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Richard Evan MeyerAdjunct Professor of Art HistoryContact Information E-mail: rmeyer@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-9571 Office: VKC 351 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education |
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 Ph.D. History of Art, UC Berkeley, 1/1996
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M.A. History of Art, UC Berkeley, 1/1991
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B.A. History of Art, Yale University, 1/1988
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Tenure Track Appointments |
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Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 01/01/2002-
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Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 01/01/1996-01/01/2002
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Visiting Instructor, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 01/01/1996
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Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 01/01/1996
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Guest Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2011-2012
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Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, London,
Fall
2010
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Katherine and Keith Sachs Professor, Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Professor Meyer studies modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on twentieth-century American art, cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies, censorhip and the public sphere, and the history of photography. His research is particularly concerned with the ongoing cultural debate over sexuality and gender and its effects upon modern art and visual culture. Professor Meyer's work has appeared in a variety of venues, ranging from art journals and museum publications to anthologies of lesbian and gay theory and literary criticism. | |
Research Specialties |
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| 20th-century American Art; history of photography; visual culture; gay and lesbian studies; censorship and the public sphere. | |
Funded Research |
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USC Funding |
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College 20/20 . "Seeing 2020: USC Visual Studies Research Institute" [co-p.i. under Kate Flint]: The Institute will lead people to look beyond the content of representations to consider the conventions and contexts that underpin them. , $150,000, 2012-2015
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Other Funded Research |
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Luce Foundation, Yale Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion.
I serve as Co-director of the Initiative under Sally Promey, the p.i. for the grant, $10,000, 2008-2011
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Inaugural Keith and Kathy Sachs Chair, Contemporary Art; ran the Sachs Forum, a year-long series of public programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art
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Yale Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Culture of Religion, Yale Divinity School, Co-director
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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" College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 2012 "Paying it Forward: Arts Mentorship and Cross-Generational Dialogue" (CAA Centenary Committee Panel: Chair and Convener). ", College Art Association, Roundtable/Panel, Invited,
Spring
2012
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"USC Art History Graduate Student Symposium, "Expanding the Visual Field" Public Conversation with Jeffrey Deitch, October 2010 ", Roundtable/Panel, Invited, 10/2011
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" Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2012 "Prehistoric Modern: Cave Paintings in the Museum of Modern Art" ", Challenging 1945: Exploring Continuities in American Art, 1890s to the present, Lecture/Seminar, Invited, 07/2011
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" "Submerged: On Sexuality and American Art," ", Geographies of Art: Sur le Terrain (International Symposium in Celebration of the Terra Summer Res, Lecture/Seminar, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France, June 2010 , Invited, 06/2011
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""Censorship from the Inside Out" ", College Art Association (Centennial Panel), Talk/Oral Presentation, CAA, Against Acknowledgement: Sexuality and the Instru, Invited, 02/2011
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""The Erotics of Feminism" (panel convener/participant)", College Art Association, Roundtable/Panel, Museum of Art and Design, New York, The Feminist Art Project at CAA, Invited, 02/2011
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""Prehistoric Modern: Cave Paintings in the Museum of Modern Art"", "Terra Dialogue" (colloquium) with invited response by Elisabeth Lebovici," , Lecture/Seminar, Paris, Terra Foundation, Europe, Invited, 12/2010
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" "AIDS Timeline: Group Material and Late 20th-century America,"", Group Material’s Show and Tell: A Day of Lectures and Talks about Group Material, Lecture/Seminar, New York City, Artists Space, Invited, 10/2010
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""On the Limits of Contemporary Art Criticism" ", What Happened to Art Criticism? ---Problems in Chinese and Western Art Criticism . Second Annual Ch, Lecture/Seminar, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China, May 2010 , Invited, 05/2010
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Other Presentations |
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" "Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of American Art," ", Multiple Feminisms Lecture Series, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 09/2011
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""Art, Sex, and Censorship"", Museum Lecture, Philbrook Museum of Art (cosponsored by Oklahomans for Equality), Tulsa, OK, 07/2011
