The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to welcome Elizabeth (Betsy) S. Bolman as its new chair and Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts. A leading expert on late antique, Byzantine, and early medieval Egyptian art, Professor Bolman most recently directed a wall-painting conservation project at the Red Monastery church in Upper Egypt. This award-winning project, which received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), the Dumbarton Oaks, the NEH, and the J. William Fulbright Foundation, culminated in the wide-ranging volume The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (Yale, 2016). Among her new projects are Milk and Salvation: The Nursing Mother of God in the Eastern Mediterranean (contracted by Penn Press) and Monks and Images in Late Antique Egypt (forthcoming from Princeton). Educated at Smith and Bryn Mawr, Prof. Bolman comes to us from Temple University, where she was on the faculty for seventeen years.