WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute recently appointed Dr. Aruna DSouza as associate director of its research and academic program. DSouza, 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 Yorks Binghamton campus. DSouza will join Michael Ann Holly, the research and academic programs 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. DSouza 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 Cézannes Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint