Professor H.P. Bacot email: hbacot@ lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-1390 M.A., State University of New York-Oneonta. A specialist in the art of the American south, Professor Bacot served for more than thirty years as Director of the LSU Museum of Art. In addition to various exhibition catalogues, he is the author of an important book on nineteenth-century lighting devices. His most recent books, written in collaboration with other local scholars, are monographs on nineteenth-century Louisiana artists Joseph Paret and Adrien Persac; the latter was named Book of the Year for 2000 by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and won the Victorian Society in America's Ruth Emery Award for best regional book on a nineteenth-century topic. He is currently working on a major study of early Louisiana furniture. Bacot is a Professor in European and American Decorative Arts, Southern Art, and Museology. See the expanded profile

Professor Nicola (Nick) Camerlenghi email: ncamerle@lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-9043 Ph.D., Princeton University; SMArchS, MIT; B.A. Yale College. Professor Camerlenghi specializes in Early Christian and Medieval Art and Architecture.  His recently completed dissertation on the architectural renovations to the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome was researched in Rome while he was a member of the Swiss Institute of Rome and of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the latter as a Kress Foundation Scholar.  He is currently curating an exhibition on depictions (drawings, engravings, lithographs, and paintings) of the Basilica of San Paolo.  The exhibition is to be organized with scholars at the Vatican Museums and will be held in Rome on the occasion of the two-thousandth anniversary of St. Paul’s birth (2008-2009).  Professor Camerlenghi has presented papers at major conferences in Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.  Other academic interests include the use of technology in art history, Renaissance architectural drawings, the architecture and urbanism of Rome, the history of domes, and—closer to home—the history of the American college campus from utopia to display-case.  While in Italy—and since arriving in Louisiana—Professor Camerlenghi has also cultivated his interest in food and food history. See the expanded profile

Professor Susan Ryan, artistory.us email: faryan@lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-8813 BA, Douglass College, Rutgers University; MA and PhD in art history from the University of Michigan. Research Assistant at Yale University for three years.Ryan specializes in modern and contemporary art and new media art history and theory. She has produced and curated two exhibitions at the LSU School of Art Gallery: Dream-Work: Robert Indiana Prints (1997) and The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video at LSU (1999; with Professor Adelaide Russo). She recently worked with Professor Darius Spieth on a major exhibition of contemporary art, Beyond East and West, shown at the LSU Museum of Art in 2004.She has written two books, both of which have focused on artists' autobiographical practices: she assembled, edited, and annotated American painter Marsden Hartley's autobiography (Somehow a Past, MIT Press, 1996 and 1998), and wrote Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (Yale University Press, 2000). She has published in numerous journals and catalogs and online. She is currently doing research on the changing nature of art practices and creative self images among artists working in digital and web-based formats.At LSU she directed the Baton Rouge Video Project for three years (1999-2003). Since 2002 she has been a member of the Steering Committee for the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts and Technologies (part of LSU Capital).Susan has been the faculty since 1993. She is currently an Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory and is also a member of the faculties of the Women and Gender Studies and Audio-Visual Arts departments. See the expanded profile

Professor Darius Spieth email: dspieth@lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-4947 Ph. D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Spieth wrote his dissertation on the printed work of Vivant Denon, the first director of the Louvre under Napoleon Bonaparte. In addition to his degrees in art history, he holds an M.B.A. degree in finance from the International University of Japan, Niigata. Prior to joining the faculty at LSU, he worked for a major international blue-chip art gallery, based in Cologne (Germany) and Zug (Switzerland), that specializes in early 20th-century Russian avant-garde art. He curated and wrote the catalogue for an exhibition of 18th-century Venetian prints at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum and co-authored a paper on statistical correlation patterns between international art prices and Japanese stock and real estate in the 1980s and early 1990s. His book Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians, published by the University of Delaware Press in 2007, explores the Masonic contexts for the revived Isis cult in Napoleonic France. His current research focuses on art auctions and public spectacle in late nineteenth-century France. Spieth is currently Assistant Professor in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century European Art. See the expanded profile

Professor Justin Walsh email: jwalsh@lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-7429 Justin Walsh teaches Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Justin has worked on excavations in the US, Spain, Jordan, and Italy. He has worked at the site of Morgantina, in east-central Sicily, since 1999. His current research concerns imported pottery found there, and the implications of that material for a new, consumer-oriented perspective on the ancient economy. The final results will be published in Morgantina Studies, to be co-authored with Professors Carla Antonaccio (Duke University) and Jenifer Neils (Case Western Reserve University). Other forthcoming work includes articles on architectural sculpture from Thasos and on an assemblage of lamps from Metaponto in southern Italy. See the expanded profile

Professor Mark Zucker email: mzucker@lsu.edu, Office: 225-578-5406 Ph.D., Columbia University. A specialist in Renaissance art, Professor Zucker has contributed seven volumes on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian engraving to The Illustrated Bartsch, a definitive series of scholarly reference books on Old Master prints. He has also published on various aspects of Renaissance art in leading international journals and is currently working on relationships between Italian Renaissance art and literature. Professor Zucker was the recipient in 2001 of LSU's Distinguished Faculty Award and was named J. Franklin Bayhi Alumni Professor of Art in 2003. He chaired a sesion on "The Italian Renaissance Print" at the 2002 conference of the College Art Association, and his paper "Homeliness and Humor in Renaissance Italy: Tales of Ugly (and Witty) Artists and Other Paragons of Ugliness" won the award for the best article of 2004 published in the journal Explorations in Renaissanc Culture. Zucker is currently Professor and Art History Area Coordinator in Renaissance and Baroque Art. See the expanded profile