Elizabeth Sears Explained

Elizabeth Sears
Alma Mater:	Duke University and Yale University
Discipline:	Art history
Workplaces:	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]

Education

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]

Career

Sears is the George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at University of Michigan.^[5] She previously taught at Universität Hamburg and Princeton University.^[3]

Selected books

• Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher (2008), co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag.^[6]
• With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling (2000), editor, Oxford University Press.^[7]
• The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), Princeton University Press.^[8] (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990)^[9]

Awards and honors

Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004,^[10] 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.^{[11] [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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elizabeth Sears . Prosto do informacji - katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych . 26 August 2021.
2. Web site: Elizabeth Sears . American Academy . 26 August 2021.
3. Web site: Elizabeth Sears . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . 26 August 2021.
4. Elizabeth Lanford Sears, "The Ages of Man in Medieval Art." 2 volumes. Ph.D. dissertation--Yale University, 1982. ProQuest no. 303261219.
5. Web site: Elizabeth Sears . U-M LSA History of Art . 26 August 2021 . en.
6. Book: Schoell-Glass . Charlotte . Sears . Elizabeth . Verzetteln als Methode . Akademie Verlag . 26 August 2021 . de . 10.1524/9783050062167 . 12 November 2012. 978-3-05-004449-1 .
7. Book: Wind . Edgar . Sears . Elizabeth . The religious symbolism of Michelangelo: the Sistine ceiling . Oxford University Press . 26 August 2021 . English . 2000. 45580969 .
8. Web site: Sears . Elizabeth . The Ages of Man . Princeton University Press . 26 August 2021 . en . 19 February 2019.
9. Web site: Recent Recipients of the John Nicholas Brown Prize . The Medieval Academy of America . 26 August 2021.
10. Web site: Award-holders before 2005 . The British School at Rome . 26 August 2021.
11. Web site: Past Fellows 2019-2020 . The New York Public Library . 26 August 2021.
12. Web site: Center 31 . Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts . National Gallery of Art . 26 August 2021.