WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute recently appointed Dr. Aruna D’Souza as associate director of its research and academic program. D’Souza, a noted scholar of nineteenth-century French art and feminist art history, most recently served as an associate professor at the State University of New York’s Binghamton campus. D’Souza will join Michael Ann Holly, the research and academic program’s Starr Director, in administering the wide range of scholarly events and activities that make it one of the most distinctive academic initiatives in the field of visual arts. D’Souza holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She graduated with honors from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, earning a bachelor of arts degree. The author of Cézanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint
