Dr. Michael E Morse, Bath England, Ancient Roman Bath, May 2014

E-Mail: MorseM@lssc.edu

Phone: 352-435-6304 EMAIL Preferred: (use the email, most of the time I am out of office and you will be directed by phone message to email anyway)

Office Location: Leesburg: Math/Science 230

Office Hours:

Academic Year: 2023-2024

Instructor: Michael Morse

Term: Spring 2024

Phone Ext: 352-356-6304

Office Location: SM 230 Leesburg

Direct Dial: 6304

Email: morsem@lssc.edu

Class and Office Schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00 – 8:30					Sunday
8:30 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30	Office Hours	Office SM 230		Office SM 230
10:30 – 11:00	Online 10-11	10 – 11		10-11
11:00 – 11:30	HUM 2020	HUM 2020		HUM 2020
11:30 – 12:00	11-12:20 G term	11:00 -	Office	11:00
12:00 – 12:30	online real-time	12:20	By	12: 20 B Term
12:30 – 1:00	HUM 2461	REL 2300	Appointment	HUM 2020
1:00 – 1:30	12:30-1:50	12:00 -	As	12:30 –
1:30 – 2:00	Latin AM HUM	1:50	Well 😊	1: 50
2:00 – 2:30	Online real-time	Office Hours
2:30 – 3:00		SM 230
3:00 – 3:30		2:00 - 3:00 PM:
3:30 – 4:00
4:00 – 4:30
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5:00 – 5:30			Office Hours		Office Hours
5:30 – 6:00			Online		Online
6:00 – 6:30			5:30 - 8:30 PM		5:30- 8:30 PM
6:30 – 7:00			office		office
7:00 – 7:30			office		office
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Instructor and then in 2016 Assistant Professor of Humanities, History, Art History, and Religion at Lake-Sumter State College: Fall 2010 to the present.

Chair of Humanities, Foreign Languages, and Social Sciences: Summer 2013 to January 3^rd 2015.

Chair of Humanities and Foreign Languages Departments after these were split upon my recommendation: Summer 2013 to Summer 2018.

Adjunct Professor of Religion at St. Leo’s University at the Lake City and Trenton Center: REL 401, The Catholic Tradition, REL 450: History of Christianity, REL 220 Christian Morality, Fall 2001-Spring 2013. I am also credentialed to teach REL 423 Christian Ethics III: Medical-Moral Issues.

Adjunct Professor at Santa Fe College in Humanities: HUM 2210 Ancient through Renaissance, HUM 2230 Renaissance through Enlightenment, HUM 2250 Enlightenment through the Present, Hum 2020, 2004-to present.

Adjunct Professor at University of Florida in Art History: ARH 2050; Introduction to the Principles and History of Art 1; Summer 2002, Fall 2003, ARH 4312; Late Renaissance Art in Italy, Fall 2009.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

Degree: Ph.D., Field: Ph.D. Major: Early Modern European History; Min: History of Science; outside concentration Art History. Doctoral Dissertation: The Politics of Art and Religion: Absolutism and Catholic Iconography in Early Stuart England, 1603-1649. Languages: Spanish and Italian. Institution: University of Florida, Date: Spring 2009. The major focus of my classwork at the University of Florida was Cultural History particularly in Italy, and England from 1300-1800. The countries I focused on were Italy, Spain and most importantly the United Kingdom. At the center of this study was Early Stuart England (1603-1649). The first two Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, dramatically transformed this emerging empire. Less appreciated, the art and architecture of the early Stuarts, and the politics of the Absolute state, were strongly influenced by Catholic thought and Catholic iconography. Independent as well as course related study, reevaluated the impact of Catholicism in church polity and material culture under the influence of the early Stuarts. Marking a clear departure from the art and display of the Elizabethan age, the Stuarts, introduced a “Culture of Image” that helped define the relationship between Catholicism and the English Absolute state. Both Stuart kings aimed, self-consciously, to use Catholic iconography to solidify and extend their Absolutist Claims and move the English Church towards Catholicism, while remaining an independent “Protestant” Church. Evidence for Catholic influence is found in their patterns of collection and commission, which show important deviations from earlier Protestant monarchs, Edward VI and Elizabeth I. The influence of Catholic iconography on English political culture has been largely overlooked. My course work and independent research aimed to fill in this important gap. I also minored in another aspect of material and intellectual culture, the History of Science. My courses included ancient development of science, technology, and theory through the modern world. Using my expertise in European Art history was also important to Doctoral research.

Degree: MA, Field: Art History emphasis, Southern European Early Modern and Latin American Early Modern; Master’s Thesis: The Influence of Italian Mannerism in Early Viceregal Peru: Mateo Perez de Alesio, Bernardo Bitti and Angelino Medoro, 1998. Institution: University of Florida, Date: Fall 1998.

Degree: M.Div., Field: Theology, Catholic Theology and Tradition, Institution: St. Meinrad School of Theology, Date: Spring 1984.

Degree: BA, Field: Fine Arts and Philosophy, Institution: Saint Ambrose University, Date Fall 1979.

Degree: AA, Gen. Ed. Date: Institution: Spoon River College, Date Spring 1977.

