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Dorothy Johnson, F. Wendell Miller Professor and director of the school of art and art history, is one of the world’s leading scholars of 18th- and 19th-century art, particularly the career of Jacques-Louis David. She has been a member of the UI faculty since 1987. She has authored two books on David and edited another, and she has published numerous influential articles in leading art history journals and in the premier journal in eighteenth-century studies. Her current research examines Romantic Hellenism in French art. An elected member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, she has also been active in planning and chairing sessions for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. As director of the school of art and art history since 1995, she has been instrumental in maintaining and building upon the school’s outstanding reputation, as well as in the planning and development of the new art building now under construction. In the words of her nominator, Steve Thunder-McGuire, associate professor and studio division coordinator, “She inspires reflection and high standards. This quality is as true for her work with students—graduate and undergraduate—as it is with her colleagues, to the degree that I am sure many more people than myself measure their definition of being a faculty member against her presence and commitment to scholarship and teaching. |
