Awards
2006 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
Annemarie Weyl Carr
The recipient of the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award for 2006 is Annemarie Weyl Carr. She is University Distinguished Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, where since 1972 she has taught the interaction of cultures, Christian and Islamic, in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. Carr is a model of the scholar-cum-teacher whose intense and enthusiastic life in her discipline and with her professional colleagues is inseparable from her rigorous and passionate engagement with teaching and her students. Her stellar career in teaching, scholarship, and dedicated service to the profession has brought her the wide and well-deserved recognition, admiration, and gratitude of institutions, colleagues, and, above all, students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a teacher, she is respected, celebrated, and clearly held in awe as much for her keen intelligence and vast learning as for the boundless joy and ready graciousness with which she gives of herself to others. “Annemarie Weyl Carr is an exemplar,” writes one former student, “an impeccable scholar, an inspiring teacher, and a guardian angel to her students.”
A renowned expert on Byzantine art with an emphasis on the cross-cultural complexity of Cyprus, Carr is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, has published three books and has three others in progress, is the author of scores of articles, is a regular convener at professional colloquia, has an impressive number of conference papers to her credit, and has served her discipline in many influential capacities. These include her service on the editorial board of The Art Bulletin, her editorship of Gesta, and her recent tenure as president of the International Center of Medieval Art. She has received invitations to lecture and teach throughout the United States and abroad and has held prestigious visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Delaware, and the University of Pittsburgh. The honors and opportunities Carr has received throughout academia have been suitably matched by similarly distinguished acknowledgment of her vocation as a teacher at her home institution. At SMU, she has been the recipient of the Methodist Church Award for an Outstanding Teacher/Scholar, the Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, the Phi Beta Kappa Perrine Prize for Teaching and Research, and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. These honors have been bestowed on Carr in a career at SMU that has also seen her serve with distinction in various and numerous administrative posts, including chair of the Division of Art History and graduate advisor in art history. Carr was further honored by her institution when she was invited to deliver its seventy-fifth anniversary address.
It with satisfaction that the jury for the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award announces Carr as the recipient for 2006 of this significant honor. Her career has been model of remarkable distinction in teaching and corresponding devotion to students, their learning, and their future.
Jury: Roger Crum, University of Dayton, chair; David Rosand, Columbia University; Martha Ward, University of Chicago; and Eva Hoffman, Tufts University.
