Educated at Dartmouth College and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Eric Frank is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and an expert in Italian Renaissance art with a special interest in the history of the classical tradition in Western art, from Greece to Rome and into the Middle Ages. A noted scholar, Dr. Frank served as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles and as Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He will be the lecturer on a cruise for SBMA to Athens and the Peloponnese in May 2016.