Browsing by Type "biographies (documents)"
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A biography of Dr. Dennis Huston
Professor Huston is the author of Shakespeare’s Comedies of Play and co-editor of a collection of Renaissance plays. His teaching has received national recognition: he was named the CASE 1989 Professor of the Year and has recorded video lectures on Shakespeare and detective fiction for The Teaching Company. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, performance, ... -
A biography of Dr. Richard J. Smith
Richard J. Smith is George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. Professor Smith's areas of expertise and research interest are Chinese intellectual and social history, as well as comparative history (China and Japan). Professor Smith's current research focuses primarily on Chinese "encyclopedias of daily ... -
A biography of Joseph Manca
Joseph Manca is the Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History at Rice University. He began teaching at Rice in 1989, and served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History from 2004-2009. During the period of his chairmanship the Department received a large grant from the Brown Foundation, which allowed for the foundation of a Ph. D. ... -
A biography of Katherine Brown
Katherine Tsanoff Brown was the first art history instructor at Rice University’s newly-established Department of Art and Art History, arriving in 1963. She had entered the Rice Institute as a student at the age of 15, graduating in 1938. She became a full professor of art history in 1975, and also served as the University’s Dean of Undergraduate ... -
A biography of Linda Neagley
Linda Neagley is an Associate Professor of Art History and was appointed chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice University in 2013. Professor Neagley’s areas of expertise and research interest include Late Gothic architecture and design, pictorial narrative in the Middle Ages, and medieval urban planning. She has authored numerous ... -
A biography of Philip Oliver-Smith
Philip Oliver-Smith was a professor of Art History at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas. Professor Oliver-Smith’s areas of expertise and research interest included ancient Roman and Greek sculpture and pottery, and he served as co-director, along with his departmental colleague Walter Widrig, on a ... -
A biography of Walter Widrig
Walter Widrig is Professor of Art History Emeritus at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas, and was chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice from 1982-1985. Professor Widrig’s areas of expertise and research interest include Roman and early Christian art and architecture, as well as the ... -
A biography of William A Camfield
William Camfield is Joseph and Joanna N. Mullen Professor of Art History Emeritus at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas and was chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice from 1970-72, and again from 1999-2001. He retired in 2002. Professor Camfield’s areas of expertise and research interest ... -
Annotated typescript of biography of Galveston founder Michel Branamour Menard
(1938)Annotated typescript of biography of Galveston founder Michel Branamour Menard. The contents include a sketch on Menard from the Galveston Directory for 1866-1867, a discussion of Menard from Early Issues of Capital Stock, a sketch of Menard from the Galveston Daily News, and a memorandum by Sue Menard McCaleb. -
Biography of Fred. C. Johnson
(1990-01-01) -
Chuan-Hua Gershom Lowe biographical sketch
(1961)This item is part of a larger physical collection which consists of the correspondence, papers, and selected books accumulated and saved by Chuan-Hua Gershom Lowe throughout his lifetime as student, journalist, Chinese embassy official, librarian, husband, and father. Lowe was born in China in 1902, earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of ... -
Chuan-Hua Gershom Lowe biographical sketch
(1970)This item is part of a larger physical collection which consists of the correspondence, papers, and selected books accumulated and saved by Chuan-Hua Gershom Lowe throughout his lifetime as student, journalist, Chinese embassy official, librarian, husband, and father. Lowe was born in China in 1902, earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of ... -
Dr. Benjamin Jesse Covington biography
(1993-09-16) -
Short biographical essay on Willie Lee Gay
(1990-01-01) -
Willie Lee Gay: Biographical Sketch
(1990-01-01)
