The Onus and the Obligation of Ownership:  Cultural Patrimony in the 21^st Century

Annemarie Weyl Carr received her BA degree from Swarthmore College and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. She came to SMU as a new PhD, and though she has taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago, Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Delaware, she has always come back to SMU. Her scholarly work has been devoted to the history of Byzantine art. She has worked especially on the history of the icon, on questions of cultural interchange in the eastern Mediterranean Levant in the era of the Crusades, especially on the island of Cyprus, and on women artists in the Middle Ages. She has written Byzantine Illumination, 1150-1250:  The Study of a Provincial Tradition (1987), A Masterpiece of Byzantine Art Recovered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus (1991), Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (2005), and Asinou:  The Church and Frescoes of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus (forthcoming 2008).  She has been the editor of the journal Gesta, the President of the International Center of Medieval Art, and a long-standing trustee of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. She has received many teaching awards from SMU and in 2006 received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching from the College Art Association of America. A current exhibition in SMU’s Fondren Library honors her retirement at the end of this semester.