M.A. Art History Alumni
Kristen McArthur
M.A. in Art History, 2018
Thesis: Female Somatic Spirituality in post-Tridentine Art: Rutilio Manetti's St. Catherine of Siena Drinking from the Side Wound of Christ
Current position: Arts Education Coordinator, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
Joan Inman
M.A. in Art History, 2017
Thesis: Memory, Memorials, and Commemoration: Enacting Remembrance for the Comfort Women of WWII
Current position: Library Assistant, Birmingham Public Library
Amelia Hobson
M.A. in Art History, 2016
Thesis: Andy Loves Richard: The Revelations of “Vote McGovern” (1972)
Current position: Instructor, Auburn University-Montgomery
Joanna Wilson
M.A. in Art History, 2014
Thesis: The Bear And The Tiger: Decoding Attitudes And Anxieties Towards Nature Through A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh In Post WWI Britain
Current position: Ph.D. candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Kohler Foundation Fellow
Bethany Bekane McClellan
M.A. in Art History, 2013
Thesis: Science of Sleep: Tracing the Visual Language of Dreams from Fuseli to Gondry
Current position: Curatorial Assistant, Birmingham Museum of Art
Linda Pierini
M.A. in Art History, 2012
Thesis: Objects of Worship Based on the Lotus Sutra: The Gohonzon by Nichiren
Current position: Instructor of Art History, Birmingham-Southern College and UAB
Kathryn Sullivan
M.A. in Art History, 2009
Thesis: Borso D’Este and the Arthurian Legend: A Reconsideration of the Hall of the Months in the Palazzo Schifanoia
Current position: Director of Exploration Term and Contract Learning, Birmingham Southern College
Michele Forman
M.A. in Art History, 2009
Thesis: “Voyeurizing the Voyeurs”: An Analysis of the Gaze of the Non-Human Other in Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil
Current position: Director, Media Studies Program, UAB; Advisory Board, Sidewalk Film Festival
Harley Acres
M.A. in Art History, 2007
Thesis: Gender Bending and Comic Books as Art: Issues of Appropriation, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Art
Current position: Faculty at Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Lindsay Mouyal Parris
M.A. in Art Education, 2007
Current position: Art Education Instructor and Program Advisor, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Alabama Art Education Association
Kristen Greenwood
M.A. in Art History, 2006
Thesis: Images Of Inhumanity: George Bellows’s War Series
Current position: Director, Girls Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
Adrian Smythies
M.A. in Art History, 2006
Thesis: The Architecture And Iconography Of The Hindu Temple In Eads, Tennessee
Current position: Adrian Smythies has written seven publications on the architecture and iconography of American Hindu temples.
