Breanne started following the work of Philip Nel, Kansas State University, English.
Breanne started following the work of Cory Pillen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art History.
Breanne will be delivering a paper on Donal Hord's Guardian of the Water (1937-1939) this Wednesday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. as part of the University of Maryland's Latin American Studies Center Cafe Break Series. For more information, visit the LASC websi... more
Breanne will be presenting her research at ASA 2012. The panel is "Visualizing Pre-Columbian Civilizations in the Service of Nation-Building in the U.S. and Mexico, 1850-1950."
The George Washington University
Department Member, Art History
University of Maryland, Art History and Archaeology
About
Breanne Robertson recently completed her PhD in American art history at the University of Maryland. Her research interests focus on cross-cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art. Her dissertation is entitled “Forging a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States Art and Visual Culture, 1933-1945” and elucidates U.S. artists’ appropriation of pre-Columbian themes in relation to the Latin American foreign policy initiatives of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.
Breanne has received grants and fellowships in support of her research from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, Children’s Literature Association, University of Maryland Latin American Studies Center, Cosmos Club Foundation, and State Historical Society of Iowa. She has delivered papers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, International Association of Inter-American Studies Bi-Annual Conference, National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference, and Southwest Art History Conference. This past fall, she was awarded the Mary Kelley Prize at the New England American Studies Association Conference for her talk, "Guardians of San Diego History: Challenging Pan-Americanism in Donal Hord’s Civic Center Sculpture." In addition, Breanne has published book reviews and essays related to her current research in scholarly journals, including The Annals of Iowa and Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas.
Breanne earned her B.A. in Art History from the University of Missouri and her M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas. Her Master’s thesis explored the relationship between Mormon artist George Martin Ottinger’s “Aztec” paintings and the beliefs and missionary efforts of Mormon Utah.
