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Jennifer L. Roberts Gardner Cowles
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture American
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Sackler
Museum 507 485
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617-496-0116 fax
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Professor Roberts teaches American art from the colonial
period to the present, with particular interests in landscape, travel, the
history of science, and the history and theory of material culture. She is
the author of Mirror-Travels:
Robert Smithson and History (Yale
University Press, 2004) and a co-author of the textbook American
Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Prentice Hall, 2007). Her book in progress, a study of the transit of
images prior to the Civil War, is Transporting Visions: the
Movement of Images in Early America. |
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Yale University, History of Art, Ph.D. 2000 Stanford University, Art History and English,
A.B. 1992 |
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TEACHING |
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Courses
Offered: HAA17y: American Encounters:
Art, Contact,
and Conflict 1565-1865 HAA172w: American Art and
Modernity, 1865-1965 HAA175w: Pop
Art HAA175s: Art and Science in
Early America HAA175x:
The Gilded Age HAA275w: The
Thing HAA276x:
The Art of Expedition in Nineteenth-Century America Tutorials: HAA98ar:
Trompe-l'oeil and the Practice of Deception (Fall 2002) HAA98ar:
Robert Rauschenberg (Fall 2003) HAA98ar:
Ornament, Essence, and Interiority (Fall 2004) |
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Information for prospective students |
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Students of American art at Harvard are encouraged to
pursue research in a broad range of topics and historical periods.
Dissertations currently underway concern everything from Puritan art of the
seventeenth century to minimal sculpture in the 1960s. Along with Professor Roberts, several other Harvard
faculty members offer instruction in American art. These include Robin Kelsey
(history of photography and 19th/20th century American
art), Benjamin Buchloh (post-WWII American and European), Carrie
Lambert-Beatty (post-1960 with an emphasis on video and performance), and
Neil Levine (modern architecture). Suzanne Blier teaches African and
African-American art, and Thomas Cummins teaches Precolumbian/Colonial art
and is currently directing several dissertation projects concerned with
borderlands studies and Spanish Colonial North America. Links to campus resources: American art
collections at the Fogg Art Museum The Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology The Program in
the History of American Civilization Department
of African and African American Studies Department of
Visual and Environmental Studies David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies Charles Warren
Center for Studies in American History For application procedures, see the Admissions
information for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences For general information about the department, including
course requirements, see the departmental website (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/).
You may also consult the Director of Graduate Studies, Hugo van der Velden,
at velden@fas.harvard.edu.
Thank you for your interest in the program! |
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