Amy Meehleder

she/her

Art History

338 Heller Hall

271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

PhD Candidate,

Amy is a specialist in contemporary and twentieth century American art and its global connections. Her teaching and research interests are wide-ranging and include the intersections of the visual arts, landscape, the environmental humanities and environmental justice, social justice, infrastructure and urbanism, car culture, and film study. Her dissertation project is 'Highway Hypnosis: The Freeway as Landscape, 1956-1999.'

Educational Background

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Educational Background

M.A.: Art History, University of Minnesota
B.A. with University Honors and Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa: Anthropology (Environmental Anthropology Track) and Art History (with Honors in Art History), The University of Iowa
Certificate: Museum Studies, The University of Iowa

Publications

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Publications

Meehleder A, 2016. Historic Artifacts, pp. 46-50. In: Enloe JG & McGrath JR, with contributions by Allman J, Caccioli D, Clarke A, Dunshee I, Hines M, Foubert J, Meehleder A, Reinghard J, Skeens J, Stroth L, Theis R & Truhan R, 2016. Excavations at Woodpecker Cave (13JH202): Report No. 4, University of Iowa Archaeological Field School 2015. Report submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ARPA Permit No. DACW25-9-12-4098. 111 pp.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

"An Ocean in Iowa: Commerce, Conservation, Empire, and the Laysan Island Cyclorama": Paper presented at the 13th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Artefacts of Change: Visions of the Environment and Disruptions.. May 2023
"Raining Through the Roof: Baptism and Community in Theaster Gates' Black Vessel for a Saint": Paper presented at the 109th CAA Annual Conference.. February 10-13, 2021
"Making a Middle Ground: Collage Effects and Object Orientations in Pushpamala N.'s Native Women of South India": Paper accepted for the 8th Annual Minneapolis Institute of Art Student Art History Symposium. Event Cancelled due to Covid-19.. April 4, 2020
"At the Potter’s Wheel: Thrownness and the City in Theaster Gates’ Black Vessel for a Saint.": Paper presented at Bodies: An interdisciplinary graduate conference presented by the University of St. Thomas departments of Art History and English. April 25 - April 26, 2019
"Mapping the 'Trash-scape:' Waste and the Grid in Three Works by Rashid Rana, Anjum Singh, and Vivan Sundaram.": Paper presented at Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence: An academic conference produced by the Moving Image and Media Studies Graduate Group with Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.. October 12 - October 13, 2018
Enloe JG, Meehleder A & McGrath JR, 2017. "The tale of a rock: Backdirt, backfill and intrusive historic occupations of Woodpecker Cave.": Paper presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 29 - April 2, 2017
Enloe JG, Meehleder A & McGrath JR 2016. "The Hawkeye Horizon: post-Woodland occupations of Woodpecker Cave (13JH202).": Paper presented at the 60th Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Iowa City. October 6 - October 8, 2016

Research

Research Assistant for online teaching transition: University of Minnesota CLA Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Department of Art History, split appointment. Summer 2020

Awards

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Awards

Summer Graduate Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Department of Art History, 2022, 2023, 2024
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Fellow, University of Minnesota, fellowship awarded to outstanding first-year doctoral students in the college., 2017-2018

Courses

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Courses

ARTH 3971W/V Art History Undergraduate Senior Capstone, Primary Instructor, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
ARTH 1921W Introduction to Film Study, Primary Instructor, Summer 2023
ARTH 3921 Art of the Film, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Spring 2023
ARTH 1004W Introduction to Asian Art, Teaching Assistant (Online Section Instructor), Fall 2022
ARTH 1001 Introduction to Art History, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Spring 2022
ARTH 1921W Introduction to Film Study, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Fall 2021
ARTH 1004W Introduction to Asian Art, Teaching Assistant (Online Section Instructor), Spring 2021
ARTH 1004W Introduction to Asian Art, Teaching Assistant (Online Section Instructor), Fall 2020
ARTH 1004W Introduction to Asian Art, Teaching Assistant (Reader/Grader), Spring 2020
ARTH 3434 Art and the Environment, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Fall 2019
ARTH 3014/RELS 3415 Art of India, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Spring 2019
ARTH 1921 Introduction to Film Study, Teaching Assistant (Section Instructor), Fall 2018