19th-c. American Visual and Material Culture; Built Environment; Urban History; Gilded Age and Progressive EraAssistant Professor
Ph.D. Univ. Maryland - College Park, 2005 Office: 239 LeConte
Office Hours: On leave
Phone: (706) 542-5207 areason@uga.edu Akela Reason is the author of Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History (U. Penn Press, 2010), which won the 2011 Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. In addition to teaching, she has worked at the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art. She is currently preparing a study of the politics of Civil War monuments in New York City during the Gilded Age. |
