Education 

PhD, Art History and Criticism, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
MA, Art History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
BA, Art History, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa.

Research 

• Contemporary art
• Art in the public realm
• Monument studies and memorial ecologies
• Decoloniality and curatorial practices in the United States and Latin America 
• Contemporary artist Mike Kelley and the critical ways in which his practice relates to institutional critique and artistic pedagogy

Publications

• McElhone, A., et al., “The Battle Is Joined: Contemporary Art and Contested Memorial Ecologies,” Social Science Quarterly, 2021
• Bowman-McElhone, A., Germana G., “Asserting the Vernacular: Contested Musealities and Contemporary Art in Lima, Peru,” Arts Journal, 2020
• McElhone, A., Persuit, J., “Memory-Place and the Unintentional Monument: Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena (1961-2012) and its Legacy,” chapter in “Contested Commemoration in U.S. History: Diverging Public Interpretations,” eds. Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák, Routledge, 2020
• Bowman-McElhone, A., Germana G., et al., “Exhibition Reviews: The Vacant Museum: Half a Century of Peruvian Museotopias (1966-2014) at MAC Lima” Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2016

Curatorial projects

• Co-curator, “I Forgot to Laugh: Humor and Contemporary Art,” Pensacola Museum of Art and Carlow University, Pensacola, Fla., and Pittsburgh, Pa., 2020-2021
• Co-curator, “Anthropology of Motherhood: Culture of Care, Carlow University Art Gallery and Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2020-2021
• Curator, “Worn In / Worn Out: Soul of the Shoe,” Pensacola Museum of Art, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Fla., 2019

Awards & Recognition

• CIC Humanities Research for the Public Good grant, 2020
• “40 Under 40,” InWeekly Magazine, 2019
• Exhibition and Public Programming Grant, Florida Humanities Council, 2018
• Project Grant for “CUBED Luminous: Outdoor Digital Art and Music Festival,” Arts, Culture and Entertainment, Inc., 2018
• Institutional Technology Enhancement Project Grant for “Museum-as-Classroom: Infrastructure for Large-scale Exterior Projections,” University of West Florida, 2018
• Beard Travel Award, Department of Art History, Florida State University, 2017

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Museums
• College Arts Association 
• Association of Arts of the Study of Arts of the Present
• South Eastern College Art Conference