Professional Experience
Academic Service, University Of Texas At Dallas
Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History:
Chair, Asian Art & Architectural History Search Committee (2023–24)
Harry W. Bass, Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology:
External Chair, Oral Examination for PhD candidate Shivika Mathur (spring 2024)
Member, ad hoc Mid-Probationary Review Committee for Ali Asgar Alibhai (2024)
Member, Tenure Review Committee for Katherine Davies (2024)
Media Interviews & Appearances
Interview with Richard Derderian, Realms of Memory Podcast, Episode 28: “Memorials and Public Feeling in America” (posted May 7, 2024)
Interview with Ben Lima, Athenaeum Review Podcast, Episode 60: “Spiritual Moderns: A Conversation with Erika Doss” (posted March 2024)
Interview with Joni Palmer, Take Another Look: “What is Public Art”? Albuquerque Public Art Program Podcast (August 2023)
Interview with Ambrose Glick, A is for Architecture Podcast, Episode: "Erika Doss: Memorials and memory in America," (November 13, 2022)
CNN New York, Represented: Statue of Women’s Rights Pioneers, Central Park (August 2020).
KCUR Kansas City, Up to Date (March 2018)
PBS/WTTW Chicago, 10 Monuments That Changed America (2018)
The Christian Science Monitor (December 2017)
American Public Media, Marketplace with Adriene Hill (August 2017)
Interview with Joe Horse Capture, Minnesota Historical Society, History, Memory, and Art in the Minnesota State Capitol, video and interpretation (2017)
Kentucky Educational TV, Kentucky By Design (2017)
SCETV, Columbia, South Carolina, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Woman on Paper (2016)
University of Iowa Media Productions, Jackson Pollock’s Mural: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece (2015)
217 Films, Enough to Live On: The Art of the WPA (2015)
Self-Reliant Film, Temporary Memorials
Modular Media, Searching: Contemporary Public Art
Narrator, Museum Without Walls Audio Program on Augustus Saint-Gaudens's sculpture The Pilgrim, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (launched June 2010)
PBS/WNET, New York, American Masters, Henry Luce and Time-Life’s America: A Vision of Empire (2004)
Talking History Radio Show, Organization of American Historians, “Labor in the Great Depression,” airdate December 30, 2002.
Talking History Radio Show, Organization of American Historians, “Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image,” airdate January 3, 2000.
Legal
Expert witness, Langdon & Emison, Attorneys at Law, Kansas City.
Expert witness, Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee, Attorneys at Law, Cleveland
Curatorial
Project Consultant, Grandma Moses: Reconsidering an American Icon, Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibit 2025–2026)
Juror, See America: Advertising Our National Treasures through Graphic Design, Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, Shreveport (exhibit 2015)
Lead scholar, consultant, and catalogue essayist for Kentucky by Design: American Culture, Regionalism, And the New Deal, Frazier History Museum, Louisville (exhibit 2016–2017)
Contributing editor and catalogue essayist for Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (exhibit 2011)
Contributing editor and catalogue essayist for Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (exhibit 2007–2008)
Consultant and catalogue essayist for Spirited Moderns: Robert Henri’s Women Art Students, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo (exhibit 2005)
Consultant and catalogue essayist for The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks, Centre Canadian d’Architecture, Montreal (exhibit 1997–2001)
Consultant and catalogue essayist, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles (exhibit 1995–97)