Susan Havens Caldwell
Professor: Art History
Assistant Director of MA Program
Office: 216 FJC
405-325-3252
shcaldwell@ou.edu
B.A., Washburn University (French); year abroad at Universite de Montpellier, France (French Literature and Art History); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974 (Art History; major: Medieval Art; minors: Modern Art and Medieval Literature). Dissertation on early Romanesque portals in northern Spain.
At The University of Oklahoma since 1976, she teaches courses in Medieval, Modern and Contemporary, Methodologies and Theories in Art History, and related seminars. She has team-taught interdisciplinary courses on art and literature in the 20th century and in the Medieval and Renaissance periods, art and music in the Medieval and Renaissance periods, some of these courses for the Honors College. Dr. Caldwell has published scholarly articles and exhibition reviews in Medieval art, Contemporary art, Renaissance art, and folk art. She wrote the initial catalogue of sculptor Ken Little's work, on which further catalogues have been based. She wrote the original script and collaborated with Dr. Eugene Enrico in the School of Music in all facets of the production of the interdisciplinary educational video "'And They Sang a New Song's: Twenty-four Musical Elders at Santiago de Compostela," now internationally distributed by the Roland Collection in England. She is currently writing a book entitled "'Domus Feminis's: Royal Leonese Women and San Isidoro in Leon"; several papers based on this research have been presented at scholarly conferences and two are in press. She is currently studying the careers and paintings of two School of Art professors: George Bogart and Eugene Bavinger. Dr. Caldwell has earned seven teaching awards, including the Regents Award for Superior Teaching (1985), two UOSA awards for Outstanding Professor of the College of Fine Arts (1996, 1986), the Governor's Arts and Education Award (1994), and the Irene and Julian Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts Award (2003).
