Elizabeth Sears


Elizabeth Langsford Sears is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.

Education

Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982, writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.

Career

Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan. She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University.

Selected books

Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher, co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag.

Awards and honors

Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2019-2020. Also in 2010 Sears was the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.