Ellen Lippert, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty - Art History

  elippert@thiel.edu
  724-589-2094
  Remote

Education

Ph.D.  Art History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2009

Dissertation: “George Ohr in His Nineteenth Century Context: The Mad Potter Reconsidered”

M.A. Art History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002

B.A. Art History, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, 1999

B.S. Geology and Ceramics, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, 1998

Teaching

Professor of Art History and Western Humanities, Art Department Chair, Thiel College, 2018- present

Associate Professor of Art History and Western Humanities, Art Department Chair, Thiel College, 2012 – 2018

Assistant Professor of Art History and Western Humanities, Thiel College, 2008-2012

Full Time Lecturer: Art History, Thiel College, 2006-2008

Adjunct Faculty:

• Youngstown State University, 2005-2006
• Community College of Allegheny County, 2005
• Westminster College, 2005
• Case Western Reserve University, 2003

Awards and Honors

Presidential Award for Distinguished Faculty Scholar, 2020

Faculty Scholarship Award, Thiel College, 2017

Excellence in Teaching Award, National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi, Thiel College Chapter, 2015

Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University, 2006

Robert P. Bergman Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University, 2002 – 2004

Publications

Books

George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube.  University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Articles

“Comrade Ohr: Ideal Craftsman and American Socialist,” Journal of Modern Craft (July 2014).

“George Ohr: Mad Potter, Marketing Genius,” Style 1900 (February 2010): 48-55

“American Gothic,” The Thirties in America (2010). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

“Thomas Hart Benton,” The Thirties in America (2010). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Research and Presentations

National Arts and Crafts Conference, Asheville, NC, 2020

• Paper: George Ohr: Sophisticate or Rube?

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019

• Paper: “George Ohr’s Tokens as Storyville Artifact”

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2017

• Paper: “The Yellow Book and American Impressionism: A Bridge”

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Atlantic City, NJ, 2016.

• Paper: “The Contagion of Fin-de-siècle Decadence: J.K. Huysmans’ Impact on Whistler and Cassatt”

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS, 2014

• Lecture: George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube

Mid- Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Baltimore, MD, 2014

• Paper: “Hand Crafted and Self-Referential: The Pottery of George Ohr in the Art Works of Jasper Johns”

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2011

• Paper: “Arcadia’s Ruin: Tragedy and Loss in Eakins’ Two Nephews at Avondale

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, 2009

• Lecture: “George Ohr: The Mad Potter Reconsidered” given in conjunction with the exhibition “George Ohr Rising…”

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, 2009

• Paper: “George Ohr and the Consumer Culture of the Gilded Age”

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Symposium, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 2008

• Paper: “The Mystery of the Inevitable: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Adams Memorial”

Hoyt Institute, New Castle, PA, 2008 

• Paper: “Winslow Homer: Sage and Salesman” presented in conjunction with the opening of exhibit “Winslow Homer: The Illustrator (1857-1888)”

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Symposium, Baltimore, MD, 2006

• Paper: “George Ohr and Late 19th Century America: The Mad Potter Rehabilitated”
• Panel Chair: Art, Architecture & Design 2: “Subaltern” Designs