Art History Faculty

Degrees:
Ph.D. Columbia University, Art History
M.A. Columbia University, Art History
A.B. Brown University, Art History

Courses:
Art, Culture & Society I:  Prehistory - Middle Ages
Medieval Art
Renaissance Art
Baroque: Popes, Kings & Businessmen in 17th-century Europe
Early Netherlandish Painting
Leonardo, Michelangelo & Raphael
The Golden Age of Dutch Painting:  Rembrandt & Vermeer
Visualizing Italy (IL May Travel Course)
Research Seminar in Art History

Scholarly Interests:
Jane Long's research centers on Italian Renaissance art, though she more narrowly specializes in fourteenth-century Florentine painting.  She is particularly interested in narrative composition, the ways that audience expectations shaped the understanding of works of art, and how artistic choices helped to determine the messages different audiences received. She has publications in Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in Iconography, Gesta, and The Sixteenth Century Journal. 

Courses:
Art, Culture & Society I
Prehistory and Special Topics: Vikings, Saxons, Monks

Dr. Julia Sienkewicz Associate Professor of Art History   Department:  Fine Arts Office:  311 Olin Hall Phone:  540-375-2553 Email: sienkewicz@roanoke.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Art and Architecture of the United States
M.A.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Art and Architecture of the United States
B.A.  Mount Holyoke College, Art History

Courses:
Art, Culture & Society II
From Courtly Art Through Revolution
The Arts of the United States
Modern Art and Architecture
Global Contemporary Art and Architecture
American Landscape Painting
Race, Ethnicity, and the Art of the United States
The Grand Tour (travel IL course)
Research Seminar in Art History

Scholarly Interests:
Dr. Sienkewicz teaches the Modern area, with teaching responsibilities beginning in the eighteenth century and extending through contemporary art. She is a specialist in the art of the United States from the late-eighteenth century through the Civil War. Her research addresses a range of media-including watercolor, monumental sculpture, landscape history, and architecture-and is often organized around the correlation between artists' theoretical writings and their artistic practice. Her first book (Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor) was published in 2019 by the University of Delaware Press. She has also worked for the Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service and she was the author of the successful National Landmark Nomination for the Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Leslie Anne Warden Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Associate Professor of Art History Department:  Fine Arts Office:  243 Olin Hall Phone:  540-375-2072 Email: warden@roanoke.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Egyptian archaeology)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
B.A. University of California, Davis, Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology

Courses:
Introduction to Archaeology
Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East
The Encyclopedic Museum and Archaeological Ethics
Egyptian Temples
Research Seminar in Art History

Scholarly Interests:

Dr. Warden works in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (ca. 2600-2200 BC), commonly known as "The Pyramid Age." Her primary area of focus is archaeological ceramics analysis. Her research focuses on two ceramic forms dominant in the Old Kingdom, beer jars and bread moulds. She has used these forms to help define the functioning of the Egyptian non-monetary economy - an economy literally run on bread and beer - outside of the royal house. Additionally, she has been a member of the North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS) since 2001, working with pharaonic and Roman archaeology in the Egyptian oases. She is currently the project's head ceramicist.  She is broadly interested in Egyptian ceramics, the relationship of the Egyptian provinces to the capital, and non-elite material culture.