Educational Counseling Experience:

· Student Advisement (currently 23 advisees – Art History Majors)

· Graduate thesis committee: Martha Moore; Denise Marsh, Howard Summers, Kathleen  Sneed

· Advising students in preparation for presentation of papers for delivery at conferences: Art History Forum: Laura Moody, Angela Gaston, Carla Ledgerwood, Sara Snow, Cassie Vaughan, Sarah Middlemast, Margaret Griffin, Shelley Donaldson, Cassie Vaughan

· Big Night: Sara Snow, Shelley Donaldson

· Hawaii Conference on International Studies: Cassie Vaughan

· Letters of recommendation for various students for purposes of employment or graduate school applications

· Art History Association, UCA, 1999-2000

Advisement of Student Organizations:

· Kappa Pi. At Honors Fraternity

· Judge, art work submitted for Eclectic 2003, Eclectic 2004, Eclectic 2005 student art/literary journal of UWG

Participation in educational activities:

· Educational Testing Service: Faculty Consultant for Advanced Placement Art History examinations. Service in reviewing Advanced Placement exams for high school students Summer 2006, Summer 2007

· Educational Policy Improvement Center Center for Educational Policy Research, review of proposed syllabi for Advanced Placement exams in Art History 2006-2007, 2007-2008

· Judge/Advisor, Senior Art History Colloquium, 2006: Lindsey Young, Cassandra Vaughan; 2003: Laura Moody

· SAT Preparation of High School students through Sylvan Learning Center, Carrollton (helped to raise scores up to 1300 points)

· SAT essay component scorer

· Supervision of student Internship. Cassie Vaughan, Museum of Contemporary Design, Atlanta

· Evaluation: Senior Exhibitions: Rebecca Baggett, Lexia Snow, Michelle Cioletti, Jeff Helms, Katie Andrews, Dean Cromer, Christy Childers, Amena Williams, Alyssa Wessinger, Natasha Simpson, Nikki Price, Ariel Jones, Kristy Childers, Stephanie Norton, Angela Gaston, Sara Sassaman, Aubre Shoemaker, Julie Lambert, Valerie Bedard, Maceya McGuire, Paige Burkhalter, Jeni Hall, Nina Dahl, Brynn Horne, Jane Fier, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Dustin Ross, Julie Biggers, Christin Lanier, Amber Dow, Kelli Mincey, Trisha Lamberth, Ashleigh Yearty, Angela Sasser, Kasey Carr

· Designed informational poster for careers in Art History

· Development of Power Point presentation for Art History as major discipline and as career

· Participation in High School Workshop hosted by Art Department

· October, 2001. Inauguration of Undergraduate Art History Forum, with Dorothy Joiner of UWG & LaGrange College, Emily Hanna of Georgia State. Conceived as annual event, rotating among schools, ongoing. 5^th annual event in preparation for 2006.

· Art History Consortium initiated, 2002. Participation of colleges and universities across the State of Georgia, for facilitation of participation in annual undergraduate Art History Forum, to be hosted at member institutions

· Facilitated Art History student book awards for Art Department Honors Luncheon

· Development of Museum-based term projects for all Art History courses

· Collaboration with Writing Center for development of written term projects for Art History students

· Development of digital classroom for Art History classes. In cooperation with Dr. Elizabeth Morton. (Tech Grant proposals submitted to further goals of digital instruction: Spring 2003 (not funded); revised with Dr. Elizabeth Morton and resubmitted Spring 2004 (not funded; revised submission submission Spring 2005 for remaining 2005 funds (not funded) Submission Spring 2005 for 2006 competition

· Ongoing development of potential online courses and course components.

