Pamela
Brekka
School of Art & Art History
T: (352) 392-0201
E: pbrekka@ufl.edu
Address:
College of Fine Arts
University of Florida
PO Box 115801
101 Fine Arts C
Gainesville FL 32611
Research Interests:
Northern Renaissance Art, Jewish Art, Cartography
Research Biography:
I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation, “The Antwerp Polyglot’s ‘New World Indian-Jew’ Map as a Reflection of Sixteenth-Century Cultural Crosscurrents;” the research for which has been supported in part by a Newberry Fellowship in the History of Cartography. My research activities have taken me to the Newberry Library (Chicago); Princeton University, and The British Library (London). I gave a paper on this research at the Society of Early Americanists’ Borderlands conference (St. Augustine) in May 2010. Other work in progress includes an article taken from my doctoral research to be published in Imago Mundi, a leading scholarly journal in the field of Cartography.
Degrees:
Certificate, Arts Administration, New York University 2001
MA, Art History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 1999
BA, History, The University of Tampa, 1988
Key Professional Appointments:
Graduate Assistant, UF CFA School of Art & Art History (1997 to present)
Presentations:
SelectedWorks:
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Philip II’s Biblia Regia and the New World Indian-Jew,” Early American Borderlands conference, for session, “The Trans-Atlantic Paradigm: Rethinking the Cultural History of Spanish Borderlands in the United States,” St. Augustine, May 2010
“Jewish Art and the Western Canon,” SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference): Art History Curricula/Art Beyond the European Tradition for session, "The 'Non-West' in Art History Curricula: Issues and Directions," New Orleans, September 2008
PUBLICATIONS:
“The Biblia Polyglota’s ‘New World Indian-Jew’ Map as a Reflection of Sixteenth-Century Cultural Crosscurrents,” Imago Mundi (in progress for 2010)
“Pieter de Hooch,” “Nicolaes Maes,” “Pieter Brueghel the younger,” and “Jan Breughel the elder” in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720, ed. Christopher Baker, Westport, 2002
“An Early Netherlandish Adoration of the Magi,” Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, vol. 59, 2000, 56-61
“Hieronymus Francken’s The Witches Sabbath: A Historical Perspective,” exhib. cat., Patience and Passion: Old Master Paintings from the Arnold and Seena Davis Collection, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield, 1995
Grants:
SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS TRAVEL GRANT, Early American Borderlands conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine, May 2010
Awards
2010-2011 NEWBERRY LIBRARY FELLOW, Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship in the History of Cartography
2010 UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CLUB GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP, University of Florida
2009 LONDON RARE BOOKS SCHOOL (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) TUITION SCHOLARSHIP, Graduate research workshop in the History of Cartography
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