Faculty

MISHOE BRENNECKE

Mishoe Brennecke, Associate Professor of Art History, teaches upper-division courses in American and European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (American Art, British Art, and Nineteenth-Century Art). She also participates each fall in Sewanee's team-taught, interdisciplinary Humanities program as part of the faculty of Humanities 101: The Classical World.

Professor Brennecke received her B.A. from the University of the South, her M.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her dissertation addressed the American reception of modernism, especially the work of Edouard Manet.

GREGORY T. CLARK

Gregory T. Clark, Professor of Art History, teaches upper-division courses in Western art before 1600 (Greek and Roman Art, Medieval Art, Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe, Italian Renaissance Art, and Northern Renaissance Art) along with Junior Practicum and American Animation 1910-1960.

Professor Clark received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975; his M.A. from Queens College, City University of New York, in 1978; and his M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981 and 1988, respectively. Before arriving at the University of the South in 1989, he worked for six years at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, first as a curatorial assistant (1983-88) and then as an Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (1988-89).

Professor Clark's scholarly specialty is manuscript illumination in northern France and the southern Netherlands in the fifteenth century. In addition to numerous articles, he has published three books over the past ten years. The first, which appeared in 1997, was a commentary a the Book of Hours made in Bruges, Belgium, around 1455 that was later owned by Isabel la Católica, Queen of Spain. Three years later, Clark published a monograph on the Ghent Privileges Master, a book painter active in the southern Netherlands from around 1440 to 1460. His study on the Spitz Hours, a manuscript made in Paris around 1420, was published in 2003 by the J. Paul Getty Trust. Most recently, he wrote an essay on the French and southern Netherlandish followers of Paul, Jean, and Herman Limbourg together with 15 object entries for the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition The Limbourg Brothers: Nijmegen Masters at the French Court 1400-1416 (Nijmegen, Valkhof-Museum, 28 August - 20 November 2005).

MARGARET DUNCAN BINNICKER

Meg Binnicker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, teaches a course on the history of architecture. A specialist in the field of historic preservation, she earned her BA in history at the University of the South, her MALS at Dartmouth College, and her doctorate at Middle Tennessee State University. Professor Binnicker's dissertation, "Erwin, Tennessee: Transformation of Work and Place in an Appalachian Community, 1900-1960," addresses, among other topics, the garden-city plan of NY architect Grosvenor Atterbury for a working class neighborhood in Erwin and the hand-painted Blue Ridge patterns of Southern Potteries, Inc., the largest producer of hand-painted pottery in the country in the 1940s.  Professor Binnicker served as assistant editor of  The Tennessee Encyclopedia of  History and Culture (1998, Rutledge Hill) and associate editor of A History of Tennessee Arts (University of Tennessee Press, 2004). She also contributed several pieces to the Encyclopedia of Appalachia (University of Tennessee Press, 2006).


 

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Making Art History (Routledge, 2007) features an essay by Gregory T. Clark titled "What's in a Name? 'Flanders,' Language, and the Historiography of Late Medieval Art in Belgium since Federalization." Making Art History was edited by Elizabeth Mansfield.