Elizabeth Milroy - American Studies Program - Wesleyan University

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	Milroy, Elizabeth Professor of Art History Art and Art History Department 860.685.3148 Davison Art Center Professor, American Studies American Studies Program 860.685.3148 BA Queens University MA Williams College PHD University of Pennsylvania
EMAIL:	emilroy@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:	Art and Art History Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:	AMST205 - 01 ARHA271 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:	Elizabeth Milroy teaches the history of art and material culture in North America. Her courses range from general surveys of art in the United States and Canada from First Contact to 1945, to courses treating the history of sculpture and courses in the history of cultural landscapes and historic preservation to advanced seminars in cultural institutions and exhibitionary practices as well as the work of individual artists such as Thomas Eakins and Georgia OKeeffe. She also teaches a junior colloquium on material culture studies for the America Studies program. A specialist in the history of cultural institutions and cultural landscapes in the United States, in particular those in Philadelphia, she has organized exhibitions and has published numerous articles and catalogue essays. Her most recent publications include A Crowning Feature: The Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphias Horticultural Hall in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (2006), For the like Uses, as the Moore-Fields: The Politics of Penns Squares, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2006) and Images of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, an essay in the catalogue of the major Thomas Eakins exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in 2001. She is the principal author of Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art (1991) and coeditor of Reading American Art (1998). Her current book project is A Greene Country Town: William Penns Legacy and the Birth of Philadelphias Public Parks.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:	American Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Canadian Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Cultural Landscape Studies Material Culture Studies
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:	College Art Association American Studies Association American Society for Environmental History Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Historical Society of Pennsylvania External Examiner, Sothebys Institute of Art (University of Manchester, UK), 2007-10 Winterthur Portfolio Editorial Board
OFFICE HOURS:	Fall 2009 -- Wednesdays 3-5 (or by appointment) 201 Davison Art Center
SPECIAL ROLE IN DEPARTMENT:	Director of the Art History program
GRANTS:	NEH Research Fellowship, 2002 Project Grant, Wesleyan University, 2001 Pedagogical Grant, Wesleyan University 1997/98 Keck Mentorship Grant. Wesleyan University 1997 Charles Peterson Fellowship in Architectural History. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1996/97 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1996 Mellon Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia 1995 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1992 Mellon Residential Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society 1992 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 1992 NEH Summer Stipend 1992 NEH Travel to Collections Grant 1992 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Grant 1991 NEH Exhibition Planning Grant 1989 Penfield Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1983