EVIE TERRONO
As an Americanist, Dr. Terrono challenges her students to see the vital intersections between ideas of American exceptionality, and understandings of gender, race, and politics and their inscriptions in American material culture and fine art. Her study of the problematics of Confederate memory and Civil War commemoration on the public symbolic landscape began over a decade ago and has produced acclaimed publications, including "‘Great Generals and Christian Soldiers’: Commemorations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Civil Rights Era," in Civil War in Art and Memory (Yale University Press, 2016); “Confederate Memories, Contemporary Concerns: Challenging the Authority of the Confederate Flag,” for Public Art Dialogue (March 2019), and a forthcoming chapter on the controversy of the Lincoln and Tad statue in Richmond, Virginia, in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue & Resolve Controversies (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). In her essay “Suffrage, Social Activism, and Women Artists of the South,” featured in TJC’s 2018 book, Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, Dr. Terrono investigated several creators whose careers were aligned with the early twentieth-century fight for women’s rights in the conservative South. Her lecture on African American Women Artists in the Civil Rights Era was featured on C-Span in March 2019.
Raised in Greece, Dr. Terrono trained as an archaeologist in her undergraduate studies at the University of Crete. Upon arriving in the United States, she shifted gears for her graduate studies, focusing on American art for both her MA at Queens College and her PhD at the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. The recipient of many intra-mural and external grants, Dr. Terrono has been honored with the Thomas Branch Excellence in Teaching Award (2005), the United Methodist Church Exemplary Teacher Award (2016), and the Samuel Nelson Gray Distinguished Professor Award (2018), Randolph-Macon College's highest faculty award.
Photo credit: "Silent Sentinel" Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New Jersey Day. Washington, DC, United States, 1917. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress.