Associate Professor of Architecture

Saundra Weddle
926 S. Weller Avenue
Springfield, MO  65802
home:  417-832-9824; office:  417-873-7437; e-mail:  sweddle@drury.edu

EDUCATION

1990-1997: Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urbanism

• Ph.D. 1997
  Dissertation:  "Enclosing Le Murate:  The Ideology of Enclosure and the Architecture of a Florentine Convent, 1390-1597" 
• M.A. 1992
  Thesis:  "Florentine Perceptions of Place and the Piazza Santa Croce during the Quattrocento"

1982-1986 The Pennsylvania State University
B.A. Advertising/French:  December 1986

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

2000-present        Drury University, Springfield, MO
Joint Appointment: Hammons School of Architecture; Department of Art and Art History
Associate Professor (Assistant Professor 2000-2006)

• History of Art and Architecture, pre-history-1400
• History of Art and Architecture, 1400 - present
• Theories in Architecture
• History of Renaissance Art and Architecture
• History of Baroque Art and Architecture
• History of Museums and Collecting
• History of Asian Art and Architecture
• Global Awareness and Cultural Diversity:  Japan, India and the Arab Middle East
• The City in History
• Architecture Thesis Development Seminar
• Honors seminar:  Women’s Place in the Renaissance City
• Senior Seminar:  Contemporary Architecture and Theory; Thesis
• Summer study abroad programs:  Florence/Venice /Rome; Paris; Paris/Vienna/Berlin
• Honors Thesis supervisor
• Architecture Thesis supervisor
• Art History Capstone Project supervisor
• Summer Study Abroad Programs:  Florence/Venice/Rome; Paris; Paris/Vienna Berlin; Venice; Venice/Amsterdam

Spring 2000 Drury University, Springfield, MO
Department of Art and Art History
Adjunct Professor

•  History of Art and Architecture, 1000-1850

1998-1999 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
School of Architecture
Visiting Assistant Professor

•  History and Theory of Architecture, Ancient Egypt-1500
•  Early Renaissance Architecture and Urbanism
•  Seventeenth-Century Italian Architecture
•  Principles of Architectural History (graduate seminar)

1996-1997 The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
School of Architecture, Study Abroad Program at Versailles
Visiting Lecturer

•  Orientation Lecture Series:  Introduction to European Cities
•  Undergraduate Seminar:  Reading the Renaissance City

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming 2010:  The Chronicle of the Florentine Convent of Le Murate, Written by Suora Giustina Niccolini, 1598, edited, translated and annotated version of the original manuscript, accepted for publication in the Other Voices series for the University of Toronto Press

Forthcoming 2010: “Procession as Prelude to Foundation:  Resolving Conflict and Fixing Identity at the Florentine Convent of Le Murate,” in Foundation, Dedication and Consecration Rituals in Early Modern Culture, vol. 25, Intersections, eds. Maarten Delbeke, Jan de Jong and Minou Schraven.

Book review of Ann Robert, Dominican Women and renaissance Art:  The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa, in the series “Women and Gender in the Early Modern World,” 61:4 (2008), 1247-48.

“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, published online Spring 2009, <http://www.inha.fr/colloques/document.php?id=72>

“Saints in the City and Poets at the Gates:  The Codex Rustici as a Devotional and Civic Chronicle,” in Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy. Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, ed. David Peterson and Daniel Bornstein (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2008), 213-33.

"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 (Spring 2005), 207-8.

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), CAA Reviews (http://www.caareviews.org)

"'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.

"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.

