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Dr. Janet Marquardt received a doctorate in medieval art history from UCLA in 1986 and holds the rank of distinguished professor at Eastern Illinois University. She is co-author of the thematic textbook Frames of Reference: Art, History, and the World (McGraw-Hill 2004). She studies the epistemological meanings of cultural heritage and the ideological function of patrimony, i.e, how we construct the past through the conservation, renovation, exhibition and narrative about historical monuments and objects. Marquardt was a visiting professor at the CESCM in Poitiers (2006) and a humanities fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2011). She is the director of EIU's Paris Study Abroad Program (since 1996) and director of the new Center for the Humanities (2010). |
