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Saundra Weddle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture
Office: HSA 201
Phone: (417) 873-7437
E-mail: sweddle@drury.edu Education
1997: Ph.D., History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University
1992: Master of Arts, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University
1986: Bachelor of Arts, Advertising/French, Pennsylvania State University Teaching
2001-present: Associate Professor, Drury University
2000-2001: Visiting Assistant Professor, Drury University
2000: Adjunct Professor, Drury University
1998-1999: Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
1996-1997: Visiting Lecturer, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; School of Architecture, Study Abroad Program at Versailles University Service
• Chair, Task Force on Academic Integrity (appointed)
• Chair, Hammons School of Architecture International Studies Committee (appointed)
• Member, Dean’s Assessment Review Council (appointed)
• Member, Hammons School of Architecture Search Committee (appointed)
• Member, ad hoc committee on Writing Proficiency
• Member, Global Studies Assessment Committee (elected)
• Member, Provost Search Committee (elected)
• Advisor, Mortar Board Honor Society
• Member, landscape architecture task force; Member, task force for strengthening intellectual community Publications
"Women's Place in the Family and the Convent: A Reconsideration of Public and Private in Renaissance Florence," Journal of Architectural Education, special issue on "Gender and Architecture," eds. Diane Ghirardo and John Stuart, (November 2001): 64-72."'Women in Wolves' Mouths': Nuns' Reputations and Architecture at the Convent of Le Murate," in Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, ed. Helen Hills, Ashgate Publishing Limited, (2003), 115-29. Book review: Anabel Thomas, Art and Piety in Female Religious Communities in Renaissance Italy: Iconography, Space and the Religious Woman’s Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003), for CAA Reviews. "Identity and Alliance: Urban Presence, Spatial Privilege and Florentine Renaissance Convents," in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, ed. Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti, Cambridge University Press, (2006), 394-414.Book review: Alice Jarrard, Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris (Cambridge University Press, 2003), for Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming 2005) The Chronicle of the Florentine Convent of Le Murate, Written by Suora Giustina Niccolini, 1597, edited, translated and annotated version of the original manuscript, accepted for publication in the Other Voices series for the University of Chicago Press (forthcoming 2006) Paper Presentations and Conference Participation
December 2006: “Florence as a Sacred Cityscape in the Codex Rustichi,” Conference on Bildergeschichten: Italian illustrated chronicles in their communal context, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.March 2006: “When Private becomes Public: Florentine Convents in the Ritual Context,” in the session “Re-visiting the Renaissance City: urban experience and transformation,” presenter and session organizer; Renaissance Society of America.2005: “The Ritual Frame and the Limits of Spatial Enclosure in the Early Modern City,” Changing Boundaries conference, co-sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art Invited speaker, Drury University Convocation Series, “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: Women and the Renaissance City”
2004: Invited moderator, Renaissance Architecture session, annual conference of the Southeastern chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians “The Place of Convents in Florentine Triumphal Entries,” Renaissance Society of America , New York City 2003: "Procession as an Instrument of Power: the Convent of Le Murate in Florence," Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada. "The Codex Rustichi and the Construction of Everyday Experience in Quattrocento Florence," Renaissance Art Open Session, College Art Association, New York City. 2001: "Constructing Pilgrimage," session chair, College Art Association, Chicago, Illinois 1999: "Patterns of Patronage and the Struggle for Control at the Florentine Convent of Le Murate," conference on "Women Art Patrons and Collectors: Past and Present", New York Public Library 1998: "Form Misrepresents Function: Enclosure at the Florentine Convent of Le Murate during the Renaissance," session on Gender and Architecture in Early Modern Europe, College Art Association, Toronto, Canada 1993: "Florentine Perceptions of Place and the Piazza Santa Croce," Fordham University
conference on "Communities and Ideas of Community in the Middle Ages."
Honors and Awards
2001: Hammons School of Architecture Educator of the Year, Drury University AIAS
1995: The President's Council for Cornell Women Grant for dissertation research in Florence, Italy
1994-1995: The J. William Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Florence, Italy
1993: The Michele Sicca Summer Research Grant to launch dissertation research in Florence, Italy
1992: Richmond Harold Shreve Award for originality and excellence in a graduate
thesis in Architectural History Membership in Professional Societies College Art Association
Society of Architectural Historians
Renaissance Society of America
Southeast chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
Board of Directors - Center for Academic Integrity
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