Meet the Team

Instructor

Professor William Wallace

William E. Wallace received his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in New York in 1983 and is currently Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. He teaches Renaissance art and architecture 1300-1700, and is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries.

Section Leaders

Margaret Crocker

Margaret Crocker is an MA/PhD student and received her BA in Art History from Smith College. Her interests include visual culture, feminist art, immersive art spaces, and video art. She has previously worked with the curatorial team at the Milwaukee Art Museum researching photography and light-based installations in the museum’s collection. She is a member of the St. Louis-based curatorial collective, [alt+space].

Stephanie Dolezal

Stephanie holds an MA in Art History and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis and BAs in both Art History and Classical Studies from Virginia Tech. She specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art in Rome and her minor specialization is in Meso-American Art.

Max Dunbar

Max Dunbar is an MA student who studies 20th century Modernism in the United States and Europe. He received his BA in History, with minors in Art History and Political Science, from Vanderbilt University.

Christopher Hunt

Christopher Hunt is a PhD student studying late-nineteenth century French and German art, with an emphasis on depictions of the working class and peasantry in easel painting and printmaking. He graduated in 2018 with an MA in art history from the University of Iowa, where he wrote his qualifying paper on Käthe Kollwitz and the depiction of peasants in her Weavers’ Revolt cycle. He also graduated in 2015 with a BA in history from the University of Michigan, where his senior thesis investigated depictions of the collectivization of agriculture in photo journals from the Soviet Union during the First Five-Year Plan.

Julie James

Julie James is a doctoral student at Washington University in Saint Louis specializing in Italian Renaissance Art. She earned her B.A. in History and Classics in 2013 from the University of Delaware, and obtained her M.A. degree in 2017 from Syracuse University in Florence. Her master’s thesis, entitled “Bedding Agostino Chigi: Sodoma’s The Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne in the Villa Farnesina,” focuses on the role of the furniture in the fresco in connection with contemporary inventories to contextualize the fresco within its original sixteenth-century setting.

Lacy Murphy

Lacy is a doctoral student and holds a BA in French from Truman State University and an MA in Art History from Washington University in Saint Louis. Lacy’s major specialization is in European Modern art (1850-1960) with an emphasis on French Algeria and her minor specialization is in American art (1865-1941). Her research interests include histories of colonialism, orientalism, exoticism, primitivism, visual culture, photography, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies.

Allison Perelman

Allison is a Ph.D. student, focusing on late nineteenth-century Europe. She holds an B.A. in Art History from Brown University, Providence, and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She was previously Research Associate for nineteenth-century exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago.