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    From fall 1992 through spring 2022, I taught aspects of the history of American art from the colonial period to the present with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. My definition of American art includes all ethnic and racial groups, high art and low, fine art and popular art, within the area now designated the United States of America. For the 2022-23 academic year I am only working with art history graduate students and I will retire June 30, 2023.

    For the University Core requirement, AI: Society, I taught an introductory Highlights of American Art, which covers ten works of art in ten weeks. Upper-level courses included Arts of the American West, Nineteenth-Century American Art From the Revolution to the Gilded Age, Collecting global arts of all periods in the USA, and American Art and Religion. In addition, I taught Women and Art, a class that begins with the European Middle Ages and continues to the global present, considering women as the subjects, makers, and patrons of art.

    My most recent graduate seminars included a research practicum for MA students in art history, a seminar for MA and PhD students on spirituality in 20th- and 21st-century art, and other changing topics.

  • Classes

    ARTH 1050 Highlights of American Art

    ARTH 3813 Arts of the American West

    ARTH 3815 American Art and Religion

    ARTH 3871 Women in Art

    ARTH 4002 Research Practicum

    ARTH 4336 Seminar in American Art

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