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Paul Manoguerra
Curator of American Art

Paul A. Manoguerra, curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University in Spring 2002. His most recent project is Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter.  This book and exhibition examine American paintings, created as the result of Italian travels, within the context of U.S. social and cultural history. Classic Ground won, in 2005, the SEMC CurCom Exhibition Award and the Mary Ellen LoPresti Art Publication Award of the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Manoguerra has taught at several institutions, including Kalamazoo College, and in the Direct Encounter with the Arts program, Western Michigan University. Manoguerra was formerly the director of exhibitions/collections at the Paine Art Center & Gardens, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He served as a curatorial intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from 1993 to 1994. Manoguerra holds an M.A. in museum studies from The George Washington University, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He studied in Italy on the Saint Mary's College (Indiana) Rome Program from 1989 to 1990.

Email him at manoguer@uga.edu.