Art History and Humanities
Associate Professor
Fine Arts Building 309
(918) 444-2716
boze@nsuok.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence
- M.A. in Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence
- Master of Liberal Studies (History, Literature, Art History), University of Oklahoma, Norman
- B.A. in International Affairs, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Courses Taught
- Art History I
- Art History II
- Contemporary Art History
- East Asian Art History
- Art Appreciation
- Humanities I
- Humanities II
A recipient of NSU’s highest award for teaching, the Circle of Excellence Award for Teaching in 2009-2010, Dr. Boze has a specialization in nineteenth-century European art, but enjoys teaching all the art history classes at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, as well as other humanities classes. She has long had a deep interest in world cultures, spending a summer in the south of Chile as a foreign exchange student in high school, studying the Spanish, French, Russian and German languages, and concentrating on International Affairs as an undergraduate. Following her graduation from Texas Christian University, she received a Fulbright-Hayes grant to do research in Ecuador on regional economic integration and lived in Quito for over a year. She decided to study for a Master's of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma, writing her thesis on the British artist William Hogarth and writer Henry Fielding, and their art as a representation of their time. She then received a Rotary grant to study at a university in Spain. Enjoying art history as a wonderful gateway to all cultures, periods, and peoples, she studied fifth-year and graduate level art history at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid for a year. Having applied to graduate programs while in Spain, she returned to the United States to study Art History under a University Fellowship at the University of Kansas, where she received a Master's and a doctorate. She returned to Spain to research her dissertation, "Imagined Identities, Romanticism, Cultural Identification, and Sevillian Cityscape Art."
While still a graduate student at the University of Kansas, Diane Boze was a lecturer in the Art History Department as well as an instructor in the Department of Continuing Education and Independent Study. After receiving her doctorate, she taught three years at Western Illinois University in Macomb, responsible especially for the modern and contemporary art history classes. She then returned to Oklahoma, where she had received all her pre-college schooling, and has taught since then at Northeastern State University. While at NSU, she has been heavily involved in critiques for Humanities, Art Appreciation, and Art History textbooks, and was one of ten professors invited to participate in a Focus Group for Prentice Hall/Pearson Publishers for the development of a new Humanities textbook, for which she had already contributed many critiques. She also created a chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint presentation to accompany Artforms, a Prentice-Hall Art Appreciation text. She is responsible for most of the art history courses taught at NSU and is very involved in helping students learn how to look at and appreciate the arts.
When NSU showed a great interest in increasing its Asian studies courses, she made a commitment to improve her own knowledge of that area so she could better teach associated subjects. She has attended three workshops, each three-weeks during the summer, for that purpose. The first, sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, concentrated on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum. The next summer she specialized in studies on Japan at the Japan Association Freeman Summer Institute at Tokai University in Honolulu. The following summer, she, along with twelve other professors from around the world, received a grant to study Korea through the Freeman Institute, the Korea Institute, and the East-West Center. One week of the workshop was held at the East-West Center in Hawaii, one week at Seoul National University, and one week traveling around the southern provinces of South Korea. She incorporated much of what she learned in these workshops and travel experience in her article "Lessons from the Non-Hermit: Valuing Korea," published in the juried journal Interdisciplinary Humanities, Spring 2009, and presented a public lecture on Chinese Gymnasts to accompany a visit at NSU by the Golden Dragon Acrobats. She also developed an Asian Art History course, she now teaches regularly at NSU, concentrating on China, Japan, and Korea.