Jessie Ann Owens, former dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the College of Letters and Science, and professor of music at UC Davis, has been appointed the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, for Fall 2015. I Tatti is the foremost research institution in the world for Italian Renaissance art, history, literature, and music, and the visiting professorship is an appointment of Harvard University.