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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 ÃÛÑ¿TV, 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.