Professor Wingate’s areas of specialization are American art and public art. Her current research addresses the domestic display of presidential portraits. Her article “Framing Race in Personal and Political Spaces: New Deal Photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Portraits in Domestic Settings” appeared in the Summer/Fall 2018 (vol. 52, no. 2-3) issue of Winterthur Portfolio (University of Chicago Press).

Dr. Wingate wrote a book on World War I memorial sculpture, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America’s World War I Memorials (Ashgate, 2013). She is editing a volume Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies with Sierra Rooney and Harriet Senie (forthcoming Bloomsbury Publishing). Her articles and essays have appeared in American Art, Woman’s Art Journal, Public Art Dialogue, Panorama: Journal of the Association of the Historians of American Art, and in the anthologies, Women & Things: Gendered Material Practices, 1750-1950 and Museums and Public Art? She is co-editor of the journal Public Art Dialogue (Routledge).

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