Dr. Jennifer D. Webb

Academic Appointments

August 2025-present: Associate Department Head, Department of Art & Design

June 2019-June 2024: Department Head, Department of Art & Design

Fall 2012-present: Associate Professor of Art History

Fall 2006-Spring 2012: Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Design, University of Minnesota Duluth

Awards

John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota (Spring 2025)

Junior League of Duluth, Sustainer of the Year Award (May 2025)

Duluth News Tribune & Women Today Magazine, Rosie Awards, nominee (Spring 2025)

Outstanding Advisor, Kirby Student Leadership Award, University of Minnesota Duluth (Spring 2024)

Award for Excellence in Academic Unit Service, University of Minnesota (June 2023)

Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth (Spring 2022)

Elisabeth Congdon, Lifetime Acheivement Award, Junior League of Duluth (May 2018)

Albert Tezla Teacher/Scholar Award, University of Minnesota Duluth (May 2018)

September 2012: Duluth News Tribune; 20 under 40 Award

Education

2006: PhD, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. History of Art [Dissertation/Thesis Title: The Making of the Montefeltro: Patronage of the Arts and Architecture during the reign of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza; Advisor: David Cast]

2001: MA, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. History of Art

1998: Honors BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Art History

Classes taught

ArtH 1303: History of World Art 1

ArtH 2300: City as a Work of Art

ArtH 3330: Renaissance Art & Architecture, 1300-1600

ArtH 3331: European Architecture & its Legacy

ArtH 3340: Baroque & Rococo

ArtH 4330: Florence & the Courts (upper-level art history seminar)

Art 4999: Senior Paper (independent study course)

Co-leader Study-Abroad program: Experiencing Italy: Art, Music, & Art History (May-June 2013, May-June 2016, May-June 2019)

Photograph credit: Betsy Hunt

Publications

Webb, J. D. (2026) "The Kom-on-Inn as a Third Place: Paintings, Conversations, and Community-creation in Duluth, Minnesota in Visual Ecologies of Placemaking.

Webb, J. D. (2025) "What's on the walls: A Closer Look at the Art at Glensheen." (Under review)

Webb, J. D. (2022). "The making and re-making of places along the St. Louis River in Duluth: From paintings to projects." Journal of Great Lakes Research (May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2022.04.012

Webb, J. D. (2013). All that is seen: Ritual and Splendor at the Montefeltro Court in Urbino., The Early Modern Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Space, Domesticities (pp. 191-204). Farnham: Ashgate.

Webb, J. D. (2012). Hidden in Plain Sight: Varano and Sforza Women of the Marche., Wives, Widows, Mistresses, Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible (pp. 13-31). Farnham: Ashgate.

Webb, J. D. (2012). Dialogue, the studia humanitatis, and the ideal prince(ess) at the fifteenth-century Montefeltro court in Urbino: exploring Martino Filetico's Iocundissimae Disputationes. Arizona State University, 9, 237-258.

Webb, J. D. (2012). All is not Fun and Games: Conversation, Play, and Surveillance at the Montefeltro Court in Urbino. John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 26(3), 417-440.

Webb, J. D. (2010). Golden Age Collecting in America's Middle West: Chester and Clara Congdon's Glensheen Historical Manor and Raymond Wyer's An Art Museum. Oxford University Press, 22(1), 99-113.

Book Reviews

Webb, J. D. (2017)., Book Review of Prescuitti, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care (Ashgate) (4th ed., vol. XLVIII, pp. 1079-80). Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal: Journal of Early Modern Studies. [Non-Refereed]

Webb, J. D. (2013). Book Review: Sean Roberts, Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geogrphy., Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (4th ed., vol. 44, pp. 1144-1145). Kirksville MO: Truman State University.

Webb, J. D. (2012). Book Review: John Shannon Hendrix and Charles H. Carman eds., Renaissance Theories of Vision., Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (2nd ed., vol. 43, pp. 496). Kirksville MO: Truman State University.

Webb, J. D. (2012). Book Review: Michael Cole, Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence., Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (1st ed., vol. 43, pp. 268). Kirksville MO: Truman State University.

Conference Presentations & Talks

Webb, J. D. "Place & the City," (Invited); Place Literacies: 2025 Speaker Series, University of Wisconsin Superior (May 1, 2025)

Webb, J. D. "An Introduction to Placemaking." (invited). University of Parma (October 2025)

Webb, J. D. "Creating communities of care: practices from the classroom to the department." SECAC Annual Conference (Richmond VA) (October 12, 2023)

Webb, J. D. (co-presentor with Helene Gallis) "Seed-by-seed: Principles & Practices for Growing Community Ecosystems & Planning Cities." Placemaking Week Europe 2022 (Pontevedra Spain)

Webb, J. D. "Defining Spaces and Places: An Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Wedding in the Marche," Renaissance Society of America Annual meeting Renaissance Society of America, Virtual meeting (April 2021).

Webb, J. D. "The Making of Neighborhood Identities in Duluth MN," for RETHOS (August 3 and October 8, 2020); https://www.rethos.org/events/the-making-of-neighborhood-identities-in-duluth-mn-1

Webb, J. D. "Looking & Seeing: the St Louis River in a series of 1950s architectural portraits." St. Louis River Summit in Duluth, Minnesota. (March 3 & 4, 2020)

Webb, J. D. "Out of the Shadows: Annie Traquair Lang & Helen M. Turner," Tweevening. Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota. (February 5, 2019).

