2024-12-21T22:11:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150070332/msu-s-college-of-architecture-art-and-design-appoints-angi-bourgeois-as-new-dean Alexander Walter 2018-06-22T14:24:00-04:00 >2018-06-22T14:24:34-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b3/b339cff8eeb4bc891b3101b09106a264.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A highly respected faculty member and administrator in Mississippi State&rsquo;s Department of Art has been named the new dean of the university&rsquo;s College of Architecture, Art and Design [...]. Effective July 1, Professor Angi Elsea Bourgeois will lead CAAD after serving nearly two years as the head of its Department of Art, home to the Magnolia State&rsquo;s largest undergraduate studio art program. She succeeds the college&rsquo;s founding dean Jim West [...].</p></em><br /><br /><p>"An MSU faculty member since 2002, Bourgeois has taught a variety of art history courses and climbed the academic ranks with a promotion to professor coinciding with her appointment as art department head," reads MSU's announcement. "She was re-elected to a two-year term in January as secretary for the Italian Art Society, an international scholarly organization that she joined in 2004."</p>