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The Art History faculty have wide-ranging areas of expertise from the painted pottery of ancient Athens to postmodern developments in art and theory. Given their strong object orientation, all faculty have at some point in their careers been involved in organizing art exhibitions and writing catalogues. They have been awarded grants and fellowships from several foundations including the Andrew W. Mellon, the Pederewski Foundation, the Ford Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Swann Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
They have received international recognition in many areas. Individual faculty members have served as Fulbright Fellows in Holland and Italy, as a Delmas Scholar in Venice, and as resident scholars in Greece and Italy. They have presented scholarly papers at international symposia and congresses in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Athens, Bern, Catania, Rome, Rhodes, Bangkok, Mexico City and Venice. Their books have been published in Dutch, Spanish, German, Japanese and Korean translations, and they have had articles published in numerous foreign periodicals.
Departmental and faculty affiliations include the American Institute for Indian Studies, the American Academy in Rome, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Pollock-Krasner Study Center.
Several curators at the Cleveland Museum of Art are adjunct faculty in the art history program. They offer courses and supervise independent study courses.
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Henry Adams
hxa28@case.edu
Professor of American Art
Ph.D. Yale University, 1980
B.A. Harvard University, 1971
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A specialist in American Art of the 19th century, Dr. Adams has worked at a number of museums: served as curator of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, as curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, as curator of American Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, as director of the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville, Florida, and as interim director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Kansas City. He has also taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh, Colorado College, the University of Kansas, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Dr. Adams has published widely, focusing principally on American artists of the 19th and early 20th century including: George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Cole, John F. Kensett, John La Farge, William Morris Hunt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Hart Benton, John Graham, Fairfield Porter, and David Hockney. He has curated numerous major traveling exhibitions and produced several books and exhibition catalogues, including John La Farge (principal author), 1987; Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, 1989; Thomas Hart Benton: Drawing from Life, 1990; Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider (principal author), 1997; and Dale Chihuly: Thirty Years in Glass, 1997. In 1989, in partnership with acclaimed film maker Ken Burns, he produced a documentary on Thomas Hart Benton which was broadcast nationally on PBS to an audience of 20 million.
He has received the following awards:
Distinguished Service Medal from William Jewell College for his career's contribution to Kansas City and the Midwest. (1989)
College Art Association's Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize. (1985)
Frances Blanshard Prize from Yale University for the best doctoral dissertation in the history of art.
David Carrier
dxc89@case.edu
Champney Family Professor
Joint Appointment - CWRU/Cleveland Institute of Art
Ph.D. Columbia University
Dr. Carrier's CV
David Carrier, a former professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy, Princeton University; a Getty Scholar; and a Clark Fellow. He has lectured in China, Europe, India, New Zealand and North America. His books include: Artwriting; Principles of Art History Writing (which has been translated into Chinese); Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology; The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s; an edition in Italian of Poussin's letters; High Art. Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism; England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste; Garner Tullis. The Life of Collaboration; The Aesthetics of the Comic Strip; Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: from Formalism to beyond Postmodernism; Writing About Visual Art; Sean Scully; and Art and Its Metamorphoses: Museum Skepticism and the Modernist Public Art Museum (2006), which will be translated into Chinese.
His two lectures on the museum and art history are forthcoming in a Greek book, as is his world art history. He is writing a book about the aesthetic theories of Marcel Proust and Andy Warhol; a catalogue for the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; and a revision of his book on Poussin. For 2006-7 David Carrier is a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Anne Helmreich
anne.helmreich@case.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1994
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1989
B.A. Dickinson College, 1985
Institute of European Studies, 1983-84
Dr. Helmreich's CV
Anne Helmreich, Associate Professor, is a specialist in nineteenth-century European art with an emphasis in the art, architecture, and landscape design of Great Britain. She has taught period courses and seminars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art as well as courses on issues of gender and sexuality, museum studies, and the history of photography. Her research interests include the relationship between art and national identity, representations of women, careers of women artists, the development of the art market, landscape and nature, and historic painting techniques.
Before coming to Case Western Reserve University, she taught at Texas Christian University. She has assisted with exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Her recent book, The English Garden and National Identity, the Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), received the Historians of British Art Prize for Best Book on a post-1800 topic. She has also been recognized for her teaching; for example, she was named Mortar Board Preferred Professor in 2000. Her research has been supported with fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Huntington Library, the Graham Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks, and the American Philosophical Society.
