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David P. Peeler, Professor

American
Intellectual and Cultural History
Email:
peeler@usna.edu
Phone:
410-293-6274
Education:
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Ph.D. - University of
Wisconsion
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M.A. - University of
Wisconsin
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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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