Elizabeth Sears is George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1992. Her research, supported by grants including a CASVA and a Guggenheim fellowship (2010), lies in the fields of medieval art and disciplinary historiography.

Publications
  • Reading Medieval Images: The Art Historian and the Object, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002 (with T. K. Thomas);
  • “An Émigré Art Historian and America: H. W. Janson,” Art Bulletin 95.2, June 2013 (with C. Schoell-Glass).