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	people v faculty/staff graduate students alumni visiting artists	Dr. Nancy L. Wicker Professor of Art History Medieval Art History and Archaeology MA, PhD, University of Minnesota BA, Eastern Illinois University email: nwicker@olemiss.edu Dr. Wicker will be on sabbatical during the 2009–2010 academic year, supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. She is writing a monograph on the social life of Scandinavian Migration Period jewelry called bracteates and will be a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden in the fall. With Liv Helga Dommasnes, Tove Hjørungdal, Sandra Montón-Subías, and Margarita Sánchez-Romero, Wicker is co-editing Archaeological Situated Knowledge in Europe: Gender, Identity and Materiality for Archaeolingua of Budapest. Besides her research on jewelry and two books on gender and archaeology co-edited with Bettina Arnold, she has published on animal-style art, female infanticide during the Viking Age, and runic literacy. With Seattle goldsmith Lori Talcott, Wicker has conducted experiments to reconstruct early medieval jewelry techniques. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Germany and Sweden, including the Viking Age trading center of Birka. In 2005, Wicker became the first (and only) American chosen for membership in the Sachsensymposion, an international archaeological society. Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Berit Wallenberg Foundation, the Birka International Scholarship Fund, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Norwegian Information Service have supported her research. She is a Councillor of The Medieval Academy of America and Vice President of the Society of Historians of Scandinavia, and she has served on the boards of the International Center of Medieval Art and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. She also participates in the annual meetings of the College Art Association, the Society for American Archaeology, and the European Association of Archaeologists. Wicker received her Ph. D. in interdisciplinary art history, archaeology, and Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota in 1990, after receiving the M.A. in art history and an undergraduate double major in art history and art studio. From 1990 through 2002, she taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she also was Director of the Program in Scandinavian Studies. From 2003–2008, she served as Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Mississippi. Courses taught: AH 101 Introduction to Art (for non-majors) AH 332 Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art AH 334 Early Medieval Art and Archaeology AH 336 Viking Art and Archaeology AH 338 Romanesque and Gothic Art AH 401 Research and Writing in Art AH 530 Medieval Art (stacked with AH 332, 334, 336, and 338) Liba 102 First-Year Seminar (The Vikings: Fact and Fantasy) ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- _____________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________

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