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Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio is Associate Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Italian and Spanish sculpture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; her research has been supported by fellowships from the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Spain, the Kress Foundation, the Medici Archive Project, and Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies "Villa I Tatti." In addition to many articles and essays, she has published several books: Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance, Ashgate 2011, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain (with Rosario Coppel, Ashgate 2014), Leone Leoni: Faith and Fame (with Rosario Coppel, Coll&Cortes, 2013), and Making and Moving Sculptures in Early Modern Italy (editor, Ashgate, 2015). Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio has lectured at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Wallace Collection, London, the Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara, Italy, as well as at numerous conferences across Europe and North America. Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio's is deeply committed to teaching and advising. Her teaches a variety of courses on the Renaissance and Baroque art in Europe, including Early Italian Renaissance Art, High and Late Italian Renaissance Art, Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Art, Global Baroque Art, The Art of Florence, and seminars on Art and Its Destruction, Museum Studies, Michelangelo, Women in Renaissance Art, Early Modern Sculpture, The Status of the Artist in Early Modern Europe. She also teaches the first half of the Western Art survey (Prehistoric-Gothic) every year. Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio's teaching has earned her five nominations for the university teaching award (Kroepsch-Maurice), an interdisciplinary teaching grant (EEIEE), and her courses have been featured in Vermont Quarterly, UVM News, and the Center for Teaching and Learning newsletter.