Melissa Dabakis teaches American and Modern European Art History, and serves as a member of the American Studies Faculty. She is the founding director of the Kenyon in Rome Program , and spent the fall semester of 2009 in Italy with 21 Kenyon students. She is the author of Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic (Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2011 paperback and digital editions). Her new book is entitled, The American Corinnes: Women Sculptors and the Eternal City, 1850-1876. Her most recent publication is "John Rogers, Lilly Martin Spencer, and the Culture of Sentimentality" in John Rogers, American Stories, exh. cat., edited by Kimberly Orcutt New York Historical Society 2010.

Areas of Expertise

American and Modern European Art History

Education

B.A .University of Connecticut
M.A., Ph.D. Boston University

Courses Taught

ARHS 111 Survey of Art, part II
ARHS 226 Modern Art I: Rococo to Impressionism
ARHS 227 American Art to 1865
ARHS 230 Modern Art II: Symbolism to Surrealism
ARHS 231 Modern Art III: Art Since 1945
ARHS 242 Eternal Glories: Monuments, Museums, and Churches of Rome (Taught in Rome)
ARHS 243 The Social and Cultural History of Florence (Taught in Florence)
ARHS 371 Museum Studies Seminar
ARHS 377 Topics in Modern Art
ARHS 378 Topics in American Art
ARHS 380 Rome in the American Imagination (Taught in Rome)
ARHS 480 Senior Seminar in Art History

AMST 108 Introduction to American Studies
AMST 109 American Art and Culture, 1900-1945
AMST 381 Senior Seminar: Mounuments and Memory in American Culture

Affiliations:

College Art Association
American Studies Association
Association of Historians of American Art
Historians of Nineteenth Century Art