Advocating for Art History - Hardcover

Kingsley, Jennifer P.: - Jennifer Kingsley is Teaching Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the interdisciplinary academic Program in Museums and Society. Over the past 12 years, she has developed over twenty public humanities projects both on and off-campus in collaboration with students, museums, and community organizations. She served as the respondent for the "Advocating for Art History" panel that sparked this book project. She is a member of Engaged Art History (engagedarthistory.org) and has advocated for public art history in presentations at the National Humanities Alliance, College Art Association of America, and National Council for Public History.Persinger, Cindy: - Cindy Persinger is Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Pennsylvania Western University. She is the co-editor of Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History (2021). She chaired and presented at the "Advocating for Art History" panel at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in 2023 that sparked this project. She has advocated for socially engaged art historical practices in presentations at SECAC and CAA beginning in 2014. She is actively involved in Engaged Art History (engagedarthistory.org), for which she co-organized the online Engaged Art History Event series (2022-24).Trentinella, Rosemarie: - Rosemarie Trentinella is Associate Teaching Professor of Art History (Department of Art & Design) at the University of Tampa where she has served on a university-wide general education committee since 2020. She presented at the "Advocating for Art History" panel at the 2023 College Art Association conference that sparked this project and has chaired and presented at several panels at SECAC, CAA, and regional pedagogical conferences about "Decoding" the discipline of Art History. Her 2025 article in Transformative Dialogues, "Toward a Future for SoTL in Art History via Decoding the Disciplines," exemplifies her deployment of the Decoding the Disciplines framework to advocate for art history in and beyond her classroom.