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JOHN DECKER Chairperson – History of Art and Design
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara B.A., California State University, Stanislaus
Dr. Decker is a specialist in Northern European Art of the Early Modern Period (c. 1400-1650). His scholarly interests include: scholastic theology, monasticism, religious self-fashioning, lay piety, religious and lay confraternities, ritual and spectacle, and identity formation. He is the author of The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009) and co-editor of Death, Torture, and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015). jdecker@pratt.edu
JILL SONG Assistant to the Chair
Jill holds an A.A.S. in Photography; B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology; an M.S. in Education from Walden University, with specialization in Mathematics, and an M.F.A. in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute, with a focus on Digital Video. After earning her M.F.A. from Pratt, Jill worked with a multimedia production house to create both packaging and interface designs for CDs and DVDs.
jsong1@pratt.edu
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EVAN NEELY Acting Assistant Chairperson, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Art History, Columbia University M.Phil., M.A., Art History, Columbia University B.F.A., Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design
Evan Neely studied twentieth century and Northern European Renaissance Art, as well as post-Enlightenment political and aesthetic theory. He has published essays on Henry David Thoreau and postwar American art and the artistic strategies of the Occupy movement. His most recent work focuses on ecological thought and the history of landscape in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. He has taught courses at Columbia University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 2011-2012, Parsons School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Museum of Modern Art, on modern and postmodern art, the history of ethical and political theory, and Enlightenment aesthetics. eneely@pratt.edu
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SONYA ABREGO Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. candidate, Bard Graduate Center M.Phil, Decorative Arts, Design History & Material Culture Studies, Bard Graduate Center
Sonya Abrego is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in twentieth century fashion, currently completing a dissertation on Western wear in postwar United States. Her work focuses on the interconnections between fashion and popular culture, specifically music and film. She has presented papers in New York, Montreal and San Francisco, worked with the costume col-lections at the Museum of the City of New York and the Metropolitan’s Costume Institute. She is the recipient of graduate fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bonnie Cashin Foundation and the Autry National Center. Sonya is a senior editor at Worn Fashion Journal and works in the vintage clothing market. sabrego@pratt.edu
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KIRA ALBINSKY Visiting Instructor
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey M.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey B.A., Boston College
Kira Albinsky specializes in early modern art in Italy. She is currently completing a dissertation on the social history, devotional practices, and art patronage of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Crucifix of San Marcello in Rome, which explores the interdependence of art, ritual, and reform during the Catholic Reformation. Portions of her work will appear in “The Performance of Devotion: Patronage and Ritual at the Oratorio del SS. Crocifisso in Rome” in Space, Place, & Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City forthcoming in 2017. kalbinsk@pratt.edu
KAREN BACHMANN Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer
M.A., History of Art, Purchase College, State University of NY B.F.A., Sculpture/Jewelry, Pratt Institute
Karen Bachmann specializes in jewelry, hollowware, and decorative art. She has special interests in medieval, memento mori, Renaissance, Baroque, and 19th century work. She is a practicing studio jeweler with over 25 years of experience creating fine jewelry and is a former master jeweler at Tiffany & Co. Her work, which can be found in international private and public collections, has been exhibited extensively. At Pratt, she teaches in both the Art History and Fine Art departments. She is also an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Karen is an artist and scholar in residence at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in Art Jewelry Today and the Lark 500 series of books. Published works include “Hairy Secrets: Human Relic as Memory Object in Victorian Hairwork Jewelry” and “Queen of the Stone Age: the Venus of Willendorf”. kbachman@pratt.edu
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LISA BANNER
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU B.A., Princeton University
Lisa A. Banner is an art historian and curator. Her publications include Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum (Yale University Press, 2013), and The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma (Ashgate, 2009). She has lectured on old master drawings at the Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Courtauld Institute, and the Meadows Museum. As a curator she has worked with The Frick Collection (The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya, 2010-2011), the Museo del Prado (Dibujos del Siglo de Oro en la Coleccion de la Hispanic Society of America, 2006), the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. lbanne34@pratt.edu
