Cynthia Fowler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art at Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Ph.D. in art history, University of Delaware (2002).  Area of specialty:  American art and modernism in the 20th century.  Scholarly interests:  American modernism and craft; contemporary American Indian art.

Recent Publications
“Aboriginal Beauty and Self-Determination: The Photographic Projects of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie.”
In Native American Film, Art, and Visuality.  Edited by Denise Cummings.  East Lansing:  Michigan State University Press (forthcoming 2009).

“Hooking Magic: Transforming Women’s Handicraft into Art.”  In Threading Women:  Gender and the Material Culture of Textiles."  Edited by Maureen Goggin and Beth Tobin.  Burlington, VT:  Ashgate Publishing, (forthcoming 2009).

“Strategies for Self-Determination in American Indian Art.” Social Justice 34 (2007):  63-79. (Special edition on art and social change).

“Oklahoma:  A View from the Center.”  Co-authored with Maria DePriest and Ruthe Blalock Jones.  Studies in American Indian Literature 19 (fall 2007):  1-44.

“Gender Representation in the Art of Jaune Quick To See Smith.” Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art VI (2005):  79-85.

Recent Fellowships and Awards
Founding Presidents’ Award, Textile Society of America (2008)

James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
(Summer 2007)

Winterthur Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE (Summer 2005)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (Summer 2003)