Kenneth Haltman
H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History
Office: FJC 408
405-325-0376
haltman@ou.edu
Kenneth Haltman, H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History, received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, and Translation (Phi Beta Kappa with Highest University Honors) and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University in American Studies. Before coming to OU he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of American art and material culture at Bryn Mawr, Emory, and Michigan State. His numerous academic honors include Fulbright-Hayes, Andrew W. Mellon, and Henry C. Luce Foundation fellowships and research awards from Winterthur, the Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian. In addition to a series of critical translations of major works by French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard and scholarly essays on the history of pictorial representation in the United States ranging from antipastoralism in early Winslow Homer to the art of the early American West, his publications include American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture (2000, co-edited with Jules David Prown) and, forthcoming from Penn State University Press, Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818-1823.
