Rate My Professor Carey Fee

Dr. Carey E. Fee is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art History at Florida State University’s College of Fine Arts, where she has taught since 2007 in both the Department of Art History and the Department of Art. With over two decades of experience in art and art history education across California, Florida, and Italy, Fee earned her PhD in Art and Architecture History from Florida State University in 2015, completing the dissertation “Il Volto Santo and the Face of Lucca in Later Medieval Italy” under Dr. Paula L. Gerson. Her academic background also includes an MA in Art and Architecture History from the University of California, Davis (2006), a Post-Baccalaureate in Art and Architecture Conservation from Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy (2002), and a BA in Art and Architecture History from Northern Arizona University (2001). She previously served as Assistant Director of Experiential Learning at FSU’s Career Center (2016–2018) and Gallery Educator at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2006–2007), alongside adjunct appointments at the University of Southern Mississippi, Winthrop University, Florida A&M University, and community colleges.

Fee’s research focuses on art from the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance, including medieval pilgrimage to Lucca and Il Volto Santo, pilgrimage to authentic replicas like Palestine Gardens in Mississippi, and Etruscan memory in medieval Tuscany. She teaches courses such as art history surveys, twentieth-century art and architecture, Etruscan art, arts of Asia, Renaissance Florence, museum studies (basics, exhibition practices, internships), and studio art professional development. Fee has curated four exhibitions: “All Over The Map” at FSU’s William Johnston Gallery (2023), “Creative Gallery” and “Crafted Narrative Gallery” at Limestone University (2022, 2021), and “The Brilliant Hand” at FSU (2009). Her conference presentations cover topics like the Chiarito Tabernacle (2019) and Holy Land proxies (2018), with organized sessions on professional development and medieval art. Publications include co-editing Athanor (2017–2018) and The Crafted Narrative Exhibition Catalog (2021), plus books in progress: Authentic Replicas and Per Sanctum Vultum De Luca!. Awards feature the Samuel H. Kress Conference Presentation Award (2011), FSU dissertation and research fellowships (2015, 2012–2013, 2010–2011), and teaching fellowships. Fee advises FSU’s Museum Studies Society, serves on exhibitions committees, and held leadership roles in the International Center of Medieval Art.