Course Listings

Course Listings 2020–22

Fall 2020

500. Objects in Context: A Survey of the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture I Jeffrey Collins

510. Writing Objects Helen Polson

502. Approaches to the Object Freyja Hartzell and Meredith Linn

484. Metalwork: Technology, Value, Reception Caspar Meyer and Ittai Weinryb

485. Medical Materialities Meredith Linn

486. The Science Behind the Sparkle Jennifer Mass

487. Athens: Material Culture Approaches to the Classical City Caspar Meyer

488. What Is Research? Peter N. Miller

539. Modes and Manners in the Eighteenth Century, 1675–1804 Michele Majer

548. Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2020: Diversity and Difference Catherine Whalen 621. The Renaissance Discovery of the World: Collecting and Collections in the Early Modern Era Andrew Morrall

627. Foreign Luxuries and Chinese Tastes Francois Louis

748. The Sea Inside: Art and Material Culture of the Mediterranean World, 1050–1250 Ittai Weinryb

777. Field Seminar: Readings in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Jeffrey Collins and Andrew Morrall

845. American Craft, Design, and Folk Art in the 1920s and 1930s Catherine Whalen

912: Curatorial Practice and American Art at the Metropolitan Museum: A Bard Graduate CenterMetropolitan Museum of Art American Wing Collaboration Ivan Gaskell

931. News from Nowhere: Design and Utopia Freyja Hartzell

959. Exhibition as Medium: Curatorial Thinking Deborah Krohn

Spring 2021

501. Objects in Context: A Survey of the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture II Catherine Whalen

475. Jews in the Ancient City: Materiality and Politics Seth Schwartz

476. In Focus: Conserving Active Matter Soon Kai Poh

477. Material Cultures of Trans-Atlantic West Africa Christian Larsen

478. Greek and Roman Technology Caspar Meyer

479. Making the Future in the Past: Material Culture Approaches to Craft and Time Caspar Meyer

480. Doll Parts: Human Forms in the History of Design and Material Culture Freyja Hartzell

481. Unsettling Things: Expanding Conversations in Studies of the Material World Aaron Glass and Meredith Linn

482. Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties, 300 BCE–200 CE Francois Louis

483. A Song of Clay and Fire: Ceramics of Japan and Korea Diana Yang 691. Nineteenth-Century Fashion Michele Majer

693. Craft and Design in the USA, 1945 to the Present Catherine Whalen

793. The Grand Tour Jeffrey Collins

863. Objects of Colonial Encounter: Native Arts of the Southwest and Northwest Coast Aaron Glass and Hadley Jensen

894.Objects of Belief: Iconoclasm and Continuity in the Era of Reformations, 1450–1600 Andrew Morrall

Fall 2021

500. Objects in Context: A Survey of the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture I Catherine Whalen

510. Writing Objects Helen Polson

502. Approaches to the Object Freyja Hartzell and Andrew Morrall

470. Period Rooms, from the Nineteenth Century to Today Catherine Futter and Elizabeth St. George

472. In Focus II: Conserving Active Matter Ivan Gaskell and Soon Kai Poh

473. Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen Michele Majer

474. Archaeology of African American Communities Meredith Linn

475. Art and Ecology in the Pre-Modern World Caspar Meyer and Ittai Weinryb

489. Living Things: Design and Biology in the Long Nineteenth Century Freyja Hartzell

572. Song Design and Material Culture, 960–1279 Francois Louis

584. Ceramics and Society: A Social and Cultural History of European Ceramics, 1500–1900 Andrew Morrall

730. The Social Lives of Things: The Anthropology of Art and Material Culture Aaron Glass

747. Visual and Material Cultures of the Middle Ages: An Introduction Ittai Weinryb

802. Archaeology of the Kitan-Liao Dynasty, 907–1125 Francois Louis

834. American Collectors and Collections Catherine Whalen 915. History and Material Culture: New Directions Ivan Gaskell

959. Exhibition and Curatorial Practice Nina Stritzler-Levine

964. Excavating the Empire City: An Introduction to the Historical Archaeology of New York City Meredith Linn

968. Polychrome Revolutions: The Collision of New Art Media with the Social and Environmental Justice Movements of the Nineteenth Century Jennifer Mass

994. Staging the Table in Early Modern Europe Deborah Krohn

Spring 2022

501. Objects in Context: A Survey of the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture II Jeffrey Collins

462. University Museums: Collections in Academia and Their Uses Ivan Gaskell

463. Global Renaissance Deborah Krohn and Andrew Morrall

464. African and African American Visual and Material Culture Drew Thompson

466. Terracotta to Glaze: Ceramic Art in Africa from Antiquity to the Islamic Period Annissa Malvoisin

467. “Thread of Victory”: American Fashion and World War II Rebecca Matheson

468. In Focus: Fire! Staging the Hearth in EighteenthCentury France Jeffrey Collins

469. What Is the Object? Peter N. Miller and Richard Tuttle

471. Americana Redux: Materializing Multiculturalism in the Postwar United States Catherine Whalen

481. Unsettling Things: Expanding Conversations in Studies of the Material World Aaron Glass and Caspar Meyer

646. Domestic Interiors and Gardens in China Francois Louis

648. Art and Ornament in Early China Francois Louis

693. Craft and Design in the USA, 1945 to the Present Catherine Whalen 795. Exhibiting Culture/s: Anthropology In and Of the Museum Aaron Glass

851. The Occult and Its Artefact in the Middle Ages Ittai Weinryb

883. Damage, Decay, Conservation Ivan Gaskell and Soon Kai Poh

Madeline Warner (MA ’20) at Materials Day Workshop. Photo courtesy of Madeline Warner.

The fellowship programs at Bard Graduate Center are designed to further the institution’s goal of promoting research in the areas of decorative arts, design history, and material culture—what we call the “cultural history of the material world.” The following fellows were in residence at Bard Graduate Center during the 2020–21 and 2021–22 academic years.