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""Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of American Art"", Distinguished Lecture in American Art, Dept. of Art and Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 04/2011
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""Around the World with Andy Warhol" February 2011", Brooklyn College Department of Art Lecture Series, Dept. of Art, Brooklyn College, 02/2011
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""Around the World with Andy Warhol" February 2011", Museum Lecture, Indiana Museum of Art, February 2011, Bloomington, Indiana, 02/2011
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""What was Contemporary Art?"", Interdisciplinary Seminar Lecture Series , Cooper Union, New York City, 02/2011
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""Submerged: On Sexuality, American Art, and Alice Austen," ", lecture and workshop, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ("Something you should know" seminar), Paris, 12/2010
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""Warhol in Kazakhstan"", Public lecture, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London, London, 12/2010
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""Pre-historic Modern: Cave Paintings in the Museum of Modern Art"", Public lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11/2010
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""Submerged: On Sexuality, American Art, and Alice Austen," ", Research Forum Lecture Series., Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11/2010
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""Warhol in Kazakhstan"", invited lecture, University of York, Dept. of Art History, York, England, 11/2010
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""Unspoken: Lynda Benglis and the Limits of Art Criticism"", museum lecture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (in conjunction with Lynda Benglis retrospective), Providence, Rhode Island, 10/2010
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""A Reason to Get Up in the Morning"", museum lecture, Seattle Art Museum (in conjunction with "Andy Warhol Media Works" exhibition) , Seattle, 08/2010
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""Art and Feminism in the 1970s: A Conversation with Anita Steckel"", Public Conversation, Sachs Forum, ICA, Philadelphia ,
Fall
2007
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""Art, Sex, and Censorship from Paul Cadmus to the Patriot Act"", Public Lecture, Chicago History Museum,
Spring
2007
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Publications |
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Book |
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 Meyer, R., Lord, C.
(2011).
_Art and Queer Culture_. (Meyer, Richard and Catherine Lord, Ed.). London: Phaidon Press.
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Meyer, Richard Evan and David Román (Ed.).
(2006).
Art Works, Parts I and II, Two special issues of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. (Vol. 12, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
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Essay |
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Meyer, R.
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"Unphotographable, Or, The Archives of Elliott Hundley,". pp. 12. Columbus, Ohio. Wexner Center for the Arts (exhibition catalogue).
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Meyer, R.
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"‘Los Angeles Meant Boys’: David Hockney, Bob Mizer, and the Lure of Physique Photography," . pp. 183-185. (Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2011)..
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Meyer, R.
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"Big Middle Class Modernism". pp. 69-115. Cambridge, MA. October/MIT Press.
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Journal Article |
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Meyer, R. E.
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"Representing the Passions from Bamberg Cathedral to Bill Viola". Textual Practice.
Vol. 22 (1), pp. 123-132 plus response by Lynda Nead (133-143).
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Meyer, R. E.
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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Duke University Press.
Vol. 12 (3), pp. 441-464.
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Magazine/Trade Publication |
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Meyer, R. Artforum. pp. 178-181.
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Meyer, R. E. Artforum. pp. 211-212, 538.
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Other |
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Meyer, R.
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L.A. Stories: A Roundtable. Artforum.
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Meyer, R.
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"Bone of Contention". _Lynda Benglis_, exhibition catalogue, English and bilingual (English/French) editions.
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Meyer, R.
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"Decorating from A to Z: A Conversation between Virgil Marti and Richard Meyer". Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Meyer, R. E. Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works |
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Museum Exhibition, "Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles"
Guest-curated major exhibition of Weegee's photography at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Over 250 works and objects of ephemera on display, exhibition budget---$250,000.00, 2011-2012
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Museum Exhibition , "Warhol's Jews:
Ten Portraits Reconsidered,"
Exhibition of Warhol paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs guest curated for the Jewish Museum in New York. "Warhol's Jews" will travel to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco this fall (October - December 2008).
