LEWISTON – Andrea C. Lepage was awarded her PhD in the history of art and architecture during the 240th commencement at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on May 25. Her dissertation, “Arts of the Franciscan Colegio de San Andres in Quito: A Process of Cultural Reformation,” was advised by Professor Catherine Wilkinson Zerner of Brown University, and detailed the cultural and artistic exchange between European and indigenous societies in Ecuador during the 16th century.

Lepage received her master’s degree in history of art and architecture from Brown University in 2001 and bachelor’s degrees in art history and psychology from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1998. She is a 1994 graduate of St. Dominic Regional High School.

During the course of her doctoral research, Lepage was awarded various grants and distinctions, including the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, the Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship and the John Carter Brown Library J.M. Stuart Fellowship. Lepage was a visiting assistant professor at Clark University during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.

Lepage is the daughter of James and Nathalie Scribner of Lewiston, the granddaughter of Joseph and Georgette Lepage of Minot and Carmel Theberge of Auburn. Lepage will reside in Lexington, Va., where she has accepted a position as assistant professor of Latin American art history at Washington and Lee University.