Zundo, Mary Peterson | University of Illinois Archives

Name: Zundo, Mary Peterson

Historical Note: Mary Peterson Zundo received her MA, MFA (1995) in printmaking from the University of Illinois. Between 2006 and 2007 she was a research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, between 2007 and 2008 she was the Jay and Deborah Last Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, and between 2008 and 2009 she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She finished course work towards her PhD in art history, working on a dissertation entitled "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier," but did not finish her degree. In 2017, she contributed a chapter entitled "New Geographies and Surveying Eyes: the Landscapes of Noh-Nah-Wih (Chief Killer)" to the book Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College. In 2020, she received a US Capitol Historical Society Fellowship for her project "Scaling the Divide: Emanuel Leutze’s Staircase Mural and the Labor of Mountain Vision." Zundo currently works as an independent scholar and lecturer at UC Santa Cruz.

Note Author: Nolan Vallier