Renée Ater
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor
American Art

ON LEAVE SPRING 2008

Art History & Archaeology
1211-D Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335

office: #4216, fourth floor
email: rater@umd.edu
phone: 301-405-1490

Renée Ater (B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Maryland) joined the faculty of the Department of Art History and Archaeology in Fall 2002 as Assistant Professor. Professor Ater focuses on American art of the nineteenth and twentieth century with a specialization in African American visual culture. She is the author of Keith Morrison, volume 5 of The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art (2005) and has written essays on Meta Warrick Fuller and Aaron Douglas. In 2002-2004, Ater was the recipient of a Henry C. Welcome Fellowship Grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission. She was awarded a 2004/2005 National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers and a 2006 General Research Board Summer Research Award from the Graduate School of the University of Maryland for her book entitled Modeling a New Nation: The Public Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller.