Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser (March 5, 1918 - August 14, 2005) was an artist, educator, and architectural historian.
Sasser's undergraduate degree was from the School of Fine Arts at Ohio State University, and she went on to earn a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
[1] Texas Technological College hired Sasser in 1949 to teach watercolors courses and Freshmen design studios.
[6] By 1963 Sasser was promoted to professor of architecture,[7] and she was named Faculty Woman of the Year in 1965.
[9] Sasser authored multiple books, most notably Dugout to Deco: Building in West Texas, 1880-1930 that traces the history of West Texas architecture, The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa, and she contributed entries to the three-volume set edited by Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World,[10] Sasser died on August 14, 2005.