About the Institute
Administration and Staff
- Director
- Marica S. Tacconi is Associate Professor of Musicology. Specializing in music history, her interdisciplinary research interests also include the art, culture, and politics of medieval and Renaissance Italy. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University and has taught at Penn State since 1998. She is the author of Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore (Cambridge University Press, 2005) as well as numerous articles, essays, and catalogue entries. In 1997 she co-organized a manuscript exhibition at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence, for which she was also the co-editor of the catalogue (I libri del Duomo di Firenze. Codici liturgici e Biblioteca di Santa Maria del Fiore, secoli XI-XVI; Centro Di, 1997). Professor Tacconi’s research has been supported by several institutions and grant agencies, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, and the American Musicological Society. She is also the recipient of an AMS 50 Dissertation Award from the American Musicological Society, a 2001 Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching from the College of Arts and Architecture, and a 2002-03 Villa I Tatti residency fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Professor Tacconi also serves as the Penn State institutional representative to Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of over seventy-five universities, colleges and arts institutes committed to civic engagement in the arts, humanities, and design.
- Associate Director
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- Staff
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- Susan Reighard, Administrative Assistant
- Sue has been associated with the Institute since 1989. She is particularly interested in issues of diversity and serves on the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research Diversity Council. Sue is the recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Staff Award and of the 2006 Diversity Award, both awarded by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research.
- Garrison Gunter, Graduate Assistant (graphic design)
- Photographer and graphic designer Garrison Gunter studied at CalArts, receiving his bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Photography in 1998. Since then he has worked for MTV Networks as a Macintosh consultant, for Nickelodeon as a graphic designer, and on individual photographic projects, shooting chef showcase events sponsored by Martha Stewart Living, Gourmet and the American Heart Association. In 2003, Garrison began attending Penn State University to pursue a Master’s degree in Art Education. As the designer for the Institute, Garrison has focused on creating a consistent style that still allows each project to have its own voice.
- Ece Akdeniz, Graduate Assistant (events and programs)
- Ece, a Ph.D. candidate in Art Education, came to Penn State after receiving her Master's degree in Art Education from Ohio State University. Her previous teaching experience in grades K-1 through 12 merged with her college teaching experience, and as a result, the focus of her research and teaching became the integration of art into the curriculum. Ece's research interests include issues of diversity, reflections on critical thinking and critical teaching (Culturally Responsive Teaching), interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching art, and integration of visual culture in art education.
- Executive Council
- Barbara Korner, Dean, College of Arts and Architecture
- Susan Welch, Dean, College of the Liberal Arts
- Advisory Board (2008-2009)
- Charles Garoian, Director, School of Visual Arts, Professor of Art Education
- Christine Gorby, Associate Professor of Architecture
- Charlotte Houghton, Associate Professor of Art History
- Raymond Lombra (ex officio), Associate Dean for Administration, Research and College Advancement, College of the Liberal Arts
- Christopher Long, Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Bènèdicte Monicat, Head, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Professor of French and Women's Studies
- Marcy North, Associate Professor of English
- Brian Orland (ex officio), Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (interim, until Sept. 30), College of Arts and Architecture
- Mrinalini Sinha, Professor of History and Women's Studies
- Ken Tamminga, Professor of Landscape Architecture
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