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Emily Thames
Assistant Professor of Art History
Art and Graphic Design
- +1 479-788-7561
- Emily.Thames@uafs.edu
- WB236 University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
Biography
Degree | Major Emphasis/Program Name | Institution | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Ph.D. | Art History | Florida State University | 2022 |
M.A. | Art History | University of North Texas | 2012 |
B.A. | Art History | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | 2010 |
Dr. Emily Thames specializes in the visual and material culture of the colonial Atlantic
world with a focus on the Spanish Americas and the Caribbean (c. 1500-1900). Her dissertation
project considered José Campeche, a Puerto Rican artist working in San Juan during
the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
Dr. Thames completed her B.A. with honors at the University of Arkansas in 2010. She
received her M.A. in 2012 from the University of North Texas, writing her thesis on
a set of buttons allegedly painted by Italian artist Agostino Brunias and worn by
Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. As a Ph.D. student at Florida State University,
she received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral
Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the College of Fine Arts Dean’s
Student Achievement Award, the Mason Dissertation Research Award, the I.N. Winbury
Award, the COGS Conference Presentation Support Grant, and the Helen J. Beard Conference
Travel Grant. During the summer of 2018, she held the Object Research and Teaching
Programming Internship position at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.