Curran Awarded Fellowship in Italy

April 6, 2005

Dr. Brian Curran, associate professor of art history, has been awarded the Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellowship at the Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy), Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, for the academic year 2005-2006. Dr. Curran will be conducting research for his second book, Past, Present, and Place in Italian Renaissance Art.

Curran teaches courses in Italian Renaissance art and in historiography and the history and theory of sculpture. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1997. Before coming to Penn State, he was a Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and, from 1984 to 1990, a member of the curatorial staff in the Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Among other fellowships and grants, he recently received a research grant from the Renaissance Society of America. His book, The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy, will be published early next year. Curran is a recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Roy C. Buck Award for the best article in a refereed, scholarly journal by an untenured faculty member in the College of Arts and Architecture.

Contact: Kate Hoffman, kah39@psu.edu or 814.863.2104