Julie Nicoletta
Associate
Professor
History of Art and Architecture, Public History
Ph.D. History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1993. Dissertation: "Structures for Communal Life: Shaker Dwelling Houses at Mount Lebanon, New York."
M.Phil. History of Art, Yale University, 1990. Doctoral examination fields: American painting, American architecture, American religious history, British landscape design. Qualifying paper: "Protecting Nature/Exploiting Nature: Tourism and Photography in the Yosemite Valley."
M.A. History of Art, Yale University, 1988.
B.A. History of Art, magna cum laude, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1987.
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, September 2001-present.
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, August 1996-September 2001.
Assistant Professor, History Lab Summer Institute, University of Washington Extension, July 1999.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Historic Preservation Program, University of Nevada, Reno, June 1994-June 1996.
Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 1988-1990.
Research
Curatorial Research Assistant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1989-1990.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery, 1988.
Research Assistant to Dr. Frances Pohl, Pomona College, 1987.
Intern, Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1986- 1987.
Inventory Assistant, Near East Collection, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1984.
Public History/Historic Preservation
Architectural Historian, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City, NV, February 1994-July 1996.
Historian, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, Washington, DC, Summer 1993.
Historic Preservation Research Assistant, Aegis, Inc., Claremont, CA, 1986-1987.
Areas of Expertise
Architectural History, American Studies, Public History, Material Culture Studies, North American Art.
Award
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2000.
Courses Taught
The Making of America, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Winter
2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2004.
Introduction to Public History, Fall 1996, Spring 1998, Spring 1999,
Spring
2001, Winter 2002, Fall 2003.
American Architecture, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Fall
2001,
Fall 2003.
The Material World: Art and Artifacts, Winter 1998, Winter 1999, Winter
2000,
Winter 2001, Spring 2002, Winter 2004.
Art of the Americas, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Winter 2001, Winter 2002,
Winter
2002, Winter 2004.
Modern Architecture, Spring 1999, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.
History of Religion in America, Winter 1997, Winter 1999, Fall 1999.
Ethnicity and the Urban Landscape, Winter 1997, Winter 1998.
Rome: Art, Culture, and History of the Eternal City, Summer 2002.
Sabbatical Leave, 2002-2003.
Books
Buildings of Nevada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Architecture of the Shakers. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press/W.W. Norton, 1995.
Refereed Articles and Chapters in Books
"Louise Bourgeois's Femmes Maisons: Confronting Lacan." In Reclaiming
Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, edited
by Norma
Broude and Mary D. Garrard. Berkeley: University of California
Press,
forthcoming.
"The Architecture of Control: Shaker Dwelling Houses in Early
Nineteenth-Century
America," Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians 62:3 (September
2003): 352-387.
"The Gendering of Order and Disorder: Mother Ann
Lee
and Shaker Architecture," The New England Quarterly 74:2 (June
2001):
303-316.
"Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock." In Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, edited by Elizabeth Raymond and Ronald M. James. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997.
Non-refereed Articles
"Mapping the Shaker Landscape: Spirit Drawings and Community
Planning,"
Maps as Material Culture, Yale-Smithsonian Symposium Proceedings,
Smithsonian
Institution, forthcoming.
"Louise Bourgeois's Femmes Maisons: Confronting Lacan." Woman's Art Journal, 13:2 (Fall 1992/Winter 1993): 21-26.
Book Reviews
Book review of Deborah Stephens Burns and Richard J. Webster, Pennsylvania Architecture. The Public Historian 23:4 (Fall 2001): 151-152.
Book review of Pamela Simpson, Cheap, Quick, and Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59:1 (March 2000), 128-130.
Book review of Kathleen M. Wiederhold, Exploring Oregon's Historic Courthouses. Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 90:4 (Fall 1999), 213-214.
Book review of Dore Ashton, Marek Bartelik, and Matti Megged, The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard. Woman's Art Journal 19:2 (Fall 1998/Winter 1999), 57-58.
