Print

Print


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]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~