Rachel Sailor

B.A., Oregon State University.
M.A., University of Oregon.
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2007.

 

Rachel Sailor is a Professor of Art History and American Studies whose research focuses on U.S. photography, nineteenth- and twentieth-century critical regionalism, and the visual and cultural history of the American West. She is the author of Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900–1950: The Broad Movement (Brill, 2023) and Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2014). A Fulbright Scholar and former Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center Fellow, Sailor has received support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the FACE (now Albertine) Foundation, and was selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. At the University of Wyoming, she has been honored with the inaugural Sandeen Award, the Presidential Scholarly Achievement Award, and the Seibold Professorship. She is a dedicated advocate for the humanities both at UW and across the state of Wyoming.