Amy F. Ogata September 2021
Art History Department University of Southern California 3501 Trousdale Parkway, THH 355 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0351 [email protected]
Education Ph.D., Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1996 M.A., Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1992 A.B., Art History, Smith College, 1987
Appointments Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Professor of Art History, 2014-present Interim Chair of Art History, 2021-2022 Chair of Art History, 2015-2018 The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY Professor, 2013-2014 Chair of Academic Programs, 2010-2012 Associate Professor, 2004-2013 Assistant Professor, 1998-2004 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Assistant Professor, 1996-1998
Fellowships & Honors Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow (Winter), 2020 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2016 Getty Research Institute, Research scholar (Fall), 2015 Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant, College Art Association, 2012 Spencer Foundation Research Grant, 2008-9 CRS Archive Center, Texas A&M University, Archive Scholar, 2008 Smithsonian Institution, Lemelson Center, Senior Fellowship (Summer), 2005 Canadian Centre for Architecture, Study Centre Fellowship (Summer), 2004 American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003-4 Cleveland Institute of Art Professional Development Grant, 1997 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, 1995-6 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Grant, Princeton University, 1994-5 Simpson Travel Grant, Princeton University, 1993 Council on Regional Studies, Princeton University, 1993 Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), Fellow, 1992-3 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award, 1991 2
Publications Books Swedish Wooden Toys, ed. with Susan Weber. New Haven and London: Yale University Press/ Bard Graduate Center, 2014. • First Place for Publication/Catalog, Association of Art Museum Curators, 2015 • Exhibition & book reviews: New York Times, Metropolis, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. • Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2016 • Eight Best Architecture & Design Books of 2013, AIA Architects Magazine • Reviews: American Historical Review, American Journal of Play, Architects' Newspaper, ARLIS, Buildings and Landscapes, Consumption, Markets & Culture, Choice, Dwell, Home Cultures, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, Journal of American History, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Design History, Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Lion and the Unicorn, The New Yorker (online), Winterthur Portfolio • Interviews: Boston Globe, KPFA Pacifica Radio
Fredun Shapur: Playing with Design. Paris: Éditions Piqpoq, 2013. • Review: Design Observer
Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. • Reviews: Journal of Design History, Architectural Review, 19thc Art Worldwide
Work in Progress Metal, the Metallic, and the Making of Modern France (book project)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “Making Metal Work,” West 86th (forthcoming 2021/22)
“Aluminium, Orfèvrerie, Industry and Allegory in Second Empire France,” Art History 42, no.3 (2019): 482-509.
“The Heathcote School: An Object Lesson,” The Senses and Society 4, no. 3 (2009): 347-352.
“Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 4 (2008): 562-591. 3
“Building Imagination in Postwar American Children’s Rooms,” Studies in the Decorative Arts (issues in interior design history edited by Pat Kirkham, Penny Sparke, and Jeremy Aynsley) 16, no. 1 (2008-09): 126-142.
“Creative Playthings: Educational Toys and Postwar American Culture,” Winterthur Portfolio 39, nos. 2/3 (2004): 129-156. [Appeared Summer 2005]
“Viewing Souvenirs: Peepshows and the International Expositions,” Journal of Design History 15, no. 2 (2002): 69-82.
“Art Nouveau and the Image of the Artisan in Fin-de-Siècle Belgium,” Apollo Magazine (Special Art Nouveau Issue edited by Paul Greenhalgh) CLI (May 2000): 47-51.
Book Chapters (peer-reviewed) & Exhibition Catalogue Essays “Visiting and Playing with the 1939 New York World's Fair,” Playful Place, edited by Medina Lasansky and Chad Randl, MIT Press, 2023. (Forthcoming)
“Designing a Metallic Modernity in Mid-Nineteenth Century France,” A Companion to French Art, edited by Natalie Adamson and Richard Taws, Wiley 2021/22. (Forthcoming)
“Educational Facilities Laboratories: Debating and Designing the Postwar American Schoolhouse,” Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy, edited by Kate Darian- Smith and Julie Willis (New York: Routledge, 2016), 55-67.
“Designing Childhood,” Routledge Companion to Design Studies, Penny Sparke and Fiona E. Fisher, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2016), 207-218.
“Objects of Honor: Metalwork in the Evans Collection,” Courtly Treasures: The Collection of Thomas W. Evans, Surgeon Dentist to Napoleon III (Philadelphia: Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 2015).
