gwillumson@arts.ufl.edu

EXPERIENCE
1992-2001: Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University
1988-1992: History of Photography and American Art, J. Paul Getty Research Institute
1985-1986: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
1982-1983: Nelson Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara

EDUCATION
B.A.: St. Mary's College, California
M.A.: University of California, Davis
Ph.D.: University of California, Santa Barbara
Other: Lifetime Teaching Credential, Secondary Schools, State of California

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Making Meaning: Photographic Materiality in the Home, the Library, and the Museum," an essay for Photographs Objects Histories, London: Routledge Press. (in press)
"The Widening Gap between Art History and the University Museum," Newsletter for Historians of Nineteenth Century Art, Fall 2001.
"The Photo-Album as Cultural Artifact," an essay in L'Album Photographique:
Historire & conservation d'un objet, Paris: Section française de l'Institut international de conservation, 2000.
"The Shifting Audience of the University Museum," Museum International (UNESCO), no. 206 (vol. 52/no. 2), (April-June 2000), pp. 15-19. Translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic.
Collecting with a Passion: Selections from the Pincus Collection of Contemporary Art. University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, 1993.
W. Eugene Smith and the Photographic Essay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

EXHIBITIONS
Curator, History Past, History Present: The Daguerreotype Portrait in America, January 2001.
Curator, "The Crossing:" A Video Installation by Bill Viola, September 1999.
Curator, Capturing the Light: American Watercolors, 1900-1950, January 1997.
Co-Curator, Dismal Science: Photo-Works by Allan Sekula, 1972-1996, January 1997.
Curator, Double Plots: An Installation by Mary Ellen Carroll, October 1994.
Curator, Collecting with a Passion: Selections from the Pincus Collection of Contemporary Art, September 1993.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST
Museum Studies, Material Culture, Visual Culture Studies, History of Photography, and American Art and Culture

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for University Teachers, 1997-1998.
Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies Research Grant, 1997.
John Randolph and Dora Haynes Fellow of the Huntington Library, 1995-1996.
Distinguished Visitor, Haverford College, Department of Fine Arts, Fall 1991.
J. Paul Getty Publication Grant for W. Eugene Smith and the Photographic Essay, 1991.
Annette K. Baxter Prize, American Studies Association, 1987.
National Writing Project Fellow, Summer 1987.