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Summer Seminars in Historic American Visual Culture

Year Leaders / Presenters Title Video
2025 Monica Bravo , Emily Voelker Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World Yes
2024 Laurel Daen , Jennifer Van Horn Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice
2023 Christopher Allison , Sonia Hazard Material Religion: Objects, Images, Books
2022 Wendy A. Bellion On Stage: Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century America
2019 Catherine E. Kelly The Political is Visual
2017 Tanya Sheehan In Black and White: Race and American Visual Culture
2016 Kathryn Morse Seeing Nature: The Environment in American Visual Culture to 1900
2015 Nancy J. Siegel Culinary Culture: The Politics of American Foodways, 1765-1900
2014 Gregory H. Nobles The Art of Science and Technology, 1750-1900
2013 Katherine C. Grier Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890
2012 Joshua Brown Seeing the American Civil War: How Visual Culture Recorded, Interpreted, and Remembered the Conflict
2011 Louis P. Masur Picturing Reform: How Images Transformed America, 1830-1880
2010 David Philip Jaffee Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching & Research
2009 David Philip Jaffee Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching and Research

 


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