“Playing and Learning: Wooden Educational Toys in Sweden,” and Introduction, Swedish Wooden Toys (New York and New Haven: BGC/Yale University Press, 2014).
“The Pavilion for the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Art Nouveau, and the Cabinet d’Amateur at the Fin de Siècle,” Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Ulrich Leben and Deborah Krohn (New York: BGC/Yale University Press, 2013).
“Good Toys,” “Back to School,” “The Modern Playroom,” “Disneyland,” and “McDonald’s” in The Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, edited by Juliet Kinchin and Aidan O’Connor (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012). 4
“’To See is to Know’: Visuality and the International Expositions” in A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, edited by Jane Kromm & Susan Bakewell (London: Berg, 2010).
“Belgium and France: Arts, Crafts, and Decorative Arts,” The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World, edited by Wendy Kaplan (Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Thames and Hudson, 2004).
“Henry Van de Velde’s Bloemenwerf: English Books and Belgian Art Nouveau,” The Built Surface: Architecture + Pictures from Antiquity to the Millennium, edited by Karen Koehler and Christy Anderson (London: Ashgate Press, 2002), 73-90.
“Art Nouveau and Antimodernism, Primitivism and Nostalgia,” Policing the Boundaries of Modernism/Antimodernism and Artistic Experience, edited by Lynda Jessup (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001), 165-176.
“The Decorative ‘Arts and Crafts’ at Les XX and la Libre Esthétique,” Belgium: The Golden Decades 1880-1914, edited by Jane Block (New York: Peter Lang, 1997), 67-98.
Conference Proceedings “Making Iron Matter in the French Second Empire,” Motion CIHA 2019 Congress Proceedings (Bologna: Bononia University Press, forthcoming 2021).
“The Playhouse: An Architectural Object Lesson,” The Challenge of the Object / Die Herausforderung des Objekts, CIHA Congress Proceedings, T. 3. Edited by G. Ulrich Großmann/Petra Krutisch (Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2014).
“Cultivating and Commodifying Everyday Creativity in Postwar American Childhood,” Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (ACM October 2009): 221-228.
Encyclopedia Entries & Other Short Articles "Swedish Wooden Toys," Bard Graduate Center at 25 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).
“Art Nouveau,” “Ecole de Nancy,” “Christofle,” “Daum,” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, edited by David Raizman (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).
With Pat Kirkham, “Europe 1830-1900” and “Europe 1900-1950” in A History of Design, Decorative Arts, Material Culture 1400-2000, edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber (New Haven: BGC/Yale, 2013).
“Blocks: Building Childhood and Culture,” Play, Work, Build: Essays on Constructive Toys, 5
edited by Rockwell Group in partnership with the National Building Museum, 2012.
“Elements of the Art Nouveau Interior.” Robert Rosenblum, et al., 2929: The Kogod Collection (Washington, DC: published privately, 2004).
“Creative Playthings’ Play Sculpture,” House & Garden Magazine, August 2002.
“The Case Study House Program,” House: Case Study House Cleveland (Cleveland: Spaces, 2002).
“Gustave Serrurier-Bovy,” The Encyclopedia of Interior Design, edited by Joanna Banham (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 1153-55.
Book & Exhibition Reviews Abbatt Toys: Modern Toys for Modern Children by Alan Powers, West 86th (forthcoming)
Henry van de Velde: The Artist as Designer by Richard Hollis and Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism by Katherine M. Kuenzli, West 86th 27, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2020): 117-120.
Brussels Art Nouveau: Architecture & Design, by Alec Forshaw, H-France, H-Net, 2018.
Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys, by Tamar Zinguer, Journal of the History of Children and Youth 10, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 283-285.
A City for Children: Women, Architecture and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850- 1950, by Marta Gutman, CAA.Reviews (December 8, 2016)
The Architectures of Childhood: Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England, by Roy Kozlovsky, Journal of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth 7, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 561-563.
Architecture on the Carpet: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys and the Genesis of Modern Buildings, by Brenda and Robert Vale and Artemis Yagou, Modernist Complexity on a Small Scale: The Dandanah Glass Building Blocks of 1920, Journal of Design History 28, no. 1 (February 2015): 98-100.
The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities, edited by Anna Mae Duane, American Historical Review 119, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 842-843.
"Design for the Modern Child," exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Journal of Modern Craft 7, no. 1 (March 2014): 89-92.
