Nancy MacKay Thompson

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999

Dissertation: The 14th-Century Stained Glass of Santa Croce in Florence

Director: Distinguished Prof. Bruce Cole

M.A., History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993

Thesis: From Virtue to Vice: Images of Judith in Venetian Painting

B.A., Art History cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Southern Methodist

University, 1990

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

St. Olaf College, Associate Professor of Art History, 2006-present
St. Olaf College, Assistant Professor of Art History, 2000-06
College of William and Mary, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, 1999-00
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Instructor of Art History, 1998-99

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

 

ACM Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, 2004

Awarded for summer 2005 research in Florence to complete De Matteis project

Fulbright Junior Scholar Grant, 2003

Awarded for February-August 2003 research on project, "The Atelier De Matteis: The Revival of Stained Glass in 19th- and 20th-Century Florence."

Minnesota Humanities Commission, Works in Progress Scholar's Grant, 2003

Awarded to match Fulbright funding for project on the atelier De Matteis

Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College, 2001

Awarded for summer research on project, "Franciscans, Florentines and

Stained Glass: Santa Croce in the Fourteenth Century."

Corpus Vitrearum Grant, 2000

Awarded for travel, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Conference, Bristol, UK

Kress Travel Grant, Kress Foundation, New York, 2000 

Awarded for summer research on project, "The Stained Glass of Ulisse

De Matteis and Nationalism in 19th-Century Florence"

Kress Travel Grant, Kress Foundation, New York, 1998

Awarded for research on windows in the Kress Collection, Birmingham, AL

Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant, Florence, Italy, 1996-97

Indiana University Recruitment Fellowship, Tuition and Stipend, 1991-92

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"'Reviving the past greatness of the Florentine people': Restoring Medieval Florence in the Nineteenth Century," forthcoming in Medieval Art and Architecture After the Middle Ages (Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2008), eds. Alyce Jordan and Janet Marquart. First presented as a juried paper at the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting, Boston, March 31-April 2, 2006.

 

"De Matteis Windows in the Kress Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art," forthcoming (2008) in the Birmingham Museum's Kress catalog, ed. Jeannine O'Grody.

 

"The Practice of Stained Glass: Santa Croce in the Early Fourteenth Century," forthcoming (2008) in Studies in Italian Renaissance Art and Culture, eds. Arne Flaten and Andrew Ladis. First presented as a juried paper at the College Art Association, February 2000.

 

"Architectural Restoration and Stained Glass in Nineteenth-Century Siena: The Place of Light in Giuseppe Partini's Purismo," in The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2004 XIX (2006): 41-53. First presented as a juried paper at Western Michigan University, 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2004.

 

"Stained Glass in Nineteenth-Century Florence: Medieval Reproductions by the Atelier De Matteis," in Interpreting the Middle Ages: Essays on Medievalism, ed. Susan Ridyard. Sewanee Medieval Studies 13 (2005): 59-81. First presented as a juried paper at the 29th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, April 12-13, 2002.

 

"Cooperation and Conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi Chapels of Santa Croce," in The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy, ed. William Cook, The Medieval Francsicans I, ed. Steven McMichael (Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2005), pp. 257-77.

 

"St. Francis, the Apocalypse and the True Cross: The Decoration of the Cappella Maggiore of Santa Croce in Florence," Gesta XLIII/1 (2004): 61-79.

 

"Nineteenth-Century Restoration: The Atelier De Matteis at S. Maria Novella," for the Italian Stained Glass Windows Online Database, 2001.

 

"Foreign Collections: De Matteis windows in the Birmingham (AL) Museum of Art," for the Italian Stained Glass Windows Online Database, 2001.

 

Review of Joanna Cannon and Andre Vauchez's Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti (Penn State Press, 1999) Journal of Religion 80/4 (2000): 672-73.

 

JURIED PRESENTATIONS (also see presentations listed with publications above)

 

"The Restoration and Recreation of the Bargello in Nineteenth-Century Florence," for the session "Conceptions and Reception of Medieval Art," at the 31st Annual Association of  Art Historians Conference, Bristol, England, March 31-April 2, 2005.

 

"Ulisse De Matteis and Viollet-le-Duc: Restoring and Reviving Stained Glass in 19th-Century Florence," The 19th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, Sponsored by Studies in Medievalism, University of New Brunswick, Canada, October 1-3, 2004.

 

"Ulisse De Matteis and the Revival of Medieval Stained Glass in 19th-Century Florence," International Medieval Congress 2001, University of Leeds, England, July 2001.

 

"The Franciscans and the Cross: the Apse Decoration of Santa Croce, Florence," Western Michigan University, 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2001.  Also presented by invitation to the Medieval Studies Colloquium at the University of Minnesota, February 6, 2002 and as a public lecture at the Minnesota Institute of Arts on February 8, 2007.

 

"Saint Francis and the Apocalypse: The Early Apse Glazing of Santa Croce in Florence," 12^th New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, March 2000.  Also presented to the Carleton-St. Olaf Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium, Nov. 2000.

 

"Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder: Three Fourteenth-Century Stained Glass Windows in Santa Croce, Florence," Art and the Spectator: Conference on Early Italian Art, University of Georgia, Athens, September 1998.

 

"The 14th-Century Stained Glass in the Chapel of St. Louis of Toulouse in Santa Croce, Florence," Western Michigan University, 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1998.

 

"The 14th-Century Stained Glass of Santa Croce: An Illumination of Franciscan Conflict," presented at the conference Crucibles of Conflict: Religious Confrontation and Compromise, Ohio State University, February 1996.

 

"Images of Judith in Medieval Art," Midwest Art History Society Conference, St. Louis, March 1995; Chicago Art Institute, Graduate Student Symposium, April 1994; Indiana University Medieval Studies Symposium, March 1994.

 

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

 

"Going Digital, Going Wild at St. Olaf College," presented with Heather Shirey and Karil Kucera at the Midwest Instructional Technologies Center Conference, Grinnell College, October 1, 2005.

 

Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Faculty Workshop: Training the Trainers.  June 2-3, 2005, Macalester College.  Workshop attended to develop skills in mentoring faculty for my work on the New Faculty Advisory Committee at St. Olaf.

 

Medieval Academy of America, Program Committee for Spring 2003 Conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  Juried and organized a session on Relics.

 

Midwest Instructional Technologies Center, participant in conference held at Depauw University on digital images and building image databases, August 2003.

 

Midwest Instructional Technologies Center, participant in conference held at Wake Forest College on digital images and building image databases, Fall 2002.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

College Art Association, 1991-present

International Center for Medieval Art at the Cloisters, 1993-present

Italian Art Society, 1997-present

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, 1999-present

Renaissance Society of America, 2006-present