History Department

David P. Peeler, Professor

American Intellectual and Cultural History

Email:  peeler@usna.edu
Phone: 410-293-6274

Education:

  • Ph.D. - University of Wisconsion
  • M.A. - University of Wisconsin
  • B.A. - University of Oklahoma

 Publications:

"Group f/64," in Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2002.

The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Steiglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams, The University of Rochester Press, 2001.

"Alfred Stieglitz: From Nudes to Clouds," History of Photogrpahy, 20, Spring 1997.

"Again, the 1930s," review article, American Quarterly 46, March 1994.

"The Art of Disengagement: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams," Journal of American Studies 27, December 1993.

"Deconstructing American Photographs," review article, American Quarterly 42, September 1990.

"The Romance of Platonic Forms: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams," Colby Library Quarterly 25, June 1989.

Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America, University of Georgia Press, 1987.

"Jefferson's Republican Nursery: The University of Virginia," Journal of Church and State 28, Winter 1986.

"Believing Is Seeing: Documentary Photographers and the Depression Southwest," Southwest Media Review 3, Spring 1985.

 

Presentations:

"Engaged Art in Cold War Democracy," Democracy and the Arts: Kent State University Sixth Annual Symposium on Democracy, Kent, Ohio, May 2, 2005.

"Relinquishing His Own Story: Abandonment and Appropriation in the Edward Weston Narrative," Art and Story: Eighteenth Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, October 22, 2004.

"Ansel Adams and the Patriotic Landscape," Invited lecture in conjunction with exhibit, Ansel Adams and the Sublime, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, July 22, 2001.

"Cold War Edens: Natural and Rural Imagery in McCarthy's America," Delaware Symposium on American Art, University of Delaware, March 31, 1995.

"Alfred Stieglitz: The Gaze and Eroticism's Failure," American Culture Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 9, 1993.

"The Art of Disengagement: Ansel Adams and Edward Weston," Ansel Adams Scholars Conference, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, July 25, 1992.

 

Activities, Fellowships and Grants:

Annual Conference on Accreditation and Quality Assurance, Middle States Commission on higher Education, Philadelphia, December 7-9, 2003.

Navy Meritorious Civilian Service award, 2003.

Faculty Senate, United States Naval Academy.  President 2001-2003.  Member 1998-2003.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 1995-1996.

Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly, 1995-2003.

John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library, 1994.

Ansel Adams Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.  First Annual Award, 1993.

Visiting Fellow, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1989.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, 1987.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts," Hobart and William Smith Colleges, July-August, 1987.






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