Professor Erika Schneider has taught art history in the Art & Music Department since 2007, where she is also the coordinator of the Museum Studies minor. Her specialty is nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. art and transnational intersectionality on which she has presented professionally both in the United States and abroad, as well as publishing several articles in art history, literary, and history journals. Her monograph, The Representation of the Struggling Artist in America, 1800-1865 was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2015. Her research has been supported by the Getty Center, National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan, and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2015, she received the inaugural Fulbright-Terra Foundation Award in the History of American Art to teach and research in the Netherlands. Her current research investigates the international origins of the Harlem Renaissance and the role of race and gender, specifically for the African American sculptor, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968). In 2022, her article “Asserting Agency: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Scrapbook,” was published in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. She maintains an online Fuller catalogue raisonné.
