Officers & Committees

President
Antje Gamble (2027)

Dr. Antje Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. She is an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University in Kentucky. Dr. Gamble’s recent book, titled Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design: “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today,” (Routledge Press, 2023) looks at the 1950-53 exhibition Italy at Work that traveled to twelve American museums with an interdisciplinary approach. Her scholarship has also been included in the recent volumes: Modern in the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, 1929–1949 (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) and Postwar Italian Art History Today: Untying ‘the Knot’ (Bloomsbury Press, 2018); and another essay on the 1949 MoMA exhibition in Italian Modern Art. Dr. Gamble has previously been the chair of IAS’s Emerging Scholars Committee (ESC, 2016-19), the IAS Treasurer (2021-23), Executive Vice President (2023-25).

Executive Vice President
Kelli Wood (2027)

Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History – Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from sixteenth century board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. In 2024 – 2025 Wood is a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti and an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Her new projects turn toward craft production in Goa, India based on her field work as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India in 2022-2023. Wood’s scholarship has also been generously supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in 2021-2022, the Michigan Society of Fellows, a CASVA Kress fellowship, and the Fulbright Italy. Wood curated the permanent gallery ‘A Global History of Sport’ of the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup. A member of the IAS since 2015, Wood has served on the Emerging Scholars and Awards committees.

Vice President for Program Coordination
Rebecca M. Howard (2028)

Rebecca M. Howard is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis. Her research considers early modern Italian portraiture, memory, expressions of identity, conceptions of race, and Renaissance trade. She has published articles on these topics in venues such as: Source: Notes in the History of Art, the Journal of Material Culture, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Emblematica, and Arts journal. She has also contributed chapters on early modern conceptions of race to the edited volumes: Teaching Race in the European Renaissance and Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness. Her book, Portraiture and Mnemonics in Renaissance Italy: Connecting and Remembering, is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press, which was recently acquired by Taylor and Francis.

Treasurer
Lucia Colombari (2027)

Lucia Colombari is Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Bologna, Italy, her research lands at the intersection of international avant-gardes, transnational exchange, and politics of exhibitions in museums and world’s fairs during the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Italian modernism. Dr. Colombari has published articles about Italian Futurism, Italy-U.S. cultural and political relations, and exhibitionary practices in journals such as the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her current book project critically examines the role of world’s fairs and international exhibitions in the reception, dissemination, and transformation of Italian Futurism in the United States during the first decades of the twentieth century. Her research has received generous support from distinguished institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, the Italian Art Society, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Secretary
Luis Javier Cuesta Hernandez (2027)

Dr. Luis Javier Cuesta Hernandez is a scholar of the art and architecture of New Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. A professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, he is especially interested in the artistic relations between Europe and the Americas and in the architectural theory of New Spain. He served in numerous administrative positions at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, including as the Dean of the Humanities (2017-2022) and chair of the Art Department (2012-2017). He is the author of four books—the most recent is Traces in History. Spanish Art in Mexico (2020)—and of over sixty articles and essays; he also served as curator of exhibitions for the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, both in Mexico City.