Dr. Juilee Decker

Fall 2009 Courses:
ART 216 Survey of Art History I
ART 302 Curatorial Studies
ART 414 Modern Art

Spring 2010 Courses:
ART 217 Survey of Art History II
ART 250 Art History Methods
ART 470 Special Topics in Art History: The Making of the Modern Museum
ART 470 Special Topics in Art History: TBD

Dr. Juilee Decker is Associate Professor of Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Chair of the Art Department. She joined the faculty of Georgetown College in the Fall 2004. Recent professional work includes public art, museums, and archives. In August 2008, Dr Decker was named Editor of the award winning journal, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals published by AltaMira Press. Prior to being tapped as Editor, Dr. Decker guest-edited two issues (Spring and Summer 2008) which focused on public art.

In June 2008, she was appointed Exam Leader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Art History Exam. In this role, Dr. Decker will be responsible for the intellectual content of rubrics that are prepared for the reading of each year's art history exam which is administered internationally to more than 20,000 students. Dr. Decker taught a study abroad course in London and Dublin in 2007-08 which focused on portraiture and biography and will teach a two-week course in London dedicated to the history of the museum in December 2009. Please email Dr. Decker if you are interested in this course  or visit the CCSA website which has further info.  

Education

• Ph. D. Case Western Reserve University, Art History, 2003   Dissertation: “The Possibilities of Print: John Constable, English Landscape, and the Chiaroscuro of Nature”
• M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master of Arts in Art History and Certification in Museum Studies, 1998
• B.S. Wittenberg University, Bachelor of Science, Double Major in Art History and Russian Studies 1990

Service

• Membership Coordinator, Public Art Dialogue
• Vice-President, Historians of British Art, elected term (2009-11)
• Faculty Advisor, Kappa Pi Art Fraternity, Georgetown College 2004-2007

Invited Lectures

• Invited Speaker, University of Oxford, "The Making and Meaning of Public Sculpture", June 4, 2009
• Invited Speaker, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, "The Object Speaks: Japanese and Chinese Cultural Studies", June 17, 2008
• Guest Lecturer, Centre College, Danville, KY, “Recent British Art: A State of the Field” as a guest lecture for Dr. William Levin’s course on Nineteenth-Century French Art, January 2007
• Invited Speaker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “Constable: The Great Landscapes” Paper: “Translations: The Artistic and Cultural Legacies of Constable’s Six-Footers” as part of the An Expanding Vision: Constable and the Transformation of Landscape Art lecture program presented October 22, 2006
• Guest Lecturer, Hanover College, Hanover, IN, “Mass Appeal, Monuments, or Misery: Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture” as part of the Humanities Lecture Series, November 11, 2005
   

Selected Honors and Awards

• Recipient, John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award, September 2008 conferred at Opening Convocation
• Fellow, Henlein Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Awarded by the Provost/Dean of Georgetown College, Fall 2007
• Fellow, Interdisciplinary Japan Studies Seminar at Tokai University, Honolulu, HI -- Sponsored by the Freeman Institute, May-June 2007

last updated September 2009