Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my query. I am grateful for the time and energy -- and enthusiasm you put into it. This topic is obviously worthy of deeper study than I can give it; I hope some thoughtful and enterprising graduate student will take it up. Rachel Dobson Communications Specialist | Visual Resources Curator Department of Art and Art History The University of Alabama (205) 348-1893 [log in to unmask] On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Rachel Dobson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am writing an article for our department newsletter about one of our > former department chairs who seems to me to have broken some significant > ground for women in the administration of art departments in the > southeastern United States. She was chair of three different art > departments beginning in 1970 until her retirement in 1990. The article > can't be too lengthy, but I want to try to put her achievements in recent > historical context of academic administration so that younger readers > especially will be able to understand what she did, what academia was like > then, how it was changing. I wonder if someone could easily point me to > some references that deal specifically with academic art departments, > especially something like a timeline of women administrators, or women > department chairs, or women in administrative positions in art and art > history departments in the U.S.? > Thank you! > > Rachel Dobson > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~