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2010 Contemporay Realism Biennial
Lecture and Reception
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:30pm - Lecture by Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller
7:30 - 9:30pm - Reception
2010 Biennial Juror and Speaker, Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller is Associate Professor of Art History in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, and the former Director of Graduate Studies (1998-2006). She teaches courses in 19th-20th c. African American, U.S., and European art, methodology, public art, the art of collecting, and the history of photography. She earned her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University, and a B.A. in English and History (President of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit National Honor Society), with a peace studies concentration, from Xavier University.
Leininger-Miller’s publications include the book, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Rutgers, 2001), and essays in the anthologies, The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (Rutgers, 2003) and Out of Context: American Artists Abroad (Praeger, 2004). Her essays also have appeared in The Harlem Renaissance (Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2009), Paris Black (Wuppertal, Germany: Peter Hammer Verlag, 2006), Grove Dictionary of Art (Oxford) online (2006), Source: Notes in the History of Art, Paris Connections: African-American Artists in Paris (winner of a 1993 American Book Award); Encyclopedia of the Great Migration; Notable Black American Women, Books I and II; Notable Black American Men, Epic Lives; Gumbo Ya Ya; Black Artists; the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History; and American National Biography. She has published book reviews in Indiana Magazine of History, Ohio Valley History, CAA.Reviews, and Art Journal. She also has essays in the online journal, 19th-Century Art Worldwide, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, and African American National Biography, as well as Cowan’s auction catalogues.
In 2004-05 Leininger-Miller was on leave to work on her second book, Sculpting the New Negro: The Life and Art of Augusta Savage, with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship; a Fellowship in American Modernism from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center; a Society for the Preservation of American Modernists Publication Grant; a University Research Council Award; and an Anyone Can Fly Foundation Professional Scholars Grant. She is also working on a book on African American daguerreotypist James Presley Ball (1825-1904).
Leininger-Miller has curated exhibitions on the Tyler Davidson Fountain (1871) (Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 2006), 19th-c. illustrated sheet music (Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, 1996), and self-taught African American art (Yale U. Art Gallery, 1991).
Among Leininger-Miller’s honors and awards from UC are the Marian Spencer Diversity Ambassador Award for promoting diversity, the Provost’s Committee on Diversity Award (2010, 2009), Faculty Development Council awards (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a Faculty Bonus Award 2007), Outstanding Academic Advising Award (2006), the President’s Quality Service Award (2005), a Faculty Summer Fellowship (2000), a Faculty Research Grant (1996), and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research and Professional Work (2001 and 1994), as well as multiple travel grants from the School of Art, Women’s Studies, and the Commission on the Status of Women at UC.
Leininger-Miller was named a Regional Finalist (1 of top 10, out of 136 nominations) for the 2010 Inspire Integrity Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (Washington, D.C.). She also earned the following: Pre-doctoral Fellowships, Smithsonian Institution (1990 and 1991-92); Associate Research Fellowship, Sorbonne University, Paris (1990-91); Samuel H. Kress Pre-doctoral fellowship (1990); Henry R. Luce Fellowship in American Art History (1989-90); John F. Enders Research Assistance Grants (1990, 1992); and Lachaise Foundation Research Grants (1989-90).
Leininger-Miller has delivered a variety of papers at refereed annual conferences of the College Art Association (CAA), the American Studies Association (ASA), the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS), the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), and the Popular Culture Association (PCA), and universities and museums throughout the United States, France, and Germany. She has appeared on radio, television, and in two documentary films.