Alumni

Wen-Shing Chou

Wen-Shing Chou (2011) is assistant professor of East Asian art history at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She and her husband welcomed the arrival of their daughter Beatrice in September of 2013. When she manages to peel herself away from watching the miracles of the baby’s growth, she works toward finishing her book manuscript on miraculous visions of the sacred mountain range of Wutai in Late Imperial and Modern China. Her article on early twentieth century...

William Coleman

Will Coleman (PhD 2015) is Director of Collections & Exhibitions at The Olana Partnership, working alongside NY State Parks to research, preserve, and interpret the 250-acre estate and global collections of Frederic Edwin Church in Hudson, NY. He’s always glad to show Berkeley folks (and their classes) around a very special place, whether in person or virtually. He has co-curated the exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment that will be on view at Olana and the Thomas Cole Site from 6/12-10/31/2021 and also travels to...

Huey Copeland

During his 2013-14 ACLS Fellowship year, Huey Copeland (’06) celebrated the publication of his first book with the University of Chicago Press, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America, while making strides on his new project, currently titled In the Arms of the Negress: Race, Gender, and the Unmaking of Modern Art. He also co-edited a special issue of Nka on “Black Collectivities”; published shorter pieces on artists Eleanor Antin, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Theaster Gates, Dave...

Sharon Corwin

Sharon Corwin (Ph.D. 2001) is President and CEO of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Under her leadership, the foundation announced its new guiding mission, vision, and values in 2022 that reflect a commitment to projects that expand narratives of American art. Before arriving at the Terra Foundation in 2020, she served as Director and Chief Curator at the Colby College Museum of Art from 2006-2020. She has published several books and essays, including, Five American Painters: Conversations with Lois Dodd, Rackstraw Downes, David Driskell, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex Katz...

Alexandra Courtois de Vicose

Alexandra Courtois (2009) studies 19th century French art. Her interests encompass a variety of media, (including painting, drawing, printing processes and photography, all relevant to her dissertation research on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec), as well as Disability Studies, proving to be a productive framework to analyze Lautrec’s oeuvre and life in a new light.

Sarah Cowan

Sarah Louise Cowan (PhD 2019) is an assistant professor of art history at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She studies how questions about race and gender have haunted modern and contemporary art and visual culture in the Americas. She researches modern and contemporary art of the Americas with a focus on the African diaspora. Her current book project, the first scholarly monograph on artist Howardena Pindell, develops the idea of Black feminist modernisms. This project received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 2020. Her second project will examine...

Matt Culler

Matthew Culler (PhD 2020) studies early modern art with a particular interest in Italian art and art theory. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina in 2007.

Jessica Dandona

Jessica M. Dandona (Ph.D. 2010) is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century art and visual culture. Her book, Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Art of Emile Gallé, was published by Routledge in 2017. She is on sabbatical in 2018-19 and will spend the year in Dundee, Scotland as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar. Other recent awards include fellowships from the Huntington Library, the Countway Library at Harvard, the Osler Library at McGill University, the Library...

André Dombrowski

On April 11, 2014, André Dombrowski (Ph.D. 2006) organized the conference "Manet: Then and Now" at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, which many friends and colleagues associated with Berkeley attended, including the presenters Huey Copeland, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Kaja Silverman. After lecturing on Monet in Giverny in May, André returned home to Philadelphia to find out that he had been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure starting in July 2014.

Karine Douplitzky

Karine Douplitzky (PhD 2020) was born and raised in France and recently moved to the Bay Area. She has a non-typical profile: a Master’s degree in Engineering and an M.A. in Film Studies, followed by many years as a documentary film director. One of her favorite subjects is the History of Paper: she wrote a book on the topic, as well as several articles on related themes such as the power of media. She then spent a year in Japan teaching French literature and cinema. Karine studied under Professor Elizabeth Honig and Todd Olson. She is particularly interested in Dutch and Flemish art and...