Troy Thomas

Troy Thomas received his Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Berkeley and taught European art history and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg from 1975 to 2021. He has written two books, Poussin's Women, Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity (London: Reaktion Books, 2016). His articles, mainly on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, have appeared in scholarly journals such as The Art Bulletin, Art History, Studies in Iconography, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Source, Notes in the History of Art, Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, and Adaptation. He has lectured at national and international conferences on art historical subjects. He has based several of his research trips in Rome, and has taught courses on student tours in London, Florence, and Rome. He has received two College Awards for Excellence, one in Research and one in Teaching.