Associate Professor of Art Elizabeth Lee presented "Aesthetic Whitewash: Art as Purification in a New Hampshire Artists’s Colony," at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference Impurities" at Louisiana State University in April 2005.
In September, Professor Lee gave two presentations at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She was a member of a panel discussing "Mass Culture and Modernist Studies," and her paper, "The Collector as Modernist Subject: Charles Lang Freer and American Art in the Gilded Age"—based on Professor Lee’s summer research conducted at the Freer Gallery Archives in Washington, DC—was circulated as part of the University’s Modernism Workshop.