Curriculum Vita
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Art History, 2009. The University of Iowa
Dissertation: “Economics, Ethnography, and Empire: The Illustrated Travel Series of Cornelis Claesz, 1598-1603”
Directed by Julie Berger Hochstrasser.
M.A. in Art History, 2005. The University of Iowa
Thesis: “Diagramming Dignity: Classicism and Order in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario and Vesalius’ De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
Directed by Julie Berger Hochstrasser.
B.A. in Art History, magna cum laude, 2002. Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Major capstone advised by Alison McNeil Kettering
PROFESSIONAL and ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Northern Iowa, Professor of Art History
Fall 2009 to Spring 2010 as Visiting Scholar; hired as Assistant Professor Fall 2010; tenured spring, 2015. Promoted Spring, 2020
Currently teaching advanced undergraduate art history, sexuality, women’s and gender studies, and graduate art education courses.
· Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (Honors section)
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist: Race and Representation in Art
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist: Art, Ecology, and Empire
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist: 19th Century Art (online since 2018)
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist: Late 20th-21st Century Art
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist pending: Northern Renaissance Art (online since 2015)
· WGS/ArtHist crosslist pending: 17th-18th Century Art
· Art and Globalization
· Avant-garde in Art and Music (Honors seminar)
· Survey Art History II (1400-Present)
· Italian Renaissance Art (online since 2013)
· Early 20th Century Art
· Seminar for Art History Majors: Research Methods and Writing
· Arts of Africa
· Graduate Course: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Art Education (online)
· Graduate Course: Research and Writing (online)
The University of Iowa, Instructor, 2006-2009
Drake University, Adjunct Professor, Fall, 2007
The University of Iowa Center for Teaching, Graduate Assistant
The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Teaching Assistant, 2003-2009
SCHOLARSHIP I: Publications
Books
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-60938-687-0
Art, Animals and Experience: Human Relationships to the Natural World. New York and London: Routledge, 2017.
Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-02-2625-4784
Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3970-7
Books edited
Democratic Habits in the Art Classroom: Supporting Student Voice, Choice, and Community. Teacher's College Press, 2023.
Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2019.
Book chapters
“Actualizing the Promise: Democracy and Art Education.” In Democratic Habits in the Art Classroom: Supporting Students’ Voice, Choice, and Community. Edited by Elizabeth Sutton. Teachers College Press, 2023.
“Painters, Printmakers, and Princesses: An Historiographical Perspective on Women Making Netherlandish History.” In Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700, edited by Elizabeth Sutton. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2019.
Refereed Articles in International Journals
“Mapping, Cartography, Surveying as Empowering Practices” in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture, vol. 1, edited by Jane Kromm. Forthcoming May, 2024.
“Slaves and Sugar: Blaeu’s Map of Pernambuco, Brazil.” In Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade, edited by Joanna Siedenstein and Sarah Mallory. Forthcoming Brill, 2024.
“Karen Severson Thronson.” In American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2023.
“Sitting at Meate.” Smarthistory.org Reframing Art History. 2021.
“Dogs and Dogma: Perception and Revelation in Rembrandt’s Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640.” Art History 39:3 (June, 2016): 466-485.
“A New Amsterdam.” Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 39:2 (2015):150-159.
“Bittersweet: Sugar, Slavery, and Science in Dutch Suriname.” Invited essay for Alison Kettering festschrift. Midwestern Arcadia (Spring, 2014). https://apps.carleton.edu/kettering/sutton/
“Possessing Brazil in Print, 1630-1654.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 5:1 (2013): 1-12. http://www.jhna.org
“Mapping Dutch Nationalism Across the Atlantic.” Artl@s Bulletin 2:1 (Spring, 2013): 6-13. http://www.artlas.ens.fr/les-publications-d-artl-s/
“To Inform and Delight: The Commodification of Travel Images in Amsterdam.” Mediaevalia 32 (2011): 323-354.
“Mapping Meaning: Ethnography and Allegory in Netherlandish Cartography 1570-1655.” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction. Vol. 33 no. 3 (2009): 12-41.
