Rachel Foulk, PhD

Rachel Foulk, PhD

Professor: Art History
Advisor for the Art History Minor
Humanities
Phone: (231) 591-2776
Email: [email protected]

Education

• PhD, Emory University, Art History
• MA, Emory University, Art History
• BA, The University of Texas at Austin, Art History

Graduate/Post-Graduate Training

• Summer Program in Archaeology, American Academy in Rome

Publications and Intellectual Contributions

• Book
  Cullen, R., Foulk, R., Weis, C. (2024). "The Public Art Collective: A Guidebook to Public Art in Big Rapids, Michigan," Ferris State University.
• Book Review
  Foulk, R. (2024). "Zarmakoupi, Mantha. 2023. Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy. Los Angeles: Getty Publications." Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal. 7 (1). pp. 1-4.
• Art Exhibition at the Ferris State University Fine Art Gallery
  Foulk, R., Weis, C. (2023). "Gwen Frostic: Art and Nature in Michigan," curated with students in Art History 325: Women and Art.
• Book Chapter
  Cook, K. D., Foulk, R. (2013). "Gardens and the Larger Landscape," In K. Gleason (Ed.), M. Leslie (Ed.), J. D. Hunt (Ed.), A Cultural History of Gardens, Volume 1: Antiquity. pp. 177-96. London: Bloomsbury.

Presentations

• Lecture
  Foulk, R., Lennox Seminar Lecture Series, "Patron’s Tomb: Landscape, Family, and Legacy in Roman Art. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii at the San Antonio Museum of Art," Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, (April 12, 2023).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R., Conference, "Fortunes of People and Trees: Nature and Mourning in Roman Art," Archaeological Institute of America, Virtual Conference, (January 7, 2022).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R. (Presenter), Conference, “Cultivating Community: Engaging Art History Students in Small-Town Michigan.” College Art Association (CAA-Advancing Art and Design), Chicago, IL, (February 15, 2020).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R. (Presenter), Conference, “Gardens, Families, and Boundaries: The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Tomb of Patron in Rome.” College Art Association (CAA-Advancing Art and Design), New York, NY, (February 14, 2019).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R., Conference, “Framing the View: Landscape, Painting, and Architecture at the Villa della Farnesina in Rome.” Classical Association of Canada, Calgary, AB, (May 10, 2018).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R. (Co-Chair), Mangieri, A. F. (Co-Chair), Conference, “Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art." College Art Association (CAA-Advancing Art and Design), Los Angeles, CA, (February 22, 2018).
• Oral Presentation
  Walters, R. (Panelist), Foulk, R., Fox, S., Expect Diversity television program, "How Should We Deal with American Patriotic Symbols That Stem from Dark Origins," Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI, (October 2017).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R., Conference, “A Feast for the Eyes: Still Life Painting and the Culture of Hospitality in Ancient Rome.” Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, IL, (April 8, 2016).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R. (Co-Chair), Mangieri, A. F. (Co-Chair), Conference, “Imaginary Worlds: Art as Mediator between Fact and Fiction.” Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, (October 22, 2015).
• Oral Presentation
  Foulk, R. (Presenter), Weis, C. (Presenter), Conference, “Collections, Education, and Community.” Michigan Museums Association, Bay City, MI, (October 10, 2013).