STACIE G. WIDDIFIELD
Professor of
Art History
PhD: UCLA, 1986
Division of Art History, School of Art,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0002
staciew@email.arizona.edu
office: (520) 621-9705
fax: (520) 621-2955
In-press
Publications:
- "Tradition and
Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," in: Deborah Cherry and
Janice Helland, eds., Studio, Space and Sociality: New Narratives of
Nineteenth-Century Women Artists, Ashgate Press,
forthcoming
in 2006.
- Spanish
translation of "Assimilation and Body of the Nation: Mestizaje and
Gender" in: Crítica feminista en la teoría e
historia del arte,compiled by Inda Sáenz Romero and Karen
Cordero Reiman, Mexico: UNAM, Gender Studies Program,
in
press.
In
Preparation:
- "Reversals of
Fortune: Painting and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico
City," in: William H. Beezley, ed.
Recent
Publications:
- "Introduccion"
and "Modernizando el pasado: la recuperación de arte y
historia del arte, 1860-1920," in: La Amplitud del modernismo
y de la modernidad, ed. Stacie G. Widdifield, Vol. 2 of
Hacia otra
historia del arte Mexicano, Mexico: Conaculta, 2004.
- "Manuel
Tolsá's Equestrian Monument to Charles Iv; Art History,
Patrimony, and the City," Journal X., vol. 8, no.1, Autumn 2003, pp.61-83.
- "The Body of
History in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," Quaderni, no. 7, 8th Biennial
Meeting of the Milan, June, 1996."
- "El indio
re-tradado," in: in De la estructuración colonial a la
exigencia nacional (1780-1860) , Esther Acevedo, ed., Vol. 1 of
Hacia ora
historia del arte Mexicano, Mexico: Conaculta, 2001, pp. 241-256.
- "El impulso de
Humboldt y a la mirada extranjera sobre México," in De la
estructuración colonial a la exigencia nacional (1780-1860)
Esther Acevedo, ed., (Vol. 1 of Hacia ora historia del arte en
México), Mexico: Conaculta, 2001, pp. 257-271."
- José
María Velasco," St. James Guide to Hispanic
Artists,
Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2001.
- "Art and
Architecture, 19th and 20th Centuries," Oxford Encyclopedia of
Mesoamerican Culture, Elizabeth H. Boone, ed., 2001.
- Review of: Juan
García, ed., Mexican American Women, Changing Images in:
Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, vol. 5, 1995 and Brenda
Jo Bright
and Liza Bakewell, eds., Looking High and Low: Art and Cultural
Identity,
Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1995 in: Signs, Journal of Women and
Culture in Society, Summer, 1998, pp. 1093-1095.
- "The Visual
Culture of Nineteenth-Century Mexico," in The Encyclopedia of Mexican
Culture,
Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998, pp.1568-76.
- The Embodiment
of the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican
Painting
Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Recent Awards,
Grants, Honors:
- 2001 Nominated
for Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
(University-level award)
- 2001 College of
Fine Arts, Grant for Research Assistant, University of
Arizona
- 2001 Office of
Summer Session, Grant for Development of On-Line Web Course,
University of Arizona
- 2001 Association
for Women Faculty, Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 2001 Latin
American Studies, Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 2001 Foreign
Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 2000 Excellence
Award, School of Art, University of Arizona
- 2000 Dean's
Scholar, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona
- 2000 University
of Arizona Foundation Grant
- 1999 Foreign
Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 1999 Art
Department, Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 1999 College of
Fine Arts, Summer Incentive Grant, University of Arizona
- 1998 Excellence
in Teaching Award, College of Fine Arts, University of
Arizona
- 1998 Contemporary
Authors (author citation)
- 1998 Latin
American Center, Small Grant, University of Arizona
- 1998 Fondo
Nacional de la Cultura, Mexico (publication grant)
- 1998 Faculty
Development Grant, University of Arizona
- 1998 Latin
American Center, Small Grant
- 1998 Art
Department, Travel Grant, University of Arizona
- 1997
Vice-President for Research, University of Arizona, Small
Grant,
- 1997 Latin
American Studies, Small Grant, University of Arizona
- 1996 Instrucional
Computing Grant, University of Arizona
- 1996 College of
Fine Arts Course Planning Grant, University of Arizona
- 1996 Faculty
Development Connectivity Grant, University of Arizona
- 1995 Provost's
Author Support Fund, University of Arizona
- 1995 Millard
Meiss Publication Subvention, College Art Association
Recent
Lectures/Presentations/Activities:
- "Lithography of
the National: replicating Mexico in the Nineteenth Century,"
Oaxaca Summer Institute on Modern Mexican History, Oaxaca, Mexico,
July, 2002.
