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Throughout her distinguished career as an Art Historian, Dr. Rosell has participated in numerous presentations and publications and been presented with prestigious awards. She has also actively supported students in the presentation of their senior research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). This is a condensed vitae of her career contributions and recognition.
Dr. Karen J. Rosell
EDUCATION AND HONORS:1986 Ph.D. Ohio University, Comparative Arts, GPA 3.95/4.0 University Doctoral Fellowship
1982 M.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, Art History, GPA 3.90/4.0 Phi Kappa Phi, Graduate Scholarship, Graduate Teaching Assistantship
1980 B.A. University of Richmond, Art History and Studio Art, GPA 3.88/4.0 Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Intermediate Honors, Phi Eta Sigma, Dean’s list each semester
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1996 - present Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Juniata College
1991 - 1996 Associate Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art, Juniata College
1988 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art, Juniata College
1986 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Art History, Juniata College
1982 - 1986 Teaching Associate, Ohio University
1980 – 1982 Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University
AWARDS:
2009 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
2006 - 2007 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Honors Edition
2005 - 2006 Who’s Who Among America’s Teacher, Honors Editions
2004 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
1997 Beachley Distinguished Teaching Award, Juniata College
1996 Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in the Fine Arts, University of Richmond
1994 Who's Who Among America's Teachers
1989 Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Juniata College
1985 Seigfred Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, Ohio University
1980 Selected to present senior thesis to Phi Beta Kappa Intercollegiate Symposium
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND GRANTS:
2009 D.C. Goodman Grant: Authenticating Artworks for Exhibition: Selected Original Prints from the Collection of Dr. Robert Wagoner, conducted with student research assistance and collaboration by Diahann Mosier
2007 Sabbatical, spring semester: revision of Twentieth Century Art, American Art, and Women in Art courses to include more global and minority artists as well as artworks from the Twenty-first Century; digitized course slides and designed PowerPoint presentations; participated in a NITLE technology workshop; collaborated on a presentation (see below)
2007 Presentation and published paper with co-author, James Donaldson: 30th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology: “Educating Entrepreneurs: Lessons from the Fine Arts”
2007 Participation in NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) workshop on PowerPoint presentation, Elizabethtown College
2004 Presentation, Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Susquehanna University, “Fostering Personal and Creative Involvement in Women in Art, an Advanced Art History/Cultural Analysis course”
2004 Co-Presentation with senior art history student, Bridget Bross at the Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Susquehanna University, “A Genuine Reflection of Gender Roles: Dueling Images of Renaissance Women”
1999 Presentation, Lycoming College Conference on Teaching Excellence; Creative Ways of Involving Students in Class
1997 Presentation, Westminster Woods, Huntingdon, PA; lecture based on Robert Hughes “American Visions”
1997 Presentation, American Association of University Women; “When a Portrait is More Than Just a Pretty Face”
1995 Presentation, School of Visual Arts Ninth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York City; "Engaging Students in Art History: Active Learning Vs. Passive Listening"
1995 Chair, School of Visual Arts Ninth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York City; presided over morning sessions on Curriculum Issues
1993 Participation, The University of Chicago, "Bringing the World into the Classroom. Workshops on Critical Thinking, Collaborative Learning, and Writing”
1992 Book Review, Paul Barolsky’s Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari, published in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. XXIII, no. 2 (1992)
1992 Presentation, School of Visual Arts Sixth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York City; "Drawing Across the Curriculum: An Alternative Set of Symbols," with Alex McBride
STUDENT-SPONSORED RESEARCH:
2009 Elizabeth Snyder NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Superstition and Satire: The Witchcraft Prints of Durer, Baldung Grien, and Goya”
2009 Alex-Rae Campbell JC Research Symposium, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Most Clever Surrealist of All? Reflections on the Imagery of Rene Magritte and Dorothea Tanning”
2008 Kara George NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Identity in Cindy Sherman’s Photographs: Does the Dress Make the Woman?
2008 Lindsay LaPrad NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Sculptural Inspiration: How New York Influenced the Art of Louise Nevelson”
2006 Abby Sener NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Propaganda as Art: The Political Murals of the Bogside Artists”
2006 Holly Brown NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Cindy Sherman and Suzanne Valadon: Both Sides of the Canvas”
2005 Sarah Beaver JC Research Symposium, “Creating a Nude of Self-Familiarity: Saville’s ‘Gut” Narratives Resuscitate Freud’s Unconscious Muse”
2005 Elizabeth Carter NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “A Passion Revisited: The New Realism”
2005 Sarah Kimmerle NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Revising Aesthetics: Symbols and Globalization for a World in Flux”
2005 Marylee Shumaker NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Window to the Spiritual Realm and Russian Nationalism: The Early Russian Icon”
2004 Bridget Bross NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “A Genuine Reflection of Gender Roles: Dueling Images of Renaissance Women”
2003 Kelly Markel NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “The Circle: Transcending Time, Religion, and Thought”
2003 Melanie Vrable NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Where Representation Meets Non-Objectivity: The Unexpected Ties between Cezanne and Mondrian”
2003 Adam Halvorsen JC Research Symposium, “Agnes Martin Deciphered: A Conceptual and Theoretical Reduction of the American Landscape”
2002 Cynthia Cato NCUR, “The Little Tramps: Charlie Chaplin and Selected Early Twentieth Century Artists”
2002 Amy Hammond NCUR, “The Raw Human Condition: Egon Schiele and Samuel Beckett”
2002 Jesse Woods NCUR, “Through a Keyhole: Images of Voyeurism in the Works of Edgar Degas and Cindy Sherman”
2000 Nichole Book NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock: The Woman behind the Man or the Man behind the Woman?”
