Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952) is the George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at the

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. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.

Education

Sears attended

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, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from

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in 1982, writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.Elizabeth Lanford Sears, "The Ages of Man in Medieval Art." 2 volumes. Ph.D. dissertation--Yale University, 1982. ProQuest no. 303261219.

Career

Sears is the

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Collegiate Professor of History of Art at

. She previously taught at

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and

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Selected books

* ''Verzetteln als Methode: Der humanistische Ikonologe William S. Heckscher'' (2008), co-authored with Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte, Akademie Verlag. * With Edgar Wind, ''The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling'' (2000), editor, Oxford University Press. * ''The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle'' (1986), Princeton University Press. (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990)

Awards and honors

Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the

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in 2004, a

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in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers,

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, 2019-2020. Also in 2010 Sears was the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the

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in Washington, D.C.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sears, Elizabeth 1952 births Living people American art historians University of Michigan faculty Women art historians American women historians Yale University alumni Duke University alumni 21st-century American women