Professor, American Art and Material Culture
Ruth L. Bohan received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland and has taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis since 1981. She teaches courses on American visual culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, and contributes regularly to the Graduate Program in Museum Studies. She has twice served as department chairperson (1999-2003 and 1995-1998), and in 1990 taught in the Missouri London Program. In 2002-03 she was selected for the University of Missouri Leadership Development Program. Prior to coming to the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she was a Mellon Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and served as a Research Associate at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Professor Bohan is the author of two books, Looking Into Walt Whitman: American Art 1850-1920 (Penn State University Press, 2006) and The Société Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (UMI, 1982), and served as contributing editor for The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné, eds. Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney (Yale University Press, 1984). Her essays have appeared in The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross (Yale University Press, 2006), Dada New York: New World for Old, ed. Martin Ignatius Gaughan (G. K. Hall, 2003) and The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, ed. Ezra Greenspan (Oxford University Press, 1995), as well as the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Prospects, the Bulletin of the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Mickle Street Review. Professor Bohan’s research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including a University of Missouri Research Board Award, a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and Humanities.
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