Elisabeth Fraser
Professor, Art History
Ph.D. Yale University
Phone: 813.974.9325
Email: fraser@usf.edu
Office: FAH 272
Elisabeth Fraser specializes in the history of art from the 17th to 19th centuries in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, teaching classes on travel, collecting, and global material culture. She is the author of Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 (Penn State University Press, 2017) and Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France (Cambridge University Press, 2004). A recipient of research fellowships from the NEH, DAAD, Getty, and AAUW, among others, she has recently edited a volume of essays, The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Routledge, 2020), and is currently writing a book on Ottoman costume albums and their relationship to European print culture, Dressing the Ottoman Empire: Early Modern Costume Albums and Transculturation. Her essay, 鈥淭he Ottoman Costume Album as Mobile Object and Agent of Contact,鈥� was recently awarded a prize by the Forum for Early-Modern Empires and Global Interaction (FEEGI).
Other Recent Publications:
鈥溾赌樷��: Mouradgea d鈥橭hsson鈥檚 Tableau g茅n茅ral de l鈥橢mpire Othoman,鈥� in thematic issue of Ars Orientalis 39, 鈥淕lobalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century,鈥� Nebahat Avc谋o臒lu and Barry Flood, eds. (2011), pp. 198-230.
鈥淚mages of Uncertainty: Delacroix and the Art of Nineteenth-Century Expansionism,鈥� chapter in Mary Sheriff, ed., Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration, University of North Carolina Press (2010), pp. 123-151.
鈥�,鈥� Art History 31:3 (June 2008), pp. 342-67.
鈥淟a politique de la famille sous la Restauration: Les Massacres de Scio d鈥橢ug猫ne Delacroix,鈥� chapter in Natalie Scholz and Christine Schr枚er, eds., Repr茅sentation et pouvoir: la politique symbolique (1789-1830) (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007), pp. 175-84.
鈥淎 propos des sources de Delacroix; Dante et Virgile et l鈥檃utorit茅 paternelle,鈥� chapter in S茅bastien Allard, ed., Paris 1820: L鈥橝ffirmation de la g茅n茅ration romantique (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 101-12.
鈥�,鈥� French Historical Studies 26: 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 315-49.
"," Oxford Art Journal 21:1 (Spring 1998), pp. 87-103. [on Delacroix鈥檚 Massacres of Chios]
Fellowships
I have received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2007-08, 1997-98, 1995), and I was a resident fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars (Paris) in 2007-08. I have also been awarded the Fredson Bower Prize of the Bibliographical Society (U.K.), a Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, a grant from American Association of University Women, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship for Recent Ph.D.s.
Teaching
My recent seminars include 鈥淐ollecting the East; Art and the 鈥淣ew Biography;鈥� 鈥淎rt, Travel, and Imperialism;鈥� 鈥淥rientalism: Then and Now; Art and Gender; and Theory of the French Avant-Garde.鈥� I have won two teaching awards from the University of South Florida: the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and an award from the Teaching Incentive Program.