| Received
Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California at
Santa
Barbara, 1992
Area of specialization: Italian Renaissance painting, women
patrons of art
and Women artists. Prof. McIver teaches courses in Northern
and Italian Renaissance Art, Northern and Southern Baroque
are, Graduate and Undergraduate seminars on special topics;
directs and lectures for the UAB Study Abroad program in
Italy during alternate summers -- coming summer 2009.
She has published numerous articles on the artistic patronage
of women in
northern Italy in the 16th Century which have appeared in
Artibus et Historiae, Sixteenth Century Journal, Explorations
in Renaissance Culture, Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in
America, Beyond Isabella: Secular women patrons of art in
Renaissance Italy. She is editor and contributor to Art
and Music in the Early Modern Period, a book of essays published
by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. March 2003.
Professor
McIver's most recent book, Women, Art, and Architecture
in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power, was
published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. in March 2006. A review
of this book appears in the Renaissance Quarterly
(Winter 2006). It won won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's award for the best book published in 2006.
She has received numerous UAB faculty research grants, mini-grants
and a Faculty Development Grant to support her work on women
patrons as well as a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant
and a Kress Foundation/Renaissance Society of America Fellowship. |
