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1 Curriculum Vitae A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1. PERSONAL Name: Louis Perry Kaplan Email: Louis.Kaplan@Utoronto.Ca Primary Curriculum Vitae A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 1. PERSONAL Name: Louis Perry Kaplan Email: [email protected] Primary Title: Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media University Office Addresses: (UTM) Department of Visual Studies, 3359 Mississauga Road North, CCT Building 3059, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6. Office Phone: 905-569-4646. Webpage: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/louis-kaplan (St. George Campus) Graduate Department of Art, Room 6047, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G3. Other University of Toronto Titles and Affiliations: Member, Graduate Faculty, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto Associate Faculty Member, Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto 2. DEGREES Ph.D., Intellectual History Program, Department of History, University of Chicago, June 1988. Doctoral Thesis: “Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings” (391 pages) Co-Supervisors: Tom Conley (currently, Harvard University) and Harry Harootunian (emeritus, New York University) M.A., Intellectual History Program, Department of History, University of Chicago, August 1982 A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University (magna cum laude), June 1981. 1 3. EMPLOYMENT Teaching and Administrative Appointments University of Toronto and University of Toronto Mississauga Professor, Department of Visual Studies (UTM) and Graduate Department of Art, University of Toronto, July 1, 2015-Present. Chancellor Jackman Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015. Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, July 1, 2010-June 30, 2014. Undergraduate Programs in Cinema Studies, Art History, Art and Art History (joint with Sheridan Institute), and Visual Culture and Communication. Professor, Graduate Department of Art, University of Toronto and Department of Visual Studies (UTM), July 1, 2010-Present. Director, Institute of Communication and Culture (ICC), University of Toronto Mississauga, January 1, 2006-June 30, 2010. Supervised four academic units (Professional Writing and Communication, Biomedical Communications, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, and Communication, Culture, and Information Technology) with direct reports from unit heads as well as one non-academic Unit (Blackwood Gallery). Acting Director, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, University of Toronto Mississauga, July 1, 2007 – December 31, 2007. Associate Professor, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Institute of Communication and Culture (Mississauga campus) and Graduate Department of Art (St. George campus), University of Toronto, July 2005-June 2010. Assistant Professor, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Institute of Communication and Culture (Mississauga campus) and Graduate Department of Art (St. George campus), University of Toronto, July 2003-June 2005. Founding Program Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, Visual Culture and Communication, Culture, Communication and Information Technology (CCIT) Program, UTM, July 2003 – June 2006. Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto (Erindale College), July 2002-June 2003. Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, July, 2002-Present. Member, Graduate Faculty, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, April 2011- Present. 2 Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, August 2006-Present. Associate Faculty Member, Centre for Jewish Studies and Collaborative Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, April 2004-Present. Southern Illinois University Assistant Professor of Photography Studies, Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, August 2000 - June 2002 (Tenure-stream position). Tufts University Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Medford MA, Fall 1999 - Summer 2000 (Full-time). Lecturer of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Fall 1998-Summer 1999. Lecturer of Modern Art and Judaic Studies, Department of Art and Art History and Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages, Tufts University, Fall 1997- Summer 1998. Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Fall 1996-Summer 1997 (Full-time). Lecturer of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Summer 1996. Lecturer, Program in Judaic Studies, Department of German Language and Literatures. Tufts University, Spring 1996. Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History, Tufts University, Fall 1995 (Full-time). Other Teaching Appointments Guest Professor, Höger Institut fur Schöne Kunsten (Advanced Institute for Fine Arts, HISK), Antwerp, Belgium, November, 2002. Invitation of Professors Johan Swinnen and Willem Elias. Conducted Studio Critiques with Candidates. Lecturer, Stanford Berlin Study Center, Berlin, Germany, Spring 1991. Lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, Spring and Summer Semesters, 1988. Lecturer, Department of Liberal Studies. Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Fall, 1987. 3 Research Appointments Chancellor Jackman Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015. Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish History, New York, September 2013 – June 2014. Franz Rosenzweig Post -Doctoral Fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, October 1993 - August 1995. Walther Rathenau Post-Doctoral Fellow, History of Modern Science and Technology, Verbund für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany, October 1989 - September 1991. DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Berlin, West Germany, Summer 1989. 4. HONOURS Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2013-2014. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2012-2013. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2011-2012. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2010-2011. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2009-2010. Promotion to Full Professor, University of Toronto, July 1, 2010. Nominated for John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, 2009. 2008 Award for Magazine Article Design (single), Applied Arts: Canada’s Visual Communications Magazine for Louis Kaplan, “Laws of Glass” published in Prefix Photo. Design and Art Director: Underline Studio; Photography: Simon Glass; Text: Louis Kaplan Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2008-2009. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2007-2008. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2006-2007. Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2005-2006. 4 Student Development Award, Erindale Part-time University Students (EPUS), University of Toronto Mississauga, 2003-2004. Excellence Award, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 2001-2002. Nominated for James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association for Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings, 1995. 5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES A. Memberships College Art Association (since 1993) Society for Cinema and Media Studies (since 2014) American Studies Association (since 2009) Association of Jewish Studies (since 1995) Society for Photographic Education (since 2000) European Society of History of Photography (since 2002) International Association of Philosophy and Literature (since 2003) International Association of Word and Image Studies (since 2004) B. Professional and Curatorial Activities Co-organizer of Visit and Introduction of Professor Geoffrey Batchen (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Jackman Humanities Institute, Department of Visual Studies, and Department of Art, May 8, 2013. Organizer of Visit and Introduction of Mike Reiss (Comedy Writer and Producer, The Simpsons), Department of Visual Studies co-sponsored with Cinema Studies Institute, April 1, 2013. Organizer of Visit and Introduction of Professor Ed Dimendberg, Jackman Humanities Institute co-sponsored with Cinema Studies Institute and Department of Visual Studies, March 28, 2013. Co-keynote speaker (with Anthony Wensley), Professional Critique and Networking Event, March 13, 2013. 5 Contributor, Roundtable Discussion on the theme of “Collecting Photographs” with Heather Diack (Keene State College), Maia Sutnik (AGO), and Thierry Gervais (Ryerson), and Matthew Brower (U of T) at the University of Toronto Art Centre, March 2, 2012. Co-Chair and Co-Convener with Dr. Heather Diack (Keene State College), “Conceptual Art as Comedic Practice,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2012. Moderator and Discussant for Panels on “Conceptualism, Transnationalism, and Diaspora” and “Place and Space in the Global Village II” at Traffic: Conceptualism in Canada Conference, University of Toronto, November 26 and 27, 2010. (Presentations by Tomas, Diack, and Tuer; Cheetham, Whitelaw, Modigliani, and Leonard). Chair, “Artistic/Performative
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