Anne E. Guernsey Allen

Fine Arts Department

Indiana University Southeast

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New Albany, IN 47150-6405

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Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University Southeast

New Albany, Indiana

Born - December 15, 1953 - Los Angeles, California

1976 1976 - 78 1976 - 87 1978 - 82 1982 - 85 1983 - 85 1985 1985 1985 - 87 1987 - 93 1988 - 89 1988 - 89 1989 1989 - 90 1989 - 90 1990 - 91 1991 - 92 1992 - 93 1993 1993 - 94 1994 1994 -

Bachelor of Arts, Biology, University of California, San Diego Graduate Student, Ecology, San Diego State University Bookkeeper, Biocomputronix, Inc., San Diego, California Secretary and Riding Instructor, La Jolla Farms Stables, La Jolla, California Graduate Student, Art History and Anthropology, San Diego StateUniversity Reader, Art History Dept., San Diego State University Master of Arts, Art History, San Diego State University Lecturer, Art History Dept., San Diego State University Teacher, Art History and Cultural Anthropology, Morse High School, San Diego Graduate Student, Art History, Columbia University, New York Curator, Slide Library, Columbia University Secretary, University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Columbia University Master of Philosophy, Art History, Columbia University Preceptor, Art History Dept., Columbia University Lecturer, Oceanic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York USIA Fulbright Fellow, field research, Western Samoa Friede Fellow, dissertation preparation Friede Fellow, dissertation conclusion Doctor of Philosophy, Art History, Columbia University Consultant in Art History Curriculum Development for the New York City Laboratory School for Gifted Education Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art History, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana

HONORS National Science Foundation Summer Study Grant (twice awarded) California State Scholarship (four year award) President's Fellow, Columbia University (twice awarded) Department of Art History and Archaeology Summer Research Grant, Columbia University (twice awarded) Preceptorship, Columbia University Graduate Fellowship, University of Washington (declined) Four Year Regent's Special Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara (declined) National Gallery Ittleson Fellowship nominee, Art History, Columbia University National Gallery Ittleson Fellowship Finalist USIA Fulbright Fellowship Columbia University Traveling Fellowship (declined) John Friede Oceanic Fellowship, Columbia University (twice awarded) Indiana University Improvement of Teaching Grant (awarded: 1994, 1996, 1997) Indiana Consortium for International Programs Travel Grant (1996) Indiana University Grant-In-Aid (1996) Indiana University Faculty Summer Fellowship (awarded: 1995, 1997, 1998)

PUBLICATIONS "All the World's A Stage: The 19th Century Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) House as Theater", American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Center for Native American Studies 21:4 (1997).   "Architecture as Social Expression in Western Samoa: Axioms and Models", Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Volume 5 No. 1, Fall 1993.   "The Guest House", The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Paul Oliver (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997.   "Review of Picturing Paradise: Colonial Photography of Samoa, 1875 - 1925", Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, No. 13 & 14, July 1996.   "The Ritual of Architecture: The Creation of Samoan Guest Fale", Pacific Arts, No. 9 & 10, July 1994.   "Samoan Fale Spatial Organization," The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Paul Oliver (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997.   "A Stylistic Analysis of the Codex Cozcatzin: Its Implications for the Study of Post Conquest Aztec Manuscripts", Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, No. 24, 1994.

PAPERS Presented "The Tapa of Tonga and Samoa: An Analysis of Style", Southern California Association for the Study of African, Oceanic and Native American Art, San Diego, June, 1985.   "Discourse and Dialogue: Meaning in Samoan Architectural Genre", College Art Association, Seattle, February, 1993.   "Space as Social Construct: The Vernacular Architecture of Western Samoa", Columbia University Symposium on the Arts of the Oceania, Pacific Orientations: New Directions in the Study of Oceanic Art, New York, March 1993.   "The Ritual of Architecture: The Creation of Samoan Guest Fale", Pacific Art Association, Adelaide, April, 1993.   "Space, Boundary and Society: The Language of Samoan Architecture", International Association of Word and Image Studies Third International Congress, Ottawa, August 1993.   "South Pacific Architecture as Social Statement: A Samoan Example", Invitational Lecture, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, March, 1994   "Spatial Destruction in Samoan Architecture: The Creation of Social Ties", Invitational Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, March, 1994.   "Native Australian Art as Statement of Identity", Invitational Lecture, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 1994.   "Australian Aboriginal Art: Links to the Past, Movement to the Future", Invitational Lecture, Maryland Institute of Fine Arts, Baltimore, April, 1994.   "Trouble in Paradise: Art and Culture in Western Samoa", one of a series of talks sponsored by the Adult Student Center, Indiana University Southeast, February, 1995.   "Architecture Without Walls: Space and Social Relationships in Polynesian Samoa", Indiana University, Southeast Faculty Colloquium, March 1995.   "Research on Samoa: Mead, Freeman & Beyond", Invitational Lecture, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis, November, 1996.   "The Tie That Binds: Cloth and the Manipulation of Samoan Social Space", Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996   "Vernacular Architecture in Western Samoa", Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996   "Festivals and the Creation of Social Ties in Western Samoa", Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996   "Buildings as Symbolic Property: Transfer and Ownership in Samoan Village Architecture", College Art Association, Boston, February, 1996.   "Samoa in a Multi-National World", Symposium in conjunction with the 7th Pacific Arts Festival, Apia, Western Samoa, September, 1996.   "The Tie That Binds (part 2)", Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February, 1997, San Diego.   "Old Patterns, New Contexts: Samoan Architectural Strategies in a Modern World," Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February, 1997, San Diego.   "The United States and Samoa at the End of the Nineteenth Century," Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February, 1997, San Diego.   "Lashing the Samoan World: Architecture, Cloth, Space and Society in Western Polynesia," Invitational lecture, Grinell College, Grinell Iowa, April 1997.   "The Architectural Stage: Status, Ceremony and Theater in Western Samoa," South Seas Symposium: Easter Island in Pacific Context, August, 1997, Albuquerque.   "Architectural Strategies: The Adaptation of the Foreign in Samoan Domestic Structures," Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February, 1998, San Diego.   "Architectural and Ritual Space in Western Samoa," Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February, 1998, San Diego.

MASTER'S THESIS The Tapa Cloth of Tonga and Samoa: A Study in Continuity and Change. California State University, Art History Division, Fine Arts Department San Diego, 1985.

DISSERTATION Space As Social Construct: The Vernacular Architecture of Rural Samoa Columbia University in the City of New York, Art History Department 1993.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS College Art Association Pacific Art Association Polynesian Society Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania