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Dr. Barbara Larson, professor of modern European art history, teaches 19th and 20th-century courses, including art and science in the 19th century, 19th-century European art, women and art, and modern art. 

Larson is a world-renowned scholar of science and 19th-century visual culture, with a focus on evolutionism, medicine, history of the brain and mind, and the art movement Symbolism. 

She is the author of The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon, a book that delves into the scientific interests of Redon, a French artist.  She is lead editor of The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture and Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History.  Larson has contributed a number of catalogue essays to international exhibitions and authored many articles on issues in art and science.  She is a series editor of Art and Science since 1750 for Routledge Press, inclusive of volumes that explore how the arts are informed by emerging scientific theories and technologies. 

Larson has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Melbourne. 

Dr. Amy Cook, professor of history, teaches maritime history, Atlantic world, early America and 19th century women.

From the moment Cook volunteered on a maritime project in Yorktown, Virginia, she was hooked on shipwrecks. She later spent 10 years as a maritime archaeologist before shifting her focus to maritime history. She has written numerous chapters, articles and book reviews on the subject. Her book, 鈥淪ea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America,鈥� is based on more than 100 accounts of shipwreck narratives from 1640 to 1840, and explores the issues of gender, race, religion and power, and how it reflected on Americans in Anglo-American society. She co-wrote the chapter, 鈥淭he Maritime History of Florida,鈥� in the book, 鈥淭he New History of Florida,鈥� which is the first comprehensive history of the state to be written in a quarter of a century. She also co-wrote a chapter in an upcoming book, 鈥淢ethodology in La Belle: The Archeology of a 17th Century Ship of New World Colonization,鈥� on the methods archaeologists in Texas used to record and excavate the French ship that sank off the coast of Texas in 1685.

In 2006 and 2007, Cook and Della Scott-Ireton, associate director of the Florida Public Archaeology Network, received funding from The History Channel鈥檚, The Save Our History Grant Program to partner with a Ferry Pass Middle School to help preserve the Colonial Archaeological Trail, a series of outdoor exhibits that feature Pensacola's colonial past. 

Cook received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in anthropology from the University of Florida, a master鈥檚 degree in maritime archaeology and history from East Carolina University, and a doctorate in history from Penn State University.