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The Place of Play: Toys and Digital Cultures, by Maaike Lauwaert, Winterthur Portfolio 45, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 364.
Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, The Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France, by Karen Fiss, West 86th 18, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2011): 264-266.
Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, by Allison J. Pugh, Design and Culture 3, no. 1 (March 2011): 125-127.
Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space and the Material Culture of Children, edited by Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith, Design and Culture 3, no. 1 (March 2011): 117-119.
American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space, by Susan G. Solomon, Design Issues 26, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 82-83.
From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making, by Nathalie Aubert, Philippe Fraiture, and Patrick McGuinness, Journal of Modern History 81, no. 3 (September 2009): 719-721.
A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth 1890- 1960, by Abigail A. Van Slyck, Design and Culture 1, no. 1 (2009): 145-146.
Ground Up: Play as a Design Tool by Liane Lefaivre and Döll, The Architects Newspaper 16, issue 10.03.2007, www.archpaper.com.
The Origins of L’Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire, by Gabriel P. Weisberg, et al., L’Art dans tout: Les arts décoratifs en France et l’Utopie d’un art nouveau, by Rossella Froissart Pezone, Art et Industrie: Les art décoratifs en Belgique au XIXe siècle, ed. by Claire Leblanc, Studies in the Decorative Arts 13, no. 2 (2006). with Pat Kirkham, “Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64, 1 (March 2005): 105-107.
“Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 3 (Autumn 2004): www.19thc-artworldwide.org.
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display, by Jeffrey A. Auerbach, Studies in the Decorative Arts IX (Fall-Winter 2001-2002): 162-163.
Women and the Making of the Modern House, by Alice T. Friedman, Studies in the Decorative Arts VIII (Fall-Winter 2000-2001): 178-180.
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The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography, by Linda Merrill, CAA.Reviews (Spring 1999): www.caareviews.org
Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde, by Stephen Goddard, ed., Print Quarterly XI, no. 3 (1994): 321-323.
Online Publications “Dala Horse,” Object of the Month, Bard Graduate Center, 2015: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/research-forum/articles/90/dala-horse “Ornässtugen i Dalarne/Ornäs Cottage in Dalarna,” Object of the Month, Bard Graduate Center, 2015: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/research-forum/articles/92/ornasstugan-i-dalarne-ornas- cottage “Magnet Master,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2005: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/63600/visiting-scholar-seminar-amy-f-ogata
Curatorial Work Co-Curator (with Susan Weber), “Swedish Wooden Toys/Jouets en Bois Suédois,” Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris: June 2014-January 2015; Bard Graduate Center, New York: September 2015-February 2016
Curatorial Consultant, “The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004
Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Twentieth Century (Architecture & Design), “Charles Rennie Mackintosh,” 1995-96
Co-Curator (with Jacqueline Marie Musacchio and Mimi Hellman) “Ceramics and Culture,” The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994
Conference Papers & Invited Talks “Forging Modern France: Illustrated Albums of Iron Parts in the Second Empire,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 2021.
“Mineral Potential: Mining, Materiality and Manufacture in Second Empire France,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2020.
“Making Iron Matter in the French Second Empire,” Congrès international de l’histoire de l’art/International Congress for Art History (CIHA), Florence, Italy, September 2019.
“Staging Art Deco and Interwar Design: The Visual Context of La Traviata,” Opera for Educators Lecture, LA Opera production of La Traviata, May 2019.
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“Money and the Metallic in Second Empire France: Gold, Silver and the Surtout de Table,” Beyond the Art Market: New Approaches to the Study of Art and Money,” UC Irvine, April 2019.
"Displaced Matter: Cast Iron in Second Empire France," Design History Society Conference, New York, September 2018.
"Mining, Metallurgy and Manufacture in Second Empire France," Mining Value Conference, University of Sydney/Power Institute, Sydney, Australia, August 2018.
"Metal and the Metallic in Second Empire France," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2018.
"Art History/Design History," SUNY-Purchase, Elizabeth Guffey Seminar, Purchase, NY, March 2018.
"Metal, the Metallic and the Design of Second Empire France," L'histoire du design en France colloque, Institut national de l'histoire de l'art, Paris, June 2017.
“Iron Architecture and Mid-Century Crystal Palaces,” New York on Display: 1853 New York Crystal Palace Symposium, Bard Graduate Center, New York, March 2017.
