Colleen StockmannFaculty

Colleen Stockmann’s interdisciplinary research on plant politics, drawing instruction, and botanical printmaking has been supported by Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Botanic Gardens, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Stockmann earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Studio Art from Macalester College. After a decade in San Francisco as a curator at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, they solidified a commitment to material culture and ecocritical studies. Colleen joined Gustavus in Fall 2020 as Assistant Professor of Art History & Arts Entrepreneurship. Stockmann’s book project examines the social history of weeds in the U.S. over the enduring 19th century and demonstrates how the shared rhetoric of horticulture and scientific racism played out in the politicized lexicon of gardening which shaped an American view of landscape. 

Dr. Stockmann teaches courses in art history, museum studies, and arts administration with an emphasis on interdiscplinary research and networked histories.

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News: "Mellon Foundation Awards $500,000 for Multi-Year Art History Project, Object Lessons" Provost Blog

For more about projects and research: colleenstockmann.com

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• Stockmann_CV (1).pdf

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