Elizabeth Sears

Elizabeth Langsford Sears (born 1952) is Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.

Education Sears attended Duke University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982, writing on "the ages of man" under professor Walter Cahn.

Career Sears is the Professor Emerita, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate History of Art at University of Michigan. She also taught at the Universität Hamburg and Princeton University. With Edgar Wind, The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling (2000), editor, Oxford University Press. The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle (1986), Princeton University Press. (winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990)

Awards and honors Sears is the recipient of numerous awards including a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2004, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2019-2020.