Shalon Parker, Ph.D.

Professor of Art, Department Chair of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies

Dr. Parker teaches art history courses on a range of topics, including women artists, 19th c. European art, 20th c. American art, and the history of photography. She has published articles on late nineteenth-century French painting in French Cultural...

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Shalon Parker, Ph.D. Professor of Art & Department Chair

Contact Information

  • Office Hours Fall 2024

    Wednesdays: 1:30pm-3:30pm (Jundt 107)
    Thursdays: 2pm-4pm (HUB 126)
    Or by appointment

  • (509) 313-6718

Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 2003

M.A. in the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

B.A. in Art History and History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993

Courses Taught

VART 190:  Art Survey: Prehistoric-Medieval
VART 191:  Art Survey: Renaissance-Modern
VART 193:  First-Year Seminar:  Art, Race, and Space:  U.S. Murals
VART 394:  (Special Topics in Art History):  Art and Race in the Americas and Art since 1940
VART 395:  Art in the 19th c.
VART 396:  Art in the 20th c.
VART 407:  Women Artists
VART 408:  History of Photography

 

Dr. Parker teaches art history courses on a range of topics, including women artists, 19th c. European art, 20th c. American art, and the history of photography. She has published articles on late nineteenth-century French painting in French Cultural Studies and the SECAC Review.  She is the author of the book, Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2018, Rowman & Littlefield/University of Delaware Press).