ÁGNES BERECZ
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Ágnes Berecz teaches modern and contemporary art history. She is Associate Professor at Christie’s Education and lectures at The Museum of Modern Art. Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, Art in America, Artmargins and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin as well as in European and US exhibitions catalogues. Her recent work includes the two volume monographic study, Simon Hantaï, and the essay, “The Event of Painting,” written for Judit Reigl’s retrospective at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. Her review articles for Műértő, the Budapest-based art monthly, include “Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument,” and “American Traumspiel: Mike Kelley.” She is working on a book titled Paint No More: France, 1948-1982. aberecz@pratt.edu
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PAULA CARABELL
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Paula Carabell received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in 1994, with a dissertation entitled, “Image-Making and Identity, Two Case Studies: Michelangelo and Titian†and has made scholarly contributions in both the fields of the Italian Renaissance and Contemporary Art. Recent publications include, “The Figura Serpentinata: Becoming over Being in the Work of Michelangelo,†Artibus et Historiae, “Photography and Redemption: History, Theology and Artistic Practice in Thomas Struth’s Early Cityscapes,†RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, “Architectural Narrative as Redemptive Form: A Postmodern Revisionist Strategy,†in Architectural Strategies in Contemporary Art, Ashgate, “Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Vicissitudes of Surveillance,†Visual Culture in Britain; “Photography, Phonography and the Missing Object,†Perspectives in New Music; “ Sound and Time in the Films of Tacita Dean,†Parkett. Her research centers upon the dialectics of spectatorship, acts of surveillance, the phenomenological significance of the two-dimensional depiction of architectural form and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Professor Carabell is an experienced and knowledgeable lecturer and has worked at such institutions as the Rhode Island School of Design, University of California, San Diego and Florida Atlantic University. She currently teaches at Rutgers University, Pratt Institute the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. pcarabel@pratt.edu
LIAM CONSIDINE
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., NYU, Institute of Fine Arts
Liam Considine is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art. His essays on postwar art in the United States and in France have appeared in Tate Papers and Art History, and an article on the contemporary French conceptual art collective Claire Fontaine is forthcoming. His exhibition and book reviews have appeared in Art Journal, Art Review, artforum.com, and The Brooklyn Rail, and he recently curated the exhibition Stonebreakers at Young Art Gallery in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled New Realisms: American Art in France 1962-72. lconsidi@pratt.edu
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COREY D’AUGUSTINE
Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Advanced Certificate in Art Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU B.A., Visual Arts and Biochemistry, Oberlin College Corey D’Augustine is a conservator of modern and contemporary art and technical art historian. He works for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and lectures on art history conservation at New York University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, City College of New York, and Museum of Modern Art. A specialist in American and European Post-war art, his research includes 20th century painting materials and techniques and conservation of monochrome paintings. Selected publications: “Taoism in the Work of Agnes Martin,” Kunst Nu, “Laser Cleaning of a Study Painting by Ad Reinhardt and the Analysis / Assessment of the Surface after Treatment,” Modern Paints Uncovered; Selected Awards: Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant; Dedalus Foundation grant. cdaugust@pratt.edu
PETER DE STAEBLER
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU A.B. Bowdoin College
Peter De Staebler is an art and architectural historian and classical archaeologist with more than 20 years of field experience in Turkey, Italy, and Greece. His dissertation was on the spolia-filled late-antique fortifications at Aphrodisias in Turkey, where he was also assistant director of the New York University–University of Michigan Aphrodisias Regional Survey Project. He has published extensively on the the excavations at Aphrodisias and on ancient fortifications. While his primary research area is ancient architecture and urban development, he has a strong interest in the long history of recycled architectural elements—especially monolithic columns—and a diachronic examination of the alternating coordination and disconnect between building technology, materials, and style. He also teaches in the PSPD Historic Preservation program. pdestaeb@pratt.edu
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EDWARD DECARBO
Adjunct Associate Professor
PhD., M.A., Indiana University M.A., University of Chicago
