Susan M. Dixon

Education:

1991	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;  Ph.D.; MA awarded 5-87
1980	Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; BS Architecture

 Publications – Books:

2008	Italian Baroque Art: An Anthology of Teaching Sources (London: Blackwell Publishing) -- Editor
2006	Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia degli Arcadi and its garden in eighteenth-century Rome  (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses, 2006) -- Author

Publications – Articles and Book Chapters:

Contracted, 2009	“Art and Money in early modern Europe,” Art History vol. 31
2007	“The re-attribution of the Pantheon to Hadrian” in Italian Art, Society, and Politics. A Festschrift for Rab Hatfield, ed. B. Deimling, J, Nelson and G. Radke (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007), 244-57
2006	“Francesco Bianchini’s images and his  legacy in the mid-18^th century: from capricci to playing cards to proscenium arch and back” in Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729) und die europäische gelehrte Welte um 1700, ed. V. Kockel and B. Sölch, Colloquia Augustana, 21 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag), 83-106
2005	“Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and other time warps in Piranesi’s Il Campo Marzio” in Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and Image, ed. S. Smiles and S. Moser (London: Blackwell Publishing), 115-32
2004	“Piranesi’s Pantheon” in Architecture as Experience, ed. A. Ballantyne and D. Arnold (London, Routledge Press), 57-80
2002	“The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi’s archaeological illustrations,” Special Issue, Art History, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 469-87; re-issued in Tracing Architecture: Aesthetics of Antiquarianism, ed. D. Arnold and S. Bending (London: Blackwell Publishing), 49-67
1999	“Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini’s L’istoria universale: capricci in the service of pre-scientific archaeology,” Art History, vol. 22, no. 2, 184-214
1999	“Women in Arcadia,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 33, no. 3,  pp. 371-5
1993	“Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Diverse maniere and chimneypiece design as a vehicle for polemic,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 1, no. 1, 76-98

Other Publications:

1994	Book review, John Wilton-Ely, Piranesi as Architect and Designer, Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 2, no. 1, 116-8
1993	Dictionary entries on seven 18^th-century Italian architects in International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, (Washington, DC: St. James Press).

Research in Progress:

Unsolicited essay	“Imprisonment and its worth in 18^th-century Rome”
Book project	Rodolfo Lanciani and selling ancient Rome to America
Larger interest	The history of archaeological illustration from Pirro Ligorio to Rodolfo Lanciani

Presentations – Invitational:

2003, Nov.	“Piranesi’s Archaeology” at University of Southampton, England
2003, Nov.	“The Legacy of Francesco Bianchini in the mid-18^th century” for Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729) at Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte of the University of Augsburg, Germany

Presentations – Conferences (Selected):

2008, Oct.	“I Trofei Farnese and changing attitudes towards antiquity in Rome, 1820” at Midwestern American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference
2008, Feb.	“Rodolfo Lanciani’s Romes,” at College Art Association annual conference
2007, March	“The New Science in Arcadia” at American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference
2006, Feb.	“Without a Trace: the Giuochi Olimpici in 18^th-century Rome” for Rituals in Rome at College Art Association annual conference
2004, Oct.	“Imprisonment and its worth in 18^th-century Rome” at  Midwestern American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference
2004, April	“’Il Campo Marzio’ as Uchronia?”at Midwest Art Historians Society annual conference

2003, Nov.	“The Pantheon: a case study” for Architectural History: between History and Archaeology at CRASSH, Cambridge University, England
2002	“Allegory and Architecture in Arcadia” for New Perspectives on the Art of Eighteenth-Century Rome at American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference
2000	“Arcadia Revisited: Conversazione in the Bosco Parrasio” for Rome in the Eighteenth Century at American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference held at Philadelphia Museum of Art
1999	“Francesco Bianchini’s ‘L’istoria universale’” at Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin
1997	“‘On the arrival of the nymphs at the Bosco Parrasio...’” for Into the Forest: Myth in Art, Literature & Music at American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference
1995	“Methods of Archaeological Reconstruction in Piranesi’s ‘Il Campo Marzio’” for The City as Monument at Society of Architectural Historians annual conference
1991	“18^th-century criticisms of the excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii: establishing the why and how of preservation” for The Past Preserved at  College Art Association annual conference
1988	“Piranesi’s use of the trompe-l’oeil frame: his playful response to the theoretical discourse of his day” for The Frame as Form at College Art Association annual conference

Other Conference Participation:

2005	Session Chair for Imprisoned from c. 1750 to the present at College Art Association annual conference

Post-doctoral Grants & Honors  (internal grants *):
2007 summer	NEH summer stipend grant
2007 & 2005 spring	Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant
2005 spring	Visiting Fellowship for CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities), Cambridge University, Cambridge England – declined
2004 summer	NEH summer seminar, American Academy in Rome
2003-06 summer	*Summer Faculty Development Grant, University of Tulsa
2001 summer	NEH summer seminar, American Academy in Rome -- declined
1997 summer	*CFAC Faculty Development Grant, Murray State University
1995-96	Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Art & Humanities
1994 summer	*CISR Grant,  Murray State University
1992 summer	NEH summer seminar, American Academy in Rome

Academic Positions:
2007-present	University of Tulsa, OK: Associate Professor of Art History; Coordinator of Museum Studies Certificate Program; Director of School of Art
2002-06	University of Tulsa, OK:  Assistant Professor of Art History; Coordinator of Museum Studies Certificate Program
1999-2000	SUNY New Paltz, NY: Visiting Assistant. Professor
1993-98	Murray State University, KY:  Assistant Professor
1991-92	New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY: Visiting Assistant Professor

Overseas Teaching:
summer 2000	On-Site Study Abroad in Italy, SUNY New Paltz, NY Director and Instructor of 3-week long course, “Medici as Patrons of the arts” in Florence, Arezzo and Rome, Italy
summer 1993	Kentucky Institute for International Studies, Murray, KY  Instructor of 3 courses during 4-week stay in Florence, Italy
1992-93	University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program Visiting Asst. Professor; 6 courses in 2 semesters, in Cortona, Italy

Museum Experience:
2007	Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, Guest Curator of “Piranesi and Rossini: Views of Rome”
1992	Museum of Glass and Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, Assistant/Art Preparer
1987-90	Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Design, New York, Department of Prints and Drawings, Curatorial Assistant; and Library, Assistant

Professional Affiliations:

• College Art Association (CAA), Member since 1986

Served as Career Mentor, 2008; Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, 2008

• Midwest Art History Society (MAHS), a regional affiliate of CAA, Member since 2003
• American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS), Member,  on and off since 1995
• Midwestern American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, an affiliate of ASECS, Member since 2003
• Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA), Member since its institution

Served as Newsletter Editor, 2005 to 2008 (elected position); Member, Fellowship

Selection Committee, 2004

• Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Member on and off since 1990