We have exciting news to share on behalf of Nancy Siegel, Ph.D., Professor from the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University. Dr. Siegel has been elected as a member to the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)—a learned society and major research institution founded in 1812. This is an honor bestowed upon scholars in the humanities for distinguished contributions in research.

In addition, she was recently awarded a grant from the TU Faculty Development and Research Committee (FDRC) to further support her research. Congratulations! We wish you all the best! – COFAC Dean’s Office

* Since this was written, Dr. Siegel was awarded a 2019 Georgian Papers Programme Fellowship from the Royal Collection Trust, London and Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture to conduct research at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle!

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Bio: Dr. Nancy Siegel is Professor of Art History at Towson University and specializes in American landscape studies, print culture, and culinary history of the 18^th and 19^th centuries. Her current project, Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic, investigates the intersection among American art and political, horticultural, culinary histories. Most recently, she led the seminar, “Culinary Culture: The Politics of American Foodways, 1765-1900,” for the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. She has authored/edited The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting (2012); River Views of the Hudson River School (2009); Within the Landscape: Essays on Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (2005); Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery (2003); and The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers (2001). Her work has appeared in Gastronomica, The Burlington Magazine, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and she has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Antiquarian Society, Yale University, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Culinary Historians of Chicago, the New York Public Library, and the State of New York.