Ed DeCarbo’s concentration is art and aesthetics in Post-Colonial Societies with foci in traditional and contemporary arts; field research in aesthetics in a traditional multicultural society in West Africa and in the Pacific (Moana) in contemporary arts. His courses survey the traditional and contemporary arts of Africa and the Pacific, and consider the theories and methods of analysis that are applied to the post-colonial world. He serves as a consultant to the College Board effort to globalize the Advanced Placement Curricu lum in Art History. He was Director of Education at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and served as a senior university administrator for many years. edecarbo@pratt.edu
EVA DÍAZ
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University
Eva Díaz’s book The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College has been released by the University of Chicago Press. The project examines how an interdisciplinary group of artists at Black Mountain proposed new models of art and focuses on three Black Mountain teachers in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Josef Albers, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller. Professor Díaz’s writing appears in magazines and journals such as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Art in America, Cabinet, The Exhibitionist, Frieze, Grey Room, October, and Tate Etc. and she is a regular contributor to Artforum. She was recently awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant to research for her book about Buckminster Fuller’s work, titled The Fuller Effect: The Critique of Total Design in Postwar Art. ediaz3@pratt.edu
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MARY DOUGLAS EDWARDS Adjunct Professor, CCE
Ph.D., M.L.S., M.A., Columbia University
Publications include Wind Chant and Night Chant Sand Paintings, articles in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Studies in Iconography, Source: Notes in the History of Art, Il Santo: rivista francescana, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and elsewhere; coedited and wrote portions of Gravity in Art: Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography; chaired sessions and read papers at meetings of CAA; SECAC; International Congress on Medieval Studies; awards include Samuel H. Kress Dissertation Fellowship, NEH Travel to Collections Grant, Delmas Foundation Grant; past president, 14th-Century Society; former member, Executive Council of Southeastern Medieval Association; two-term associate, editorial board, Medieval Perspectives. medw1005@pratt.edu
CAROLINE GILLASPIE Visiting Instructor
Ph.D., Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center M. Phil, CUNY Graduate Center B.A., Mount Holyoke College
Caroline Gillaspie teaches Themes in Art and Culture I and II at Pratt Institute. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, and her M.Phil from the CUNY Graduate Center where she is currently a doctoral candidate in Art History. She specializes in nineteenth century art of the United States and Latin America, and her research interests include ecocritical art history, landscape imagery, and representations of race and labor. cgillasp@pratt.edu
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DIANA GISOLFI Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago M.A., Yale and University of Chicago B.A., Radcliffe/Harvard
Research focus is on Cinquecento art in Venice and the Veneto, including religious and political context and artistic practice. Gisolfi developed and directs the Pratt in Venice program. She lectures and chairs sessions regularly at CAA and RSA and at international conferences, and contributed essays to three international exhibitions on Paolo Veronese: Venice 2011, Sarasota,FL 2012-13, Verona 2014. Publications include: The Rule, The Bible, and the Council: The Library of the Benedictine Abbey at Praglia (CAA Monograph Series); On Clas¬sic Ground, Caudine Country (Illustrations), and articles in: Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin Artibus et Historiae, Arte Veneta, The Art Bulletin, The Dictionary of Art (Oxford Art Online), Renaissance Quarterly, Burlington Magazine, caareviews.org. dgisolfi@pratt.edu
FRIMA FOX HOFRICHTER
Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University. Certificate in Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal, Pratt Institute--in collaboration with the American Society of Appraisers. M.A. Hunter College B.A. Brooklyn College
Issues of gender and class have informed Hofrichter’s work. She is the author of a monograph on the 17th-C Dutch artist, Judith Leyster; numerous articles within Dutch art and feminist/gender studies; organized several Dutch exhibitions; and is currently working on the theme of old women. Hofrichter is a co-author of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition (for the Baroque and Rococo sections), was Dutch Book Review Editor (2008-2013) for the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA), a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts and Chair, Jury for the Distinguished Feminist Award (2012). ffhofric@pratt.edu
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HEATHER
HORTON Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU B.A., DePauw University
Heather Horton’s current research focuses on questions of authorship, originality, and imitation, especially in the career of the pivotal writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. She recently published a new interpretation of Alberti’s treatises on painting and is completing a book manuscript titled Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance Crisis of the Author. She has taught at New York University, The City University of New York, Purchase College, and The Cloisters Museum, where she remains a frequent guest lecturer. hhorton@pratt.edu
SARA IDACAVAGE sidacava@pratt.edu
