Angi Bourgeois appointed dean of 无码专区鈥檚 College of Architecture, Art and Design
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 highly respected faculty member and administrator in Mississippi State鈥檚 Department of Art has been named the new dean of the university鈥檚 College of Architecture, Art and Design, pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning.
Effective July 1, Professor Angi Elsea Bourgeois will lead CAAD after serving nearly two years as the head of its Department of Art, home to the Magnolia State鈥檚 largest undergraduate studio art program. She succeeds the college鈥檚 founding dean Jim West, one of DesignIntelligence鈥檚 25 Most Admired Educators for 2016 who has resumed full-time teaching duties.
In making the announcement, 无码专区 Provost and Executive Vice President Judy Bonner said Bourgeois 鈥渋s poised to build on the solid foundation that has been established and the progress of the college鈥檚 first 14 years.鈥
鈥淚 look forward to working with Angi as she uses her energy and vision to bring the collective talents of the faculty, students, alumni and industry leaders together to make the College of Architecture, Art and Design even stronger and more visible within our great state, the region and nation,鈥 Bonner said.
鈥淚 also want to thank Dean Jim West for the leadership he has provided as the founding dean of this unique college. He has led with distinction and garnered strong support for the college, its faculty and academic programs, and we are so pleased that he will continue to support the college and 无码专区 as a faculty member,鈥 Bonner said.
An 无码专区 faculty member since 2002, Bourgeois has taught a variety of art history courses and climbed the academic ranks with a promotion to professor coinciding with her appointment as art department head. She was re-elected to a two-year term in January as secretary for the Italian Art Society, an international scholarly organization that she joined in 2004.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a great privilege to be given this opportunity to follow in Dean West鈥檚 very capable footsteps,鈥 Bourgeois said. 鈥淭he College of Architecture, Art and Design has supported me throughout my career, and I鈥檓 excited to step into this new role and serve the college at such a dynamic moment.鈥
In addition to graduating with honors in art history from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, Bourgeois holds a doctorate in Italian Renaissance and medieval art history from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
She is the author of 鈥淩econstructing the Lost Frescoes of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome from the 鈥楳editationes鈥 of Cardinal Juan de Torquemada: A Case Study in the History of Art鈥 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). In 2010, she published a digital textbook for art history survey courses titled 鈥淭he History of the Art of the Western World from Prehistory through the Gothic.鈥
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