"We want to afford a broad range of constituencies the opportunity to study and enjoy the museum's holdings in a setting that is both inspired and inspiring."

- Jill Deupi, Director of the Bellarmine Museum

Jill Deupi holds a law degree from the American University, Washington College of Law, an M.A. in Art History from the University of London's Birkbeck College, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Virginia. She was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 2002 to 2004, where she completed her doctoral research on the art and culture of 18th-century Naples. Jill has worked at a number of museums in England and the U.S., including the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Wallace Collection. Working in a wide range of capacities at each of these institutions, she mastered a broad range of curatorial and management skills. Jill is currently the Director of Fairfield University's Bellarmine Museum and an Assistant Professor of Art History. She is completing a Certificate in Arts Administration at New York University's School of Professional and Continuing Studies at present, ensuring that her skill set as a museum director will be of the highest possible calibre.

"Providing the University's art collection with a permanent, climate-controlled home in historic Bellarmine Hall - where it will be available for the entire community's benefit and enjoyment - is a goal I look forward to realizing."

- Carey Mack Weber, Registrar of the Bellarmine Museum

Carey Mack Weber has over 20 years of experience working with art objects. After graduating from Connecticut College with a B.A. in Art History and winning the Lyman Allan Museum Prize for Excellence in Art History, Carey spent a decade working in a number of high-profile art galleries in New York City. Starting as a registrar and quickly rising to gallery director, Carey mastered all aspects of the care, handling, and documentation of art objects. In her time at Fairfield University, Carey has worked as the Visual Resources Curator, with her focus on the digital images of objects. She also serves as the Coordinator of Traveling Exhibitions and, most recently, was named Interim Registrar. In the latter capacity, Ms. Weber has begun the critical process of locating, photographing, and recording works in Fairfield's Collection, in addition to ensuring that they are properly insured. She has also posted many of the most important pieces in the Collection on the web, making them available to the broadest possible audience.

"From a teacher's perspective it will be invaluable to be able to just walk with students up the hill to Bellarmine Hall and experience works of art created in the very culture being taught. From a student perspective, such a moment will bring their classroom and book learning to life."

- Marice E. Rose, Assistant Professor of Art History

Dr. Marice Rose is an alumna of Fairfield, receiving her B.A. in French and Art History. After earning her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University, she joined Fairfield as a Visiting Instructor and in 2005 became Assistant Professor. Her research and publications focus on late Roman domestic decoration, specifically images of women and slaves. She gives gallery talks on ancient and medieval topics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on the installation and publication of the ancient Cypriot art collection. She has presented at national and international conferences on both art historical and educational topics. Dr. Rose's pedagogical interest is in increasing student engagement through interdisciplinary, integrative learning. At Fairfeld, her courses are cross-listed in the Irish Studies, Classical Studies, Catholic Studies, and Russian/East European Studies programs.

Katherine Schwab, Associate Professor of Art History

Dr. Katherine Schwab has taught at Fairfield University since 1988, after completing her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has served as department chair for two consecutive terms, and has served as Art History program director for several years. Her areas of expertise and interest encompass Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, as well as South Asian and Asian Art. As Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Plaster Cast Collection at Fairfield University, Dr. Schwab oversees a growing cast collection of gifts and long-term renewable loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as gifts from individual donors. Dr. Schwab's primary area of expertise is the Parthenon metopes, a component of the large sculptural program. Drawing and digital photography form a major part of her investigative tools. Her research, which is generously facilitated by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the First Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and the Ministry of Culture, in Greece, has yielded new information on the original appearance of the composition in the east and north metopes of the Parthenon. These results have been presented at conferences in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. She has made frequent research trips to Athens where the international community of archaeologists regularly meets. In addition, the study of Tibetan thangka painting with a master artist in the Western Himalayas has helped to refine her drawings of the Parthenon metopes.

Philip Eliasoph, Professor of Art History

Philip Eliasoph was appointed in 1975 as the first full-time Art Historian to join Fairfield's faculty in the early years of the Fine Arts Department - more recently known as Visual & Performing Arts. He specializes in a matrix of courses on the social/ cultural/ spiritual contexts of the arts of the Italian Renaissance and European and American arts, and focuses on persuasion and iconography in Fascism and Nazism. An art curator, art critic, and public arts advocate, he teaches "Museum and Gallery Art World Professions" and serves as a Commissioner for the Connecticut Commission for Culture & Tourism.