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Elizabeth Rankin
Elizabeth Deane Rankin is a South African–New Zealand fine arts academic, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in neglected South African artists, and printmaking and sculpture. Academic careerRankin completed a PhD titled Englishmen on the Acropolis: an historiography of the Parthenon, c. 1750-1850 at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1978. It was the first PhD in art history awarded by the university.[1] Rankin was appointed as Chair of the History of Art at Witwatersrand in 1982, and later served three years as Dean of Arts.[2] Rankin was Chair of the South African Association of Art Historians starting in 1985.[2] Rankin joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1998 as professor of art history. She was head of the department, and chair of the exhibitions committee for the university's Gus Fisher Gallery.[2] Rankin's research focuses on neglected South African artists, and sculpture and print-making.[3] Rankin published a history of Rorke's Drift printmakers with Philippa Hobbs in 2003. Rankin has written a biography of South African artist Peter Clarke, published in 2012, along with retrospective exhibitions at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, in collaboration with Hobbs, and in Johannesburg.[4] Rankin has also written about photographer Fiona Pardington, and artist Neil Pardington.[3] In 2012 Rankin was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, where she worked with Prof. Dr. Rolf Schneider on the design of the frieze of the Voortrekker Monument.[5][6] Rankin retired in 2016 and was appointed Professor Emeritus at Auckland.[2] One of her notable doctoral students is academic and author Ngarino Ellis.[7] Selected works Scholia has a profile for Elizabeth Rankin (Q113575948). Books
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