Department

• Curatorial Studies
• Art History
• Liberal Arts

Education

• PhD and MA, Columbia University
• BA, Brandeis University; NEH Summer Fellow at Stanford University.

Recent Activities

• "Models of Participation and Modes of Activism for Artists and Curators", CAA Conference, New York, NY, 2011.
• Moderated the Mural Arts Program’s ArtWorks! panel discussion on November 10 at Moore about " …Or does it explode?", a collaborative installation on the Vine Street Parkway in front of Philadelphia Family Court.
• "Curating and Activism: An International Panel", lecture moderator at The Galleries of Moore, 2009.
• "The Agony and the Ecstasy: Basquiat as Artist", panelist at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 2009.
• “Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo,” published in New York, London, Madrid, Mexico City (Spanish translation) and Tokyo (Japanese translation).
• “Flirtations with Evidence: The Atlas Group/Walid Raad,” Art in America, October 2004.
• “Look the Other Way,” Journal of Visual Culture (UK) December, 2003.
• “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia: Interview with Ulrike Ottinger,” Art Journal (vol. 61, no. 3, Fall 2002), pp. 7-21; republished in Kwartalnik Filowy (Poland), Nos 47-48, 2004 and in Ulrike Ottinger Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Spain), 2004.

Awards and Fellowships

• Winner of 2002 Utne Award for Independent Magazine Publishing
• Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy
• Fellowship—The Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for College Teachers for research travel in Europe, North Africa and Latin America
• Fellowship in Arts Criticism, Pennsylvania Council for the Humanities
• Who’s Who of American Women
• The World Who’s Who of Women
• Who’s Who in American Education

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