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Dr. Patricia Vettel-Becker, Professor of Art, has been Chair of the
Department of Art since January 2009. She came to MSU Billings in
Fall Semester 1998, after completing her Ph.D. in Art History and
Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Areas of Specialization: American Art and Culture, Gender Studies,
Modern and Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, and the History of
Photography and Film.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Shooting from the Hip: Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
ARTICLES:
"Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s
Femininity." Genders: A Journal of Women Studies 35:2 (2014):
143-178.
"Sacagawea and Son: The Visual Construction of America's Maternal
Feminine.” American Studies 50: 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2009): 5-30.
"Clarence Holbrook Carter's War Bride and the Machine/Woman
Fantasy." Genders 37 (2003): 1-16.
“Destruction and Delight: World War II Combat Photography and the Aesthetic
Inscription of Masculine Identity.” Men and Masculinities 5:1 (July
2002): 80-102.
“Bad Boys: Bruce Davidson’s Gang Photographs and Outlaw Masculinity.” Art
Journal 56:2 (Summer 1997): 69-74.
“Felix the Cat as Modern Trickster.” American Art 10:1 (Spring
1996): 65-87.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:
Dust to Dust: The Art of Tracy Linder. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 2000. Catalogue essay reprinted in Drumlummon Views 1 (Spring/Summer 2006).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty
by Yasmin Sabina Khan. American Studies 51:3/4 (Fall/Winter 2010):
227.
Reviews of Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation by Blake
Stimson, and American Exposures: Photography and Community in the
Twentieth Century by Louis Kaplan. caa.reviews (January 15,
2008).
Review of Ordering the Façade: Photography and Contemporary Southern
Women’s Writing by Katherine Henninger. Journal of Southern History 74:4
(November 2008): 1032-1033.
SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS:
MSU Billings Faculty Achievement Award, 2005.
Winston and Helen Cox Fellowship for Faculty Excellence in Arts and
Sciences, MSU Billings, 2002.
Illumina Teacher Award, The Artist's Call for Justice, 2002.
Ansel Adams Research Fellow, Center for Creative Photography, University of
Arizona, 1997.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Currently working on a catalog essay about Montana artist Isabelle Johnson
and on a book about visual culture, femininity and the 1960s in the U.S.
.