Alumni

Kappy Mintie

Katherine "Kappy" Mintie finished her PhD in 2017. Her dissertation is entitled "Rights and Reproductions?: Commercial Photography and Copyright Law in the United States, 1884-1909." For 2017-19, she will serve as the Postdoctoral Scholar in American Art History at DePauw University.

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Emily Moore

Emily Moore is associate professor of art history at CSU, where she teaches courses in Native American and American art history. She is also Associate Curator of North American Art at the Gregory Allicar Museum at CSU. Raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, Emily continues to work with Lingít, Haida, and Tmʼsyen Indigenous communities to document historic and contemporary arts from the Northwest Coast. She is the author of Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaskaʼs New Deal Totem Parks (University of Washington Press, 2018) and numerous articles supported by the National Endowment for the...

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar studies colonial Latin American art with a focus on the visual and material culture of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Her interests include the transatlantic circulation of objects, the biopolitics of colonial tropicalism during the Bourbon era, and early modern print culture. Verónica’s dissertation explores the understudied visual culture of the lower Amazon basin under missionary and governmental dominion during the eighteenth century. She is particularly interested in the unorthodox measures of control that were implemented in the region in accordance with European...

Julian Myers-Szupinska

Julian Myers-Szupinska (Ph.D. 2006) is Associate Professor of Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts. He celebrated the tenth anniversary of that program, which he helped to found in 2003. His essays have appeared in magazines, journals and catalogues for Keith Haring: The Political Line, When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, and in Sterling Ruby: Soft Work. An essay considering transformations in the political economy of space in the wake of Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, will appear...

Richard Neer

Richard Neer (PhD 1998) has been at the University of Chicago since 1999, where he is now Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College and incoming Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. From 2010 to 2018 he was Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry, where he continues to serve as co-editor. Davidson and His Interlocutors, co-edited with Daniele Lorenzini, will appear in December 2018. Another edited volume, Conditions of Visibility...

Jeanne Nuechterlein

Jeanne Nuechterlein (PhD 2000, advised by Elizabeth Honig and Joseph Koerner) is currently a Reader at University of York. In 2019-20 she saw through the final stages of her book Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World, which (after a slight covid delay) has been published by Reaktion Books in September 2020. Professor Emerita Svetlana Alpers has published a notice of it for...

Oliver O'Donnell

Oliver O’Donnell’s (PhD, 2016) first book, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates, which was developed out of his Berkeley PhD dissertation, appeared with Penn State Press in October 2019 and was awarded the Willibald Sauerländer Award from the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Over the past year he also placed an article in “The Art Bulletin” and began teaching at the Courtauld, where he leads his own MA special option. Ollie maintains his research appointment at the Warburg and continues to develop and present research related to his new book, now...

Bibiana Obler

Bibiana Obler (Ph.D. 2006) is associate professor of art history at George Washington University, where she has taught since 2008. Her first book, Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber (Yale University Press, 2014), investigates the role of artist couples in the emergence of abstract art. She is currently at work on a second book project, Anti-Craft, which examines the relation of art and craft in the late twentieth century through a series of case studies: Al Loving’s fabric constructions, Rebecca Horn’s bodily extensions, Lynda Benglis’s...

Shalon Parker

Shalon Parker (2003) is professor of art history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, where she teaches courses on 19th-20th c. art. Her book, Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France, was published by University of Delaware Press in 2018. She recently concluded a nine-year stint as the Art Dept. Chair and will be on sabbatical in 2019-20, embarking upon a new research project on the American photographer Consuelo Kanaga.

Jessica Patterson

Jessica Lee Patterson (2009) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego, where she teaches courses that explore various aspects of Asian and modern art. Her research focuses on connections between East and Southeast Asia in the Buddhist art of the nineteenth century.