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KIM JENKINS Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., Fashion Studies, Parsons The New School of Design. B.A., Cultural Anthropology and Art History, University of Texas at Arlington
Analyzes fashion as both object and theory in the shaping of culture and identity; co-curated New York’s first-ever fashion exhibition on the work of designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and cofounded student-run fashion publication BIAS: The Journal of Dress Practice; in 2013, presented her master’s thesis, “That Was My Veil”: Sartorial and Cosmetic Constructions of Resilience in Divorced Women, which investigated the role clothing and cosmetics play in transforming the self in efforts to attain the psychological trait of resilience. kjenkins@pratt.edu
SUSAN KARNET Visiting Instructor
M.F.A., Hunter College, CUNY B.F.A., The School of Visual Arts, New York City (cum laude)
Susan Karnet has been teaching art history for twenty years but she is also a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in Chelsea, LES, the East Village, 57th Street, Brooklyn, Europe, and Africa; her artwork has been reviewed in “The New York Times”, “The Egyptian Gazette”, and “The Brooklyn Eagle”. In her research, she is currently working on a long essay called “The Challenges of Teaching Art History”, where she discusses the pedagogical theories of John Amos Comenius in his “The Great Didactic” and Martin Luther’s writings on the teaching of Latin in relation to contemporary art education. Extracts from this work posted on Academia.edu were cited in spring 2017 in a lecture by a graduate student of sociology at the University of Bologna in Italy. At Pratt, Susan teaches the Survey of Western and nonWestern Art and the Survey of Modern Art. She continues to expand her scope in academics and the arts and is now also teaching the history of film. skarnet@pratt.edu
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DARA KIESE Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center M.Phil., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center B.A., Modern History, University of Minnesota
Dara Kiese’s research centers around the artistic and architectural avantgardes in Weimar Germany, with focus on the Bauhaus. She has received a number of grants, including a Fulbright fellowship to Berlin and a Getty research travel grant. She worked as a Curatorial Assistant in the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art and has presented papers on architectural and design pedagogies at conferences and symposia including the College Art Association and the Bauhaus Universität Weimar and has published essays on the Bauhaus. dkiese@pratt.edu
AMY KIM
Visiting
Assistant Professor
akim26@pratt.edu
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JOSEPH REID KOPTA
Visiting Instructor
Joseph Kopta specializes in the visual culture of the medieval Mediterranean, with intellectual interests informed by materiality, cross-cultural interaction, and networks between Venice and Byzantium. Educated at Pratt Institute, Harvard Divinity School, and Columbia University, he is completing a PhD in Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Recent papers include “Color in Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries” at the Mary Jaharis Center, and “Hair, Touch, and the Ivory Comb of Leo VI as an Agent of Imperial Order” at the Byzantine Studies Conference. He contributed the entries “Canosa di Puglia” and “Kenneth Conant” to the Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art & Architecture (2012), and was a contributor to the Beth Shean After Antiquity project at the University of Pennsylvania. He has held professional roles at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Biblical Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a faculty member of Pratt in Venice. jkopta@pratt.edu
TIFFANY LAMBERT
Visiting Instructor
Tiffany Lambert is a curator and writer specializing in contemporary architecture and design, with a concentration on the development and evolving role of the user and how design mediates cultural and social experiences beyond aesthetics alone. She has served as assistant curator at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and as managing editor of PIN–UP Magazine. Her writing is regularly published internationally, and she co-authored the publication “Beautiful Users: Designing for People” (Princeton Architectural Press). Ms. Lambert is a 2015 grant recipient from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for her research on the Japanese designer Sori Yanagi. tlamber3@pratt.edu
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THOMAS LA PADULA
Adjunct Professor
Tom La Padula has illustrated for national and international magazines, advertising agencies and publishing houses for over thirty eight years. As lecturer on the subject of the History of Illustration, he has given talks around the country and is currently a participant in the History of Illustration Project. He has exhibited in numerous group shows throughout the country and his paintings and drawings are included in many private collections. La Padula was graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA and earned his MFA from Syracuse University. Tom joined the Communication Design faculty of Pratt Institute in 1986 and is the Illustration Coordinator for the Pratt Communication Design Department. tlapadul@pratt.edu
ANCA LASC Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Art History, University of Southern California M.A., Art History, University of Southern California B.A., History and Theory of Art and Literature, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.