Ellen G. Landau
exl3@case.edu
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Ph.D. University of Delaware, 1981
M.A. George Washington University
B.A. Cornell University
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Ellen G. Landau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has taught in the Cleveland Museum of Art/ CWRU Joint Program in Art History since 1982, with courses specializing in 20 th century American and European art and theory, particularly Abstract Expressionism.
Dr. Landau earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University (1969), her M.A. from The George Washington University (1974), and her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware (1981). The many honors and fellowships received by Dr. Landau include fellowships awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. Most recently she was named the 2003-2004 Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ.
In addition to publishing Jackson Pollock (Harry N. Abrams, NY and Thames & Hudson, London, 1989), Dr. Landau has written numerous articles and essays for American and European art journals and exhibition catalogues, and has participated in national and international symposia in her area of expertise. In 1995 she published Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné (Abrams) under the auspices of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Robert Miller Gallery, New York. Dr. Landau was co-curator of a Krasner/Pollock joint retrospective held at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1989-90, the first Krasner and Pollock show produced in Europe.
Dr. Landau's current projects include a methodological study of Abstract Expressionist criticism, Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique to be published in 2005 by Yale University Press and Mexican and American Modernism in process. The latter will comprise a set of case studies of the developmental impact of early experiences in Mexico and/or with Mexican art on the careers of Pollock, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi and Robert Motherwell.
Dr. Landau is currently acting as curator for Pollock Matters, an exhibition that focuses on the artistic and personal interrelationships of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner with painter Mercedes Matter and the noted photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter (see www.pollockexhibit.com). It will feature a cache of newly found paintings by Pollock from the latter's estate and will travel internationally in 2006-2008. Dr. Landau is primary author for a book of that title to be published by Harry N. Abrams, NY to accompany the show.
Miriam Levin
mrl3@case.edu
Associate Professor of History
Secondary Appointment in Art and Art History
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A. and B.A. University of Michigan
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Miriam Levin teaches cultural history and history of technology and science. She holds degrees in History of Art (B.A. and M.A., University of Michigan) and European History (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst). She has published widely on public cultural policy promoting technology and science, the wedding of art and science, the social uses of printed images, and museums as modern cultural forces. Her books include: Cultures of Control (contributing editor); When the Eiffel Tower Was New: French Visions of Progress at the Centennial of the Revolution; Republican Art and Ideology in Late 19th Century France; and Defining Women’s Scientific Enterprise, which is currently a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Elected Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2004, she was invited to be the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Visiting Professor at the University of Gottingen, Germany; and Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and the University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre des Recherches en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (Paris) and the Smithsonian Institution; a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to being a Pulitzer Prize nominee, her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the ACLS, the Smithsonian Institution, and the CNRS in France. In 1998 she received the Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching at Case. She currently heads a six-person research team writing a book on Inventing an International Culture of Change in Six Cities (1870-1930) funded by the National Science Foundation.
Jenifer Neils - ON LEAVE
jxn4@case.edu
Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1980
M.A. Sydney University, 1978
M.F.A. Princeton University, 1977
A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1972
Dr. Neils's CV
In addition to teaching classical art and archaeology since 1980, Neils has guest-curated two major international loan exhibitions: "Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens" (1992), and “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past” (2003), and edited and co-authored their catalogues. Her most recent book is The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge University Press 2001) and she is currently editing a book on the Parthenon, also for Cambridge. Neils has been a visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a resident of the American Academy in Rome, and Fellow at the Getty Research Institute. For six years she was on the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she organized numerous exhibitions and wrote the second volume of its catalogue of Greek vases. She is also a field archaeologist and has excavated at Torone in northern Greece, as well as two sites (Murlo and Morgantina) in Italy. Her current research is an examination of war monuments and the construction of memory in classical Athens .
Edward J. Olszewski
ejo@case.edu
Professor of Art History
Chair of the Department of Art History and Art
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1974
M.A. University of Minnesota, 1970
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1964
B.S. University of Detroit, 1958
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Professor Olszewski has taught at CWRU since 1971, specializing in courses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history. His research interests include Italian Renaissance drawings, art treatises, and late Baroque patronage in Rome and Venice. He has published articles and reviews in scholarly journals such as The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, artibus et historiae, Art Journal, Renaissance Quarterly, Storia dell'arte and The Journal of History of Collections. His books include a translation and critical edition of G.B. Armenini's treatise on painting of 1586, and a study of late Italian Renaissance drawings, The Draftsman's Eye. He is co-editor of and a contributing author for the Midwest Art History Society's Corpus of Drawings in Mid-western Collections, and has completed a monograph on the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni (American Philosophical Society, 2004),
which received the John Frederick Lewis Award.
