Lisa Deboer

Assistant Professor of Art
Phone: (805) 565-6123
Email: deboer@westmont.edu
Office Location: Upstairs Art Center

Office Hours
By appointment

Specialization
Art History

Doctorate in the History of Art
Primary field: Seventeenth Century
Secondary fields: Late Medieval and Renaissance
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1996
Dissertation: Martial Arts: Military Themes and Images in Dutch Art of the Golden Age
Dissertation Chair: Celeste A. Brusati
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

Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA (August 1999 to present)
Teach a variety of lower division surveys and upper division seminars in the history of art in Westmont’s art department
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI (August 1998-June 1999)
Taught a variety of lower division surveys and upper division seminars in the history of art in Calvin’s art department. Taught one interdisciplinary team-taught interim course on Christian Perspectives on Learning
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN (August 1996-May 1998)
Taught interdisciplinary honors courses in Christ College, and Art History courses in the art department.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Guest lecturer: History of Art 463, November 29 and December 1, 1995
Teaching Assistant: Winter 1989 and Summer 1989
Grader: Fall 1988
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grader: Art Department, History of Art Surveys
Tutor: German Department, First and second year German
Assistant: German Interim Abroad, Prof. Wallace Bratt, January 1987

“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, Illinois, 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 1990

“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

Summer Seminar, Literature and Cartography in France, 1450-1690
Directed by Dr. Tom Conley, Harvard University, July 1998
Lily Fellows Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 1996 - June 1998
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso Indiana
Fulbright Fellowship, September 1993 - August 1994
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, January 1990 - August 1993
Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Scholarship, July 1988
Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

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