Education:
2009-2014
University of Maryland, College Park
Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology
Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Great House of Benjamin West: Family, Workshop, and National Identity in Late Georgian England”
Advisor: William L. Pressly
2006-2009
University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. Art History and Archaeology
M.A. Thesis: “‘A world of trouble’: Joseph Wright of Derby in Bath, 1775-1777”
Advisor: William L. Pressly
2001-2005
University of Maryland, College Park
B.A. History
B.A. Art History and Archaeology
Minor in Comparative Religious Studies
University Honors Citation in Honors Humanities
Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships/Scholarships/Awards:
2015 – Kress Travel Fellowship, THATCamp CAA
2015 – First Place, Paragone mobile web interface, Art Bytes 3 Hackathon, The Walters Art Museum
2014 – Lilly Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2014 – First Place, Engagement (for @WaltersBot), Art Bytes 2014 Hackathon, The Walters Art Museum
2013 – University Teaching and Learning Program Certificate, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2013 – Lent Award for Graduate Study in Comics, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
2013 – Lilly Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2013 – Kress Travel Fellowship, THATCamp CAA
2012 – Lesley van der Lee Scholarship, Small Museum Association
2012 – ARHU Graduate Student Travel Award, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park
2012-13 – Doctoral Teaching Apprentice Fellow, Honors Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park
2012 – Lilly Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2011 – Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2011 – Mark H. Sandler Teaching Award, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
2011 – Lilly Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park
2010-11 – CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park
2006-2010 – Graduate School/George Levitine Fellowship, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
2009 – CAAS Annual Meeting Travel Grant, Classical Association of the Atlantic States
2005 – Education Department Internship, National Portrait Gallery (Worked under the public program director to organize and produce theatrical performances in conjunction with the exhibit Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits)
Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Works:
Articles:
Lincoln, Matthew and Abram Fox, “The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780-1835,” British Art Studies 4, November 28, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-04/afox-mlincoln.
Buzinski, Steven G., Paul Dean, Theresa A. Donofrio, Abram Fox, Amanda T. Berger, Lynne P. Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi and Lenea H. Stocker. “Faculty and Administrative Partnerships: Disciplinary Differences in Perceptions of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning at a Large, Research-Intensive University,” Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement 4, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 45-75.
“‘A permanent motive force of indefatigable effort’: Reframing the Role of Sokol in Czechoslovakia,” Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts 12, no. 1 (January 2012): 20-32.
Book Chapters:
Abram Fox and HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher, “From Ithaca to Apogee: Exploring Classical Symbolism in David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp,” in Son of Classics and Comics, edited by George Kovacs and C.W. Marshall, Oxford University Press, 47-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Exploring the Art in Sequential Art: An Art Historical Approach to Teaching Comics,” in Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art, edited by Carrye Kay Syma and Robert G. Weiner, 91-100. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2013.
Book Reviews:
Review of Loyd Grossman, Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern. The Burlington Magazine 158, no. 1358 (May 2016): 371.
“A Creative Turn in Museums,” Review of Rika Burnham and Elliot Kai-Kee, Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience, and Linda Norris and Rainey Tisdale, Creativity in Museum Practice. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 11, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 152-156.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Review of Anthony Smith, The Nation Made Real. Historians of British Art Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2015): 7-8.
“The Color and the Shape: Procedural Rhetoric in Works by David Mazzucchelli and Daniel Clowes,” International Journal of Comic Art 16, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 300-312.
Amanda T. Berger, Steven G. Buzinski, Paul Dean, Theresa A. Donofrio, Abram Fox, Lynne P. Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi and Lenea H. Stocker, “2010-2011 CTE-Lilly Graduate Fellows Project: Attaining Definitional Clarity through a Study of UMD Instructional Faculty’s Understandings of “Civic Engagement” and “Service Learning”,” Teaching and Learning News 21, no. 2 (November and December 2011): 6, 12-13.
Presentations:
Refereed:
February 2015 – Contributing to a Digital Presence on Wikipedia: Wiki Loves Small Museums Edit-a-thon (with Mary Mark Ockerbloom) – Small Museum Association Conference, Ocean City, MD
May 2014 – Visual Thinking Strategies: Encouraging Critical Reflection Through Visual Literacy (with Caroline Shields) – Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching – D.C., Bethesda, MD
April 2013 – Mapping Artistic Identity in the Eighteenth Century: Benjamin West’s American School in London – Graduate Research Interaction Day, sponsored by the Graduate Student Government at the University of Maryland, College Park
March 2013 – The Color and the Shape: Procedural Rhetoric in Works by Daniel Clowes and David Mazzucchelli – 2013 National Popular Culture Association & American Culture Conference, Washington, D.C.
