User:Elizabeth Tobey

Elizabeth Tobey is a Masters of Library Science student in the Digital Curation specialization at the University of Maryland. She is presently working at the National Scholarships Office/Maryland Center for Undergraduate Education at UMD. Liz is also currently interning with NDIIPP at the Library of Congress on the Viewshare project. Liz has a background as an art historian and scholar of the Italian Renaissance and earned her MA and PhD in Art History also at the University of Maryland. She has written extensively on horses and the visual culture in Renaissance Italy. This year, her edited translation of Federico Grisone's "The Rules of Riding" (the first Renaissance manual on horsemanship) was published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She has worked at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Sporting Library & Museum. Originally from Hingham, MA, she currently lives in Greenbelt, MD.