In Memoriam: Andrew J. Cosentino

The late art historian Andrew J. Cosentino (1931–2024) earned his Ph.D. in art history in 1976 from the University of Delaware, teaching for several years at Franklin & Marshall College before accepting a 1980–81 Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum). Among other achievements, he is recognized at the Smithsonian and beyond for curating the exhibitions The Paintings of Charles Bird King 1785–1862 in 1977 and The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 in 1983 for the NCFA. Read Dr. Cosentino’s obituary.

Carolanne Deal

Since graduating from UD’s 4+1 program in Art History for Museum Professionals, Carolanne Deal, M.A. ‘19, has held positions at the Delaware Historical Society, State of Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs (HCA), the Rehoboth Art League and, most recently, the Brandywine Museum of Art. In 2022, Deal was hired as lead researcher on HCA’s groundbreaking “LGBTQ+ History of Delaware: We Have Always Been Here” Research & Digital Engagement project. 

Prior to this project, there was minimal historical research published on the state’s LGBTQ+ community, so Deal’s research was unprecedented. She conducted oral history interviews with 30 members of Delaware’s queer community, using their lived experiences as primary source evidence. They also performed research at local archives like University of Delaware Special Collections, William Way LGBT Center, John J. Wilcox Jr. Archives, and Delaware Public Archives. The year-long research project culminated in an online archive highlighting some people, locations and objects of Delaware’s queer history. 

Deal continues to do queer history research as an independent researcher and educator, posting the stories and images on @DelawareQueerHistory, an Instagram account they created in 2023. In February 2024, Deal was hired as associate registrar at the Brandywine Museum of Art. In this role, they assist with the preservation, documentation, research and exhibition of the museum’s incredible American Art Collection. Recently, Deal stewarded the Nathaniel Wyeth miniature collection, which was displayed during the holidays as part of the Wonderful World of Wyeth Miniatures exhibition at Brandywine. 

Nenette Luarca-Shoaf

Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Ph.D. ’12, has been appointed the Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education and Public Engagement at the The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, effective March 31, 2025. Read the announcement in The Huntington.

Anna Marley

Anna Marley, P.h.D ’09, has joined the Toledo Museum of Art as the director of curatorial affairs. Prior to joining the team in Toledo, Marley, a scholar of art and material culture of the Americas and the British Atlantic world from the colonial era to 1945, curated more than 16 exhibitions as the Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

William Morgan

Architectural historian and photographer William Morgan, Ph.D. ’71, has published two new books. Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States (2023), traces the entire arc of Collegiate Gothic, from its first emergence at campuses like Kenyon and Bowdoin to its apotheosis in James Gamble Rogers’s intricately detailed confections at Yale. The Cape Cod Cottage (2025), follows the uniquely American house type from its earliest beginnings in the colonial period, through its spread across New England, to its embrace as a suburban ideal in the twentieth century, and its reinterpretation by contemporary architects. 

Julia Mun

Julia Mun, M.A. ‘23, a graduate of UD’s 4+1 program in Art History for Museum Professionals, is currently assistant curator at Art Bridges Foundation. She works with museum partners nationwide to help place works from the collection and increase access to important art of the American experience to communities everywhere. She has a show at the Bruce Museum titled Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror, which features nine galvanized steel sculptures by Isamu Noguchi and explores how he engaged with complicated structures of duality that have come to define Asian American identities and experiences. It runs through November 2025.

Rachelle B. Pablo

Rachelle B. Pablo, M.A. ’21 (Navajo Nation), a veteran of the U.S. Armed Services, was appointed museum specialist for the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. 

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll

As George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D. ’19, is about to open a major exhibition, Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in June 2025. He is also hard at work on a major exhibition and book titled Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone, co-organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation, which will open in February 2026. He curated two additional exhibitions that opened at his previous post, the Georgia Museum of Art, in 2024: Joel Sternfeld: When It Changed and Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun, winner of an award for best exhibition from the Georgia Association of Museums in 2025. He also published an essay based on his dissertation research, "'Within Arm’s Reach': The Holy Land through the Stereoscope, ca. 1900," in the summer/autumn 2024 issue of Winterthur Portfolio.