"Aluminum, Industry and Orfèvrerie in Second Empire France," Brown Bag Lecture, Bard Graduate Center, New York, February 2017.
"Aluminum Orfèvrerie and Second Empire France," Association of Art Historians (UK) annual meeting, Sculpture and the Decorative strand, Edinburgh, April 2016.
"The Materiality of Metal in Second Empire France," Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, November 2015.
"Metal and the Metallic in Second Empire France," Selz Lecture, Bard Graduate Center, New York, May 2015.
"Object Lessons: Thinking with Architecture and Design," University of California at Santa Barbara, October 2014.
“Money and the Metallic in Second Empire France,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, February 2014.
“Playing with Design,” Ludics Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 2013. 9
“Design, Creativity, and Postwar American Childhood,” SVA Design Criticism Lecture Series, New York, December 2013.
“Object Lessons,” Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Florida, September 2013.
“Educational Facilities Laboratories: Debating and Designing the Postwar American Schoolhouse,” School is Another Place: The Making and Meaning of the School Environment in the Twentieth Century Symposium, Menzies Center, Kings College London, June 2013.
“Art Nouveau and the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900,” Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winterpark, Florida, January 2013.
“Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Postwar America,” Playing with Modernism Symposium, Museum of Modern Art-Bard Graduate Center, November 2012.
“Playhouse: An Architectural Object Lesson,” International Committee on Art History/Comité International de l’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Nuremberg, July 2012.
“Visual Culture of Creativity: Considering Objects and the Senses,” Locating the Object in Visual Culture Studies panel, Now! Visual Culture Conference, New York University, June 2012.
“Consuming Creativity,” Genealogies of Curiosity and Material Desire, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012.
“Object Lessons: Childhood, Material Culture, and Design History,” Objecting: New Questions and Directions in Material and Cultural Historical Work, Yale University, September 2010.
“Design History,” Keywords Toward a History of Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Les mots-clé pour une histoire des arts décoratif, de l’histoire du design, et de la culture matérielle, BGC-Institut national de l’histoire de l’art seminar, May 2010.
“Cultivating and Commodifying Everyday Creativity in Postwar American Childhood,” Everyday Creativity: ACM SIGGRAPH Creativity and Cognition Conference, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, October 2009. Awarded Best Paper.
“Antimodernism,” What’s Modern About American Art, 1900-1930 Conference, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago and Milwaukee Art Museum, June 2009.
“Object Lessons: Creativity, the Cold War and American Childhood,” The Political Child research seminar, Helsinki University, Finland, May 2009.
“Designing Education in Postwar American Schools: Progressivism, Modernism, and the Cold War,” Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Cincinnati, April 2008. 10
“Museums, Play, and Postwar American Culture,” American Play: Sports, Games, Entertainment and Fantasy in American Culture, Middle Atlantic American Studies Association Conference, Strong Museum, Rochester, April 2008.
“Museums, Play, and the Cult of Creativity in Postwar American Childhood,” Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, Linköpings Universitet, Norrköping, Sweden, June 2007.
“Building Blocks of Utopia: Design, Modernism, and Childhood,” Modernism Symposium, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 2007.
“Japonisme and the Aesthetic Movement,” Decorators’ Club of New York Lecture Series, February 2007.
“Complicating Design History: Innocence, Creativity, and Modernism,” University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 2007.
“Reclus, Van de Velde, and the Applied Arts,” Humanity and the Earth/L’Homme et la terre: The Legacy of Elisée Reclus Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, October October 2006.
“Playrooms,” Moving Home: Exploring Future Agendas for Research in the Domestic Interior, AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior-BGC Conference, March 2006.
“Designing Education in Postwar American Schools,” Material Culture of Childhood Session, Ning De Coninck-Smith, Chair, European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 2006.
Belle Epoque panel, in conjunction with the exhibition “Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama,” The Jewish Museum, New York, March 2006.
“Power in the Playroom: Redesigning the House for the Postwar American Family,” College Art Annual Meeting, Boston, February 2006.
“Exhibiting Things: Decorative Arts and World’s Fairs,” Society of Antiquarians Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, October 2005.
“Building Imagination in the Idealized Spaces of Postwar American Childhood,” Society for Study of the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, Milwaukee, August 2005.
“Design, Creativity, and the Material Culture of Postwar American Childhood,” National Museum of American History Colloquium, Washington DC, June 2005.
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“Design, Creativity, and Postwar ‘Toys,’” Canadian Centre for Architecture, June 2004.
