CURRICULUM VITAE OF TAYLOR SPENCE

EDUCATION

2012 PhD, American History, Yale University

2008 MPhil, with distinction, American History, Yale University

2008, MA, American History, Yale University

1998 MA, Painting, School of Visual Arts

1995 Fulbright Fellow, Fine Arts Academy, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1990 B.A., cum laude, History, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

MURALS

Can You Hear I.T.?, oil on canvas, Building S153 Breezeway, University of New Mexico, Fall, 2020

The Chinese Massacre of 1885, oil on canvas, Community Fine Arts Center, Rock Springs, WY 1993  

Radio Tower, fresco (lime, sand, pigment), steel mesh, shortwave radio, wire, 8 x 23 feet, Worldviews, 91st Floor of World Trade Center Tower #1, on display November 7, 2000 to September 11, 2001

Untitled Fresco, fresco (lime, sand, pigment), 10 x 14 feet, created for “Magadan” of Marjetica Potrc, Sculpture. Projects in Muenster, Muenster, Germany Jane 22-Sept 28, 1997

Untitled Fresco, fresco (lime, sand, pigment), 10 x 17 feet, created for “Iram” of Marjetica Potrc, Pittsburgh Fine Arts Center, Environments, curated by Robert Racza, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997

Untitled Fresco, fresco (lime, sand, pigment), 12 x 36 feet, created for “Kampala” of Marjetica Potrc, Modern Art Museum of Slovenia, Sarajevo 2000, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1996

Serre Macroscape, fresco (lime, sand, pigment), 8 x 8 feet, home of Roberto and Patty Bechi, Serre di Rapolano, Italy, 1996

The Chinese Massacre of 1885, oil on canvas mural, Community Fine Arts Center, Rock Springs, WY 1993

WRITING  

Books

Grasping Democracy: The Settler-Colonial Turn in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Canada, expected 2024 (in final peer review), University of Virginia Press, Jeffersonian America Series

Book Chapters

Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S. - Canadian Borderlands,” in Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalisms, Anne Hyde and Alex Finkelstein, Eds., University of Nebraska Press (2023)

North American Colonial Agriculture,” A Companion to Agricultural History, R. Douglas Hurt Editor, Wiley-Blackwell (2022)

Rethinking the Colonial Encounter in the Age of Trauma,” A Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, Lynette Russell and Anne McGrath, Editors, Routledge (2021)

Articles

Naming Violence in United States Colonialism,” The Journal of Social History, 53:1 (Fall 2019), 157–193

The Trauma Consensus: History Method in the ‘Age of Trauma,’” Special Issue, “Rethinking Trauma: Witnessing Across History, Culture, and Time,” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 31, No. 5 (October 2017) 671-681

 “The Canada Thistle: The Pestilence of American Colonialisms and the Emergence of an Exceptionalist Identity, 1783-1837,Agricultural History, Vol. 90, No.3 (Fall, 2016) 511-544

 “Jeffersonian Jews: The Jewish Agrarian Diaspora and the Assimilative Power of the Western Land, 1882-1930, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Autumn 2010), pp. 327-351

Other Published Writings

Reporting from the Edges of Exceptionalism: Early American History in Oceania in 2016,” Op-Ed, Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, May 27, 2016

Women, Race, and Nation in the Age of Revolutions, with Lydia Carillo and Rachel Hidalgo, Bowker, 2019, paperback and kindle

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Muse Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 2003

Equrna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1998

Museum of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia 1998

Taylor’s Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR 1995

Sweetwater County Fine Arts Center, Rock Springs, WY 1993

Martin-Harris Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 1993

Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY 1992

Taylor's Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR 1991

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

Up in the Air, curated by Moukthar Kocache, Independent Curators International, New York, NY, 2004

Matzo Files, Streit’s Matzo Factory, 2003-2005

Paper Works, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY January 3-January 14, 2003

Fall Arts Fair, Muse Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY, September 3-September 30, 2002

Invitational, Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson B. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2002

Fresh Fresco, Art Alliance Gallery, New York, NY 2001

Space Invaders, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY, January 13-February 4, 2000

Inaugural Exhibition, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY, November 14, 1999-January 1, 2000

WorldViews Retrospective, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, November 7-21, 2000

Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Paul Ha and Lauren Ross, September 6-October 18, 1999

Hallowed Halls, Lower East Tenement Museum, New York, NY, curated by Timothy D. Bellavia, October 7-November 17, 1999

Young Art International, Artlink, Sotheby’s Chicago, Tel Aviv, January 22, 1999

Radio Tower, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, World Views Studio Program, New York, NY, 1999  

MFA Special Projects curated by Dan Cameron, New York, NY, April 2-18, 1998

20th Annual Small Works Show, curated by Ealan Wingate, New York University 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY, 1998

All Roads Lead to Roam, curated by Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, SVA Wooster Street, New York, NY, 1997

Paradise Lost, curated by Meg Asaro, SVA Westside Gallery, New York, NY, 1997

Chautauqua Institute, curated by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Chautauqua, NY, 1997

Annual Juried Art Auction, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, 1996

Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, 1995

Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Peoples Republic of China, 1994

University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, 1994

Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia. PA, 1992-94

A Sense of Place, Zone One Contemporary, Asheville, NC, 1994

Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1994

Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY, 1993

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Osage Beach, MO, 1992

7-State Regional, Cheyenne, WY, 1991

Art In the Vineyard, Eugene, OR, 1991

RESIDENCIES

Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming, 2003

Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2002 (studied with Malcolm Morley)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, VA 1999, 1993

