Professional Development Workshop with Dr Olivia Gruber Florek

The Professional Development Committee and AHGSO are hosting a workshop and talk with Rutgers alumna, Dr. Olivia Gruber Florek, on Friday, April 28th.

The workshop will be from 1-2:30pm EST, and the talk will be from 3:30-5pm EST, with a reception immediately following the talk. Zoom links for the workshop are attached below.

The workshop, hosted by the Professional Development Committee, will be about the manuscript process and the road to book publication. Lunch will be included for both in-person and virtual attendees, so please RSVP by Tuesday, April 25th to Margo Weitzman (margo.weitzman@rutgers.edu).

Dr Olivia Gruber Florek is an Associate Professor of Art History at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, where she also curates an annual exhibition of contemporary art. Her research focuses on celebrity portraiture in nineteenth-century Europe, and she has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Commission. In February 2023, she published The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait with the University of Delaware Press. She earned her PhD from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2012.