UF history professor to lecture at Harn Museum about European life, politics

October 11, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — European life and politics in the 18th and 19th centuries are the topics of an upcoming lecture by University of Florida associate professor of history Sheryl Kroen. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, Kroen will speak at the Harn Museum of Art. She will explore the context of satire evident in works by James Gillray, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier on display in the exhibition “From Dürer to Renoir: European Prints from the Harn Collection.”

The exhibition of about 40 prints is drawn primarily from the Harn collection and features works dating from the late 15th through the 19th centuries from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Kroen received her Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, and her B.A. in 1984 from Princeton University. She joined the UF Department of History in 1994 after teaching at Pomona College. She has published “Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France,” and articles on 19th century France and consumer culture and democracy in Europe. Recently she taught graduate and undergraduate courses on the history of consumer culture, society and the sexes in modern Europe, cultural history of the Marshall Plan and French history.

Kroen has received fellowships from the Fulbright, the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and the Humboldt Foundation. She also has received the Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government, as well as several grants from the University of Florida. She is a two-time recipient of the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences teaching award.

For more information about the Harn Museum visit www.harn.ufl.edu or call 352-392-9826.