Since 2011 I have been the main advisor to the Humanities Club. This club has met and celebrated art, humanities, and culture through trips and college projects throughout the entire tenure of my work at LSSC with the exception of the hiatus for the Covid Crisis.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:

I have traveled extensively and have an extensive collection of slides, photos and research materials and data from these visits. I used my collection of photography for my Dissertation and for many of the illustrations for my Master’s Thesis. Research trips before 2003 include England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, and Denmark. I have also traveled in Latin America doing research in Bolivia, Peru, Columbia, and Mexico for my Master’s Degree in Art History in the 1990’s as well as in Italy, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan in the 1980’s.

2018: December; Northern and Central Italy. I visited and researched various sites, museums, and libraries in Milan, Venice, Ravenna, Florence and Rome and the archaeological site of Pompeii.

2015: May; England and Scotland. I visited and researched various sites, museums, and libraries in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, and other sites.

2012: May; Italy. I visited and researched various sites and museums in Rome, Pompeii, Sorrento, Amalfi and Paestum.

2010: December; Spain and Portugal. I visited and researched at various sites the influence of Moorish culture on early modern art and architecture in Cordoba, Lisbon, Segovia, Salamanca, and Toledo.

2009: Ireland: Dublin. Research dealing with the treatment of Catholics by the English in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. This research focused particularly on the destruction of church art and the suppression of the Mass by the English before, during, and after the English Civil War, which included major battles fought in Ireland.

2004-2009: Doctoral research period.

2007: Italy: Rome, Florence and Milan. Research dealt with ancient Christianity, art and culture. During this trip, I visited museums, which now hold part of the dispersed collection of Charles I. Focus of this research was Catholic themes in Stuart art collected or created by Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, James I and Queen Anne of Denmark. Here I studied and photographed the Constintinian works done in St. John Lateran, which described the inter-relationship between Church and Monarchy. The Stuart monarchy made connections with previous Christian monarchs such as Constantine and Charlemagne.

2007: In Washington D. C. I spent two weeks during the summer and visited the National Gallery of Art to examine artworks that were originally in the collection of the early Stuarts. Of particular notice were the large numbers of religious works commissioned by Charles I or collected by the monarch. The Early Stuarts were the first English monarchs to collect religious art on any scale since Henry VII Tudor nearly one century earlier.

2006: Greece: Delphi, Corinth, Athens, and Olympus. The focus of this research dealt with early Christianity, the arts of antiquity and the early church. Much of this research was incorporated into my humanities classes at Santa Fe College and Religion classes for St. Leo’s.

2005: England: London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Scotland: Edinburgh. Under the valuable guidance of Dr. C. John Sommerville and Dr. Robert Hatch (committee chair), I explored evidence dealing with Stuart Monarchy, the use of Art, Catholic treatment during the Early Stuart years. I also studied the influence of Queen Henrietta Maria and Queen Anne of Denmark, as well as iconoclasm during the English Civil War on Protestant as well as Catholic holy sites and churches. One of the most important evidences to be gleaned from his research was the importance of the Stuart consorts in religious and political direction in Early Modern England. I spent extensive time looking at the Collections of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and many works associated with the Early Stuarts dispersed after the execution of Charles I and re-collected by Charles II and following kings after the restoration of the monarchy. I also made a thorough study of the Banqueting House in London, commissioned by James I and decorated by Charles I with the magnificent Rubens works depicting the Stuart Monarchy in counter-reformation style and theme. At Oxford, I studied the Church of St. Mary the Virgin where Archbishop Laud commissioned a counter-reformation portal featuring The Virgin Mary and angels. This came under attack during the English Civil War and was used by the Parliamentary officials as “proof” of the archbishop and king’s Roman leanings.

2003: Italy: Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Venice. Research dealing with renaissance art and Neo-Platonism, ancient Roman arts. I studied the importance of renaissance, mannerist and counter-reformation art during the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th centuries under the direction of Dr. Robert Westin. It was during this period that I put together my initial proposal of making a connection between Catholic counter-reformation art and the counter-reformation arts that emerged in Protestant England under the early Stuarts after 1618. In addition, for a second time, I participated in the seven week long University of Florida’s Rome Program. Much of this research and photography has been incorporated into his humanities classes as well as his Dissertation.

Master’s Research:

1998: South America: During the spring of 1998, I visited Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia to research the influence of the Italian artists Mateo Perez de Alesio, Bernardo Bitti and Anglino Medoro. During this two-month period, I was given permission to review documents from churches archives that still hold these late Renaissance masterworks in trust. As with my dissertation, I used many of my own photographs for my Master’s thesis as these artists are under appreciated and many photos of their works remain difficult to find. Dr. John Scott directed my master’s work along with guidance from the rest of his committee, Dr. Robert Westin and Dr. David Stanley.

1995: Italy; Rome, Florence. During two months in the summer of 1995, I researched Alesio and photographed the Church of S. Eligio degli Oreficci, Rome. Here this underappreciated artwork of this Italian mannerist artist was incorporated into his Master’s Thesis. In addition, he participated in the seven week University of Florida’s Rome Program and did independent study with Dr. Robert Westin. As with other trips, much of my research has been incorporated into my humanities and religion classes.