· Development of website for all my classes, with continual update and requirement that students access course material via web http://www.westga.edu/~rtekippe/

· New Courses developed:

· Online Early Modern Art and Architecture:  1880-1945
· Online Art 2201: Survey of Western Art I: Prehistory-Gothic
· XIDS 2100 Art & Architecture of India, China, & Japan
· Art 2201H Survey of Western Art History I for Honors students
· Art 2202H Survey of Western Art History II for Honors students
· Art 2000 Oral Communication and the Visual Arts
· History of Interior Design
· Art of the 20^th & 21^st Centuries
· History of Early Christian, Byzantine, & Medieval Art
· Arts of Medieval Pilgrimage: Romanesque & Gothic Art & Architecture
· Senior Seminar in Art History
· Special Topics in Art History: The Age of Rubens & Rembrandt
· Special Topics in Art History: Pollock to the Present
· Museum Seminar: New York City
· American Art

Academic Achievement

Degree	School	Year
PhD	The Ohio State University	1999
MA	The Ohio State University	1993
MFA	Georgia State University	1985
BA	Benedictine College, Atchison KS (formerly Mt. St. Scholastica Coll.)	1967

MFA Drawing and Painting Thesis: The Altarpiece - a written document and a one-person exhibition

MA History of Medieval Art Thesis: A Reliquary of the Virgin and Child in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the vita angelica.

PhD History of Medieval Art Dissertation: Procession, Piety, and Politics: Three Medieval Rheno-Mosan Reliquary Shrines and the Cult Communities for Bishop-Saints Servatius of Maastricht, Eleutherius of Tournai, and Remaclus of Stavelot. Minor fields: Buddhist Art and Architecture, Early Modern Art and Architecture

Academic Honors

· Grant Writing Workshop, UWG, Summer 2006

· 2000 -- Jepson Dissertation Award, for dissertations with implications for leadership studies, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

· 1998 --Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University. One-year fellowship: financial support (stipend + tuition waiver) for completion of PhD dissertation (university-wide competition)

· 1997 -- Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, for dissertation research travel in Europe (national competition)

· 1996 -- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, Small Grant for dissertation research in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands

· 1996 -- Graduate School Alumni Research Award from The Ohio State University for dissertation research in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands

· Sara Jane Pyne Scholarship Awards (Ohio State University, History of Art):

· May, 1998: to present paper at 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1998, with matching grant from Graduate School

· Feb. 1997: to present paper: Illinois Medieval Assn conference, Loyola Univ., Chicago

· Nov., 1996: for dissertation research in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands

· Sept., 1995: to present paper: Medieval Assn. of Midwest, Nor. Mich. Univ., Marquette

· Cathleen M. Murnane Fund Awards (Ohio State University, History of Art):

· May, 1999: to present paper: 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1999

· April, 1996: dissertation research, New York City; to consult scholars on Medieval Enamels and the Relic Cult at Metropolitan Museum of Art colloquium

· June, 1992: MA thesis research: New York: Pierpont Morgan Lib., Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum.

· 1994-95 - NEH Foreign Language Area Service Fellowship to study German in conjunction with doctoral studies in the History of Art. Full support plus tuition waiver for academic year.

· 1990-1997 -- Graduate Associateships, Ohio State University, each academic year, each summer

· Graduate Teaching Associateships - Department of History of Art

· Graduate Admin./Teaching Associateship - Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Professional Growth & Development

Membership in Professional Societies

• International Center for Medieval Art (nominated for governance board, 2005, 2007)
• Southeastern College Art Conference
• Medieval Academy of America
• College Art Association
• Medieval Association of the Midwest
• International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Arts. Founding member, 2000.
• Visual Resources Association
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University
• Medieval & Renaissance Grad Students Assn, Ohio State University - founding board member, 1996
• Graduate Student Association, History of Art, The Ohio State University. Elected President (1994-95), Curriculum Committee Rep (1993-94), Rep to University Council of Grad Students (1992-93)
• MED-ART listserv: scholarly discussion group on Medieval Art History
• Centrechartrain listserv:  scholarly discussion group centered around the History of Chartres, the Town, its Cathedral, and Region
   

Publications

•  "The Grand Procession at Tournai: the Community Writ Large"  for Push Me, Pull You: Art and Devotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Laura Gelfand and Sara Blick.  to be published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2009

• Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, a 500-article/1,300,000-word compendium to be published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, in 2009.  One of 7 Associate editors, in charge of Art & Architecture.  General editor is Larissa Taylor. to date 173 entries have been commissioned.

