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Hire Dr. Mary M.

United States

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I have a Ph.D. in Art History, specializing in nineteenth-century French painting. In my dissertation, I argued that theories of masculinity and the body that transcended France's regional divides heavily influenced the ways that the early Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) chose to depict human bodies in his paintings. Bazille, who hailed from the southern, Protestant city of Montpellier, had also attended medical school, almost completing his medical degree, before choosing to become a painter, and he died at an early age after volunteering to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. To complete this project, I read widely in histories and theories of medicine and the body, as well as femininity and masculinity, and developed expertise in medical and military narratives in the history of France. I complemented these broad histories with archival research in Bazille's hometown and in Paris, where he moved as a young man. Since finishing my Ph.D., I have served as an AmeriCorps Member in a program that places historians and museum experts in local history organizations to help them build their capacity--to provide them with resources to do more, do it more effectively, and serve more people from all walks of life. I have turned my experience in archival research and historical writing toward public history and policy development projects for my host site, the Oberlin Heritage Center, and I have served as a consultant to numerous local history organizations across Northeast Ohio in the areas of social media management, volunteer recruitment, program development, and collections care. I hope to put my experience in writing and editing texts for all audiences to use for Kolabtree's clients. I taught expository writing at the college level during graduate school, and I have since privately tutored students in essay writing and test preparation. I am especially skilled at talking people through their ideas to ensure that they are communicating them clearly and to the full extent of their potential, an approach that I also embrace in my own writing.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Fashion & Style
• ☆ Military History & Science
• ☆ Gender Studies
• ☆ Leadership
• ☆ Medical History
• ☆ Art History
• ☆ Museum Management & Curatorship
• ☆ Nineteenth Century History
• ☆ French History
• ☆ French Studies
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing

Work Experience

Local History Corps Member, Oberlin Heritage Center

AmeriCorps

September 2015 - Present

Mellon Dissertation Fellow

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

September 2014 - May 2015

Instructor of Record, Expository Writing

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

September 2012 - May 2014

Teaching Assistant

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

September 2010 - May 2012

Education

Ph.D. (Art History)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

September 2008 - May 2015

M.A (Art History)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

September 2008 - January 2012

B.A. (Art History and French)

Case Western Reserve University

August 2004 - May 2008

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

ONLINE RESOURCE

(2016). Integrating Oberlin's Barber Shops, 1944-45 .

BOOK REVIEW

Manning, Mary. Review of Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History, by Sarah Betzer. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 43, no. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2014) .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Manning, Mary. “Degas’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Fiocre and the Orientalism of Modern Life.” Rutgers Art Review 30 (Summer 2014): 4-18.

Manning, Mary. “Monet’s Vulnerable Masculinity in Frédéric Bazille’s The Improvised Field Hospital.” Journal of Men’s Studies 21, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 127-134.