Henri Matisse, The Casbah Gate, 1912-1913. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Henri Matisse, The Casbah Gate, 1912-1913. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

How Art Became Modern

An introductory course that surveys the ways in which modern Western art emerged through global encounters.

Scipio Moorehead?, [Portrait of Phyllis Wheatley], 1773. Engraving. Frontispiece to Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Scipio Moorehead?, [Portrait of Phyllis Wheatley], 1773. Engraving. Frontispiece to Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

African-American Art

An intermediate-level course spanning the 18th century to the present, this course examines how and why black artists in the United States have used painting, sculpture, photography, print, and mixed media to assert and question personal, racial, and national identity.

Edmonia Lewis, Minnehaha, 1868. Marble, 11 5/8 × 7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edmonia Lewis, Minnehaha, 1868. Marble, 11 5/8 × 7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

American Art Sequence

Three advanced classes on the relationship between art and politics in the United States from colonization to the Civil War, Civil War to Civil Rights, and Civil Rights to Social Justice.

Renée Stout, Her Request Brought Back Memories from “The Washington Portfolio”, 1994. Computer generated digital Iris print, 26 × 40 5/8 in. (66 × 103.2 cm). American University Museum

Renée Stout, Her Request Brought Back Memories from “The Washington Portfolio”, 1994. Computer generated digital Iris print, 26 × 40 5/8 in. (66 × 103.2 cm). American University Museum

American Art and the Illusion of Truth

Offered in spring 2020, this graduate seminar explored the politics of art that looks distinctly apolitical. Together, the class produced an exhibition on Art and Authenticity in the Age of Fake News for the American University Museum.

Thomas Cole, The Clove, Catskills, 1827. Oil on canvas. 25 x 35 inches. New Britain Museum of American Art

Thomas Cole, The Clove, Catskills, 1827. Oil on canvas. 25 x 35 inches. New Britain Museum of American Art

MA Theses

I have supervised MA theses on work by the following artists:

Louis Carlos Bernal

Andrea Bowers

Thomas Cole

Diana Dowek

Edmonia Lewis

Marujo Mallo

Lee Miller

Joan Mitchell

Yoko Ono

Hiram Powers

John Singer Sargent

Florine Stettheimer

Faith Ringgold

Laurie Simmons

Alfred Stieglitz

Alma Thomas

Fred Wilson

Francesca Woodman