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Graduate Courses

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2025

VISS 599: Images Out of Time: Berlin’s Museum Island (co-taught with Megan Luke)

Summer 2025

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2023

VISS 599: Images Out of Time (co-taught with W.J.T. Mitchell)

Summer 2023

AHIS 516: 516 Photography and Visual Culture Does Photography Change Everything?

Fall 2022

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2021

History 520: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures

Fall 2020

VISS 599: Selling the Story: Commercial Pictures and Visual Persuasion

Spring 2020

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2019

AHIS 516: Photography and Visual Culture: Does Photography Change Everything?

Spring 2019

VISS 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2017

MDA 599: Visual History: The Past in Pictures

Spring 2017

MDA 599 Getting the Picture: The History and Visual Culture of the News

Spring 2014

History 520: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures

Fall 2013

MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2013

History 514: Nineteenth Century Europe

Spring 2012

History 620: Research Seminar in Modern Visual Culture

Fall 2011

MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates

Fall 2010

Undergraduate Courses

CORE 101: Symbols and Conceptual Systems

Spring 2025

Core 101: Symbols & Conceptual Systems: Icons

Spring 2023

Art History 499: Paris Projected: Exhibiting Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life

Summer 2022

Art History 476: The Art of Walt Disney

Spring 2021

History 225g: Film, Power and American History

Spring 2020

Core 101: Icons: Symbols and Conceptual Systems

Spring 2019

History 381: Cinema and History

Spring 2017

AH 367 Modern Art II: 1840-1940

Fall 2014

History 429: Street Life: Urban Culture in Modern Europe

Fall 2011

Core 101: Symbols and Conceptual Systems: ICONS

Spring 2011

History 225: Film, Power and American History

Fall 2010

Core 104: Change and Future

Spring 2009

History 498: The Cinematic Century

Fall 2005

History 313: France from Napoleon to Mitterand or, Society and Culture in Modern France, 1789-1999

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