FACULTY
Name |
Office |
Office Hours |
Phone |
Sec |
|
baillyj@fiu.edu |
DM 228 |
Th 14:00 -15:00 |
305-348-0297 |
4 |
|
Gwyn Davies |
daviesg@fiu.edu |
DM 388a |
Th 14:00 -15:00 |
305-348-2974 |
5 |
Ruben Garrote |
garroter@fiu.edu |
DM 228 |
Th 14:00 -15:00 |
305-348-1620 |
6 |
John Bailly, M.F.A., is an artist. His work explores the random nature of information and the manner in which we process it. Utilizing juxtapositions of diverse data and multiple historical references, Bailly’s work intends for us to reflect on the manner in which we conceptualize our realities. Born in Slough, Buckinghamshire in 1968, of a French father and American mother, he was raised in London, Paris, and Miami. He received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1993, and is a Fellow of the Honors College. His work has been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Texas State University, and several other institutions in the US. He was awarded the 2006 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a 2006 State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind. He founded and directs Aesthetics & Values at FIU. He lectures and teaches workshops at universities throughout the US.
Gwyn Davies, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of History. He teaches a diverse portfolio of courses covering the Classical world. His research interests include the recording and explication of Roman siege systems (his monograph Roman Siege Works was published in 2006) and understanding the mechanisms of imperial supervision and control in upland and desert environments. He is also interested in superpower interactions in the ancient world and in conceptual models of frontier management. Dr. Davies specializes in the Roman Army but also addresses comparative aspects of warfare over a broad chronological range. He co-directs the Yotvata Roman Fort project in the Arava Valley, Israel, where his excavations have investigated a Diocletianic quadriburgium and the subsequent early Islamic occupation of the site. In 2005, he won a university teaching award.
Rubén Garrote, M.A., is an Honors College alumnus and a graduate of F.I.U.’s Religious Studies Department. He has taught for the department for the past six years, receiving several awards for teaching and academic excellence. He has been a Fellow of The Honors College since 2005. Garrote’s research interests in the history of religion are varied, ranging from early Christian heresies, Grail romances, fin-de-siècle Western occultism and Afro-Cuban traditions, to North European mythology and economic, political and ritual theory. His current projects include coauthoring a history on Independent Catholicism.