Elizabeth Sears
Scholar of European medieval art
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Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952)[1] is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.[2]
Elizabeth Sears | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 73–74) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Duke University and Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
Education
Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982,[3] writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.[4]
Career
Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan.[5][6] She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University.[3]
Selected books
- Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher (2008), co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag.[7]
- With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling (2000), editor, Oxford University Press.[8]
- The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), Princeton University Press.[9] (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990)[10]
Awards and honors
Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004,[11] a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2019-2020.[5][3] Also in 2010 Sears was the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[12]