MJ) Johnston, “Luna: A BYU Women Artists ‘Zine,” Global Women’s Studies capstone project, 2024.
Dana Lovell, “Gazes: An Art Exhibition on the Objectification of Women,” Global Women’s Studies capstone project, 2024.
Jane Tingey, “Curatorial Strategies for Japoniste Art in Contemporary Paris,” 2023.
Bethany Wells, “The Wartime Art of Anne Poor,” Recipient of BYU HUM grant, 2021.
Katie Loveless, “Indigenous Australian LDS Dot Art, Recipient of BYU HUM grant, 2020.
Colette Burton, “Rape and Religious Iconography: Delacroix’s Massacre at Chios,” Presenter at UCUR conference at Weber State University, 2019.
Meredith Hanna, “British Fashion and the Grand Tour,” Recipient of BYU HUM and HBLL research grants, 2018-2019.
Heidi Herrera, “She Does Not Want: Rape Imagery in Goya’s Disasters of War,” AWE: A Woman’s Experience, BYU Women’s Studies student journal, vol. 5, 2018.
Madison Blonquist, “Reclaiming Female and Racist Imagery: The Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle via Portrait and Film,” AWE: AWoman’sExperience, BYU Women’s Studies student journal, vol. 4, 2017.
FACULTY MENTORED LEARNING GRANT
Artistic Frontiers: Women and the Making of the Utah Art Scene, 1880-1940, Humanities Mentored Experience Grant, 2021-2022.
HEATHER BELNAP, PH.D. 