Theresa Leininger-Miller , Ph.D

Professor Leininger-Miller (Ph.D., Yale University) teaches 19th-21st-century American and European art history.  Multiple students have nominated her such teaching awards as the Dolly Cohen Award, Professor of the Year, and the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching.  Four times, UC senior class officers recognized her teaching achievement. Leininger-Miller won the Outstanding Academic Advising Award in 2006 and the Marian Spencer Diversity Ambassador Award in 2009. Publications include New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Rutgers, 2001); essays in Imprinted:  Illustrating Race; Routledge Companion to African American Art History; Deborah Grant; Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance; Out of Context:  American Artists Abroad; The Modern Woman Revisited:  Paris Between the Wars; Black Paris; Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris; and Picture Cincinnati in Song; and multiple book and exhibition reviews.  Leininger-Miller has lectured throughout the U.S., France and Germany, and appeared on radio, television, and in documentaries. She has curated exhibitions at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Yale University Art Gallery, Weston Art Gallery, Auburn University, and Langsam, Blegen, and DAAP Libraries at UC. Awards are from the NEH, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, Kress, Luce, and Smithsonian Institution.  At UC, Leininger-Miller also won  the President's Quality Service Award and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research. She was Chair of the national professional organization, the Association of Historians of American Art.

Ph.D.: Yale University New Haven, CT, 1995 (History of Art)

M.A.: Yale University New Haven, CT, 1988 (History of Art)

B.A.: Xavier University Cincinnati, OH, 1986 (English & History, with a Peace Studies concentration)

M.Phil.: Yale University New Haven, CT, 1990 (History of Art)

African American art, esp. the Harlem Renaissance, 19th-20th c. American and European art, modernism, and 19th-century landscape painting, history of photography to 1945, public art and public funding, history of museums and collecting, Art History methodology and professional practices, West and Central African art, folk /outsider/ self-taught art.

1999 -2017 Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

2011 - Director of Museum Studies Graduate Certification Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

1992 -To Present Affiliate Faculty Member Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2007 -To Present Affiliate Faculty Member of Africana Studies, University of Cincinati, Cincinnati,OH

2002 -2003 Acting Chair, Art History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1992 -1999 Assistant Profesor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,OH

1998 -2006 Director of Graduate Studies, Art History, University of Cincinnati,

2018 - Professor, Art History, University of Cincinnati,

2010 -2014 Faculty Development Council Award Status:Recipient

2009 -2010 Merit Pay Award for Outstanding Service Status:Recipient

2009 -2010 Regional Finalist, 2010 Inspire Integrity Award (1 of top 10, out of 136 nominations) Status:Nomination

2008 -2009 Provost’s Committee on Diversity Award Status:Recipient

2007 -2008 University Research Council Award Status:Recipient

2003 -2006 Faculty Bonus Award, UC, for Outstanding Research, Teaching, and Service Status:Recipient

2005 -2006 Sarah Grant Barber Outstanding Academic Advising Award Status:Recipient

2004 -2005 President’s Quality Service Award Status:Recipient

2003 -2004 Society for the Preservation of American Modernists Publication Status:Recipient Type:Grant

2003 -2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Status:Recipient Type:Fellowship

2015 -2016 Third Century Materials Grant University of Cincinnati

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