Book review of Francis R. Kowsky, Country, Park and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux. H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, September, 1998. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9126906654689.
Book review of Leonie Sandercock, ed., Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History. H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, September 1998. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9589906482934.
Book review of Barbara Rose, Magdalena Abakanowicz. Woman's Art Journal 18:1 (Spring/Summer 1997), 56-57.
Book review of Charlotta Kotik, Terrie Sultan, and Christian Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Works 1982-1993 and Paul Gardner, Louise Bourgeois. Woman's Art Journal 17:2 (Fall 1996/Winter 1997): 46-47.
Book review of Paul Rocheleau and June Sprigg, Shaker Built: The Form and Function of Shaker Architecture. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55:1 (March 1996): 87-88.
Other Publications and Research Projects
Editor, Dissertations Underway on Architectural History, Society of Architectural Historians' Homepage, http://faculty.washington.edu/jn/diss.htm, January 1996-present.
"Henry Austin," "Charles Bridgeman," "William Strickland," "William Thornton," "Ithiel Town." International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. Detroit: St. James Press, 1993.
'To Find Beauty in Nature:' The Artwork of Ellen Miller and Margaret Christine Whiting, 1890-1910. Deerfield, MA: Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, 1986.
IAS Research Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2001.
UWT Start-up Funds for Fine Arts Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, 1999-2000.
NEH Summer Institute on The Built Environment of the American Metropolis: Public and Private Realms, 1900-2000; University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999.
Founders' Endowment Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 1999.
Founders' Endowment Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 1997.
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers Travel Scholarship, 1995.
Vernacular Architecture Forum Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, 1993.
Henry S. McNeil Fellowship, Yale University, 1987-1993.
Henry Luce Summer Fellowship in American Art, Yale University, 1991.
Virginia Steele Scott Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1991.
Henry Luce Summer Fellowship in American Art, Yale University, 1990.
Henry S. McNeil Scholarship for Summer Research, Yale University, 1990.
John F. Enders Research Assistance Grant, Yale University, 1990.
Benno M. Forman Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE, 1990.
London Summer School Scholarship, Victorian Society in America, Philadelphia, PA, 1988.
Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, 1987.
President's Prize in Women's Studies, Pomona College, 1987.
Summer Fellowship, Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA, 1986.
INVITED LECTURES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS
"Comparing Mussolini and Moses: Urban Planning, Scale Model Cities,
and World’s Fairs," Tenth Biennial Conference on Planning History,
Society for American City and Regional Planning History, St. Louis, MO,
November 2003.
Chair and Commentator, “A Tale of Two Cities: Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho,” Ninth Biennial Conference on Planning History, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Philadelphia, PA, November 2001.
“The Five Most Overlooked Aspects of Architecture in Nevada,” Nevada Museums Association Conference, Eureka, Nevada, September 2001.
"The Architecture of the Shakers," Seattle Art Museum, December 2000.
"Buildings of Nevada," Great Basin Book Festival, Reno, Nevada, September 2000.
Speaker and Moderator, "Sex, Status, and Site: Gender, Class, and Historic Preservation in Washington State," Fifth Women's West Conference: Gender, Race, Class and Region in the North American West, Pullman, WA, July 2000.
"The Emergence of a New Vehicular Landscape at the New York World's Fair of 1964-1965," Eighth Biennial Conference on American Planning, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Washington, DC, November 1999.
Chair and Commentator, "Setting Aside Space in Vancouver and Victoria," Neighbors and Neighbours: 52nd Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, April 1999.
Chair and Commentator, "Sites Unseen, Histories Unheard: Identifying and Preserving Community Landmarks," Do Ask, Do Tell: Outing Pacific Northwest History Conference, Tacoma, October 1998.
Chair and Commentator, "Architectural Representations," Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Annapolis, MD, May 1998.
Facilitator, "Classroom Management," Conversations on Teaching, University of Washington, Tacoma, April 1998.
