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Sally A. Struthers, PhD is Dean of Liberal Arts, Communication, and Social Sciences at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Struthers earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wright State University, majoring in Art History and Classics, and her Master of Arts and PhD in the History of Art from The Ohio State University.
Her doctoral dissertation traced the evolution of the putto form from Hellenistic Greece through the Early Renaissance. She has published articles in Profane Arts of the Middle Ages, Great Events from History: The Ancient World, and Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. She recently curated The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life for the Dayton Art Institute.
Dr. Frederick Suppe is Associate Professor of Medieval and Celtic History in the History Department at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches courses on Irish history, the history of all of the Celtic peoples, and medieval history. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his master's degree and PhD from the University of Minnesota. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth for two years and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He participated in the excavation of the ancient Celtic site called "Alkimoennis" at Kelheim on the River Danube in southern Germany during two summers. He also assisted in the excavation of Aberystywth Castle in Wales.
Dr. Suppe is currently Vice President of the Celtic Studies Association of North America and will become its President in April 2008. He also serves as treasurer for the Charles Homer Haskins Society, an international organization of medieval scholars. Dr. Suppe is author of the book Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches: Shropshire, 1066-1300 and he is currently writing a book covering the cultural history of all the Celtic peoples, including the Irish.
Roger Crum is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Dayton where he also served as the first Graul Chair in Arts and Languages. A specialist in Florentine Renaissance and Italian Fascist art and architecture, 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.
His co-edited publications include Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press, 2005) and Renaissance Florence: A Social History (Cambridge University Press, 2006) in addition to articles on various aspects of the Florentine Renaissance, Edgar Degas, Barnett Newman, the future of the book, and the photography of the Wright brothers. A regular director of the University of Dayton study abroad program in Florence, he is now at work on a study of the international dimensions of Florentine Renaissance art.