Scott Appointed as Acting UW International Programs Director

An international art historian and University of Wyoming graduate and instructor has been appointed as acting director of UW’s International Programs Office.

Mary Katherine Scott, visiting assistant professor of art history in UW’s Department of Art, assumes responsibility for the International Programs Office until a permanent director is appointed. She succeeds Anne Alexander, who recently was named UW’s associate vice president for undergraduate education.

“I’m delighted that someone with Dr. Scott’s background and experience will direct the International Programs Office while we search for a new director,” says UW Outreach School Dean Susan Frye, who made the appointment. “I’m certain that this important component of the university’s internationalization efforts will continue to progress under her leadership.”

Scott received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and Spanish from UW in 2003; a master’s degree in Spanish from UW in 2005; a master’s degree in art history from Northern Illinois University in 2008; and a Ph.D. in world art studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., in 2013.

She has taught art history and Spanish at UW since 2013 as a joint member of the Department of Art and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.