Julia Rosenbaum

Professor of Art History and Visual Culture

Primary Academic Program: Art History

Academic Program Affiliation(s): American and Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Experimental Humanities

Biography: Julia B. Rosenbaum specializes in American visual material with interests in art and science/medicine; environmental art; and issues interrelating visual imagery with political identity. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Art Bulletin, American Art and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. She is the author of Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity (2006) and co-editor of The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2010); Frederic Church’s Olana on the Hudson: Art / Landscape / Architecture (2018, winner of the Victorian Society in America 2019 Book Award); and Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (2021). Her latest book project, titled Unruly Bodies?: Spiritualism, the Scientific, and Visual Culture in Post-Civil War America explores the professionalizing of medicine and notions of the body and healing in late nineteenth/early twentieth-century visual material.



In 2023, she held the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin. Her curatorial work includes Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment (Olana State Historic Site and Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Cummer Museum, Reynolda House Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum) and Not Just One Thing (Wilderstein Historic Site), and she has served as Director of Research and Publications at The Olana Partnership.

 

Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. B.A. Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

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