Webb, J. D. "What went wrong in Unit 3? Reflections on my 100-person survey after replacing the Art History Textbook," SECAC Annual Conference SECAC, Chattanooga, Tennessee. (October 19, 2019).

Webb, J. D. "Industrial West Duluth: From Murals, Memories, and the making of “Place”," Industrial West Duluth: From Murals, Memories, and the making of “Place”, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (February 17, 2018).

Webb, J. D. "“Community Partnerships as catalysts for a Food Facelift –exploring the transformation of a corner of industrial West Duluth”,," Food Access Summit Hunger Solutions, Duluth, Minnesota, United States. (October 26, 2017). URL: http://www.foodaccesssummit.com/

Webb, J. D. "On the Shoulders of Giants: Revisiting Raphael’s design for the Stanza della Segnatura," Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference Midwest Art History Society, Cleveland, Ohio. (April 7, 2017).

Webb, J. D. "From Renaissance to Baroque," Tweed Museum of Art, Tweevening Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota. (February 7, 2017).

Webb, J. D. "On the Edges: Inside and Outside the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. (April 2, 2016).

Webb, J. D. "The City as a Work of Art: A history of Duluth," Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota, United States. (June 10, 2015).

Webb, J. D. "From Home to Museum: Collecting Practice and its Legacy in Duluth MN," Midwest Art History Society Conference Midwest Art History Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (March 2015).

Webb, J. D. "“An Eagle’s Eye view: Urban and Regional planning during the reign of Federico da Montefeltro”," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, New York, New York. (March 2014).

Webb, J. D., (Panelist) Chester Chat Glensheen: The Historic Congdon Estate, Duluth, Minnesota. (January 30, 2014).

Webb, J. D., (Coordinator/Organizer), Kyle, S., (Coordinator/Organizer) "Collections and Objects of Knowledge: Books, Gardens and Studioli," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, California. (April 2013).

Webb, J. D., (Chair) "Portraits and Portraiture I," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, California. (April 2013).

Webb, J. D. "“Matthias Corvinus’s Patronage of the Arts in Hungary: legitimacy and courtliness as modeled on the Montefeltro court in Urbino”," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, Washington, District of Columbia. (March 2012).

Webb, J. D. “'Looking East': Rethinking geographical boundaries & art historical categories by way of Fifteenth-century art and architecture in Italy, Dalmatia and the Republic of Hungary”," 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan. (May 2011).

Webb, J. D. "Christ Standing in the Tomb & the Salimbeni Brothers: The problem of the ‘International Style’ in the Marche region," Trecento Conference in Memory of Andrew Ladis University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia. (November 2010).

Webb, J. D., (Chair) "Aristocracy, Art and the Power of Symbols," Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference Sixteenth-Century Society, St Louis, Missouri. (October 2008).

Webb, J. D. "Women of Power: Architecture and Visual Imagery in Early Modern Italy," Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference Sixteenth-Century Society, St Louis, Missouri. (October 2008).

Webb, J. D. "Frank Lloyd Wright gas station turns 50," Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). (August 7, 2008).

Webb, J. D. "Magnificent Consort: Portraits of Battista Sforza," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Illinois. (March 2008).

Webb, J. D. "Looking Inside: Court Ritual and the Construction of Magnificence," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, Miami, Florida. (March 2007).

Curatorial & Art Exhibitions

February 6, 2018 - August 28, 2018 (exhibitor), "Voices & Places: Exploring Duluth from the West End to Fond du Lac/ Faculty Show," Faculty Exhibition, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota

May 2016-April 2018: Co-Curator, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection"

November 27, 2007-March 16, 2008: At Home(s): A Window into the World of Duluth’s Collectors [Community Curators Series: Mining the Museum], Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth

Grants

July 1, 2016: Imagine Grant, University of Minnesota, "Fleming & Lost Industries" ($5000)

July 1, 2015: Imagine Grant, University of Minnesota: Guerrilla Girls Gig & Workshop ($10,000)

May 2013: SFA Outstanding Academic Advisor, University of Minnesota Duluth

January 2012: Travel Grant, University of Minnesota Global Programs & Strategies ($3000)

July 2011: Imagine Grant, University of Minnesota. ($5000)

Fall 2009: Single Semester Leave

July2009: Courtly Conversation and the Legacy of Imperial Rome in the Montefeltro, 1444, Grant-in-Aid, University of Minnesota

July 2009: Imagine Grant, University of Minnesota. ($3000)

May 2009: Junior League of Duluth; Vision Award

2008: McKnight International Travel Award, University of Minnesota. ($400)

Board Experience & Community Service

August 2016-December 2019: Board Member, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota

July 2018-June 30, 2019: Membership Office, University Education Association, University of Minnesota Duluth.

January-July 2016: Vice President, University Education Association, University of Minnesota Duluth.

May 15, 2015-May 10, 2016: President, Junior League of Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota

January 1, 2015-present: Member, Glensheen Advisory Committee.

February-August 2014: Member, University Education Association Negotiation Team

February 2007-present: Member, Junior League of Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota