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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2007
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Shearer West
American art historian
Shearer Carroll WestCBE is a British-American art-historian and university administrator serving as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds since 2024. She was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham from 2017 to 2024.
Early life and education
[edit]West was raised in a small town in southwest Virginia.[1] Her father worked as a factory floor supervisor, and her mother was a high school teacher. West was the first in her family to attend university.[1] West holds a B.A. in art history and English from the College of William & Mary, in Virginia, and a Ph.D. (1986) in art history, specializing in European art and visual culture from the University of St Andrews.[2][1] Her dissertation supervisors were Martin Kemp and Robin Spencer.
Biography and career
[edit]West began her career in academic publishing, working as an editor for the Grove Dictionary of Art. She then transitioned to her first academic appointment at the University of Leicester, where she began to focus her research on portraiture and visual culture within European contexts. Her early scholarly contributions laid the foundation for her ongoing research interests in the relationship between art and so