Lisa DeBoer

Education

• Doctorate in the History of Art
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1996
  
• Master of Arts in the History of Art
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1990
• Bachelor of Arts in German and Art History
  Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 1988
  Assistant: German Interim Abroad, Prof. Wallace Bratt, January 1987

Fellowships and Awards

• Bruce and Adaline Bare Teacher of the Year, Humanities
  Westmont College, 2002-2003 and 2008-2009
• NEH Summer Seminar, Literature and Cartography in France
  Harvard University, 1998
• Lily Fellows Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  Valparaiso University, Valpariso, Indiana, 1996-1998
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1993-1994
  Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
  University of Michigan, 1990-93
• Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Scholarship
  Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany, 1988

Publications

• “Faith in Art” in Re-Enchantment, eds. James Elkins and David Morgan, Routledge, September 2008.
• “Everyday Uncanny” in Domestic Vision: Twenty-Five Years of Intimate Geography in the Art of Joel Sheesley, ed. Gregg Hertzlieb, Lutheran University Press, 2008
• “Worship In the Fullness of Time: A Primer on the Church Year” in Reformed Worship, 85 (September 2007): 36-37 and 86 (December 2007).
• “A Comic Vision? Northern Renaissance Art and the Human Figure,” in Broken Beauty, 43-57, ed. Ted Prescott, Eerdmans, 2005
• “Hogenberg and History,” In The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy eds. L. Zuidervaart and H. Luttikhuizen, McMillen/St. Martins Press, Spring 2000
• “Make a Vision Statement,” Reformed Worship 55 (March 2000); 40-42.
• “Review of Kathleen Erickson’s At EternityGate” The Cresset, Pentecost, 1999: 40-41.
• “Within the Long Permission of God’s Hope: Learning as Sanctification,” The Cresset (Christmas/Epiphany, 1997-98): 15-19. A review essay of Ron Wells, ed. Keeping Faith: Embracing the Tensions in Christian Higher Education. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1996
• Co-author of Words and Images catalogue for exhibition by the same name, with Henry Luttikhuizen, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995

Public Lectures

• “Form, Function and Formation,” Invited consultant, Loop Christian Ministries
  Chicago, Illinois, October 2010
• “Whose Art? Which Church?” Calvin Symposium on
  Worship, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 25-26, 2008
• “Baptism and Balance”
  2007 Lilly Fellows Reunion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, June 2007
• “News and Good News: Kairos and Chronos at work in Communion”
  HNA sponsored Session at College Art Association, New York, February 2007
• “Challenges and Models: A very brief history of studio art and art history
  in American colleges and universities” College Art Association, New York, February 2007
• “Worshiping with U2: What we Imagine about Worship and Art”
  Lilly/Pruit Conference on the Christian Imagination, Baylor University, October 2006
• “Religious Art/Artful Religion: Mediating Theory and Practice”
  Panel for CIVA bi-annual conference, Azusa Pacific University,
  June, 2005
• “Three Christian Views of Art“
  Brehm Center Worship Summit, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 2005
• ”Printed Portraits in the Low Countries”
  College Art Association, New York, NY, February 2003
• “The Art of Devotion: Contemplative Postures and Devotional Practices”
  Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Nov. 2002
• “A Perpetual Forge of Idols—A Neo-Calvinist does Art History”
  Pepperdine University Faith/Learning Conference, October, 2002
• “After Life: The Figure in the History of Western Art Education”
  Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Oct. 2001
• “Picturing the Past: Making History in Haarlem”
  Holland Historical Museum, Holland MI, July 2001
• “Representing Faith: A Meditation on Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith”
  CIVA Scholars Symposium, Notre Dame, June 2000
• “Arms and the Man: Civility, Gender and Genre in Dutch Art of the Golden Age”
  Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinios, February 1998
• “Landscape as History: News, Historical Representation and Local Identity in the Early Dutch Republic” CAA, Toronto, Ontario, February 1998
• “Making History: Frans Hogenberg and the History of the Dutch Revolt,”
  University of California, Berkeley, March 1996
• “Seeing is Believing? Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith and the Epistemological Limits of Art,” Chicago Graduate Student Symposium, Chicago Art Institute, April 1993
• “Johannesminne: The Iconography and Function of the Cleveland Christ-John Group,” Ohio Area Graduate Student Symposium, April 199

Other Service

• Appointed to the Worship Commission of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, April 2000-April 2003
• Member of the editorial council of Reformed Worship: Resources for Music and Liturgy, April 1997-April 2000
• Co-curator for “Words and Images” exhibition, with Henry Luttikhuizen, Calvin College Center Art Gallery, August 16 - September 30, 1995
• Liaison to University of Michigan Interfaith Student Council from the University of Michigan Association of Religious Counselors, 1994 -1995
• Coordinator of Student Ministry, Christian Reformed Campus Chapel
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1994 - August 1996
• President of Classical Committee, Classis Lake Erie of the Christian Reformed Church of North America, March 1993 - January 1995

Professional Affiliations

• College Art Association
• Historians of Netherlandish Art
• Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeeuw
• CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts)

Language Proficiency

• Dutch: reading and oral proficiency
• German: reading and oral proficiency
• French: reading proficiency