• With Pitzer Since: 2006
• Field Group: Art History
• Campus Address: Scott 202
• Phone: 909.607.3176
• Campus email: bill_anthes@pitzer.edu

Education:

• BFA, Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• MA, Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• PhD, American Studies, University of Minnesota

A member of the art field group at Pitzer College and of the Claremont Colleges Joint Art History Program (with Pomona College and Scripps College), Bill Anthes earned a B.F.A. and an M.A. in art history from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota. He teaches courses and writes about art history and theory with a particular emphasis on contemporary art, photography and Native American art and visual culture.

His first book, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His essays and reviews have been published in the American Indian Quarterly, Art Papers, caareviews, Great Plains Quarterly, Journal of the West, New Mexico Historical Review and Visual Anthropology Review. He is co-author, with Rebekah Modrak, of Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice (forthcoming from Routledge Press). He is currently writing the first monograph on the career of the Cheyenne-Arapahoe contemporary artist, HOCK E AYE VI Edgar Heap of Birds.

His fellowships and awards include the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2003-2004), a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2005-2006), a Visiting Fellowship in Theorizing Cultural Heritage, a program supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and housed at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C. (2007) and a Graves Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Actual Teaching in the Humanities (2008).