The SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication


The SECAC First Vice President and Chair of the Awards Committee is Debra Murphy who invites nominations and self-nominations for this award to be presented at the annual meeting.

A letter should follow initial nominations explaining the nomination and accompanied by evaluation materials to enable the committee members to reach their decision (such materials may be furnished by either the nominator or the nominee).

Send nominations to Debra Murphy, Department of Art and Design, 1766 Fine Arts Center, University of North Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32224 904-620-1766, dmurphy@unf.edu.

Nominations should be received before the end of April each year.


Past Recipients

2007 - Amy Kirschke, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Art in Crisis: W.E.B Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, Indiana University Press, 2006

2006 - Editors of Reading Vasari

2006 - Helen Langa, Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

2005 - Liana Cheney, Self-Portraits by Women Painters

2004 - William Levin, The Allegory of Mercy at the Misericordia in Florence

2004 - Pamela Simpson & Cynthia Mills, Monuments to the Lost Cause

2003 - The Georgia Museum of Art for its body of publications

2001 - Heather McPherson, The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth Century France

2000 - Pamela Simpson, Cheap, Quick and Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930

1998 - Charles R. Mack & Lynn Robertson, The Roman Remains: John Izard Middleton's Visual Souvenires of 1820-1823