Professor Lasc studies the invention and commercialization of the modern French interior and the development of the professions of interior designer and window dresser. She has published articles and book chapters widely on these topics. Her book, Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media, co-edited with Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, was published by Bloomsbury in 2015 (paperback forthcoming 2017) while Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse was released by Routledge in May 2016. Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail, co-edited with Patricia LaraBetancourt and Margaret Maile Petty is forthcoming from Routledge in 2017. Prof. Lasc’s monograph, Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France: The Visual Culture of a New Profession, will be published by Manchester University Press, Studies in Design and Material Culture Series, in 2018. alasc@pratt.edu
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JOOYUN LEE Visiting Instructor
Ph.D,. Candidate, Stone Brooklyn University M.A., Art History and Theory, Hongik University, South Korea jlee208@pratt.edu
MICHELE LICALSI
Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., Institute of Fine Arts with Certificate in Art Conservation, NYU B.A., NYU
Michele LiCalsi studied art at the New York Academy of Art, the Art Students’ League, and the National Academy of Design. She has been teaching drawing, color and composition at the National Academy of Design from 1994 to the present. She taught fresco painting at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU from 1993 to 2005. She has also worked in art conservation at the Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has worked as a conservator on sites in Florence, Rome, Parma, and Sardis. mlicalsi@pratt.edu
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GREGORY
LINDQUIST Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer
MFA in Painting, MA in Art History,Pratt Institute BA in Art and Design, BA in English, North Carolina State University
Greg Lindquist is an artist and writer living in New York. Lindquist cofounded the Art Books in Review Section of The Brooklyn Rail, where he was co-editor until 2017. Lindquist’s work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, among others, and has been awarded the SharpeWolentas Space Program, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Grant, the Pollock-Krasner Grant and ArtOMI residency. His recent paintings and participatory installations have focused on applying the beauty of landscape and abstraction to raise awareness of environmental concerns. He also teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. He will be participating in the Whitney Museum of Art’s Independent Study in 2017-18 in the Studio Program. glindqui@pratt.edu
WILLIAM E. LORENZO
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., Brooklyn College
William Lorenzo is independent artist, researcher, film archivist, and programmer. Publica¬tions include museum notes and articles in Animation Magazine, Ani¬maFilm, and others. Author: “Lillian Friedman Astor –Pioneer Woman Animator”. Executive Board Member ASIFA-East, The International Animated Film Association. Curator, “Animation Over Broadway”, Museum of Modern Art, February 1993. Other areas of interest: Film and Illustration. wlorenzo@pratt.edu
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WILLIAM J. LORENZO Visiting Instructor
wlorenz2@pratt.edu ELIZABETH MEGGS Visiting Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Pratt Institute: Painting B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University: Communications Arts and Design, Illustration, summa cum laude
Elizabeth Meggs is an illustrator, writer, designer, including paintings, photography and hand-bound artist books. Meggs is also a graphic designer (Hearst’s Victoria) and writer for the Los Angeles Daily News; she has worked at Pierogi Gallery and taught at BBG, VCU, Pratt and NYCCT. Exhibitions include: ISE Cultural Foundation, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Mariner’s Museum, Firehouse Art Collective, Anderson Gallery, Target Gallery/Torpedo Factory, Galapagos Art Space, Edward Hopper House, Pratt Dean’s Gallery, Lincoln Center, and Brooklyn Museum’s Go! Brooklyn. Selectee, NYC Center for Book Arts’ Letterpress Printing/Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers; recipient, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship/Drawing. emeggs@pratt.edu
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JUAN MONROY
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. candidate, Cinema Studies, NYU M.A., Cinema Studies. NYU B.A., Film Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara
Juan Monroy is a scholar of film, television and media studies, specializing in history, technology, and cultural impacts of US film and television. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, writing a dissertation on television, Latin America, and economic development in the 1960s. He teaches film and media classes at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, CUNY Queens College, and Pratt Institute. Since 2009, Juan has also worked as a video and digital media librarian and database technician at NYU-TV. monro22@pratt.edu
ELIZABETH MONTI Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2005 M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2001 M.A., Hunter College, CUNY, 1996 B.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1994
Dr. Caterina Y. Pierre is a specialist in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century art, with a focus on European and American sculpture, the social impact of art, and women sculptors. She has written and published numerous articles on sculpture of the Second Empire and the Third Republic in France, specifically on the work of Gustave Courbet, Jules Dalou and Marcello. She also writes about American art, especially in the area of sculpture production by women artists. Her first book, titled Genius Has No Sex: The Sculpture of Marcello (1836-1879), was published in 2010 by Éditions de Penthes/Infolio, in Geneva, Switzerland. She teaches courses in Art History at Pratt Institute and the City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College. cpierre@pratt.edu
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BRENDAN MORAN
Visiting Assistant Professor moran8@pratt.edu
MARSHA MORTON Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU M.A., University of Chicago.
Marsha Morton’s research focuses on interdisciplinary topics in German and Austrian nineteenth-century visual culture. She has published numerous essays in exhibition catalogs and anthologies that address issues such as cultural history, Darwinism, ethnography, popular illustration, and music with regard to artists and critics that include Alois Riegl, Gustav Klimt, Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Max Beckmann, Max Liebermann, and the German Romantics. Her current research area is Viennese Orientalism. She is serving her second term as President of the Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA) and has been the recipient of grants from DAAD and NEH. mmorton@pratt.edu
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MARK NEWGARDEN Visiting Instructor
B.F.A., The School of Visual Arts.
Cartoonist; creator of novelties (Garbage Pail Kids); graphic artist (from Raw magazine to The New York Times); writer and idea machine for TV, film, and multimedia projects (from Microsoft to Cartoon Network), among various and sundry careers; author of Cheap Laffs, a picture history of the novelty item (Abrams), and We All Die Alone, a collection of his comics (Fantagraphics Books); children’s book with Megan Montague Cash, BowWow Bugs a Bug (Harcourt Books, 2007), won numerous awards and spawned an ongoing series, most recently Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors; the eagerly anticipated How to Read Nancy (with Paul Karasik), an expansion of their influential 1988 essay on Ernie Bushmiller and the syntax of comics language, is forthcoming in 2017 from Fantagraphics Books; exhibitions include the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, ICA (London) and Picasso Museum (Lucerne, Switzerland). mnewgard@pratt.edu
CATERINA PIERRE Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2005 M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2001 M.A., Hunter College, CUNY, 1996 B.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1994
Dr. Caterina Y. Pierre is a specialist in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century art, with a focus on European and American sculpture, the social impact of art, and women sculptors. She has written and published numerous articles on sculpture of the Second Empire and the Third Republic in France, specifically on the work of Gustave Courbet, Jules Dalou and Marcello. She also writes about American art, especially in the area of sculpture production by women artists. Her first book, titled Genius Has No Sex: The Sculpture of Marcello (1836-1879), was published in 2010 by Éditions de Penthes/Infolio, in Geneva, Switzerland. She teaches courses in Art History at Pratt Institute and the City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College. cpierre@pratt.edu
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NICHOLAS PARKINSON
Visiting Instructor
Ph.D. candidate, Art History & Criticism, Stony Brook University M.A., Philosophy, Stony Brook University B.A., Philosophy, DePauw University
Nicholas Parkinson is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University, where is he completing his dissertation on the popular and critical reception of Nordic art in nineteenth-century France. His areas of research interest include imaginary geographies of the nineteenth century, fin-de-siècle art and culture, and the history of art criticism. He is an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, and his most recent publication, “De Chirico and the Fin-deSiècle,” will be printed in Symbolist Roots of Modern Art, in 2015. nparkins@pratt.edu
LISA N. PETERS
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York B.A. Colorado College
Lisa N. Peters is an art historian who has taught at City College, New York; the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, New York; and St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, covering topics in American art (her area of specialty), along courses in modern art and art history survey. She has curated exhibitions, lectured widely, and published both as research director at Spanierman Gallery (1986–2012) and independently. Her publications include The Portrait Collection of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital—Weill Cornell Medical Center (2015); “All the Paintable Things in Europe”: Edgar Payne’s European Art and Travels (1922–24, 1928) (Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2012); “‘An Atmosphere of Youthful Enthusiasm under a Hospitable Sky”: The American Artists’ Colony in Polling, Bavaria, 1872-1881 (American Art Journal, 2000); John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist (High Museum of Art, 1999); and Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure and Country Comfort (Dickinson College, 1997). She is the author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902), to be published by the Greenwich Historical Society (Connecticut). lpeter14@pratt.edu
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JOYCE C. POLISTENA
Adjunct Professor, CCE
Ph.D., M. Phil., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center M.A., Art History, Hunter College Certificate in 19th-century British History, Oxford University, UK Certificate TESOL, Columbia University
Joyce Polistena specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century European and American Art, with emphasis on French Romanticism and Eugène Delacroix. I am interested in the triangulation of art making, culture coding and modern color theory, as well as ongoing study of Eugène Delacroix and nineteenth-century religious art, and his influence on American artists. Publications: (book) The Religious Paintings of Eugène Delacroix (www.h-france.net/vol9reviews/vol9no83smith.pdf); (essays/book reviews in) Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Bulletin du Société des amis du Musée nationale Eugène Delacroix; Van Gogh Museum Journal, Toward a Sacramental Methodology, Religion and the Arts, Italian Americans Arts and Culture (topic: Frank Stella/Joseph Stella), Material Religion, America Magazine. Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at The College of The Holy Cross (2014-2015); served as a member of the Board of Directors of ASCHA; organized symposia on nineteenth-century Romantic Art and participated in national and international conferences. jpoliste@pratt.edu
ESZTER POLONYI
Visiting Assistant Professor epolonyi@pratt.edu
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JANICE
ROBERTSON Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University M.Phil., Columbia University M.A., Columbia University B.A., California State University, Fresno
Specialist in Pre-Columbian Art with research and pedagogical interests that revolve around writing technologies; Publications: “Pictures Silenced by Words: Rethinking the Problem of Aztec Picture-Writing,” Quaderni di THULE (2006); Selected Awards: FIT Faculty Development Grant for VoiceThread Pilot Project (2009-10), Columbia University President’s Fellowships, CSU Fresno Dean’s Medal of Honor in the School of Humanities; Selected Papers: “Between Painting and Writing: The Problem of Aztec Picture-Writing and the Paragon at the Root of the Problem,” Renaissance Society of America (2008); “Art><Writing Border Crossings: A Nahua Riddle Sparks an Interactive Reading and Renewed Vision of Aztec Picture-Writing,” CSU, Sacramento Art History Symposium (2009); “Alive with Movement: The Pulse of Aztec PictureWriting,” Columbia University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (2010); “Look, Listen, Speak, Text, Link, Draw: VoiceThread Changes the Balance of Power,” College Art Association Conference (2011); “VoiceThread Class Projects Turn Text-Based Teaching Practices on Their Head,” SouthEastern College Art Conference (2011); “Aztec Picture-Writing Meets Hypermedia and a ‘New World’ of Writing Opens Up,” REWIRE: Fourth International Conference on Media Art Histories (2011); “VoiceThread Opens Media Up to Conversations: A Hands-On Workshop and Brainstorming Session,” College Art Association Conference (2012); “Rock the Pedagogical Boat: Open Mic + Tweet #caa2013rock,” College Art Association, Feb. 15, 2013, Session Co-Chair with Gale Justin, Director of Educational Technology at Pratt. jrober10@pratt.edu
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ELENA ROSSI-SNOOK Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., Film Archiving, University of East Anglia (England) B.A., Cinema, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Elena Rossi-Snook is the moving image archivist for the 16mm circulating film collection of the New York Public Library. She has served as a curriculum consultant for the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program, on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and is the chair of the AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force. Publications include “Persistence of Vision: Public Library 16mm Film Collections in America” (The Moving Image), “Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives” (Learning with the Lights Off: a Reader in Educational Film) and a chapter in upcoming academic reader on race and non-theatrical film. Rossi-Snook was the 2002 recipient of the Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation. Her documentary film WE GOT THE PICTURE was made an official selection of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. She is in production on a second film. erossisn@pratt.edu
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ANN SCHOENFELD Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center M.A., Art History, University of Chicago B.A., Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Ann Schoenfeld specializes in 20th century art and design. Specifically, she researches intersections between modernist art and design, developing courses on world’s fairs, the Bauhaus, political art & design. She also matriculated 2011in Pratt’s SILS program. She is a regular contributor to Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Other publications include essays and reviews in M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism; Suspension of the Law: René Santos, A Retrospective; ID; Eye. She has lectured and chaired panels for CAA, Society for the History of Technology, among others, and served on the Education Committee of CAA, Board of Directors of Design Studies Forum, nominator for the Joan Mitchell Foundation for Painting and Sculpture. aschoenf@pratt.edu
DAVID SMUCKER Visiting Instructor
M.A., Ph.D., Stony Brook University. B.A., Cornell College
Research focuses on contemporary art and the history of photography, and his in-progress dissertation examines photography’s relationship to car travel and the American road trip. Also interested in contemporary art that attempts to use photographic means to represent complex systems like the internet, and in the idea of the indexical mark throughout history. dsmucke2@pratt.edu
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ELIZABETH
A. ST. GEORGE
Visiting Instructor
Ph.D. candidate, Bard Graduate Center M.A., Bard Graduate Center B.A., Kent State University
Elizabeth St. George specializes in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture and design. She has been an invited speaker at the Los Angeles County Mu¬seum of Art and has served as a research assistant for the Bard Gradu¬ate Center’s exhibitions on Knoll textiles (2011), Artek and Alvar Aalto (forthcoming), and the architect and designer, William Kent (forthcoming). While her dissertation explores interwar architecture and design and themes of modern living in the former Czechoslovakia, she is broadly interested in how design is used to construct modes of cultural interaction and identity, and how modernism and notions of modernity were used to disseminate social, political, and cultural reform in America and Europe. estgeorg@pratt.edujtoolin@pratt.edu
ADEDOYIN TERIBA
Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D., M.A., candidate, Princeton University.
