Cristelle L. Baskins

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Tufts University
Art and Art History
ChairAppointed: 2006
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Mailing Address

Tufts University
Department of Art and Art History
11 Talbot Ave.
Medford, Massachusetts 02155
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (617) 627-2716
Fax: (617) 627-3890
Mobile: (781) 234-8776
cristelle.baskins@tufts.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Art History, 1988.

Previous Positions

2004-2005, Acting Chair, Tufts University, Arts and Sciences, Art History
1997-2006, Associate Professor, Tufts University, Arts and Sciences, Art & Art History
1996, Research Associate, Newberry Library
1994-1995, Research Associate, Oberlin College
1993-1994, Research Associate, Binghamton University
1990-1997, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Art and Art History
1988-1990, Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Visual Arts

Honors and Awards

2008-2008, CELT Seminar, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Tufts University
2008, Master's Teaching Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools
2001, Semester Leave Award - Mellon Funded, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University
1999, Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, book prize
1979, Phi Beta Kappa,

Funding Received

  • Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University: Grant in Aid, 2007 to 2007.
  • Critical Thinking Progam, Tufts: Curriculum Innovation Grant, 2005 to .
  • Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University: Summer Research Grant, 1999 to .
  • American Council of Learned Societies: Travel to International Meeting Abroad Grant, 1996 to .
  • Skalny Foundation: Curriculum Grant, 1994 to .
  • National Endowment for the Humanities: Travel to Collections Grant, 1990 to .
  • J. Paul Getty Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990 to 1991.
  • UC Berkeley: Dissertation Fellowship, 1986 to 1987.
  • Italian-American Association: Fellowship, 1985 to 1986.
  • Fulbright-Hays Commission: Fellowship, 1984 to 1985.
  • Phi Beta Kappa: Scholarship, 1984 to .
  • UC Berkeley: Humanities Research Grant, 1983 to .
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation: Summer Travel Grant, 1980 to .

Expertise and Research Interests

Italian Renaissance secular painting, material culture and decorative arts. Tuscany and the Levant. Screening the Renaissance.

Other Expertise

Co-curated 'The Triumph of Marriage' Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance, an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Oct 2008 - Jan 2009.

Editor, Appositions - electronic journal (2008- )

Editor, Studies in Iconography (2005-2008)

Awards Committee, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, 2002-2005

Referee for Art History, The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Hypatia, Renaissance Quarterly, Australian Journal of Art, Sixteenth Century Studies, Studies in Iconography, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, the CAA Monograph Series, University of Minnesota Press, J. Paul Getty Foundation, Prentice Hall, and Social Science Research Council of Canada.

Industrial Relevance

Renaissance Reader, interactive media project (London: Lawrence King Publishers, submitted fall 2004)

Publications

  • Baskins (2009) "The Bride of Trebizond: Turks and Turkmens on a Florentine Wedding Chest, Circa 1460" In J. Harper (eds), The `Turk' and Islam in the Western Eye (1453-1832), Burlington, VT, Ashgate, In Press (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (2008) The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance, Boston, Gutenberg Periscope Press, In Press
  • Baskins, L. Rosenthal (2007) Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning, Burlington, VT, Ashgate
  • Baskins (2007) "Shaping Renaissance Personification: Pisa Sforzata, Pisa Salvata" In Baskins (eds), Rethinking Allegory: Embodying Meaning in Early Modern Visual Culture, Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 91-108 pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (2006) "Bocche Inutili: Incorporating Pisa in the Florentine Imaginary", Early Modern Women, 1, 37-68
  • Baskins, S. Roush (2005) Marriage in the Middle Ages: Prudence, Passion, Policy, Tempe, AZ, MRTS
  • Baskins (2005) "Scenes From a Marriage: Hospitality and Commerce in Boccaccio's Saladin and Torello", In Baskins (eds), Marriage in the Middle Ages: Prudence, Passion, Policy, Tempe, AZ, MRTS, 97-117 pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (2003) Trecento Rome: The Poetics and Politics of Widowhood In Allison Levy (eds), Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 197-209. pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (2002) (In)Famous Men: The Continence of Scipio and Formations of Masculinity in Italian Renaissance Domestic Painting, Studies in Iconography, 23, 109-136
  • Baskins (1998) Cassone Painting, Humanism and Gender in Early Modern Italy, New York, Cambridge University Press
  • Baskins (1998) Trionfo della Pudicizia: Menacing Virgins in Italian Renaissance Domestic Painting In Marina Leslie (eds), Menacing Virgins, ed. M. Leslie, 117-126, 214-217 pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (1994) Gender Trouble in Renaissance Art History: Two Case Studies, Studies in Iconography, 16, 1-36
  • Baskins (1994) Corporeal Authority in the Speaking Picture: The Representation of Lucretia in Tuscan Domestic Painting In Richard Trexler (eds), Gender Rhetorics, 187-206 pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (1993) Donatello's Bronze David: Grillanda, Goliath, Groom?, Studies in Iconography, 15, 113-134
  • Baskins (1993) Echoing Narcissus in Alberti's Della Pittura, Oxford Art Journal, 16, 25-33
  • Baskins (1993) Typology, Sexuality and the Renaissance Esther In J.G. Turner (eds), Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 31-54 pages (bookchapter)
  • Baskins (1992) Griselda, or the Renaissance Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelor in Tuscan Cassone Painting, Stanford Italian Review, 10, 153-175
  • Baskins (1991) La Festa di Susanna: Virtue on Trial in Renaissance Sacred Drama and Painted Wedding Chests, Art History, 14, 329-345
  • Baskins (1989) Jacopo del Sellaio's Pieta in San Frediano, Burlington Magazine, 131, 474-479
  • Baskins, Jacopo del Sellaio, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Rome, Enciclopedia Italiana, forthcoming
  • Baskins, "Mannerist Painting and Postmodern Television" In M. Lasansky (eds), , The Italian Renaissance in Contemporary Popular Culture: a Cultural History of the Renaissance Legacy, Periscope Press, Submitted (bookchapter)

Future Research

Picturing the Levant in Renaissance Tuscany.

Screening the Renaissance

Memberships

College Art Association
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Italian Art Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Renaissance Society of America
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for Italian Historical Studies
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Italian: (Fluent, Basic, Functional)
Spanish: (Functional, None, Basic)
French: (Basic, None, None)
German: (Basic, None, None)
Hebrew: (Basic, None, None)

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Gender Issues, History and Appreciation of Art, Renaissance Studies, Women's Studies.

Additional Terms:

Cinema Studies, Italian Renaissance.

Profile Details

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