ELIZABETH CARMEL HAMILTON

elizabeth@beholdingtheimage.com

CURRICULUM VITAE

McKnight Doctoral Fellow, University of Florida, 2008-Present
Art History (American Art, Black Cultural Studies)

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2007

BFA Creative Project: “Any Given Day—A Multi-Media Exploration of Self-Portraits and Identity,” Solo Exhibition, ASUW Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie Wyoming

Senior Thesis: “Abandoning the Negress and Recovering Laure in Manet’s Olympia”

Associate of Art, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY, 2005

Fine Art, with Honors

Many Voices—One Story?  Public History Narratives of Native American and African American Histories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

2010 Florida Education Fund Mid-Year Research and Writing Conference, Tampa, Florida

Paper: “Re-Visioning the Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Artis Lane’s Portrait Bust of Sojourner Truth and Alison Saar’s Swing Low”

2007 University of Wyoming McNair Scholars Program Annual Research Conference, Laramie, Wyoming

Paper: “Through the Lens of Renée Cox: Re-visualizing Personal, Religious, and Art Histories to Situate Black Female Identity in American Culture.” 

2007 Wyoming Annual Undergraduate Research Day, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Paper: “The Cultural Significance of Writing in the Art of Faith Ringgold”

Poster Session: “Biblical Themes in Artwork by African Americans as a Form of Social Reaction or Assimilation”  

Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Dialogue, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 

11^th Annual Rocky Mountain Graduate Education Conference, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

2006 University of Wyoming McNair Scholars Program Annual Research Conference, Laramie, Wyoming

Paper and Poster Session: “The Sum of Her Parts: Pseudoscientific and Artistic Constructions of the African American Woman in the 19^th – 20^th Centuries”

McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-Present

National Women’s Study Association-Women of Color Caucus 
Student Essay Award for “Abandoning the Negress and Recovering Laure in Manet’s Olympia,” 2008

Student Organizations Achievements and Recognition (SOAR), 2006

McNair Scholars Program, 2006-2007

Presidential Honor Scholarship, 2005-2007

Award for Service to Associated Student Government, 2004

Sage-Trio Project Scholarship Award, 2004

Phi Theta Kappa, Honor Society  

Associated Student Government Secretary, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY, 2003 – 2004    

College Art Association (CAA)

Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)