"Art in Buildings," Conversation on Design: A Community Forum on Metropolitan Revitalization, Tacoma, February 1998.
Commentator in the documentary film A Quiet Contribution, Women on the Comstock, part of The Nevada Experience Series, KNPB/Channel 5, Reno, Nevada, premiered January 1998.
"Reassessing the Las Vegas Strip," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 1997.
"Women in the Shaker Movement," University of Washington, Tacoma, Women's Network, Women's History Month, Tacoma, March 1997.
"UW Tacoma: A New University with over a Century of Tradition," University of Washington Alumni Association's Eighth Annual University of Washington Beyond Seattle, Focus on Tacoma, Tacoma, February 1997.
"Las Vegas, the Strip, and Modernism: An Overview," Pomona College, March 1996. "Can We Still Learn from Las Vegas?" University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, October 1995.
"Shaker Dwelling Houses: The Architecture of Order and Disorder," University of Cincinnati, October 1995.
"The Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome," University of Nevada, Reno, October 1994.
Discussion Leader, "Managing Cultural Landscapes," National Park Service Workshop on Preserving Cultural Landscapes in the West, San Francisco, CA, August 1994.
"The Gendering of Order and Disorder: Mother Ann Lee and Shaker Architecture, "Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Natchez, MS, May 1993.
"Mapping the Shaker Landscape: Spirit Drawings and Community Planning," Maps as Material Culture, Yale-Smithsonian Symposium, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, March 1993.
"The Architecture of Control: Shaker Dwelling Houses at Mount Lebanon, New York," Dwelling Symposium, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, April 1992.
"Supervision and Control: Institutional Architecture in Early Nineteenth-Century America," Pomona College, March 1992.
"Structures for Communal Life: Shaker Dwelling Houses at Mount Lebanon, New York," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, St. John's, Newfoundland, October 1991.
"Shaker Dwelling Houses," Tuesday Colloquium, Winterthur Museum, October 1990.
"The Arts and Crafts Movement in America," Yale University Art Gallery, March 1990.
"Confronting Lacan: Gender and Communication in Louise Bourgeois's Femmes Maisons," Eighth Annual Symposium on Contemporary Art, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, November 1989.
"Working Beyond the Sampler: American Women's Folk Art, 1620-1840," Pomona College, May 1987.
"Water Colors of Ellen Miller and Margaret Whiting, Founders of the Deerfield Blue and White Society," Annual Summer Fellows Symposium, Historic Deerfield, August 1986.
Coordinator, Arts, Media and Culture Concentration, IAS Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, Winter 2001-present.
Program Committee, 2001 Conference on American Planning, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Philadelphia, August 2000-October 2001.
Washington State Historical Society History Lab Project Advisory Panel, August 1998-present.
Art Committee, University of Washington, Tacoma, January 1998-June 2001.
Arts and Lectures Committee, University of Washington, Tacoma, October 1996-June 2001; Chair, October 1998-June 2001.
Electronic Media Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, January 1996-present.
Secretary and Board Member, African American Museum, Tacoma, January 1997-June 1998; Site Committee, January 1997-December 1999.
Board Member, Vernacular Architecture Forum, January 1996-May 1999. Chair, Papers Committee, 1999 Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, 1998-1999; Papers Committee, 2000 Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, 1999-2000.
Vice-President and Board Member, Tacoma Architectural Foundation, March 1997-March 1999.
Betye Saar Advisory Committee, Tacoma Art Museum, March 1997-April 1997.
Catalan Masters Advisory Committee, Tacoma Art Museum, October 1996-December 1996.
Nevada Statewide Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, Carson City, May 1995-June 1996.
Historic Architecture Review Commission, Carson City, February 1994-June 1996.
State of Nevada Internet Task Force, Carson City, 1995.
American Association of Museums
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Society for American City and Regional Planning History
Society of Architectural Historians
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