Biographical Information:
Jayne Yantz is an art historian and college teacher who studied at The University of Rochester, The Ohio State University, The University of Delaware, and Princeton University, where she completed a mid-career fellowship. Her fields of interest include Baroque Art, American Art, and Non-Western Art, including Pre-Columbian Art of the New World, the Arts of Japan, China and Africa, all interests that are combined in her global approach to teaching. She has received recognition for teaching excellence, including an award for Teacher of the Year. She travels extensively in support of her research and has recently completed studies of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. She lives in the Pinelands in Southern NJ with a parrot named River.
Undergraduate Classes Taught:
Introduction to Global Art History: 1400 - Contemporary
Introduction to Global Art History: Prehistory - 1400
Selected fellowships, awards and distinctions:
Travel Grant Recipient, U Penn National Resource Centers for Asia & Global Studies to participate in GEEO’s Sri Lanka Program for Teachers, July 2025
Batten and First Union Fellowship, ICJS, Monticello to research Jefferson, his world, & early Native Americans. Summer 2023.
PAFA Venture Fund Faculty Travel Grant Recipient for study at Chavín de Huántar in January 2020, with planned research presentation at PAFA.
NEH grant award participant in a summer institute in Italy, “The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscans and Early Romans,” 2015.
Teacher of the Year & NISOD Teaching Award Recipient, Rowan College at Burlington.