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Sarah Schaefer

  • Associate Professor, Modern Art, Art History
  • Director, Emile H. Mathis Gallery and UWM Art Collection, Art History

Education

  • PhD, Columbia University, Art History, 2014
  • MA, Columbia University, Art History, 2009
  • BA, University of Michigan, History of Art, 2005

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ARTHIST 364-201 Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1960 No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 364G-201 Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1960 No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 691-012 Art Museum Internship No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 891-001 Art Museum Internship No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 102 - Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 240 - Introduction to Prints and Printmaking: History and Techniques
  • ARTHIST 364 - Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1960 [formerly Modern Painting II: 1900 to the Present]
  • ARTHIST 365 - History of Photography
  • ARTHIST 465 - Dada and Surrealism
  • ARTHIST 499 - J. R. R. Tolkien and the Art of Fantasy
  • ARTHIST 760 - Modern Print Culture: Objects and Audiences
  • ARTHIST 760 - Manet and the Making of Art History

Research Interests

  • 18th and 19th-century European visual cultures
  • modern religious imagery
  • technologies of reproduction
  • display cultures
  • art and revolution
  • medieval revivalisms

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