Profile

A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Victoria Grieve holds degrees in History from the University of Richmond and the University of Georgia, and she earned her Ph.D. from The George Washington University in 2004. She has worked for a variety of state and public history organizations, including the Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project at The George Washington University. Prior to Utah State, Professor Grieve taught at Oregon State University and Western Oregon University.

Professor Grieve specializes in twentieth-century American cultural history, particularly in the 1930's. Her first book, The Federal Art Project and the Making of Middlebrow Culture, will be published by The University of Illinois Press in Spring 2009. She has recently received research fellowships from the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami Beach and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Her current research interests include the intersections of class and culture among union women during the maritime strike of 1934, and radicalism in children’s literature of the 1930's. She has published articles in the Western Historical Quarterly and Winterthur Portfolio, and she served as Chair for the 2006 O.C. Tanner Symposium, “The 1950s, the Beat Movement, and the Power of Expression.”

Dr. Grieve integrates her interest in American cultural history with her work and research as Curator of 20th Century West Coast American Art at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. She teaches in the Honors Program, and her undergraduate classes in American culture and the culture of the American West integrate the collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art into the curriculum.