“Design, Creativity and Postwar American Childhood,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, (in conjunction with the exhibition “kid size: The Material World of Childhood”), April 2004.
“The Decorative at the Turn of the Century,” Christie’s Education M.A. Course, December 2004; December 2005.
“Art Nouveau in Belgium,” Decorators’ Club of New York Lecture Series, November 2004.
“Object Lessons: Design, Creativity, and Postwar Educational Toys,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 2003.
“Creative Playthings: Educational Toys and Postwar American Culture,” Toys, Games and Media, 3rd World Conference of the International Toy Research Association/Centre for the Study of Children, Youth & Media, University of London Institute of Education, August 2002.
Panelist, House: Case Study Cleveland, Rethinking Home for the 21st Century, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio, May 2002.
“World’s Fair ‘Peepshows’: Architectural Representation and the Souvenir,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, April 2001. A revised version delivered at the ARLIS/VRA annual meeting, St. Louis, March 2002.
“Modern European Design, 1890-1930,” Christie’s Education, New York, June 2002.
“European Art Nouveau,” Bard Graduate Center Public Programs, September 2002.
“Still Lives and Animated Objects: The Domestic Interior and the Decorative Arts in fin-de-siècle France,” The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, November 2001.
“Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living” Bard Graduate Center Public Programs, October 2001.
“Art Nouveau in fin-de-siècle Europe,” Fairfield University, Conneticut, April 2001.
“Die Nibelungen: Wagnerism, Art Nouveau and the Designs of Carl Otto Czeschka,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 2001.
“Art Nouveau, the Country Cottage and the Garden City Ideal in Belgium,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Miami, June 2000.
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“Peasants, Artisans and the Art Nouveau Cottage,” Peasants Real and Imagined Conference, University of Brighton (UK), March 2000.
“Berlin 1919-1939,” Modern Metropolises: Centers of Design series. Bard Graduate Center/New York Design Center, November 2000.
“The Art Nouveau Interior,” Bard Graduate Center Public Programs, April 2000.
“Fin-de-Siècle Brussels: Metropolis and Modernity,” Modern Metropolises: Centers of Design in Turn-of-the-Century Europe series, Bard Graduate Center/New York Design Center, April 2000.
“National and Colonial,” University of Maryland, September 1999.
“Primitivism, Art Nouveau and the 1897 Congo Exhibition at the Brussels World’s Fair” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, February 1998.
“Society and Style: Art Nouveau in Belgium and France,” Christie’s Decorative Arts Lecture Series, Revival and Reform: The Decorative Arts from 1850-1900, October 1995.
“Artisans, Antimodernism and Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle Belgium,” Policing the Boundaries of Modernity/Antimodernism and Artistic Experience, Queen’s University-Art Gallery of Ontario, April 1996.
“Artisans, Antimodernism and Art Nouveau,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellow’s Symposium, New York, April 1996.
“Gustave Serrurier-Bovy and the ‘Arts and Crafts’ at Les XX and la Libre Esthétique,” Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum Symposium on the Decorative Arts, New York, March 1995.
