{{Short description|American art historian}} {{Distinguish||text=epidemiologist Alison Field}} {{Infobox academic | name = Alison Fields | birth_name = Alison Lynne Fields | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|8|1}} | birth_place = United States | occupation = Art historian<br />Educator | alma_mater = Colgate University<br />Brown University<br />University of New Mexico | thesis_title = False Closure: Narratives of Trauma, Healing, and American Nationhood | thesis_url = https://unm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/464709774 | thesis_year = 2009 | discipline = Art history | sub_discipline = American Studies | workplaces = University of Oklahoma }}
'''Alison Lynne Fields''' (born August 1, 1979) is an American art historian and educator. Fields is currently the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West at University of Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ou.edu/finearts/visual-arts/faculty-staff/art-historian-faculty/dr-alison-fields | title=Alison Fields | website=University of Oklahoma | access-date=2022-05-12 | archive-date=2022-05-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522174436/https://www.ou.edu/finearts/visual-arts/faculty-staff/art-historian-faculty/dr-alison-fields | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== Fields received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Native American Studies from Colgate University in 2001. There, she was part of the Student Government Association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.colgate.edu/object/studentyearbooks19334#page/198/mode/2up|title=Student Yearbooks 1933-4|publisher=Colgate University Libraries|access-date=10 April 2026}}<nowiki/>{{Dead link|date=April 2026}}</ref> Fields then proceeded to receive a Master of Arts in American Civilization from Brown University in 2003, and a Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2009. Fields wrote a doctoral dissertation titled "False Closure: Narratives of Trauma, Healing, and American Nationhood."<ref>{{Cite web |title=False closure : narratives of trauma, healing, and American nationhood |url=https://unm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/464709774 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250531215331/https://unm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/464709774 |archive-date=2025-05-31 |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=unm.on.worldcat.org}}</ref> Following graduating, she was hired as the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West at University of Oklahoma. Additionally, Fields began serving as Associate Editor of the journal titled ''Western Historical Quarterly'' since 2016, and two years later, Associate Director of the School of Visual Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chickasawpress.com/Authors/Alison-Fields.aspx|title=Alison Fields |publisher=Chickasaw Press}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Brown University alumni *List of Colgate University people *List of University of New Mexico alumni *List of University of Oklahoma people
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==External links== *[https://www.ou.edu/finearts/visual-arts/faculty-staff/art-historian-faculty/dr-alison-fields University of Oklahoma profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522174436/https://www.ou.edu/finearts/visual-arts/faculty-staff/art-historian-faculty/dr-alison-fields |date=2022-05-22 }} *[https://chickasawpress.com/Authors/Alison-Fields.aspx Chickasaw Press profile]
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