Art and Art History Program

Rachel Sailor

Associate Professor: Art History

Email: rsailor@uwyo.edu • Office: VA 103

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

 

About

Rachel Sailor (Ph.D. University of Iowa) has published extensively and lectured internationally on the history of photography in the American West. Her first book: Meaningful Landscapes: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West (UNM Press, 2014) won an award of excellence from the local historical society as well as a “Best Book on the West” award from History Colorado. In 2014 Sailor received a Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center Stipend in American Art for a five month residency in conjunction with her new book project: Pictorialism in the American West: 1900-1950. In 2017, Sailor was awarded a Terra/Fulbright for research and teaching in Luxembourg.

Previous to the University of Wyoming, Sailor taught at the University of Texas at Tyler. She teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century European art, American art, American Modernism and seminar courses on Art of the American West and American Photography.