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Maura Lyons is a Professor in the Department of Art & Design at Drake University, specializing in American art history and architecture. Her work bridges academic research with public engagement, co-curating four exhibitions at Drake’s Anderson Gallery.
- PhD and MA in Art History from Boston University
- Focus on landscape art as a lens for understanding human-environment relationships and historical trauma
Her research interrogates how visual culture—particularly landscapes—reflects and reshapes societal values, with a focus on African American soldiers during the Civil War, 19th-century graphic arts, and post-war commemorative practices. She employs interdisciplinary methods to analyze material culture and its ideological implications.
Articles in journals like American Art and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide highlight her analysis of Civil War-era imagery, swamp symbolism, and the iconography of racial uplift. Her upcoming exhibition Acts of Projection: Magic Lantern Shows and the U.S. Civil War (2024) and contracted book Reckoning with Trauma further expand these themes.
Scientific awards include a
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