Refereed Articles in National Journals
“Using Wikipedia for Inclusive Teaching and Research in Four Undergraduate Classes,” co-author with Angela Pratesi and Wendy Miller. Radical Teacher 119 (2019): 22-33. http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/517
“Creating Art with History” FATE in Review 34:2 (2013): 36-41. http://www.foundations-art.org/publications
“Blogging Art History: A Case Study in Undergraduate Arts of Africa.” Trends, the Journal of the Texas Art Education Association. (2013): 55-60.http://www.taea.org/taea/publications.asp?option=2
Book and Exhibition Reviews
“Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science.” By Catherine Powell-Warren. Amsterdam University Press, November 2023. Book Review for Oud Holland (Forthcoming)
“Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity and the Tradition of Power.” By Elisabetta Toreno. Book Review for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Autumn, 2023)
“Khatt Islāmi: Sacred Scripts from Islamic Africa.” Exhibition Review for African Arts, 55:2 (Autumn, 2022): 91-3
Review of “Hearts of Our People,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Artherstory.net guest blog. July, 2019.
“A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake.” By Christian J. Koot. Book Review for Winterthur Portfolio (2018).
“Early Dutch Maritime Cartography.” By Günter Schilder. Book Review for Renaissance Quarterly 71:1 (2018). (Forthcoming)
“Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century.” Edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter. Book Review for SECAC Review 17:1 (2016): 102-104.
“Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World.” By Benjamin Schmidt. Book Review for Journal of Historical Geography (2015)
“African Art in Motion at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.” Exhibition Review for African Arts, 48:3 (2015): 90-92.
“Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning.” By José Antonio Bowen. Book Review for UNIversitas 10 (2014-2015) https://uni.edu/universitas/article/teaching-naked-more-game
SCHOLARSHIP II: Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
“Embrace Discomfort.” Blog For Teacher’s College Press, December 8, 2023. https://www.tcpress.com/blog/embrace-discomfort/
International Presentations
Claes Jansz Visscher and His Progeny. Institute for Cultural Disciplines and Art History, University of Leiden. January, 2013
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Visscher’s Map of New Netherland
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture African Seminar “Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500–1700.” Accra, Ghana, 2009
Mapping Skin Color: A Visual Construction of Race 1595-1655
University of Prince Edward Island Conference, “Faith, Freedom, and the Academy” Prince Edward Island, Canada, 2004
Re-Incorporating Humanism into the Humanities: The Role of Religion and Freedom in the Academy
National Presentations and Invited Lectures
Speed Art Museum, Virginia Currie Docent Lecture, Louisville, Kentucky, August, 2017
Thinking Through Themes in Dutch Art
Statewide Teaching and Learning Conference, co-presenter with Drs. Wendy Miller and Islam Aly, Des Moines, Iowa, July 2017.
Going Digital: Engaging and Assessing Graduate Student Learning in the Changing Educational Landscape
Swarthmore College Lee Frank Lecture, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, April, 2017.
Mapping Colonization and Decolonization in the 17th Century and Today
University of Northern Iowa Women’s and Gender Studies CROW Forum, November, 2016.
Towards an Ethic of Care: Taxidermy and Animal Portraiture in Contemporary Art
Southeast College Art Conference, “Pain in the Assessment.” Roanoke, VA, October, 2016.
No Pain, No Gain: Developing and Assessing Online Student Portfolios
Southeast College Art Conference, “The Beastly in Art.” Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2015.
Glances With Wolves: Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me”
College Art Association, “Crowd-Sourcing the State of the Field: The Interpretation of Northern European Art in the 21st Century.” New York City, February, 2015.