Review of exhibition: New York Times, March 28, 2008., 2007-2008
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Advisement |
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Other Advisement or Time Devoted to Students |
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While on leave at the University of Pennsylvania, I met with 5 of my advanced Ph.D. students on a regular basis throughout the year in Los Angeles, New York, and, in one case, Philadelphia. All five students successfully passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams at the end of the academic year., 2006-2007
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Guest Lectures in Courses |
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Informed: Art, Sex, War, and Gender Politics in Am: As Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute, I taught 6 weeks of this graduate seminar.,
Fall
2010
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New Courses Developed |
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"Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating", Art History/USC Fisher Museum, In collaboration with Selma Holo, I developed the first curatorial course for undergraduates at USC. The year-long course culminated in a student-curated exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in Spring 2010., 2009-2010
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Honors and Awards |
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Terra Foundation for American Art, Visiting Professorship, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11/2010-12/2010
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Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant,
Spring
2008
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Residential Fellowship (declined),
Spring
2007
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USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring,
Spring
2006
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Charles C. Eldredge Prize for the best book on American art, 5/2003
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USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 1999
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Residency at the Getty Center for Humanities and Arts, Postdoctoral Fellowship at Getty Research Institute for History of Art & Humanties, 1998
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Service to the University |
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Administrative Appointments |
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Director, The Contemporary Project
A five-year program to initiate new dialogues between the contemporary art world and the academic community. TCP is jointly sponsored by the Dept. of Art History and the Roski School of Fine Arts, 2007-2012
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Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program, 2008-2011
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Committees |
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Member,
Advisory Committee, International Museum Institute, 2009-2012., 2008-2012
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Member, Provost’s Committee on Interdsiciplinary Hiring, 2008-2012
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Member, Graduate 2nd Year Review Committee, 2011-2012
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Member, Search Committee, Double search
for positions in Modern and Contemporary Art History, 2010-2011
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Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee, Search for Dean, Roski School of Fine Arts, 2009-2010., 2009-2010
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Chair, Founding Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program, 2005-2007
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Chair, Steering Committee, Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative, 2003-2006
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Review Panels |
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USC, Selection Committee, Provostial Ph.D. Fellowships,, 2008-2011
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Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, Grant Evaluator,
Fall
2007
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Service to the Profession |
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Administrative Appointments |
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Director, The Sachs Forum in Contemporary Art, 2006-2007
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Committees |
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Member, CAA Centennial Host Committee (2012 conference in Los Angeles), 2010-2012
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Member, CAA Committee on Women in the Arts, 2009-2012
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Member, J. Paul Getty Center
Pacific Standard Time Advisory Committee, Getty Research Institute, 2009-2011., 2009-2011
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Member, College Art Association, Diversity Practices Committee, 2005-2007
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Member, Site Resources ("Host") Committee and special liaison to the Organizing Committee, 2007 Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, 2006-2007
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Member, Undergraduate Evaluation Board,
Department of History of Art (University of Pennsylvania), 2006-2007
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Conferences Organized |
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Organizer/Moderator, "Can we talk?: Contemporary Conversations (3)", USC Student Center/Mandrake Bar, Two public conversations--one featuring _Artforum_ editor Michelle Kuo and artist Andrea Fraser (moderated by Rochelle Steiner) and one between Elisabeth Lebovici and curator Franklin Sirmans (which I moderated)--were followed by a "morning after" seminar with the speakers and 30 graduate students.,
Spring
2012
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Co-organizer (with Kaja Silverman, "Being There: Anne Wagner in the Berkeley Years" U.C. Berkeley, April 10-11, 2010. , U.C. Berkeley,
Spring
2010
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Co-chair, "Usable Pasts?: American Art from the Armory Show to Art of this Century", University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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editorial board member, American Art, 2010-2011
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Editorial Board Member, Images: A Journal of Jewish Visual Culture, 2010-2011
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Review Panels |
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Creative Capital, Grant Evaluator,
Spring
2010
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