Conferences & Panels Chaired Co-chair (Michelle Foa), “Global Trade and the Matter of Art,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, February 2022 Convener, Toys and Childhood Symposium, Bard Graduate Center, September 2015 Co-convener (Vanessa Schwartz), Material Evidence, Visual Knowledge, VSRI Conference, USC, April-May 2015 Co-convener (Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O'Connor), Playing with Modernism Symposium, BGC- Museum of Modern Art, November 2012 Chair, “Toys as Visual and Material Culture,” Design Studies Forum Session, College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 2011 Co-Chair (with Julie Ramos), BGC-INHA Collaboration, May 2010 Committee (Pat Kirkham, Catherine Whalen, Michele Majer), Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality Symposium, Bard Graduate Center, April 2010 Chair, “Artists as Designers and Decorative Artists, 1850-1950,” College Art Association 13
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2002 Committee (Jacqueline Musacchio, Mimi Hellman), Art & Domesticity, Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, 1994
Languages Fluent French Reading knowledge of German Basic Dutch and Swedish
Professional Memberships College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians Design History Society Design Studies Forum Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Professional Service Member, National Committee for the History of Art, 2020-2023 Editorial Advisory Board, American Journal of Play, 2019- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Design and Culture, 2004- Chair, Philip Johnson Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2012-13, 2019-20 College Art Association Intellectual Property Committee, 2015-2018 Design Studies Forum, Publication Committee, 2004-10 Reviews Committee, Journal of Design and Culture, 2004-2010 External Reviewer, Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) External Reviewer, IIE Fulbright Competition External Reviewer, Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Competition Reviewer: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Ashgate Press, Berg/Bloomsbury Publishers, Concordia University Press, Duke University Press, Getty Publications, Louisiana State University Press, University of Minnesota Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge Publishers, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press Reviewer: Architectural History, Buildings and Landscapes, Getty Research Journal, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, InVisible Culture, Journal of the American Philosophical Society, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Design History, Journal of Design and Culture, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Material Culture Review, Planning Perspectives, Studies in the Decorative Arts, West 86th M.A. Committee member, Goucher College, Baltimore M.A. Thesis Director, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons, The New School B.A. Thesis Reader, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University
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Institutional Service USC University Committee on Promotion and Tenure (UCAPT), 2016-present Joint Provost/Academic Senate Libraries Committee, 2020-21 Ad Hoc member, Dornsife Committee on Promotion and Tenure (DCAPT), 2019 Chair, Dornsife Humanities Personnel Committee, 2016-17 Dornsife Humanities Personnel Committee, 2015-17 Dornsife NTT Personnel Committee, 2016 Faculty Marshal, USC Graduation 2016, 2017, 2018, Convocation 2021 Interviewer, USC Presidential and Trustee Scholarships, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 Panelist, Graduate School Advanced Fellowships, 2019 Panelist, Dornsife PhD Academy, 2019, 2020, 2021 USC VSRI Executive Committee, 2014-present M.F.A. Committee, Roski School of Art & Design, 2018
USC Department of Art History Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2018, 2020-21, Fall 2021 Chair, Department of Art History, 2015-2018, 2021-2022 Tenure and Promotion Committees, 2015, 2018-19 (4), 2021 Chair, Art History Merit Review Committee, 2018, 2019 Second-Year Review Committee, 2017, 2018 Americanist Search Committee, 2020-21 Early Modern Search Committee, 2015-16 Art History Representative, USC Appeals Board, 2014
BGC Chair of Academic Programs, 2010-2012 Director of Doctoral Studies, 2006-2008; 2009-2011 Initiated BGC workshops on conference papers, PhD programs, publishing, grants Graduate School Panel, Smith Institute for Museum Studies, 2008, 2010, 2012 Committee, Modern Design History Lecture Series, 2007-2014 BGC Postdoctoral Fellow Search Committee, 2006-2007 Chair, BGC 20th Century Search Committee, 2004-2005 BGC 18th Century Search Committee, 2003 BGC Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003; 2012-2014 BGC Library Committee, 1999-2003; 2010-2012 BGC Travel & Research Selection Committee, 2001-2002; 2006-2011 Faculty Advisor, Modern Means BGC Student Symposium, 2001-2002 Graduate Council, Bard College, 1999-2000 Architectural Historian Search Committee, Bard College, 2002 Art History Search Committee, Bard College, 1999-2000
