From 1956 (when the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was established) to 1962, the
departments of Music and Art answered to the College of Letters & Science and
the School of Education, respectively.
In December 1962, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the creation
of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The School of
Fine Arts administered the newly created departments of Theatre, Dance, and Film. At
the same time, the departments of Music and Art transferred into the School of Fine
Arts. In 1982, Theatre and Dance were merged into one department.
In 1998, the school changed its name to School of the Arts, in order to more
accurately and expansively describe the activities of the school devoted to the
study of the Arts. In 2000, the Milton and Lillian Peck Foundation in 2000 made a
grant to allow the school to purchase the Temple Emanu-El B'Ne Jeshurun building
(today the Helene Zelazo Center), and as part of the conditions of the grant the
school was renamed again, to the Milton and Lillian Peck School of the Arts.
Deans of the School
| 1962-1974 |
Adolph A. Suppan
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| 1974-1985 |
Robert Corrigan
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| 1985 |
Gerard McKenna (Acting)
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| 1985-1989 |
Robert Hickock
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| 1989 |
Corliss Phillabaum (Acting)
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| 1989-1992 |
James A. Sappenfield (Interim)
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| 1992-1993 |
Will H. Rockett
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| 1993-1994 |
Leslie Vansen
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| 1995-1999 |
Catherine Davy
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| 1999-2001 |
Robert Greenstreet (Interim)
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| 2001-2007 |
W. Robert Bucker
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| 2007-2008 |
Scott Emmons (Interim)
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| 2008-2011 |
Wade Hobgood
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| 2012-2013 |
Scott Emmons (Interim)
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| 2013- |
Scott Emmons
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