February 2013 – Family, Students, and Legacy: Benjamin West’s Workshop and the Shaping of an American School of Art – New Scholars Session: International Artists Working in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain, sponsored by the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, 2013 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
June 2011 – Civic Engagement and Service Learning: Defining and Evaluating Pedagogies of Active Learning (with Amanda T. Berger, Steven G. Buzinski, Paul Dean, Theresa A. Donofrio, Lynne P. Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi, and Lenea H. Stocker) – Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching – D.C., Bethesda, MD
April 2011 – An Exploration of Faculty Perception on Civic Engagement and Service Learning (with Amanda T. Berger, Steven G. Buzinski, Paul Dean, Theresa A. Donofrio, Lynne P. Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi, and Lenea H. Stocker)- Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, College Park, MD
April 2011 – Wolverine v. the Canon: Art Historical Mash-Ups in Marvel’s Wolverine Art Appreciation Month – Re-Visioning History: The Use and Abuse of Art in Popular Culture sponsored by the Council of Graduate Art Historians, Herberger Institute of Design and Arts at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
April 2011 – First Among Equals: The Sokol Gymnastics Movement and Assertions of Czech Cultural Supremacy Through Visual Propaganda in the 1920s – Graduate Research Interaction Day sponsored by the Graduate Student Government at the University of Maryland, College Park
April 2011 – Models for Active Learning: A Survey of UMD Instructors’ Approaches to Civic Engagement and Service Learning (with Amanda T. Berger, Steven G. Buzinski, Paul Dean, Theresa A. Donofrio, Lynne P. Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi, and Lenea H. Stocker) – Graduate Research Interaction Day sponsored by the Graduate Student Government at the University of Maryland, College Park
October 2010 – Teaching Comic Books as Aesthetic Objects: A Case Study – SECAC/MACAA Joint Annual Conference, Richmond, VA
April 2010 – Prisoner to Expectations: Joseph Wright of Derby’s The Captive and the Grand Tour– Graduate Research Interaction Day sponsored by the Graduate Student Government at the University of Maryland, College Park
March 2010 – ‘These are not gymnasts. These are an army!’: Photographic Postcards, Czech Gymnasts, and the Promotion of Slavic Nationalism in 1910s Bohemia – Traveling Photographies/Photographies en Voyage sponsored by Art History Graduate Student Association, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
October 2009 – Glorious Sons of Gods: Visualizing the Afterlife in Early Fifth Century Athens – Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting, Wilmington, DE
Non-Refereed/Invited:
April 2022 – Modern Mythologies: A History of Comic Books and Popular Imagination – virtual presentation, Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY (in conjunction with the exhibition D. Dominick Lombardi: High + Low: A Forty-five Year Retrospective)
February 2012 – Panelist, CAA THATCamp: What Happened and What’s Next – 2013 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
May 2010 – Looking at What Isn’t There: The Sadler Photographs – Laurel Historical Society Annual Meeting, Laurel, MD
November 2009 – Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Czech Nationalism in Gymnastics and Postcards at the 1912 Sokol Slet – Roger Rearick Forum, University of Maryland, College Park (qualifying forum for the Middle Atlantic Symposium)
Panels Moderated:
University of Maryland:
April 2012 – Visualizing Global Relations – The New Syntheses, sponsored by Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park
May 2011 – Visual Cultures – WorldTalk Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park
April 2010 – Arts in Action: Visual Arts and Activisms – Transactions Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park
Teaching Experience:
Towson University:
Fall 2019 Instructor of record for seminar course
HONR 370, Comic Books: Art and Visual Culture (special topics course)
Fall 2019 Supervisor for arts-related independent study
HONR 379, Honors Independent Study
Spring 2018 Instructor of record for seminar course
HONR 370, Comic Books: Art and Visual Culture (special topics course)
Fall 2017 Instructor of record for seminar course
HONR 370, Comic Books: Art and Visual Culture (special topics course)
University of Maryland, College Park:
Fall 2013 Instructor of record for symposium course
HHUM205, Second Year Seminar in Honors Humanities (Modes of Knowing and Doing in the Arts and Humanities)
Summer 2012 Instructor of record for symposium course
ARTH389E, Dark Knight and Da Vinci: Comic Books and “High” Art in the 21st Century (special topics course)
Fall 2011 Instructor of record for survey course
ARTH201, Art and Society in the West from the Renaissance to the Present (Freshmen Connection)
Summer 2011 Instructor of record for symposium course
ARTH389E, Dark Knight and Da Vinci: Comic Books and “High” Art in the 21st Century (special topics course)
Summer 2010 Instructor of record for symposium course
