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Dr Stephanie Pratt
Reader in Art History
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 585128
E-mail: Stephanie Pratt
BSc Oregon State University
PhD Council for National Academic Awards, Polytechnic South West
Research and Teaching
As an American Indian art historian of the Dakota tribe, I have been concerned in my research over the past twenty years or so with the visual representation of American Indian peoples, mainly in European and British art. My work in this field has resulted in several journal articles, a full-length book and recently, my contributing to a well-received exhibition at the National Portait Gallery, London, Between Worlds, in which I concentrated on leaders from the Mohawk community who journeyed to London in the eighteenth century. It is in the discipline of Art History that I have found the most appropriate methods for exploring the kinds of ideas and issues that I wish to raise in my research. For me, the study of art history is always challenging, interesting and, of course, ever evolving. My teaching has ranged across a number of areas, themes and periods, but I would say that perhaps my favourite modules (if one can have only one area of choice) are those involved with Italian Renaissance art and culture. We (students and I) often travel as a group to Italy together to look, experience and examine the places where works of art were designed to be seen and this experience has added greatly to my time at the University of Plymouth.
Publications (from 2001)
'Representatives and Representation: Southern Indians in Eighteenth-Century England', in The Indian Atlantic: Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1756-1850 , Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2008)
'Truth and Artifice in the Visualization of Native Peoples: from the time of John White to the beginning of the Eighteenth-Century', in European Visions: American Voices , conference proceedings, online publications, London, British Museum (forthcoming 2008)
'The Four Indian "Kings"' and 'Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)' in Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain, 1700-1850 , London, National Portrait Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2007
'Blackfoot Culture and World Culture: Contexts for the Collection and Display of the Decorated Shirt of Issapoomahsika (or Crowfoot) in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter', Journal of the History of Collections , vol.18, no.2 (2006), 237-247
'The American Time-Machine: Indians and the Visualization of Ancient Europe' in Sam Smiles and Stephanie Moser (eds) Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image , Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp.51-71
'From Cannassatego to Outalissi: Making Sense of the Native American in Eighteenth-Century Culture', in Geoff Quilley and Kay Dian Kriz (eds) An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the Atlantic World, 1660-1830, Manchester University Press, 2003, pp.60-82
Public Lectures/Conferences (from 2001)
British Museum, London
Conference paper (and convenor), ‘Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter from the time of John Smith and Ralph Hamor to the 1800s’, Adoption, Captivity and Slavery: Changing Meanings in Early Colonial America, February 2008
32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), Melbourne
‘Indigeneity and the Museum Paradigm: Contexts and Debates Surrounding the Opening Ceremonies and Exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, Sept 2004’, January 2008
October Gallery, London
Public seminar, ‘Emerging Through History: Images of American Indian Peoples, Past and Present’, September 2007
Inaugural International Conference of the Native Studies Research Network, University of Geneva ‘American Indian Portraits as Cultural Contact Zones’, Language, Silence and Voice in Native Studies, July 2007
British Museum, London
Conference paper, ‘Truth and Artifice in the Visualization of Native Peoples: From the Time of John White to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century’, European Visions: American Voices, June 2007
28th Annual American Indian Workshop, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
‘Collecting American Indian Culture in Paris and London, 1700-1750’, May 2007
European Association for American Studies Conference, Oslo, Norway
‘Imaging “Indianness” in McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America’, "E Pluribus Unum" or "E Pluribus Plura"?', May 2007
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Conference paper, ‘Illustrating Indians in John White’s Drawings: Tracing Connections between White’s Drawings and the Visual Culture of Travel in the Age of Hakluyt, De Bry and Hariot’, Richard Hakluyt (c.1552-1616): Life, Times, Legacy, May 2007
National Portrait Gallery, London
Conference paper, ‘Indian Delegations to Britain during the Eighteenth Century and their Visual Representation’, Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850, May 2007
International Conference for Native Studies, University of Oklahoma
‘Interpreting American Indian Portraiture, from Tomochichi to Sitting Bull’, March 2007
27th Annual American Indian Workshop, University of Wales, Swansea
‘A Sense of Place and Identity in the Codex Canadiensis’, May 2006
British Association for American Studies annual conference, University of Kent
‘Initial Reception and Response to the Opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., September 2004’, April 2006
National Maritime Museum, GreenwichConference paper, ‘Contexts for the Images of American Indians in North American Expeditionary Art, 1778-1840’, Art and Exploration, July 2004
British Association of Canadian Studies annual conference, University of Leeds
‘New France and the Native American’, March 2003
AAH 28th Annual Conference, Culture: Capital: Colony, University of Liverpool
‘Sight and Oversight: Early Modern Images of the Native American’, April 2002
XXI International Congress of the History of Science, Mexico City
‘Blackfoot Culture and World Culture’, July 2001
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