The Johns Hopkins Gazette: July 31, 2000
July 31, 2000
VOL. 29, NO. 42

  

History of Art Professor Named Dean of Center at National Gallery of Art

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The National Gallery of Art has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Cropper, professor of history of art, as dean of the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, one of the world's leading centers for advanced research in the history of art. She will assume the position in January 2001.

The center, which is privately funded from endowments and grants, was founded in 1979 to promote the study of the history, theory and criticism of art, architecture and urbanism.

Since its founding, the center has sponsored fellowships for 620 scholars from 38 countries and published 60 volumes of the series Studies in the History of Art, documenting scholarly meetings for the purpose of stimulating further research and scholarly debate.

Cropper, only the second person to hold this post, is currently director of the university's Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies at the Villa Spelman in Florence, Italy. She will be teaching at Hopkins during the fall semester and says she expects to maintain a relationship with the university after that.


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