Professor, Art History, Museum Studies Area Coordinator
PhD Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
MA Art History and Museum Studies Program Certificate, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
BA Art History, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Art History (American art and culinary history of the 18th and 19th centuries, American and British print culture, museum studies)
Nancy Siegel is Professor of Art History and Culinary History at Towson University and specializes in American landscape studies, underrepresented women artists of the 19th century, print culture, and culinary history of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her book, Political Appetites: The Power of Food in Revolutionary America (2026) complements the documentary Feeding the Revolution (WMHT) for which she served as the host and content developer. She provides historical cooking demonstrations and lectures widely on landscape and culinary histories in addition to serving as a culinary consultant for museums and non-profit institutions. She also led the seminar “Culinary Culture: The Politics of American Foodways, 1765-1900” for the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
Her book Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School complemented the highly acclaimed 2023-2024 touring exhibition she co-curating for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/Contemporary Practices. This exhibit built upon her 2010 exhibition, Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School. Dr. Siegel has also authored/edited publications such as The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting; River Views of the Hudson River School; Within the Landscape: Essays on Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture; Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery; and The Morans: The Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers. Her work has also appeared in Gastronomica, The Burlington Magazine, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.
She has been the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships including: the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library; the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture- Georgian Papers Programme Fellowship at Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK; The Library Company/British Academy; Terra Foundation for American Art; New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Massachusetts Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society, Historic Deerfield; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the American Antiquarian Society; Yale University; Winterthur Museum & Country Estate; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Culinary Historians of Chicago; the New York Public Library; the Tavolozza Foundation, and the Furthermore Foundation.
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