2000 Mieke Fay NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: An Artist Pair with Impact”
2000 Philip McManus NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Fainting in Coils: Dorothea Tanning in Wonderland”
1999 Ellen Bortel NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Its Effect on Art”
1999 Erin Firestone NCUR, “Mark Rothko and Pictorial Consciousness.”
1999 Shannon Price NCUR and JC Research Symposium, “A Revolutionary Artist: Jacques-Louis David and his Impact on the French Revolution”
1996 Holly Hueglin NCUR, "Mozarabic Manuscript Art: A Prelude to Fauvism"
1996 Melissa Kerr NCUR, "Modern or Medieval? The Stained Glass at Chartres"
1996 Jennifer Lowe NCUR, "The Porta Nigra: A Forerunner of Twentieth Century Ideas"
1996 Savannah Schroll NCUR, "The Emotive Quality of Gothic and Expressionist Art: A Visual Record of the Times"
1994 Amy Chamberlin NCUR, "Kathe Kollwitz's Woman with Dead Child: A Pioneering Application of Mother and Child Iconography"
1994 Brian Hack NCUR, "Anguished Faith: The Spirituality of Edvard Munch"
1994 Andrea Kochan NCUR, "The Voyage of Life: Alternate Visions of Morality"
1994 Jessica Lieb NCUR, "Sadness or Euphoria: The Mixed Messages of Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre"
1994 Kathy Vedock NCUR, "Paul Cezanne's Personal Visions: Are They Revolutionary?"
1993 Brian Hack NCUR, "Restoring Human Essence: Frescoes and Triptychs by Jose Orozco and Max Beckmann"
SERVICE:
1988 - 2009 Chair, Department of Art and Art History
2005 - 2006 Personnel Evaluation Committee
2004 - 2006 Faculty Representative to the full Board of Trustees, elected
1995 - 1998 Faculty Curriculum Committee (Chair, 1997 - 1998), elected
1995 - 1996 Chair, Communications Requirement Subcommittee (college graduation requirement), volunteered
1995 - 2007 Faculty Advisor, Art Allegiance (now Art Alliance)
1994 - 1998 Shoemaker Gallery Committee (selecting art exhibits), volunteered
1994 - 1995 Assessment Resources Team (measuring student outcomes), volunteered
1994 - 1995 Sub-committee on 21st Century Classroom (increasing use of technology), volunteered
1991 - 1994 Strategic Planning Committee, appointed by President
1991 - 1993 Campus Planner's Advisory Committee (comprehensive architectural redesign), appointed by President
1989 - 1992 Arts and Lectureship Council (Chair of Art Exhibits, 1987 - 1989), volunteered
1988 - 1990 Faculty Executive Committee, elected
1988 - 1990 Chair, Learning Resources Committee (library advisory group), volunteered
1988 - 1997 Various Trustees' Committees (Student Services, Building and Grounds, and Academic Affairs), elected
1987 - 1998 Mentor for several newly hired faculty members, assigned
1987 - 1989 International Education Advisory Committee, volunteered
1987 - 1989 Judicial Board, volunteered
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS:
• Developed a successful major in art history, resulting in the addition of two full-time faculty members
• Instrumental in securing the college’s first permanent collection of artworks, donated by Quayton Stottlemyer
• Designed, implemented, and have taught a total of twelve courses spanning the entire history of art
• Scanned and digitized all slides for advanced art history courses, to provide students with easy computer access
• Organized and built the college’s art history slide library, adding more than 45,000 new slides
• Supervised and sponsored numerous student research presentations at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and the Juniata Research Symposium
• Developed and co-supervised a student gallery practicum beginning in 1988, a unique opportunity at the undergraduate level, now headed by our JC curator
• Sponsored many off-campus gallery internships at prestigious locations (e.g. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and, National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, DC)
• Led overnight art history field trips for many years to Baltimore, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC
• Taught “Comparative Cultures: A Survey of Western Art Styles,” during two summers for “Scholars Abroad” programs