2024 AHNCA Board Elections
All AHNCA members are encouraged to vote in the 2024 Board and Officer Elections.
Please submit your ballot by February 11, 2023. You must be a member of AHNCA in good standing for your vote to count. Results will be announced during our Annual Business Meeting during CAA.
Please contact ahncasecretary@gmail.com if you have any questions.
The following candidates have been nominated for the open seats on the Board of Directors, each of which has a two-year term.
Vice President
Allison Leigh is an Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO Regents Endowed Professor in Art & Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a specialist in European and Russian art of the long nineteenth century and the author of Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). Her primary research interests include the development of new art historical methodologies and masculinity studies and she has published widely on topics ranging from Manet’s syphilis, Malevich’s reception in America, and the use of social media in the art history classroom. Her most recent book, a co-edited volume entitled Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940, was published by Manchester University Press this past summer. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she formerly taught in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. She is currently completing a book on misogyny and modern art which will be published by Abrams Press in 2025.
Note: You may vote for a nominee or choose to abstain.
Treasurer
Nicole Georgopulos (incumbent) is an historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art as well as curatorial practice. Her research and teaching focus broadly on the intersections of visual art with histories of science, philosophy, and cultural constructs of gender.
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Secretary
Nancy Karrels specializes in early nineteenth-century French art and have extensive work experience in provenance research and policy. Her publications and exhibitions include “The Dessins Denon: Reframing Art Spoliation and the Spoliator in Napoleonic France” in NCAW (2023), “Commemorating Spolia in Napoleonic France” in Nouveaux regards sur les saisies patrimoniales en Europe à l’époque de la Révolution française (2021), and Provenance: A Forensic History of Art at Krannert Art Museum (2017). She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where AHNCA member David O’Brien served as her advisor, and her research received funding from the Fulbright Program (France) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She holds J.D. and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University Law School and began her career working in law firms; she also served as a Senior Editor of the McGill Law Journal.
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Program Coordinator
Michelle Foa is Associate Professor of Art History in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University. Her first book, Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision, was published by Yale University Press in 2015. She is currently finishing a book titled The Matter of Degas. She has received numerous grants and fellowships to support her research, including from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, where she is the Florence Gould Foundation Fellow in the spring of 2024. She is also a guest curator of an exhibition of Degas’s work titled "Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism" that will open at the Clark in July 2024. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for the History of Art since 2020 and is on the Organizing Committee of the Quadrennial Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), which will be held in Washington D.C. in 2028. Since 2021, she has been closely involved with AHNCA's Virtual Salons, helping to organize events on African Art, Art and Material Culture of Enslavement, Art and the Environment, Decorative Arts, and Artists’ Friendships, among other topics.
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Newsletter Editor
Kara Shier is the current subeditor for the “Symposia to Apply and to Attend” section of the AHNCA newsletter. She is a member of the EFA Academic Editing Chapter and has taken online editing courses through the EFA and SUNY Ulster. She has eight years of experience combined as a museum professional and volunteer. Kara has served as Director of Administration at the Putnam History Museum and as Development Associate at The Hyde Collection. At the Putnam History Museum, Kara assisted the curator with researching, writing, editing, and proofreading for multiple exhibitions, catalogues, and other written materials. She has also volunteered in the education and visitor services departments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Storm King Art Center. Kara is a member of the CAA and is anticipated to be appointed to the Museum Committee in February 2024. She enjoys volunteering her time mentoring Art History, Museum Cultures, and Curating students through the Global Buddies and Mentoring Pathways programs at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she earned her MA in the History of Art.
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Board Members at Large
Andrew Shelton is a professor in the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University, where he has taught 19th-century European art since 1999, serving as department chair from 2006-2014. He has published two books and numerous articles and essays on the work and career of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. He is currently engaged in writing a series of essays exploring queer masculinities in 19th-century French art and visual culture and is editing a special issue of the online, open-access journal Arts on queerness in 18th- and 19th-century European art.
Daniella Berman is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art. A graduate of Yale University, she received her doctorate in the history of art from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2023. Daniella has contributed to many publications and exhibitions, including Horace Vernet, currently on view at the Château de Versailles, and Jacques-Louis David: Radical Draftsman at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022. She has held fellowships and positions at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the National Gallery of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Currently, Daniella works as Special Project Researcher for the Cultural Services of the French Embassy to the United States – Villa Albertine (New York), and as the Head of Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives for The Drawing Foundation, a non-profit focused on fostering dialogues around and appreciation of that medium, in addition to serving as Vice President of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA). As an active member of AHNCA’s Emerging Scholars’ Working Group, she co-launched the See / Sip / Share initiative aimed at bridging the wide-ranging interests of emerging scholars working on visual culture of the long nineteenth century and providing a platform that both advances research questions and allows for a broader consideration of the field.
Note: You may vote for up to 2 nominees or choose to abstain.