Board of Directors Election
2010 Candidates
Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton
Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton
Statement: CAA, though larger in its concerns than the interests of any one member, is fundamentally our organization. The strength of the association lies primarily in the diversity of its membership and catalytically in the many exchanges—in person, print, artistic production, and artistic advocacy—that we enjoy at different stages and with varied agenda in our careers. Above all, CAA is an organization concerned with nothing less than the art and artistic practitioners and professionals of the entire world, past, present, and future.
I seek election to the Board of Directors so that I might work with others, both on the board and across the membership, in contributing to the continued vitality, inclusiveness, and currency of our CAA. As someone who has greatly benefited from the career services, professional opportunities, and stimulating education about art afforded me through CAA, I ask for your support so that I might work on the board on your behalf. I would bring to this responsibility my longstanding engagement with the organization, including my dedicated service as a CAA career-development mentor for several years, my work as a former president of the Italian Art Society (a CAA affiliate), my present work at the University of Dayton in global and intercultural initiatives, and my abiding commitment to the importance of art and the contributions that myriad individuals and entities make to its production, preservation, study, and furtherance.
Biography: Roger J. Crum is professor of art history and liaison for global and intercultural initiatives at the University of Dayton in Ohio, where he has held the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages, directed numerous education-abroad programs in Italy, and received the Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Arts and Sciences. Crum offers courses ranging from introductory surveys to upper-level seminars in late medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern subjects, as well as the history of architecture and art-history methodology. He is also a collaborator with the School of Engineering and the School of Business Administration, most recently coteaching an engineering-design seminar and a course on the art of business and the business of art.
A graduate of the University of Michigan and with a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, Crum has been a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Crum specializes in Renaissance Florence and modern Italy but has also published on the sculpture of Edgar Degas, the religious imagery of Barnett Newman, the photography of the Wright brothers, and the future of the book. His major publications include Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy, coedited with Claudia Lazzaro (2005) and Renaissance Florence: A Social History, coedited with John T. Paoletti (2006). Crum is currently working on the international dimensions of Florentine Renaissance art.
A CAA member since 1987, Crum has chaired the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Jury and volunteered several times as a career-development mentor to young professionals in art history and studio art at the Annual Conference.