Professor Olszewski has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Hays and Delmas Foundations as well as grants from the American Philosophical Society, among others. In 1979 he served as guest curator for an exhibition of drawings at The Cleveland Museum of Art. He has been awarded the University's John S. Diekhoff Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Professor Olszewski has directed several PhD dissertation topics including an annotated translation of Giulio Mancini's Considerazioni sulla pittura, the relationship of anatomical drawings and medical illustration in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and Michelangelo's use of clay and wax models.
Constantine Petridis - ON LEAVE
cpetridis@clevelandart.org
Joint Appointment
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Associate Curator of African Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Ph.D. Ghent University, 1997
M.A. Ghent University, 1991
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Constantine (Costa) Petridis was born and raised in Belgium. During his studies in art history and archaeology at Ghent University, he specialized in non-Western art, with an area emphasis on Central Africa. For his Ph.D. dissertation he conducted archival, museum, and field research on the art of the Luluwa people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex-Zaire). Earlier, while working at the Antwerp Ethnographic Museum, he co-curated the exhibition Face of the Spirits: Masks from the Zaire Basin, which later traveled to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. (1993-94).
Upon receiving his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Petridis spent two academic years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on fellowships from the Museum’s Jane and Morgan Whitney Fund (1997-98) and the Belgian American Educational Foundation (1998-99). Before he assumed his joint appointment at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Dr. Petridis was a postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (F.W.O.) and a lecturer at Ghent University. At that time he also curated an exhibition on the Belgian art scholar and anthropologist Frans Olbrechts and the history of African art studies at the Antwerp Ethnographic Museum.
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, Dr. Petridis directed the reinstallation of the gallery of Art of Sub-Saharan Africa (2003-2005). The occasion was accompanied by the publication of a book titled South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art and the organization of a wide variety of public lectures and events.
In the fall of 2004, Dr. Petridis was awarded a teaching release and traveled to Mali and Burkina Faso in West Africa. In Mali he explored and photographed Islamic urban centers, settlements of the nomadic Tuareg people, archaeological sites in the Niger Delta, and the Dogon region along the Bandiagara cliffs. In Burkina Faso he started a research project on masks and other art forms of the Tusyan people.
Most recently, Dr. Petridis was appointed Consulting Curator of African Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, where he is involved with the installation of the renowned Frum Collection of African Art in a new space to be opened in the Frank Gehry-designed transformation of the Gallery in 2008.
Catherine B. Scallen
cbs2@case.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1990
M.A. Williams College
B.A. Wellesley College
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Dr. Scallen is a specialist in Northern Baroque art, with a particular emphasis on the art of Rembrandt. At Princeton she wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Rembrandt's etchings of Saint Jerome, and served as a lecturer on the faculty for a year. After obtaining her doctorate, she conducted research on Dutch paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum (then in Malibu) as a Graduate Fellow in the Paintings Department. Earlier, at Williams she co-curated a traveling exhibition, "Cubism and American Photography, 1910-1930," and worked for the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute. First arriving at Case Western Reserve University in 1991-92 as a visiting professor of art history, she rejoined the Case Western Reserve University full time in 1995 and was tenured in 2001. From 1992 to 1995 she taught at Fairfield University in Connecticut. Dr. Scallen has published articles and catalogue essays on various topics in the art of Rembrandt, the historiography of art history, as well as on seventeenth-century Flemish drawings, nineteenth-century French paintings, and American photography. Her book, Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship (Amsterdam University Press, 2004), traces the development of modern Rembrandt connoisseurship in the formative period from 1890 to 1935 as a study in the professionalization of art-historical practices.
She is currently at work on several projects about the relationships between art dealers and Rembrandt scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the historiography of Rembrandt prints.
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Adjunct Faculty
Michael Bennett
Ph.D. Harvard University
Curator, Greek and Roman Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct, Greek and Roman Art
Sue Bergh
Ph.D. Columbia University
Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct Associate Professor, Art of the Ancient Americas
Michael Cunningham
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Adjunct, Asian Art
Jane Glaubinger
Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
Curator of Prints, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct, Prints and Drawings
Tom Hinson
M.A. Case Western Reserve University
Curator, Contemporary Art and Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct, Contemporary Art and Photography
Holger A. Klein
Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
The Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct, Medieval Art
Heather Lemonedes
Ph.D.
Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct, Prints and Drawings
William Robinson
Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
Curator, Modern European Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct Associate Professor, Modern Art
Marjorie Williams
M.A. University of Michigan
Director of Education and Public Programs, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Asian Art
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