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Sally M. Promey
Chair of the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Art History and Archaeology
In office
July 2005 – December 2006
Personal details
Born (1953-02-22) February 22, 1953 (age 71)
Medina, Ohio, U.S.
SpouseRoger Fallot
Alma mater
OccupationArt historian
Awards
Academic background
ThesisSpiritual spectacles: Shaker gift images in religious context (1988)
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineRelations between American religion and art
Institutions

Sally M. Promey (born February 22, 1953) is an American art historian. She worked in the faculty of Northwestern University and University of Maryland, College Park, where she was chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, before becoming Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at Yale Divinity School.[1] A 2002 elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and 2005 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in relations between American religion and art, and she has authored books like Spiritual Spectacles (1993) and Painting Religion in Public (1999) and edited volumes like The Visual Culture of American Religions (2001) and Sensational Religion (2014).

Biography

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Sally M. Promey was born on February 22, 1953, in Medina, Ohio,[2] one of three children of Pearl Marcia (née Miller) and computer programmer, United States Postal Service courier, and farm worker George Herman Louis Promenschenkel.[3] After attending Medina High School,[4] she obtained her BA (1975) in art history and religious studies at Hiram College, her MDiv in the visual arts and religion (1978) at Yale Divinity School, and her PhD (1988) in cultural history at the University of Chicago;[2][5] her dissertation was named Spiritual spectacles: Shaker gift images in religious context.[6]

After working as an art history lecturer at the Northwestern University Department of Art History since 1989, she moved to the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1991, where she was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2000 and was chair from July 2005 until December 2006.[5] In 2007, she returned to Yale, where she was then became Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture.[1] She also founded the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale.[1]

She specializes in relations between American religion and art.[1] She won the 1994 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for her book Spiritual Spectacles.[7] She won the 2000 American Academy of Religion Book Award in Historical Studies for her next book Painting Religion in Public.[8] In April 2002, she was elected to the American Antiquarian Society.[9] In 2005, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[10] for "a study of the public display of religion in the United States";[2] this would later be used for her 2024 book Religion in Plain View.[5] She also served as editor of the volumes The Visual Culture of American Religions (2001), American Religious Liberalism (2012), and Sensational Religion (2014), in the case of the first two as co-editor with David Morgan and Leigh Schmidt.[5] She was also a 1993-1994 and 2003-2004 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and a 2000-2001 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow.[2]

She is married to Roger Fallot, a psychologist who has worked as Director of Research and Evaluation at Washington metropolitan area non-profit Community Connections, and they have one child.[3][11]

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sally M. Promey". Yale Divinity School. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2006. p. 124.
  3. ^ a b "Obituary for George H. Promenschenkel". Waite Funeral Homes. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  4. ^ "33 On Roll At Medina". The Akron Beacon Journal. December 22, 1969. pp. D2.
  5. ^ a b c d Promey, Sally M. "CURRICULUM VITAE: SALLY M. PROMEY" (PDF). Yale Religious Studies. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  6. ^ Promey, Sally M. (1988). Spiritual spectacles: Shaker gift images in religious context (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 53029532.
  7. ^ "Charles C. Eldredge Prize". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  8. ^ "Winners Book Awards". American Academy of Religion. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  9. ^ "Sally M. Promey". American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  10. ^ "Sally M. Promey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  11. ^ "Roger Fallot, Ph.D". National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  12. ^ Abbott, Philip (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". Utopian Studies. 5 (2): 177–179. ISSN 1045-991X – via JSTOR.
  13. ^ Ames, Kenneth L. (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". New York History. 75 (2): 216–219. ISSN 0146-437X – via JSTOR.
  14. ^ Bjelajac, David (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". The Journal of Religion. 74 (4): 573–575. ISSN 0022-4189 – via JSTOR.
  15. ^ Crosthwaite, Jane F. (1995). "Spiritual Spectacles". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 26 (1): 144–145. doi:10.2307/205593. ISSN 0022-1953 – via JSTOR.
  16. ^ Jones, Gerald E. (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". Church History. 63 (2): 302–303. doi:10.2307/3168629. ISSN 0009-6407 – via JSTOR.
  17. ^ Lovell, Margaretta M. (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". The Art Bulletin. 76 (3): 544–546. doi:10.2307/3046047. ISSN 0004-3079 – via JSTOR.
  18. ^ Martin, Joel W. (1995). "Religious Studies Rules: Understanding Methodists, Shakers, and Antebellum Americans". Reviews in American History. 23 (2): 206–211. ISSN 0048-7511 – via JSTOR.
  19. ^ Swank, Scott T. (1994). "Spiritual Spectacles". Winterthur Portfolio. 29 (4): 291–293. ISSN 0084-0416 – via JSTOR.
  20. ^ Canipe, Lee (2002). "Painting Religion in Public". Journal of Church and State. 44 (2): 379–380. ISSN 0021-969X – via JSTOR.
  21. ^ Fryd, Vivien Green (2000). "Painting Religion in Public". Winterthur Portfolio. 35 (1): 103–105. ISSN 0084-0416 – via JSTOR.
  22. ^ Kane, Paula (2002). "Painting Religion in Public". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 70 (4): 925–928. ISSN 0002-7189 – via JSTOR.
  23. ^ Siedell, Daniel A. (2000). "Painting Religion in Public". Church History. 69 (3): 687–689. doi:10.2307/3169436. ISSN 0009-6407 – via JSTOR.
  24. ^ Volk, Mary Crawford (2000). "Painting Religion in Public". The Burlington Magazine. 142 (1163): 116–117. ISSN 0007-6287 – via JSTOR.
  25. ^ Ivey, Paul Eli (2002). "The Visual Culture of American Religions". The Journal of American History. 89 (1): 325–326. doi:10.2307/2700941. ISSN 0021-8723 – via JSTOR.
  26. ^ Lippy, Charles H. (2003). "The Visual Culture of American Religions". Journal of American Studies. 37 (2): 349–349. ISSN 0021-8758 – via JSTOR.
  27. ^ Moore, R. Laurence (2003). "The Visual Culture of American Religions". The Journal of Religion. 83 (1): 125–126. ISSN 0022-4189 – via JSTOR.
  28. ^ "Exhibiting the Visual Culture of American Religions". Winterthur Portfolio. 35 (4): 306–307. 2000. ISSN 0084-0416 – via JSTOR.
  29. ^ Fuller, Robert C. (2014). "American Religious Liberalism". Church History. 83 (1): 241–243. ISSN 0009-6407 – via JSTOR.
  30. ^ Kaell, Hillary (2015). "Sensational Religion". Church History. 84 (2): 482–484. ISSN 0009-6407 – via JSTOR.
  31. ^ Kirk, Nicole C. (2016). "Sensational Religion". The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-). 94 (2): 86–87. ISSN 1521-9216 – via JSTOR.
  32. ^ "Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display by Sally M Promey". Pubiishers Weekly. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
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