Democratizing Netherlandish Visual Culture and Its Pedagogy
Southeast College Art Conference, Session co-chair “The Nexus of Animals and Humans in Art.” Sarasota, Florida, October, 2014.C
New Netherland Institute Symposium, Emerging Scholars Roundtable. Dutch Consulate and New York Historical Society, New York City, October, 2013
Marketing New Amsterdam
ARTL@S Spaces of Arts: Thinking the National and Transnational in a Global Perspective. Purdue University, September, 2012
Claiming Roots and Claiming Land: Mapping Dutch Identity Across the Atlantic
16th Biennial International Conference on Netherlandic Studies. Grand Rapids, Michigan, June, 2012
Artistic Responses to Watershed Eras: Mapping Dutch Identity in New Netherland 1621-1667
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 18th Annual Conference “Constructing Landscapes on Atlantic Shores.” San Marino, California, June, 2012
Dutch American Landscapes: Mapping Identity in Dutch Brazil
Hearst Center for the Arts series “Modern Trends in Art.” Invited lecture. Cedar Falls, Iowa. February, 2012
Modern Trends in Art: Prints, Knowledge, and Power
Southeastern College Art Conference “Text: The Art History Assignment.” Savannah, Georgia, November, 2011
Hooked on Art History: Making Art History Authentic
Area Education Agency #267 Regional professional development workshop for art educators, Cedar Falls, Iowa. November, 2011
Authentic Art History and Teaching Art
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies “Science and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Wake Forest University, North Carolina, March, 2011
Exoticism, Empiricism, and the Anthropoid Ape
SUNY-Binghamton Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies “Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval and Early Modern World.” Binghamton, New York, September, 2010
Advertising Abroad: The Commodification of Travel Images in Amsterdam
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, February, 2009
Interpreting Africa in 1602: Neo-Stoicism and the Iconographic Tradition in the Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea
Newberry Library “New Worlds, New Publics” Symposium, Newberry Library, Chicago, 2008
Collaborative Journeys: Cornelis Claesz’s Travel Account Prints, 1598-1603
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Annual Conference “Empire and Identity” Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2008
Natural History and Ethnography: Classifying Animals, Plants, and Africans in Early Modern Dutch Travel Accounts
Iowa Campus Compact “Celebrating Campus and Community Engagement” Central College, Pella, 2007
Art History and Public Engagement: Arts Advocacy through Relevant Practice
Arizona State University Graduate Conference “Crisis and Convergence” Arizona State University, Tempe, 2007
The Science of Culture: A Contextual Analysis of the Cataloguing of Peoples and Culture in the Beschryvinghe ende historische verhael van Gout Koninckrijk van Gunea
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference, Newberry Library, Chicago, 2005
The Classicizing Prints of Linschoten and Vesalius
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS
Professional Development Assignment, UNI to write Art, Animals, and Experience, fall semester, 2016
Major Grant, CHAS, to support travel to Utah for Art, Animals, and Experience
Summer Fellowship to support research and writing Art, Animals, and Experience, Graduate College, UNI, July, 2015.
Capacity Building Scholarship Grant to support research on new book project. Office of The Executive Vice-President and Provost, University of Northern Iowa, 2014
Major Grant to support research travel for new book project, College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, University of Northern Iowa, 2014
Small Grant to support image acquisition for Capitalism and Cartography, CHAS, 2014
Summer Fellowship to support research and writing Capitalism and Cartography, Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa, June/July-2013
William Reese Company Fellow, to support research on Capitalism and Cartography, James Ford Bell Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2012
Quinn Library Research Fellow, to support research on Capitalism and Cartography, New York State Library/Quinn Foundation, May/June, 2012
Major Grant to support research travel for Capitalism and Cartography, College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, University of Northern Iowa, May, 2012
Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship, to support publication of Dutch Prints of Africa, 2012
Pre-tenure Fellowship to support publishing Dutch Prints of Africa, Office of the Executive Vice-President and Provost, University of Northern Iowa, May, 2011
Summer Fellowship to support research and writing of Dutch Prints of Africa, Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa, July, 2011
Major Grant to support research travel for Dutch Prints of Africa, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Northern Iowa, May, 2011
Seashore Fellow, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2008-2009
Scaliger Fellow, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2008
T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2008
Department of Art and Art History Research Grant, University of Iowa, 2007
Stanley International Research Grant, International Programs, University of Iowa, 2007
Foreign Language Enhancement Program Grant, Committee for Institutional Cooperation, 2007
Obermann Graduate Fellow, University of Iowa, 2007
AWARDS
UBS Outstanding Untenured Teaching Award, Office of the Executive Vice-President and Provost, University of Northern Iowa, 2012-13
Graduate Deans’ Distinguished Dissertation Award, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2009
First Place Award, Humanities Division, Jakobsen Forum Graduate Conference, University of Iowa, 2005
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Departmental Committees and Advising
Chair, Academic Program Review Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2015-16
Chair, Student Outcomes Assessment Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2014
Photo Faculty Search Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2012, 2013
Art History Undergraduate Symposium co-organizer and co-adviser, 2010-present
Gallery Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2009-present
Art Education Graduate Review Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2010-2011
Student Outcomes Assessment Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2010-2011
Recruitment Committee, UNI Department of Art, 2009-2010
Languages
Dutch
Acquired at Indiana University, and through the Autonomous Language Learners Network (ALLNET), University of Iowa
Spanish
Acquired at Carleton College and the University of Minnesota
French (reading)
Acquired at the University of Iowa
German (reading)
Acquired at the University of Minnesota