LECTURES, PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

April 2010 “Modesty’s Mask at the Church and Convent of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice,” in the session “Urban Performances of Identity in Venice and Its Colonies,” paper presenter and panel organizer, Renaissance Society of America

May 2009 ‘Tis Better to Give than to Receive: Client-Patronage Exchange at the Florentine Convent of San Pier Maggiore,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

November 2007 “Type and Stereotypes in Renaissance Florentine Convents,” University of Kansas Early Modern Seminar (interdisciplinary faculty research seminar)

March 2007 “The Practice and Spaces of Reception at Florentine Convents during the Renaissance,” in the session “Spatial Identities of Religious Women in Renaissance Florence,” paper presenter and panel organizer, Renaissance Society of America

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 “Re-visiting the Renaissance City:  urban experience and transformation,” panel organizer; Renaissance Society of America

October 2005 “Liberal Arts and Contemporary Culture,” Drury University Presidential Inauguration Symposium

October 2005 “Building a Culture of Academic Integrity at a Small Liberal Arts University,” Center for Academic Integrity annual conference, pre-conference workshop

September 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, plenary session

March 2005 “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place:  Women and the Renaissance City,” Drury University Convocation Series

October 2004 Invited moderator, Renaissance Architecture session, annual conference of the Southeastern chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians       

April 2004 “The Place of Convents in Florentine Triumphal Entries,” Renaissance Society of America

March 2003 "Procession as an Instrument of Power: the Convent of Le Murate in Florence," Renaissance Society of America

February 2003 "The Codex Rustichi and the Construction of Everyday Experience in Quattrocento Florence," Renaissance Art Open Session, College Art Association

February 2001 "Constructing Pilgrimage," session chair, College Art Association

April 2000 "La Donna (non) è mobile:  Public and Private and the Place of Women in Renaissance Florence," Truman State University

March 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

February 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

February 1998 Bryn Mawr College, City 190, The Form of the City, Guest speaker
•  "The Birth of Urban Identity and the Italian City-Republic"
•  "Geography as a Historical and Urban Determinant:  Venetian Urban History"

January 1998 "The Ideal and Practices of Enclosure at the Florentine Convent of Le Murate during the Renaissance," Bryn Mawr College Art History Colloquium

March 1997 "The Ideology of Enclosure and the Architecture of Florentine Convents during the Renaissance," Study Abroad Program at Versailles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

March 1993 "Florentine Perceptions of Place and the Piazza Santa Croce," Fordham University conference on "Communities and Ideas of Community in the Middle Ages."

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Spring 2008 Graham Foundation Grant

Summer 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend

Summer 2004 Asian Studies Development Program Fellowship for participation in month-long seminar on Infusing Asian Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum, sponsored by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa

May 2001 Hammons School of Architecture Educator of the Year, awarded by the Drury University student chapter of the American Institute of Architects

May 2001 Drury University Mortar Board Society Recognition of Excellence in Teaching 

Fall 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

Summer 1993 The Michele Sicca Summer Research Grant to launch dissertation research in Florence, Italy

1992 The Richmond Harold Shreve Award for originality and excellence in a graduate thesis in Architectural History

Summer 1991 The Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship for research of 13th- and 14th-century Italian urbanism in Tuscany and Umbria

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2008 Invited architecture juror, University of Texas-Arlington superjuries (architectural jury of outstanding work from the professional program, reviewed by critics from outside the school)

2008 Book proposal reviewer, Ashgate Press

2007-2010 Member, editorial board, Journal of Architectural Education

2006 Peer reviewer, Gesta, journal of the International Center of Medieval Art

2005 Peer reviewer, ACSA Regional Conference, Clemson University

2002 Peer reviewer, Church History

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Society of Architectural Historians
Renaissance Society of America

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Chair, Hammons School of Architecture International Studies Committee 2001-present (appointed)
• Chair, Search Committee, Director of Library and Information Services 2009-2010 (appointed)
• Member, Academic Affairs Committee 2008-2010 (elected)
• Member, Honors Program Advisory Committee 2007-present (appointed)
• Advisor, _ism Art History Society 2008-present

• Chair, Task Force on Academic Integrity 2001-2004 (appointed)
• Member, Dean’s Assessment Review Council 2002-2004 (appointed)

• Member, Global Studies Assessment Committee 2004-2005 (elected)
• Member, Hammons School of Architecture Search Committee 2004-2005 (appointed)
• Member, Provost Search Committee 2004-2006 (elected)
• Member, University Grievance Committee, 2006-2007 (elected)
• Member, Student Affairs Committee 2001-2003 (elected)
• Advisor, Mortar Board Honor Society 2004-2006