Historian of art and architecture, as well as an architect; previously worked for architectural and construction management firms in New York, New Jersey, and Nigeria; publications include “Using Notions of Beauty to Remember and Be Known in the Bight of Benin and Its Hinterland,” Pidgin Magazine (2012) and a review of David Adjaye, African Metropolitan Architecture (Rizzoli, 2011), in Architectural Record (August 2012). ateriba@pratt.edu
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JACK TOOLIN Visiting Assistant Professor
M.F.A., San Jose State University: Photography, Performance, and Installation B.F.A., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: Photography
Jack hToolin is Visiting Assistant Professor of art history at Pratt Institute. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University and Pace University, where he teaches studio classes in digital art and media studies. His passion in working with students is exploring the relationships between history, theory and technology as they contribute to comprehension and production of contemporary art. Toolin’s work is conceptually driven and often mines the individual/collective dynamic. Key areas of interest are the turbulence of psychological change in the wake of economic globalization; location awareness in light of ubiquitous media and GPS technologies; the potential of social media as social-political awareness. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002 Whitney Biennial - as a member of C5, a new media collective); San Francisco Camerawork; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Project Room at the Chelsea Museum of Art, New York City, and more. Most recently his photographs have been exhibited in San Jose, CA, Cincinnati, OH and Budapest, Hungary. jtoolin@pratt.edu
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ALICE WALKIEWICZ Visiting Instructor
Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center B.A., The University of Kansas
Alice Walkiewicz specializes in nineteenth-century art from Europe and the United States. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and labor, and the way that anxieties about these issues are addressed through visual culture (both in fine art and popular imagery) within a transnational and transatlantic context. Her dissertation explores these concerns by examining representations of the archetypal figure of the exploited, laboring seamstress in England, France, and the United States in the late nineteenth century within the context of the rising labor movement. She has taught at Parsons The New School for Design as well as Pratt Institute. awalkiew@pratt.edu
BOR-HUA WANG Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University M.A., University of Kansas
Bor-Hua Wang is a specialist in Chinese painting and calligraphy of the Song dynasty. Her other areas of research include: Contemporary Chinese Art; Buddhist Art of Southeast Asia and Western art theory. She is a curator of Contemporary Korean Art, Abstract Chinese Art, for Taipei Fine Art Museum. She presented “Pan Yuliang’s Life and Art: Alienation to Freedom of Expression,” CAA, 2001. bwan1068@pratt.edu
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SARAH WILKINS Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey M.S., Pratt Institute B.A., Vanderbilt University
Sarah Wilkins specializes in Italian late medieval and Renaissance art, with interests in mendicant patronage, Angevin Naples, female patronage and the representation of women, and the cult of the saints. Her publications include “Imaging the Angevin Patron Saint: Mary Magdalen in the Pipino Chapel in Naples” (2012) and “Adopting and Adapting Formulas: The Raising of Lazarus and Noli me tangere in the Arena Chapel in Padua and the Magdalen Chapel in Assisi” (2013). She has received awards including a Fulbright fellowship and a Mellon Finishing Grant. She has presented papers at numerous international conferences, including the Renaissance Society of America (2010 & 2015), and the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (2014 & 2015), and chaired two sessions for RSA in 2014. swilkins@pratt.edu
KARYN ZIEVE Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU M.A., University of Pennsylvania B.A., Wellesley College
Karyn Zieve is a specialist in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art, with a focus on Eugène Delacroix, orientalism, the history of photography and the graphic arts. In addition to teaching at various NYC institutions and museums, she has written about and organized exhibitions of prints, drawings and photographs on various topics. Presently she is working on a manuscript based on her work on Delacroix and images of the East. kzieve@pratt.edu
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