B.A, Mount Holyoke College; M.A, Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaches Southern and Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art, and related seminars. Research interests: Early Italian Renaissance, Italian Baroque architecture, modern architecture.
Dr. Allison Palmer received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University with a dissertation entitled "The Church of Gesù e Maria on the Via del Corso: Urban Planning in Baroque Rome." Her undergraduate degree in Art History with an emphasis on Italian language and literature is from Mount Holyoke College. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Renaissance Art through the Art of the Eighteenth Century for the School of Art in addition to several interdisciplinary humanities courses for the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Palmer has also taught several summer abroad programs in Italy and Germany for the School of Art and the College of Liberal Studies. Her teaching awards include the College of Fine Arts Peer Recognition Award (2004), the College of Liberal Studies Superior Teaching Award (2002), and the Rufus G. Hall Faculty Award from the College of Liberal Studies (2001). In addition, Dr. Palmer's publications focus on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, and include: Historical Dictionary of Architecture, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc. (forthcoming 2008); "The Image of the Risen Christ and the Art of the Roman Baroque Tabernacle," Proceedings of the International Conference "Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory, October, 2006; "The Maternal Madonna in Ouattrocento Florence: Social Ideals in the Family of the Patriarch," Source: Notes in the History of Art, vol. 21, no. 3, Spring 2002, pp. 7-14; "The Walters' Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy" Walters Art Journal, vol. 59, June 2001, pp. 73-84; "Carlo Maratti's Triumph of Clemency in the Altieri Palace in Rome: Papal Iconography in a Domestic Audience Hall," Source: Notes in the History of Art, vol. 17, no. 4, Summer 1998, pp. 18-25; "Bonino da Campione's Monument of Bernabo Visconti and Equestrian Sculpture in the Late Middle Ages," Arte Lombarda, vol. 121, no.3, 1997, pp. 57-66; "The First Building Campaign of the Gesù e Maria on the Via del Corso in Rome: 1615-1636," Architectura: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte derBaukunst, vol. 27, no. 1, 1997, pp. 120; and "The Church of Gesù e Maria and Augustinian Construction during the Counter-Reformation," Augustinian Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 1997, pp. 111-140.
