The collection consists of material Professor Loeb presented to the Art Department Committee for Re-appointment, Tenure and Promotion in order to earn tenure and be promoted. This information includes Student Opinion Surveys (SOS), examples of her publications, presentations, syllabi, and other supporting documentation, 1980-2001 (Scattered) approximately .75 cubic ft.; her Subject Files, 1981-2000 (Scattered) approximately .5 cubic ft., on a variety of Art Department, Women’s Studies, and other university topics, committees, and events; and her Vita and copies of some of her publications, 1 folder, 2007.
This is the only collection of a professor’s papers from the CMU Art Department in the Clarke. Some of the Invitations/Exhibits, 1981 are the only surviving examples of information about art shows by university art professors or students.
Processing Note: General information in the collection about CMU departments was withdrawn from the collection and filed in the CMU vertical file.
Biography:
Carolyn S. Loeb was born in 1948 in New York City. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California-Berkeley (1968), a M.A. in Art History from San Francisco State College (1973), and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (1990). She taught as a Graduate Assistant in 1972 at San Francisco State College, and as an instructor at Erie Community College, Williamsville (N.Y., 1973), New School for the Performing Arts, Buffalo (N.Y., 1973-1974), Michigan State University (MSU, 1977), Eastern Michigan University (1978), Olivet College (1978-1980), and the Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad in Vienna (1994).
In 1980, Loeb came to Central Michigan University as an Instructor. She was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1990 and to Associate Professor in 2000. In 2007 she left for a position as Associate Professor in the residential College in the Arts and Humanities at MSU. Professor Loeb has numerous publications, including Entrepreneurial vernacular: developers’ subdivisions in the 1920s, a copy of which is in the Park Library. She has made many presentations and served as a guest lecturer and panelist, and has received many grants, awards, and honors.
Loeb’s husband, Richard T. Peterson, began teaching in the Philosophy Department at MSU in 1977. (This information is from the collection and Professor Loeb.)