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Courses Offered USC GESM 110 Designing Things for Kids AHIS 121 Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern (General Education survey) AHIS 369 Modern Art II: 1851-1940 AHIS 466 Topics in Decorative Arts and Design: Decadence and Renewal c.1900 AHIS 494 Pro-Seminar in Art History AHIS 520 Art and Design at the Fin de Siècle (graduate seminar) AHIS 593 Practicum in Teaching AHIS 596 Advanced Professional Writing MDA 599 Material Evidence (graduate seminar) VISS 599 World’s Fairs (graduate seminar) Graduate Directed Readings Spring 2015 Simon Judkins, Material Culture and Childhood Spring 2016 Robert Gordon-Fogelson, Materiality Dina Murokh, Materiality Emily Anderson, History of the Modern Book Fall 2016 Robert Gordon-Fogelson, History of Design Jessica Brier, History of Graphic Design Spring 2017 Avigail Moss, History of Design Fall/Spr 2017 Danielle Charlap, History of Design Fall 2020 Dora Vanette, History of Design
BGC (graduate seminars) Art Nouveau in Europe European Modernism The Material Culture of Childhood Readings in Design History Ornament, Primitivism and the Idea of Decoration Architecture and Design in the Weimar Republic Politics and Design of World’s Fairs Postmodernism and Design Survey of the Decorative Arts II Bard Term Abroad, Berlin Bard Term Abroad, Paris Bard Term Abroad, London
CIA (undergraduate) Art History/World Civilizations I, II (two-semester survey) Nineteenth-Century Art Twentieth-Century Art Introduction to Craft and Design History Decadence, Renewal and Millennialism: Art & Culture at the Turn of the Century 16
PhD Dissertations Completed Robert Gordon-Fogelson, “Total Integration: Design, Business and Society in the US, 1935- 1985,” USC Art History, 2021. Dissertation Adviser
Grant Johnson, "Sheila Hicks: Weaving to the World," USC Art History, 2021. Committee
Natalia Lauricella, "Collaboration in Color: Master Printers, Dealer-Publishers, and Avant-Garde Lithography in Late Nineteenth-Century France," USC Art History, 2021. Committee
Maria Perers, “Inside the Ideal Home: The Changing Values of Apartment Living and the Promotion of Consumption in Sweden, 1950-1970,” Bard Graduate Center, 2020. Dissertation Adviser
Jessica Brier, "Typophoto and the Reinvention of Photography in Weimar Germany," USC Art History, 2020. Committee
Rebecca A. Perry, "'That Difficult In-between Age': Fashioning Pre-Adolescent Girls in the United States, c. 1930–1960," Bard Graduate Center, 2020. Dissertation Adviser
Christopher McGeorge, "Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass and Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," USC Art History, 2019. Committee
Lauren Dodds, "The Samuel H. Kress Collection: A Cultural Legacy of Italian Renaissance Art in Midcentury America," USC Art History, 2019. Committee
Jorge Rivas-Perez, “Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and his Circle, 1945- 1965.” Bard Graduate Center, 2018. Committee
Brendan Cory McMahon, "'Where Sight is Scarcely Able to Assure': Transient Color and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic World." USC Art History, 2017. Committee
Yenna Chan, “Everyday Montreal, 1972: Museum and Film Dialogues on Redevelopment.” Bard Graduate Center, 2016. Committee
Frederun Scholz, “Studies on Costume Histories from the Age of German Kulturgeschichte," Bard Graduate Center, 2015. Dissertation Adviser
Sarah A. Lichtman, “'Teenagers Have Taken over the House': Print Marketing, Teenage Girls, and the Representation, Decoration and Design of the Postwar Home,” Bard Graduate Center, 2013. Committee
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Freyja Thorbjørn Hartzell, “Delight in Sachlichkeit: Richard Riemerschmid and the Thingliness of Things,” Yale University, 2012. Committee
Amy Sande-Friedman, “Kenneth Snelson and the Science of Sculpture in 1960s America,” Bard Graduate Center, 2012. Dissertation Adviser
Yumiko Yamamori, “A. A. Vantine: Japanese Handicrafts for the American Consumer, 1895- 1920,” Bard Graduate Center, 2010. Committee
Daniella Ohad Smith, “Hotel Design in Zionist Palestine 1925-1939: Modernism, Tourism, and Nationalism,” Bard Graduate Center, 2006. Dissertation Adviser
Ezra Shales, “John Cotton Dana and the Business of Enlightening Newark: Applied Art at the Newark Public Library and Museum, 1902-29,” Bard Graduate Center, 2006. Committee
Ph.D. Dissertations In Progress USC Dora Vanette, “Architecture and Design of Aging in Postwar United States (1948-68),” Art History, Dissertation Adviser
Danielle Charlap, "Managing Design and Craft at Home and Abroad: James Plaut and Postwar Curation," Art History, Dissertation Adviser
Grace Converse, “Making Belief: Theosophy and the Creative Production of Truth, 1875–1945,” Art History, Dissertation Adviser
Avigail Moss, “The Actuarial Imaginaries of Art and Empire, 1800-1914,” Art History, Committee
Bard Graduate Center Christian Larsen, “Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture.” Committee
Scott Perkins, “Eugene Beyer Masselink, the Taliesin Fellowship, and Frank Lloyd Wright.” Committee
Elizabeth St. George, “A ‘Beautiful Household’ for Czechoslovakia: Krásná jizba and Notions of Modern Living, 1927-38.” Committee
Tom Tredway, “Dinner at Tiffany’s: Van Day Truex and Postwar American Design.” Committee
Note: I advised 40 Master's theses and Qualifying Papers at the Bard Graduate Center, and served as second reader on the same number.