Jessica Dallow, Assoc.Chair, Asst. Professor of Contemporary Art History


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M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Art, American Art, African American Art
Jessica Dallow is Assistant Professor of Art History. Her research areas are 19th-21st-century art and critical theory with an emphasis on race and gender. She teaches The Art Experience, Art Since 1945, Art Criticism and Theory, American Art, Modern Architecture, and special topics courses. She is co-curating and writing the catalog for the upcoming exhibition Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar. Other current scholarship focuses on women’s scrapbooks, the visual culture of the civil rights movement, gender and the found object, and Clementine Hunter. Her writings include “Reclaiming Histories: Betye and Alison Saar, Feminism, and the Representation of Black Womanhood” (Feminist Studies), “Rethinking Feminism and Visual Culture” (National Women’s Studies Association Journal ), and From the Molecular to the Galactic: The Art of Max Ernst and Alfonso Ossorio.

 

Contact Jessica jdallow@uab.edu

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