Janet Catherine Berlo is an Americanart historian and academic, noted for her publications and research into thevisual arts heritage ofNative American andpre-Columbian cultures. She has also published and lectured ongender studies, the representation and participation of women in indigenous and visual arts, the history ofgraphic arts since the mid-19th century, indigenoustextile arts, and Americanquilting history and traditions. In the early portion of her academic career Berlo made notable contributions towards the understanding of the art and iconography ofMesoamerica, in particular that of theClassic-periodTeotihuacan civilization. From 2003 to 2021, Berlo held the position of Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the Department of Art and Art History,University of Rochester,New York. She is currently Professor Emerita.

Berlo attended theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, where she obtained aB.A.summa cum laude in 1974. Herpostgraduate studies were undertaken atYale, where she completed amaster's degree inart history in 1976, and herPh.D. in the same subject area was awarded in 1980.^[1]

After a semester as an instructor at Yale while completing her PhD, in the 1979–80 academic year Berlo became anassistant professor in the Art Department at theUniversity of Missouri–St. Louis. Excepting some periods of leave andvisiting appointments, Berlo remained associated with the UMSL for the next 17 years, reaching associate professor in 1985 and a full professorship in 1990.^[1]

In 1997 Berlo left UMSL for the University of Rochester, where for five years she held the positions ofSusan B. Anthony Professor of Gender Studies and Professor of Art History. After a semester in 2002 as a visiting professor atHarvard, in 2003 she returned to Rochester as Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies.^[1]

In 2004 Berlo obtained a visiting fellowship at theClark Art Institute inWilliamstown, Massachusetts, to research "19th-century women’s textiles and their place in American culture".^[2]

• Berlo, Janet Catherine; et al. (1998).Native paths: American Indian art from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.ISBN 9780870998560.
• Berlo, Janet C.;Phillips, Ruth B. (1998).Native North American Art. Oxford:Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-284218-3. 1998, and later reprints. A second edition was published by Oxford University Press in 2014:Berlo, Janet C.;Phillips, Ruth B. (2014).Native North American Art (2nd ed.). Oxford:Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199947546.

• Janet Catherine Berlo, faculty page at University of Rochester
• Kimono Quilts 2004-2007, an exhibit of Berlo's quiltwork at the Art & Music Library, UR.
• Works by Janet Catherine Berlo atOpen Library

• American art historians
• American Mesoamericanists
• Women Mesoamericanists
• Historians of Mesoamerican art
• Scholars of Teotihuacan
• 20th-century Mesoamericanists
• 21st-century Mesoamericanists
• Harvard University staff
• University of Rochester faculty
• Yale College alumni
• American quilters
• Living people
• University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
• American women art historians
• 20th-century American women writers
• University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty

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