- "Modern Mexican
Women Artists," NEH Summer Institute on Hispanic Gendering of the
Americas: Beyond Cultural and Geographical Boundaries, Arizona
State University, July 2002.
- "Lithography in
Nineteenth-Century Mexico: the contribution of printed images to
national culture," University of Arizona Museum of Art, April,
2002.
- "Pulque and
Indias: Colonial and Modern," response to: Reproducing Mexico:
Visual Culture, Gender, and Political Society, College Art
Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
February, 2002.
- "Manuel
Tolsá's Equestrian Monument to Charles IV (1796-2000): the
political economy of patrimony," Images of Power: National
Iconographies, Culture and the State in Latin America, University
of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, London,
2001
- "The City of
Mexico &endash; Images and History," Oaxaca Summer Institute on
Modern Mexican History, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2001
- "Gender and
Modernity in the epoch before Kahlo'" Southwest Council on Latin
American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001
- "The Wild Ride of
Charles IV, Politics and Patrimony in Modern Mexico,' Latin
American Area Studies, UA, Brown Bag Lecture Series, April
2001.
- "The Jacques and
Natahsha Gelman Collection" Phoenix Art Museum, 2001
- "Nationalism and
Nineteenth-Century Mexican Art," Oaxaca Summer Institute on Modern
Mexican History, Oaxaca, July, 2000.
- Gatorman Finisher
(three mile ocean swim, La Jolla, CA) September, 1999.
- "Bonjour Amigos:
the Afrancesamiento of Mexican Elite Culture, 1880-1920," Cultural
History and International Relations, Institut D'Anglais,
Université Paris, VII, Paris, June 5, 1999.
- "Conflicting
Cultures in Turn of the Century Mexico," University of Chicago,
Workshop on Modern Visual Cultures of Latin America, April 9,
1999
- "Comments on
National Culture," in: "Fashioning the Nation: History Painting
and Nationalist Fictions in Spain and the Americas, 1492 to the
Present," Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Los Angeles,
February 12, 1999
- Gatorman Finisher
(three mile ocean swim, La Jolla, CA) September, 1998
- "19th and
20th-Century Mexican Women Artists," Cal State Fullerton,
November, 1997
- Chair, Business
Meeting of the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) at
College Art Association, New York, February, 1997
- "Nineteenth-Century Mexico Looks at the Colonial
Period," Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America,
Symposium, Phoenix Art Museum, January, 1997
- Gatorman Finisher
(three mile ocean swim, La Jolla, CA) September, 1996
- "Michaelangelo
Meet Moctezuma: Arts History's Methods," Friends of the University
of Arizona Library, a collaborative presentation with Dr. Pia
Cuneo (University of Arizona), Tucson, November, 1996
- Guest lecturer on
the Aztec "Teocalli de la Guerra Sagrada" for the internet course:
"World Art" taught by Dr. Arthur Bourgeois, Governor's State
University, Illinois, Fall 1996
- Lecture: "The
Embodiment of the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican
Painting, Latin American Studies, San Diego State University,
October, 1996
- Sabbatical, Fall
semester 1996
- "The Body of
History in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," 8th Biennial Meeting of the
Milan Group for U.S. History, Milan, June, 1996
- Co-chair with
Fatima Bercht, "State of Research in Modern Latin American Art,"
research session of the Association for Latin American Art,
Boston, February, 1996
- "Esa Pobre Mujer:
Narrating the History of Women Artists in Modern Mexico," Women's
Studies Department, Case Western Reserve University, October,
1995
- "The Velada of
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mexico," Seeking a Cultural Ideal in the
Salon, Annual Meeting, Group for Early Modern Culture Studies,
Dallas, TX, October 1995
- "The Landscapes
of Nineteenth-Century Mexico," for symposium in conjunction with
The Mexican Landscape; a traveling exhibition, Tucson Museum of
Art, September ,1995
- "Modern Women
Painters in Mexico and Brazil," in conjunction with the traveling
exhibition, Latin American Women Artists, 1915 -1995, Phoenix Art
Museum, July, 1995
- "Perspectives on
20th Century Women Artists in Mexico," Museo de San Carlos, Mexico
City and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Nuevo
León, Mexico, April 1995
Reviews and
Citations:
- Benjamin, Thomas,
La Revolución, Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth
and History, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Bibliographical reference to: The Embodiment of the
National in late Nineteenth-Century Painting, Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1996, p. 556-557.
