Dr. Julia Sienkewicz

Degrees

• PhD, University of Illinois, Art and Architectural History of the United States
• MA, University of Illinois, Art and Architectural History of the United States
• BA, Mount Holyoke College, Art History

Research & Teaching Interests

• TEACHING INTERESTS:
• At Roanoke College, I teach all courses in the Modern and Contemporary Areas encompassing art and architecture from the eighteenth century through today. I am deeply committed to active learning at all levels of the curriculum including field-work in-person study of sites and objects and service learning.
• RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• My primary research area of focus is the Art and Architecture of the United States from ca. 1790-1850. I have additional research interest in British and Modern Italian Art. I am interested in the intersections of art, architecture, and landscape history. My work often engages with transatlantic or transnational methodology and aesthetic theory of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. I also have a strong interest in Classical reception and its influence on art and architecture of these centuries.
• In addition to disciplinary research, I conduct research in the scholarship of teaching and learning. I am also highly invested in community-engaged teaching and research with current collaborations with the Taubman Museum of Art, the Clay Center / Juliet Art Museum in Charleston, WV, and neighborhood organizations in Southeast Roanoke and Pittsburgh's Historic Hill District.
• I am at work on researching a book about a monumental sculpture commission for the United States Capitol in the 19th Century. This project is currently entitled: Modelling Civilization: Transnational Sculpture and the United States Capitol, 1836-1865. This research has been supported by the Terra Foundation Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, by a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society, and the Summer Stipend of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as internal grants from Roanoke College.