Worldviews Studio Program, New York, NY 1999

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1998

AWARDS

Academic Affairs Core Curriculum Faculty Fellow, University of New Mexico 2018

Franklin Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Pennsylvania 2016

McColl Fellowship, American Geographical Society, Wisconsin 2014

Research Fellowship, the Lewis Walpole Library, Connecticut 2013

Filson Fellow, Filson Historical Society, Kentucky 2013

Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, Monash University 2013 and 2014 Visiting Research Fellow, McGill University, Quebec, Canada 2011-2012

Lauréat, Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises 2011

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, VA 1999       

Exhibition Grant, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia 1998

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, scholarship 1998    

Scholarship for Excellence, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1996-98         

Fulbright Fellowship, Fine Arts Academy, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1995        

Liquatex Excellence in Art Award 1995      

Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (NEA), Works on Paper 1992         

Art Matters, Inc. 1992            

COMMISSIONS

2000 The Lavender Millennium, design, for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

1991 Vitae Perpetuae et Felicitatae, marouflaged canvas, egg tempera, Jackson, WY

MEDIA

“Taylor Spence, Artist,” Art Meets History, Kasini House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2020

Our Story Continues: Historic Lessons and Future Optimism,” UNM Newsroom, University of New Mexico, November 10, 2020

History Professor Commissioned to Paint Mural on History of IT in NM,” Daily Lobo, University of New Mexico, January 26, 2020

The Matzo Files on Verge of Crumbling As Artists Clash,” The Villager, 2005

“Campy and delightful,” New York Arts, January 10, 2003,

“Spence’s horses to roam at Muse Gallery,” Jackson Hole News and Guide, June 4, 2003

“Spence shows new work at Muse tonight,” Planet Jackson Hole, June 6, 2003

Delo, Jelka Sute Adamic, 1998

Vecer, 1998

A fresco of “the South American desert...” Graham Shearing, Greensburg Tribune-Review, August 3, 1997 (about the fresco for the installation of Slovenian sculptor Marjetica Potrc)

“Viewers find themselves in a space totally charged by the power of a radiant fresco on the far wall. Executed by Taylor Spence . . . Spence’s fresco resonates beautifully,” Mary Jean Kenton, Art Papers, Review of “Environments,” curated by Robert Raczka (about fresco made for the installation of the Slovenian sculptor Marjetica Potrc) Nov/Dec, 1997

Riverton Ranger, “Working Artist,” Riverton, Wyoming, October 1997

Skulptur. Projekte in Munster, catalog for the exhibition (about fresco made for the installation of the Slovenian sculptor Marjetica Potrc) September, 1997

Sarajevo 2000, catalog for the exhibition (about fresco made for the installation of the Slovenian sculptor Marjetica Potrc) June, 1997

Voice of America, interview from Slovenia regarding the exhibition Sarajevo 2000 (about fresco made for the installation of the Slovenian sculptor Marjetica Potrc) September, 1996

Jackson Hole News and Guide, 1995            

“Hot Picks,” Times-Picayune, 1993

Jackson Hole News and Guide, 1992            

Jackson Hole News and Guide, 1992            

DIGITAL WORK

2020 Hodinöhsö:ni’ Survivance

  • Geographic Information System-based mapping of Indigenous presence in New York State over the 20th century.

2018-2020 Undergraduate Minor and Graduate Certificate in Digital Heritage Studies (with Dr. Fred Gibbs)

  • conceptualized, theorized, and constructed a new program for UNM’s Department of History in Digital Heritage Studies, which will offer students a distinctive knowledge product that will enable them to ethically and responsibly publish cultural heritage in the digital space 

2017-19 History of UNM Timeline

  • Conceived and executed an undergraduate research collaboration with UNM’s Archives (archivist Portia Vescio) on the History of the University of New Mexico to create a digital, interactive timeline

2010 Co-Chair The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities, Symposium, Yale University,

EMPLOYMENT and TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021 to present, Freelance Writer and Visual Artist

2016 – 2021, Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Early American History, History Department, University of New Mexico

2013 - 2016, Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Queensland, Australia

2012 – 2013, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2020-23 Fite Award Committee, Agricultural History Society

2019-2020 Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Western History Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 11-15, 2020

2018-2020 Website Manager, Coalition for Western Women’s History https://wordpress.com/view/westernwomenshistory.org

2019 Invited Lecture, “Historical Trauma and the Colonial Encounter: Research Methods and Teaching Practice,” Honors College Discovery Lecture Series, University of New Mexico Honors College, March 29, 2019

2019 Selected Participant, “’Mexico-Texas-Canada’: Continental Networks of Coercion, 1835-1838,” “The Power of Borders: Historical Perspectives on Unity and Division in Global Borderlands” -- 1st Biennial Symposium of Texas A&M University-San Antonio's Global Borders & Borderlands History Program, April 19-20, 2019

2018 Lead Scholar, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Tempe, Arizona

2016 – 2019 Editorial Board, Agricultural History, Agricultural History Society

2015 Co-Chair, Australian New Zealand American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Monash University

2013-2106 Everett E. Edwards Award Committee, Agricultural History Association

Supplemental Training

2019 Digital Pedagogy Lab, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia

2018 Community of Practice, Community- and Service-Learning, Provosts Office, University of New Mexico

2012 Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University

2012 Certificate: Teaching Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Certification, Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University

2012 Course: “Why the Humanities Matter,” Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University

2012 Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS) Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois,

2010-2012 Tutorial: Geographic Information System (GIS), Map Collection, Yale University

LANGUAGES

French (advanced intermediate), Spanish (beginning), German (beginning)