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Professor of Art History
Department of Art & Art History
University of New Mexico
Education:
Ph.D., Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, July 1983.
M.A., Art History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 1978.
B.A., English and Art, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, June 1973. Majors: English and Art, Art History concentration.
Employment:
From August 1995 to the present, Dr. Szabo has served as a Professor of Art, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico. While involved in some lower division courses, teaching and advising she is largely focused on a very active graduate program, offering both MA and Ph.D. degrees, in Native American Art History.
Dr. Szabo teaches a wide range of courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels in Native American Art History including Southwestern Ceramics; Native American Art Surveys; Modern Native American Art; and a diversity of graduate seminars that have included Wrapped in Beauty, Clothed in Symbols: Native American Clothing and Body Adornment as Forms of Communication; Fur, Flowers and Trade: Northeastern Native Art of the Nineteenth Century; Art and World View: The Northwest Coast; Beyond the Stereotype: The Art and Artists of the Plains; and Culture Contact as a Source of Change in Native American Art.
Publications:
"Mapped Battles and Visual Narratives: The Arrest and Killing of Sitting Bull." American Indian Art Magazine 21:4 (Autumn 1996): 64-75.
Narrative captions for Howling Wolf entries in Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935: Pages from a Visual History, edited by Janet Catherine Berlo. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with The American Federation of Arts and The Drawing Center, 1996.
Review of Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style, by Bruce Bernstein and W. Jackson Rushing (Museum of New Mexico, 1995) in New Mexico Historical Review (October 1996):406.
Howling Wolf and the History of Ledger Art, University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
"People of the Mimbres--Exhibition Review." Museum Anthropology, 18:3 (October 1994): 61-64.
"Shields and Lodges, Warriors and Chiefs: Kiowa Drawings as Historic Records." Ethnohistory 41:1 (1994): 1-24.
"Chief Killer and a New Reality: Narration and Description in Fort Marion Art." American Indian Art Magazine 19:2 (February 1994): 50-57.
"Howling Wolf: An Autobiography of a Plains Warrior-Artist." University Art Museum, Gallery Guide, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, January 1994.
"Howling Wolf: An Autobiography of a Plains Warrior-Artist." Exhibition catalogue, Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 46:1 (1992) entire volume.
"New Places and New Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Plains Art in Florida," New Mexico Archaeological Society Papers in Honor of J. J. Brody, edited by Meliha S. Duran and David Kirkpatrick, Archaeological Society of New Mexico, 18 (1992): 193-201.
“J. J. Brody," dedication essay, New Mexico Archaeological Society Papers in Honor of J. J. Brody, edited by Meliha S. Duran and David Kirkpatrick, Archaeological Society of New Mexico, 18 (1992): 1-5.
"A Case of Mistaken Identity: Plains Picture Letters, Fort Marion and Sitting Bull," American Indian Art Magazine 16:4 (August 1991): 48-56.
"Medicine Lodge Treaty Remembered,“ American Indian Art Magazine, 14:4 (August 1989): 52-59.
"Captive Artists and Changing Messages: The Paloheimo Drawing Books at the Southwest Museum," Masterkey 62 (Spring 1988): 12-21.
"Howling Wolf: A Plains Artist in Transition," Art Journal 44 (Winter 1984): 367-373.
"American Art--1875 – 1913," The Chrysler Museum Gallery Guide October 1986.
"African Masterpieces from Munich," exhibition brochure, The Chrysler Museum, October 1987.
"Lost Between Continents and Centuries: Susan Watkins, An American Artist Rediscovered," exhibition brochure, The Chrysler Museum, December 1985.
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