• "Typologie et fonctions des reliquaires mosans," section of edited chapter "L'orfèvrerie mosane"  ed. Albert Lemeunier, in L‘art Mosan: Liège et son pays à l’époque romane du XIe au XIIIe siècle. Benoît Van den Bossche, editor. Liège: Éditions du Perron, 2007.

• Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, a collection of 28 studies, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2005. 1120 pages in 2 volumes, including 348 illustrations. Co-editor with Dr. Sarah Blick of Kenyon College of volume, co-author of introduction, author of one included essay.

• "Introduction: Scope and Focus of the Volume," in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. Eds. Rita Tekippe, Sarah Blick. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2005. Vol. I: xiii-xxxii.

• "Pilgrimage and Procession: Correlations of Meaning and Practice, and the Effects in Art and Architecture," in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage. Eds. Rita Tekippe, Sarah Blick. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005. Vol. I: pp. 693-752.         

• Carrollton Collects 2004: Selected Prints from Audubon’s Birds of America Folios from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. James Rash. Catalogue for Exhibition, State University of West Georgia, October 1-29, 2004. Carrollton GA, 2004.

• "Copying Power: Emulation, Appropriation, and Borrowing for Royal Political Purposes," Visual Resources, Vol. XX, Nos. 2-3, March 2004, pp.143-59.

• Translation of French articles into English for Art & Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles: Albert Lemeunier "The Eventful Lives of Two Mosan Châsses" ( 22 pages); "The Iconography of the Rheno-Mosan Châsses of the Thirteenth Century." (20 Pages)

• "Artists Take a Busman’s Holiday," review: September 2002 Exhibition of Milliken & Company 5^th Works Outside Work in UWG Art Department gallery. Carrollton Times Georgian, The LaGrange Daily News.

• Holy People of the World: An Encyclopedia. 3 Vols. Phyllis Jestice, ed. ABC-CLIO. 2004 Three articles commissioned. (In Press):

• "Eligius of Noyon"
• "Lambert of Liège"
• "Bishop-Saints"
• Student Study Guide (adjunct text to Art: A Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad. Prentice-Hall, 1999). Prentice-Hall: Pearson Education Group, 2000.
• "How to Teach This Course" (part of Instructor’s Resources Manual, adjunct text to Art: A Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad. Prentice-Hall, 1999). Prentice-Hall: Pearson Education Group, 2000.
• Encyclopedia of Sculpture. Andrea Böstrum, editor. Taylor & Francis 3 articles commissioned: (Publication 2004)
• "Giovanni Pisano"
• "Pulpit, San Andrea, Pistoia"
• "Porphyry"
• Medieval Germany:An Encyclopedia. John M. Jeep, Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden, Joan A. Holladay, et al., eds. New York: Garland Publishing Co, 2000:
• "Frederick I Barbarossa"
• "Gothic and Late Gothic Ivories"
• "Siegburg"

Papers Read at Conferences, Invited Lectures, Roundtables, Panels

"The Artistic Patronage of Abbot Wibald of Stavelot" paper presented in session "Business as Usual: The Economics of Artistic Production in the Middle Ages" at Southeastern College Art Conference, October 28, 2006, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

"Copying Charlemagne: Emulation, Appropriation, and Borrowing for Royal Political Purposes" August 30, 2006.  invited presentation for UWG Centennial Lecture series

"Using Camtasia for Video-Clip Exercises,"presented as part of the Vice President's Blended Classroom Program, November 30, 2006

"Processional Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: Journeys and Goals". Paper presented at the 39^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2004.

"Relic Cults and Corpus Christi: Bodily Procession in the Diocese of Liège" Paper read at the 78th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, with a theme of "Encounter and Exchange" in Minneapolis, April 2003. It was included in the session "Art and Performance."

"The Treasures of Irish Medieval Liturgical Art," invited lecture for The Art Study Group. November 2, 2001. Carrollton.

