Elizabeth Perrill
Assistant Professor
Art History
B.A. with Honors, Grinnell College
M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Perrill received her Ph.D. in African Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington and joined the UNCG Art Department in 2008. Her primary research areas include Southern African ceramics and Zimbabwean stone sculpture. Perrill’s doctoral research focused on the economic and aesthetic transformation of contemporary Zulu ceramics between the 1960s and the 2000s. As a tribute to the community of artists she continues to work with Perrill developed the catalog and touring exhibition Ukucwebezela: To Shine, which has been featured at the African Art Center in Durban South Africa, the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, and the Indiana University Art Museum.
Perrill is committed to the use of focused life-histories as an ethical research model that can incorporate social and economic network analysis in art historical research. In her current scholarship and teaching, Perrill is exploring cross-cultural comparisons between ceramic art markets, connections between media in the South African art world, and historical trends in the norms of artistic professionalization.
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