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Contact:  danielaviale@muhlenberg.edu

Education B.A., Art History and African American Studies, Oberlin College Ph.D., Art History, The City University of New York   Teaching Interests What can a work of art tell us about a given place, time, or culture? How did humans across time and space use objects to reflect group identity, promote political ideals, or to […]

Education Ph.D. Yale University M.A. University of Pennsylvania B.A. Lafayette College Teaching Interests My teaching interests include Italian language, literature and culture.  I teach elementary-level Italian courses and a range of advanced-level courses on Italian literature and film.  Students and I explore a wide range of topics together, including Dante’s “Divine Comey,” masterpieces of Italian […]

Education Ph.D., M.A., Stony Brook University A.B., Magna cum Laude Praestantem, Mount Holyoke Teaching Interests What does a musicologist do? In Ellen T. Harris’s words, a musicologist might study “how music works or the work music does.” In my classes, we do both. We consider the ways that music is put together in forms and […]

Education M.A., Ph.D. Duke University B.A., Rutgers University Current Semester Courses CUE: Senior Capstone Seminar Political Ideologies Political Science Independent Study/Research – Modernity's Discontents Politics & Public Space RJF FYS: Monument Wars: The Politics of Public Space Utopia & Its Critics Course catalog Recent Presentations, Publications and Abstracts Book Review of Human and Environmental Security: An […]

Education B.A. in History and Economics, Trinity University, San Antonio, 1987 M.A. in History, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989 Ph.D. in History with Honors, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996 Teaching Interests I teach courses on Modern Europe, including specific courses on France, Italy, Germany, World War One, World War Two, and the Holocaust.  Some of my courses […]