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Faculty Profile
Sara French

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Sara French

Visiting Instructor

Department of Landscape Architecture
209 Marshall Hall

sfrench@esf.edu
315-470-6548

Education

  • Ph.D.  2000, State University of New York at Binghamton
    Dissertation: Women, Space and Power: The Building and Use of Hardwick Hall in Elizabethan England, 1590-1597
  • M.A. 1993, State University of New York at Binghamton
  • A.B. magna cum laude, Wells College

Teaching Experience

  • SUNY-ESF 2002-present
  • Syracuse University 2006-2018
  • Wells College 2000-2005
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges 1997-1999
  • Rochester Institute of Technology 1995-1997

Publications

Books

  • Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.  Co-editor with Kay Etheridge.

Articles

  • “Hardwick Hall: Building A Woman’s House,” Bess of Hardwick: New Perspectives, ed. Lisa M. Hopkins, Manchester University Press, 2019 
  • “Women and gardens: obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history,” Women's History Review, 31:5 (2022), 901-902
  • “Re-Placing Gender in Elizabethan Gardens,” in Mapping Gendered Routes & Spaces in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Ashgate, 2015, 157-175. 
  • “Building Gender In(to) the Elizabethan Prodigy House,” in Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Edwin Mellen Press, 2007, pp. 153-168
  • "Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, 1799-1859 by J. Ritchie Garrison," Book Review in Landscape Journal, 28: 1 (2009), 127-128
  • “A Widow Building: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall,” Widowhood in Early Modern Europe, ed. Allison Levy (London: Ashgate 2003), pp. 161-176. 

Encyclopedia & Dictionary Entries; Workshop Summaries; Web Sites

  • “Bess of Hardwick,” Women Writer’s Archive, available online at http://www.oldroads.org/Room%20of%20One's%20Own/bess.htm
  • Contributor, Reformation, Exploration & Empire, encyclopedic reference series published by Brown Reference Group, London.  Contributions to Volume I: “Architecture” and “Catherine de’ Medici;” in Volume II: “Houses & Furniture.”
  • “Women’s Bodies in Gendered Spaces,” workshop summary published with Conference proceedings for Attending to Women in Early Modern Europe: Crossing Boundaries, by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, 2003.

Awards and Honors

  • Honor Society of Sigma Lambda Alpha, Nu Chapter, elected May 2007 (International society promoting scholarship and leadership in landscape architecture)
  • Book Prize for Collaborative Project, 2003, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, awarded to Widowhood in Early Modern Europe, ed. Allison Levy (London: Ashgate 2003)

Courses

  • LSA 205 & 206: Art, Culture & Landscape
  • Artistic Constructions of Landscape in American Culture (developed for Faculty of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF)
  • FIA 115: History of Art in the United States (Syracuse University)
  • FIA 346: Native North American Art (Syracuse University)
  • FIA 347: Art & Environment in American Culture (Syracuse University)
  • FIA 400: Looking at Women in 19th Century French Art