The ICS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Sarah Madole Lewis joined the Board of Directors in November 2024. Professor Madole Lewis is an Associate Professor of Art History at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City. With a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, her primary area of expertise is in the art and archaeology of the ancient world with a specialization in Roman funerary art. She has published in the American Journal of Archaeology and Roemische Mitteilungen. She was the recipient of a Shohet Scholar Grant in 2016 for her project New Perspectives on Mythological Sarcophagi and Subterranean Rome. Welcome, Professor Madole Lewis!

The ICS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Lee Jefferson will join the Board of Directors as of November 2024. Professor Jefferson is the Nelson D. and Mary McDowell Rodes Associate Professor of Religion at Center College in Danville, KY. With a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt, his primary area of interest is the development of the Christian tradition and art and imagery of Late Antiquity. He is the author of Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art (Fortress Press, 2014), a study of the early images of the miracles of Jesus. He is also co-editor of The Art of Empire: Christian Art in Its Imperial Context (Fortress Press, 2015) and editor of Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), a collection of essays in honor of Robin Jensen. Jefferson received the ICS Shohet Scholars Grant in 2013 for the project The Christian Veneration Complex at Khirbet Qana, on which he collaborated with Thomas McCollough. Welcome, Professor Jefferson!