Cynthia Fowler

Associate Professor of Art
B.A., University of Massachusetts Boston; A.L.M, Harvard University Extension School; Ph.D., University of Delaware

My area of specialty is American art from the early twentieth century to the present, and my scholarship focuses on Contemporary American Indian Art and Modernist Craft Production in Early Twentieth Century America.

Recent Fellowships

James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Summer 2007 Awarded for three months of research on craft production and its relationship to modernism in early twentieth century American art.

Winterthur Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE, Summer 2005 Awarded for one month of research on the hooked rug tradition in early twentieth-century American art.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Evergreen College, Olympia, WA, Summer 2003 "Working from Community: American Indian Art and Literature in a Historical and Cultural Context," six weeks of intensive study of American Indian art and literature to further more thoughtful scholarship on native culture and to encourage teaching strategies that integrate native topics into general courses on art and literature.

Recent Publications

Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in American Indian Art. Social Justice 34 (Fall 2007): 63-96.

Oklahoma: A View from the Center. Co-authored with Maria DePriest and Ruthe Blalock Jones Studies in American Indian Literature 19 (Fall 2007): 1-44.

"Representations of the Female Nude by Women Artists of Generation X." In Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism. Edited by Karen Frostig and Kathy Halamka. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Gender Representation in the Art of Jaune Quick To See Smith. Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art VI (2005).