- Fernández,
María, Review of: The Embodiment of the National in late
Nineteenth-Century Painting, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996 in:
Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 70 (no.3), 1999,
pp.556-557.
- Fares, G. "The
Embodiment of the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican
Painting," in" Chasqui 28 (2), November 1999, pp.103-108.
- Segre, Erica, "An
Italicised Ethnicity: Memory and Renascence in the Literary
Writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano," in: Modern Language
Studies vol.36 (no.3) 199-2000, pp.266-278. Note 27, p. 277:
reference to The Embodiment of the National in late
Nineteenth-Century Painting, Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
1996.
- Legouvey, Marie,
Review (in French) of: The Embodiment of the National in Late
Nineteenth-Century Painting,, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996 in:
Histoire et Societes de l'Amerique Latine, no. 11, 2000-2001, pp,
207-217
- "Suggested
Readings," in: Beezley, William H. and Linda A.Curcio-Nagy, Latin
American Popular Culture, an Introduction, Wilmington, Del:
Scholarly Resources, 2000; refers to: The Embodiment of the
National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican
Painting,
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
- The Embodiment
of the National in Late 19th-Century Painting, University of Arizona
Press, 1996; cited in: Jesse Lerner, "On the Travels of the
Chacmool," in Architectural Design, 1999, pp. 16-21, note.
- Cuevas Wolf,
Cristina, "Guillermo Kahlo and Casasola, Architectural Form and
Urban Unrest," in; History of Photography, vol. 20, no.3, Autumn
1996, pp.196-207. Note 11 cites my Phd Dissertation, National Art
and idenitty in Mexico, 1869-1881 ( UCLA, 1987).
- "Dispossession,
Assimilation and the Image of the Indian..." Art Journal, Summer,
1994 listed in "Selected Bibliography," Converging Cultures: Art
and Identity in Spanish America, Diana Fane, ed., NY: Brooklyn
Museum, 1996. (major exhibition catalogue on Colonial Art by 8
scholars).
- Sullivan, Edward
J., "Historical Perspectives," Aspects of Contemporary
Mexican Painting, NY: Americas Society, 1990, note 5, refers to my
"Dispossession, Assimilation...," Art Journal, vol. IV, no. 2, Summer
1990.
- Vázquez,
Oscar E., "Translating 1492: Mexico's and Spain's First National
Celebrations of the "Discovery" of the Americas," Art Journal vol. 51, no. 4, winter
1992, note 5, refers to my Ph.D. dissertation, National Art and Identity
in Mexico, 1869-1881.
- Gruenwald, K.
and C. Mitchell, "A List of Dissertations," Western Historical
Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 313: lists my dissertation, National
Art and Identity in Mexico, 1869-1881.
Recent
and
Selected Intramural Presentations and Service:
- TV appearances on
KUAT for the "Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Modern
Mexicxan Art" (exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, Spring 2001):
Arizona Ilustrated, (4/16/01); Reflexiones( 4/21/01).
- Presentation on
art historical methods and research for: Research Methods in
Architecture, /Prof. B.Jeffery, College of Architecture, February
1999
- Presentation on
art historical methods and research for: Research Designs &
Methodology, Prof. M. Waterstone, Comparative Culture and Literary
Studies, April 1999"
- Web Instruction
for Large Classes," Graduate Assistants in Teaching Orientation,
University Teaching Center, August 1999
- "Aztec Art, part
Deux: the Modern Contexts of Pre-Columbian Art," for Building
Academic Community Speakers Series, March, 1999
- Reviewer, Small
Grants Program, Office of the Provost, Grant Review Committee,
2000 and 2001
- Reviewer, New
Learning Environments Grant Program, 2000
- Latin American
Studies Faculty, 1987- present
- Latin American
Studies Executive Committee, 1990-2002
- President,
Association for Latin American Art, 1996-2001
- Grant reviewer,
Getty Grant Program, 1999
- Multiple
committee assignments for the Division, School, College and
University
- Multiple
assignments as chair and member of MA and Phd Committees
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