ARTH389E, Dark Knight and Da Vinci: Comic Books and “High” Art in the 21st Century (special topics course)
Summer 2009 Instructor of record for survey course
ARTH200, Art and Society in Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2012 – HHUM205: Second Year Seminar in Honors Humanities: Modes of Knowing and Doing in the Humanities (Honors Humanities)
Spring 2011 – ARTH250: Art and Society in the Ancient American World
Fall 2010 – ARTH200: Art and Society in Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
Spring 2009 – ARTH290: Art and Society in Asia
Fall 2008 – ARTH200
Spring 2008 – ARTH201: Art and Society in the West from the Renaissance to the Present
Fall 2007 – ARTH200
Service:
Towson University:
June 2022 – October 2022 – Student Recruitment Council
December 2019 – October 2022 – Truman Scholarship Selection Committee
Fall 2018 – October 2022 – TU Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee
September 2015 – October 2022 – Towson University Assessment Council
Spring 2018 – Fall 2019, Spring 2022 – TU Study Abroad Scholarship Review Committee
September 2021 – April 2022 – Strategic Enrollment Planning Committee, Student Success Subcommittee
February 2019 – December 2019 – TU Transfer Mentor Program
December 2016 – April 2017 – TU4U Planning Committee
Laurel Historical Society:
March 2013 – June 2016 – Public Programming Committee
July 2014 – June 2016 – Executive Committee
June 2014 – August 2015 – Exhibits Committee
University of Maryland, College Park:
October 2013 – May 2014 – Graduate Council, Graduate School
March 2014 – April 2014– Center for Teaching Excellence/College Park Scholars Poster Judging Committee
October 2013 – April 2014 – Graduate Programs, Curricula, and Courses Committee, Graduate School
November 2011 – April 2014– Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center Academic Advisory Group
September 2013 – 2013-14 CTE-Graduate School Lilly Teaching Fellow Selection Committee
April – July 2013 – Coursera Selection Committee
April 2013 – Center for Teaching Excellence/College Park Scholars Poster Judging Committee
Roundtables Organized:
University of Maryland, College Park:
September 2012 – Pixels and Paper: Comic Art in the Digital Age, in conjunction with the University of Maryland Art History Association, with participants Sally Carson (Fixpert), Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson (Tiny Kitten Teeth), Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content), Holly Post (Topatoco), and Rob Ullman (Atom-Bomb Bikini)
September 2011 – Bleeding the Narrative: Comics in Art and Culture, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, with participants Carolyn Belefski (Curls Studio), Alexis Fajardo (Kid Beowulf), Monica Gallagher (Eat Your Lipstick), Rob Ullman, and Jim Rugg
Workshops Led:
University of Maryland:
August 2011 – Utilizing ‘Non-Academic’ Subject Matter to Promote Student Learning, Graduate Teaching Orientation, University of Maryland
April 2011 – Graduate Lilly Fellows Workshop (with Amanda Berger, Steve Buzinski, Paul Dean, Terri Donofrio, Lynne Heighton, Ali Fuad Selvi, and Lenea Stocker), Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland
Other Service:
October 2021 – Present – Member, University of Maryland Honors Humanities Alumni Committee
June 2020 – Present – Member, Towson University Hillel Board of Directors
May 2016 – August 2018 – Member, University of Maryland Honors Alumni Network Board of Directors
July 2012 – June 2016 – Member, Board of Directors, Laurel Historical Society (July 2014 – June 2016 – Vice President)
April 2013 – July 2017 – At-Large Member, Board of Directors, Historians of British Art
May 2013 – April 2015 – Contributor, Smarthistory articles: Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews; J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire; Joseph Wright of Derby’s A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery; John Constable’s Wivenhoe Park, Essex
March 2012 – September 2012 – Volunteer, The Art of Video Games, Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
January 2011 – April 2011 – Advisor, Undergraduate Art History Symposium, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
August 2009 – May 2010 – Secretary, Graduate Art History Association, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
June 2009 – June 2014- Docent, Laurel Museum, Laurel, MD
Professional Experience:
October 2022 – Present – Academic Advisor, Office of Academic Advising, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
July 2015 – October 2022 – Honors College Coordinator, Towson University Honors College
March 2013 – February 2018 – Docent, Context Travel
August 2013 – May 2014 – Program Coordinator and Lecturer, Honors Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park
September 2011 – July 2013 – Graduate Administrative Assistant, Graduate School Information Center, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park
May 2008 – August 2008 – Graduate Assistant, Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
Professional Affiliations:
National Academic Advising Association, Region 2
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