Elizabeth Sears | |
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Born | 1952 (age 70–71) |
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Alma mater | Duke University and Yale University |
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Discipline | Art history |
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Institutions | University of Michigan |
Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952) [1] is the George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art. [2]
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]
Sears is the George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at University of Michigan. [5] [6] She previously taught at Universität Hamburg and Princeton University. [3]
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]
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