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Maurie McInnis
McInnis in 2020
6th President of Stony Brook University
Assumed office
July 1, 2020
Preceded byMichael Bernstein (acting)
Personal details
Education University of Virginia ( BA)
Yale University ( MA, MPhil, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840 (1996)
Doctoral advisorEdward S. Cooke
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Institutions

Maurie D. McInnis is an American author and cultural historian. She currently serves as the 6th president of Stony Brook University.

Education

McInnis attended the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar. [1] She received a B.A. in Art History with Highest Distinction, and her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University. [2]

Career

McInnis served as vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia. Over her almost 20 years' experience at UVA, McInnis held various academic leadership and administrative appointments, including vice provost for academic affairs, associate dean for undergraduate education programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, director of American Studies, and as a professor of art history. She joined the faculty of UVA in 1998, earned tenure in 2005 and became a full professor in 2011.

She served as the provost of the University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2020. [3]

On March 26, 2020, Dr. McInnis was announced as the 6th President of Stony Brook University. [3] She began serving in this role on July 1, 2020.

Academic Scholarship

McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South. [4] Her work has focused on the relationship between art and politics in early America, especially on the politics of slavery. Her first book, "The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston," was awarded the Spiro Kostof Award by the Society of Architectural Historians. [5]

Her penultimate book, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade" was published in 2011 and awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Book Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [6] as well as the Library of Virginia Literary Award for nonfiction. She recently published, "Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University." She has also served as a curator, [7] consultant, and advisor to multiple art museums and historic sites.

Awards and honors

  • National Endowment for the Humanities [8]
  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [9]
  • Charles C. Eldredge Prize, presented to Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade, for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art, 2012. [6]
  • Library of Virginia Literary Award for non-fiction, 2012 for Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. [10]
  • Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, presented to The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston for the book that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of urbanism and its relationship with architecture, 2007. [5]
  • Fred B. Kniffen Book Award, Pioneer America Society, presented to The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston for the best book in the field of material culture in North America, 2007. [11]
  • George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society, presented to The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston for the best book about South Carolina, 2006.
  • Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge University [12]

Selected publications

  • In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad 1740-1860. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. (Lead author and editor). (issued in cloth and paperback) [13]
  • A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Art Museum, 2005. (Served as contributor and co-editor). [14]
  • The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. (issued in paperback in 2016) [15]
  • Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in the Early Nation, co-edited volume with Louis P. Nelson. Includes McInnis’ essay, “Revisiting Cincinnatus: Houdon’s George Washington.” Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. [16]
  • Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. University of Chicago Press, 2011. (issued in cloth and paperback) [17]
  • Educated in Tyranny - Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University. University of Virginia Press, 2019. (Co-editor) [18]

References

  1. ^ "Maurie McInnis, JS '88, named Provost at University of Texas | Jefferson Scholars Foundation". www.jeffersonscholars.org. Archived from the original on April 3, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  2. ^ McInnis, Maurie Dee (1996). The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840 (Ph.D. thesis). Yale University. OCLC  37128160. ProQuest  304308246.
  3. ^ a b "Maurie McInnis Named Sixth President of Stony Brook University". SBU News. March 26, 2020. Archived from the original on April 14, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  4. ^ "Maurie McInnis Named Provost at The University of Texas at Austin". UT News. January 11, 2016. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Kostof Book Award Recipients". www.sah.org. Archived from the original on September 20, 2019. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Maurie D. McInnis Is Awarded the 24th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book about Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  7. ^ Ball, Edward. "Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  8. ^ "The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath". National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  9. ^ "Meet VFH Board Member Maurie McInnis". Virginia Humanities. December 10, 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  10. ^ "HUDDLE, MCINNIS, AND WOJAHN RECEIVE LITERARY AWARDS" (PDF). Library of Virginia. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  11. ^ "The International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture". www.pioneeramerica.org. Archived from the original on November 21, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  12. ^ "Downing College - Association Newsletter and College Record 2006" (PDF). Downing College Cambridge. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  13. ^ McInnis, Maurie. (1999). In pursuit of refinement : Charlestonians abroad, 1740-1860. Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.), Historic Charleston Foundation (Charleston, S.C.). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN  1-57003-314-5. OCLC  40444158.
  14. ^ A Jeffersonian ideal : selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon, III collection of American fine and decorative arts. Fama, Vicki. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, Art Museum. 2005. ISBN  0-9706263-2-0. OCLC  62588093.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)
  15. ^ McInnis, Maurie. (2005). The politics of taste in antebellum Charleston. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN  0-8078-2951-X. OCLC  57392004.
  16. ^ Shaping the body politic : art and political formation in early America. McInnis, Maurie., Nelson, Louis P. Charlottesville. 2011. ISBN  978-0-8139-3102-9. OCLC  663101340.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)
  17. ^ McInnis, Maurie. (December 2011). Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade. Chicago. ISBN  978-0-226-55933-9. OCLC  703870842.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
  18. ^ Educated in tyranny : slavery at Thomas Jefferson's university. McInnis, Maurie, Nelson, Louis P. Charlottesville. 2019. ISBN  978-0-8139-4286-5. OCLC  1088648616.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link)
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2020 – present 		Incumbent
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