Leah Sherman

Leah Sherman has been faculty at FSU Libraries since 2016, serving since then as the Visual & Performing Arts Librarian for the FSU College of Fine Arts. She is an alumna of the FSU Department of Art History, having earned her MA in 2012. She also holds a Masters in Library & Information Science from Florida State. Leah has been teaching in the Department since becoming instructor of record for ARH 2814: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age in 2022. Leah’s research interests are in 20th-century museum history and cultural heritage theory and praxis. Her dissertation concerns the rise of internationalist museographic and cultural heritage practices, concurrent with the rise of UNESCO and ICOM in the years following World War II. At FSU Libraries, Leah holds the rank of University Librarian and, as librarian for the Fine Arts, she acts as subject liaison to all departments within the College of Fine Arts including the FSU Museum of Fine Arts and Ringling Museum, and she remains an active member of several related professional organizations such as ARLIS (Art Libraries Society of North America), ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries), and CAA (College Art Association.) Most recently she served at the President of the ARLIS/Southeast Chapter in 2020.