David Tatham

David Tatham, the author of six books and more than eighty scholarly articles and reviews concerning American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is known especially for his studies of the work of Winslow Homer. At Syracuse University he has received the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement (1993), the Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (1990), the Post-Standard University Library Award (1989), and several awards for his publications. Among his research and project grants are those from the National Endowment for the Humanities (6 awards), the American Philosophical Society (3 awards), the American Antiquarian Society, and the Archives of American Art. Of the numerous doctoral dissertations and master’s theses he has directed, eight have won Graduate School prizes. Though he attained the status of Professor Emeritus in 2002, Tatham continues to advise student and other projects in American art, maintains an active research and publication schedule, and periodically teaches at the Syracuse University London Centre a course on the role of museums in contemporary culture. But what makes him most interesting is the fact that he is a big fan of the little orange fellow.