"The Pilgrim at Aachen: Visions of the Virgin & Virtuous Emperors"– invited lecture for Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, September 30, 2001.

"The Imperial Chapel at Aachen: Accumulated Art Objects with Messages of Power and Virtue" – Extra-curricular lecture for Arkansas Governors School. July 11, 2001.

"How to Understand Art", invited lecture, UCA Humanities Fair: enrichment activities for Arkansas High School students.

"Images of Women in Medieval Art, guest lecture for course Women in Art, led by Prof. Gayle Seymour.February 19, 2001, University of Central Arkansas.

Invited participant, roundtable: Exile: Leeds International Medieval Congress planning session, for the 13^th annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, to be held July, 2002. Planning session at Kalamazoo MI. May 3, 2001.

Topics in 20th Century Art. Invited lecture, Ark. Governors School, Hendrix Coll. June 23, 24, 2000.

"Popular Piety and Politics: Pageants, Processions, Pilgrimage and Visual Spectacle in the Middle Ages". Extra-curricular lecture for Arkansas Governors School. June 14, 2000.

"Tournai and Bishop Eleutherius: Resurrection of a City and Its Saint," Paper presented for 34th Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1999.

"Processions with Reliquary Shrines: Spectacles for Cult Communities," Presentation at 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 8, 1998.

"Undying Devotion: Reliquary Shrines and Community Veneration of Bishop-Saints of the Rhine and Meuse Valleys" Illinois Medieval Association, Popular Piety: Prayer, Devotion, and Cult, February 22, 1997, Loyola University, Chicago.

"A Reliquary of the Virgin and Child in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the vita angelica" for the Medieval Association of the Midwest, 11th Annual Conference -- September 28-30, 1995. Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.

"Teaching Medieval Art History" component of OSU Summer 1995 workshop "Teaching the Middle Ages" for secondary school teachers, Prof. Eve Levin, Director.

"The Tectonics of Contemplative Vision" for the Annual History of Art Graduate Student Symposium – February 25, 1994.

Conference Sessions Organized, Sponsored, or Presided Over

Organizer of sessions on Art & Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, for 43rd annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 2008

Invited panelist round table discussion "How to Get Published: Advice from Editors and Insiders, with focus on my experience as an online publisher of Peregrinations.  &n  under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Arts

Invited Presider, Sessions on Pilgrim Badges in honor of Brian Spencer for the 17^th Annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, July, 2005.

Invited Presider, Session of The Hagiography Society, May 8, 2005. 40^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.

Invited Presider, Session of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Arts. May 6, 2005. 40^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.

Four special art history sessions sponsored for 40^th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May, 2005.

Three special art history sessions sponsored for 39^th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May, 2004. Served as presider for one session.

Five special art history sessions in two topic areas, sponsored for the 38^th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May, 2003. Co-sponsors: Dr. Kristen Van Ausdall, Dr. Sarah Blick, Kenyon College

1) Art and Architecture of Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles:

§ Creating Concepts of Pilgrims and Pilgrimage Churches (4 speakers)

§ Connections to Jerusalem & Heavenly Jerusalem through Pilgrimage Sites & Signs (4 speakers)

§ Miracles of the Blood, Miracles of the Eucharist (4 speakers)

2) Copying in the Middle Ages:

§ Architectural Replication (4 speakers)

§ Copying in Manuscripts (4 speakers)

"Visual Experience at Medieval Pilgrimage Sites in Northern Europe and the British Isles" Two special art history sessions sponsored for the 37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 4, 2002 (organizer and presider):

§ Vicarious Travel to the Holy Land (4 speakers)

§ The Holy Made Manifest (4 speakers)

Co-sponsors: Brill Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, Dr. Sarah Blick, Kenyon College.

Invited Presider for general session on "The Literature and Art of Pilgrimage," for the 37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 3, 2002. (4 speakers)

"New Research in Arts of Pilgrimage in Medieval England & Northern Europe" Special session. 36^th Int. Cong. Med. Stud. Kalamazoo, 5/06/01: 4 speakers/papers. Organizer and presider. Co-sponsor/organizer: Dr. Sarah Blick, Kenyon College.

