Dr. Sally Hickson

Biography

Sally Hickson is an Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Guelph. Her work explores women's friendship networks in Renaissance visual material culture, and she has focused on studies of women patrons and patronage, as well as the historical construction of gender identity in early modern visual culture. Hickson's research extends to the visual and literary expressions of friendship cultures among early 20th-century Canadian women artists across Canada, Paris, and New York. She is a member of the development research team at the Lucy Maud Montgomery House Museum. Hickson is the author of "Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics, Monasteries" published by Ashgate in 2012 and has contributed to anthologies and journals such as Renaissance Studies and Renaissance Reformation. Over the years, she has taught field courses in Venice, Florence, Rome, and Los Angeles. Notably, Hickson has received several awards, including the H.P. Krauss Fellowship for early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, Yale University in 2009, and the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from the Journal Renaissance Reformation in 2010. She was also recognized with the College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Guelph for the academic year 2013-2014 and the UAAC/AAUC Recognition Award in 2018. Additionally, she served as President of the Universities Art Association of Canada from 2010 to 2013 and was the Director of the School of Fine Art & Music at the University of Guelph from 2014 to 2019.

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