| Colleen Denney | |
| Birth Name: | Colleen Jo Denney |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Occupation: | Art historian Educator |
| Workplaces: | University of Wyoming |
| Discipline: | Art history |
| Sub Discipline: | British art |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Gabriel P. Weisberg |
| Thesis Title: | Exhibition Reforms and Systems: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890 |
| Thesis Url: | https://primo.lib.umn.edu/permalink/f/1jg5c4a/UMN_ALMA21306609300001701 |
| Thesis Year: | 1990 |
| Alma Mater: | Louisiana State University University of Minnesota |
Colleen Jo Denney is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of British art during the Victorian era, Denney is Professor of Art History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming.
Denney graduated from Louisiana State University with both a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in Art History in 1981 and 1983, respectively. She then continued on to the University of Minnesota to receive a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1990.[1] Denney wrote a master's thesis on the photographs of Edgar Degas, and her doctoral dissertation was on Grosvenor Gallery, supervised by Gabriel P. Weisberg.[2]
Upon receiving the doctorate, Denney was hired as Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wyoming. Seven years later, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and then to full Professor in 2005. Four years after that, Denney was also jointly appointed as Professor of Gender and Women's Studies. She has spent her entire teaching career at Wyoming.[3]