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Daisy Adams

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Texas - Austin
  • M.A., decorative arts, Design History, Culture, Bard College
  • B.A., art history, Pomona College

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Assistant instructor, Spring 2023, Survey of Renaissance to Modern Art (instructor of record), University of Texas at Austin
  • Assistant instructor, Fall–2022, Introduction to the Visual Arts (instructor of record), University of Texas at Austin
  • Assistant instructor, Summer 2021, Introduction to the Visual Arts (instructor of record), University of Texas at Austin
  • Teaching assistant, Spring 2021, Mesoamerican Art and Culture, University of Texas at Austin
  • Lead teaching assistant, Fall 2020, Introduction to the Visual Arts, University of Texas at Austin
  • Curatorial assistant, Spring 2020, European Painting and Sculpture, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
  • Teaching assistant, 2019–20, Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall and Spring Semesters, University of Texas at Austin

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Susan Vaughn Foundation Endowed Scholarship in Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
  • Paleography Scholarship, Newberry Library Summer Institute in Italian
  • University of Texas Graduate Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
  • Jack G. Taylor Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
  • M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
  • Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Bard Graduate School
  • Willowbridge Fellowship, Bard Graduate Center
  • Louisa Moseley Fine Arts Prize in Art History, Pomona College
  • Mortar Board Honor Society, Pomona College
  • Rembrandt Club Research Grant, Pomona College
  • Pomona College Scholar, Pomona College

Organizations

  • College Art Association
  • Renaissance Society of America

Publications and presentations

  • "A Passion for Porcelain: Islamic and Italian Responses to Chinese Export Ware," presented at Eleanor Greenhill Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2019.
  • "The Gift that Keeps on Giving: An Interpretation of Nicola da Urbino's Calini and Valenti-Gambara Credenze," presented at Late Antique, Medieval Studies Conference: Legacies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2019.
  • Presenter at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, Claremont, CA. Paper: "'Beautiful, Useful, Enduring': Clara Barck Welles, the Kalo Shop, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Chicago" (2015).