Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, England
photograph by Martha Vines, December 2004

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• Taymouth Castle Aberfeldy, Scotland
  photograph by Martha Vines, September 2001
• Venice
  photograph by Martha Vines, May 1998
• Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
  photograph by Martha Vines, May 1997

teaching

Most of my students are not Art History majors/minors and are enrolled in the courses only to fulfill the General Education Requirement. My mission is simple: to introduce to them the discipline of Art History as a vibrant, thriving, and evolving area of study, with countless manifestations of that presence in the world in which they live. To make direct connections between the works we study and the students’ world is not difficult, whether those connections are related to architecture, current events, movies and television, museum and gallery exhibits, other disciplines in which they are enrolled, and so much more. My mantra: “Art History is the Center of the Universe.”

While my most important teaching responsibilities are the Survey classes, both “Paleolithic to Medieval” and “Renaissance to Modern,” my graduate work in the history and art of the Early Church has allowed me, on occasion, to teach beyond the survey level. I have taught a Global Studies course (“Christian Rome: Catacombs to Counter-Reformation”), which held classes both at UAH and in a two-week session in Rome; and, I have directed a Special Topics course related to Coptic Egypt. My studies in the Early Church, both the Latin West and the Greek East, continue to serve as my wellspring of special interests, which include the history of the liturgy, the site of the Shrine of St. Peter, the titulus churches of Rome, and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

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Download syllabus for ARH 100/01&02, Spring 2008, Survey: Ancient to Medieval.

Download syllabus for ARH 101-02, Spring 2008, Survey: Renaissance to Modern.