"The Arts of Regional Pilgrimage Centers in England and Northern Europe," Special session. 35^th Int. Cong. Med. Stud., Kalamazoo, May, 2000. 3 speakers. Co-sponsor: Dr. Sarah Blick, Kenyon College.

Editorships

• Encyclopedia of Pilgrimage. Larissa Taylor, General Editor Associate Editor (one of 7): responsibility for "Art & Architecture" articles for the 2 volume work. To be published by Brill, Leiden. 2009. determination and selection of covered topics in progress, solicitation of submissions, editorial oversight to ensue.
• Visual Resources, special issue on Copying in the Art of the Middle Ages, 7 essays co-edited with Sarah Blick and Vibeke Olsen ( 2004).
• "Northern Pilgrimage Art & Copying in Medieval Art: Sessions at Kalamazoo" in AVISTA, Vol. XX, Nos. 2-3, March 2004, pp. 21-24, with Sarah Blick.
• Peregrinations. Periodical publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Arts. Established 2002 (online, since 2004). Executive Editor.
• Proceedings of the 1^st Annual Georgia Undergraduate Art History Forum. Co-edited with Dorothy Joiner. Essays submitted by participants in the forum, published by State University of West Georgia, Carrollton. Supported by a grant from LaGrange College. 2003.

· "A Vision for the Virtuous: Contemplation of a Reliquary of the Virgin and Child from the Cleveland Museum of Art" -- article in preparation for Cleveland Studies in the History of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

· "Art History Online" -- how to create the course, transforming a lecture course for online format, to be submitted for DE Journal

· "Bishop-Saints and the Politics of Leadership as Demonstrated in Pictorial Imagery," in Collected Studies from the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond. (Forthcoming)

           Professional Competency Enhancement:

For Speculum Journal of the Medieval Academy of America. Review of  Jean-Luc Deuffic, ed. Reliques et Sainteté dans l’Espace Médiéval.  Multilingual compilation of  27 essays from Pecia, resources en médiévistique volumes 8-11. 2005 (in process)

For Speculum Journal of the Medieval Academy of AmericaReview of Ingrid Baumgärtner Helmarhausen: Buchkultur und Goldschmiedekunst im Hochmittelalter. Kassel: Euregioverlag, 2003. April 2007

For Speculum Journal of the Medieval Academy of America. Review of Susanne Wittekind. Altar—Reliquiar--Retable Kunst und Liturgie bei Wibald von Stablo. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2004. April 2007

For The Sixteenth Century Journal review of Köln: Bilder einer spätmittelalterlichen Stadt by Yvonne Leiverkus. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2005. in progress, to be published 2007

For Lealan Swanson, proposed text for Non-western art courses, 2006

For Speculum Journal of the Medieval Academy of America. Review of Decorations for the Holy Dead: Visual Embellishments on Tombs and Shrines of Saints, edited by Stephen Lamia and Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo. From the series International Medieval Research: Art History Volume 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Fall 2004.

2004 – reader of article, to evaluate for publication in Journal of the Association of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Arts, Mustapha Hamil, editor. Blind review of essay on art by Emil Nolde.

2001 – referee, medieval art history article, Philological Review, John Parrack, ed

Review editor, peer articles for intended publication: Cecilia Gaposchkin, Lisa Cerisi, Benôit Van den Bossche, Sarah Blick

Judge, 15^th Annual Fine Arts Competition, Paulding Fine Arts Association. Dallas Georgia, March 10, 2004. Member of 3-person panel, judging entries for places and awards in 5 categories

Judge, 14^th Annual Fine Arts Competition, Paulding Fine Arts Association. Dallas Georgia, March 9, 2003. Member of 3-person panel, judging 45 entries for places and awards in 5 categories

Judge, 38^th Annual Chiaha Harvest Fair, Rome, Georgia. October 26, 2002. Assessed best in show, 10 Runners-up, among approximately 125 entries. 

References will be supplied upon request.