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Gil R. Smith Office: Campbell 425 |
Biography 
Prof. Smith holds the doctorate in art history from The Pennsylvania State University (1987), with a specialization in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture.
He currently teaches full-time in the art history survey curriculum at EKU, and is a former Chair of the Department of Art & Design (1995-2003). Smith has also taught full-time at state universities in New York, Minnesota, and Indiana since 1982, obtaining tenure in the Department of Architecture at Ball State in 1992. Having extensive experience in Europe, he is the current director of the Italy Summer program of the Kentucky Institute for International Studies ( www. kiis .org ). His most recent trip abroad, to Japan in October of 2006, was sponsored by the Madison County International Committee and the American Committee for KEEP (Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project).
Smith's research, for which he has received support in the past from outside agencies such as The National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Philosophical Society, and The Fulbright Commission in Italy, involves architectural instruction at the European academies in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. His most recent publication, "Carlo and Francesco Fontana and the Teaching of Architecture at the Accademia di San Luca," will appear as a chapter in the book La formazione degli architetti ticinesi in Italia dal XVIII al XIX secolo , due out from the Fondazione Archivio del Moderno in Switzerland in March of 2007. For the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies he will be chairing a session at their annual meeting in 2007 on the topic" "The 'Arts' of Leisure in the Long Eighteenth Century."
