JACKSON DAVIDOW www.jacksondavidow.com • [email protected]
EDUCATION Ph.D. History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2019.
Dissertation: “Viral Visions: Art, Activism, and Epidemiology in the Global AIDS Pandemic.”
Advisor: Caroline A. Jones.
M.A. Art History, University of Toronto, 2013.
B.A. Art History (Honours), McGill University, 2012.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2020 New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Fellowship. 2020 Research Travel Grant, Duke University Rubenstein Library. 2019 Photographic Arts Council—Los Angeles Research Fellowship, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
2019 Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship, Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University. 2018 Junior Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 2017-18 Wasserman Forum Assistant Fellowship, MIT List Visual Arts Center. 2018 MIT-Africa Travel Grant. 2017 Schlossman Research Award. 2016 Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts. 2015 Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund Award. 2013 The Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Award. 2013-14 MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship.
PUBLICATIONS Refereed Article
“Art Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and American Modernism.” American Art 32, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 80-99.
Book Chapter
“Beyond the Binary: The Gender Neutral in JJ Levine’s Queer Portraits.” In Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Edited by Amelia Jones and Erin Silver, 304-319. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Criticism and Reviews
“‘Boston’s Apollo’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.” Art in America (May 2020).
“Polaroid’s History through Two Lenses: One Sanitized, One Playful.” Art in America (March 2020).
“Avram Finkelstein’s After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images.” Critical Inquiry (Winter 2019): 552-53.
“Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning.” Sequitur 3, no. 1 (2016): https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2016/12/02/davidow-salcedo/#more-1956.
Other
“Reading The Bostonians in Boston.” Thresholds 43 (2015): 66-75, 316-325.
“Notes on Peace/Process/Art.” In Here, Without: Art, Otherness and Israel-Palestine. Edited by Ethan Pierce, 49-53. Cambridge: BBP Inc., 2015.
“Towards a Queer Neutral in Photography.” In Queer Portraits: 2006-2015 by JJ Levine, translated by Léonie Demers-Dion. Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2015.
INVITED TALKS
“AIDS After Apartheid: A Transnational History of Paper Prayers.” “Bodies in the Archive: The Role of Art History” workshop. School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland. March 2019.
“Memorializing Queer History: The Case of the New York City AIDS Memorial.” Alongside and in conversation with Studio AI Architects (designer of the memorial). Harvard Graduate School of Design. April 2018.
“Notes on Peace/Process/Art.” Open Engagement Conference, Carnegie Mellon University. April 2015.
“I Am Not a Camera.” “Here, Without” Conference, Harvard University. January 2015.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Symposium Organized
“Future Genders.” The Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center. With Lenny Schnier. November 2018.
Panel Organized
“HIV in Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Histories.” Co-Chair with Neil Macdonald, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College London. April 2018. Papers Presented
“The Locker Room Project, HIV/AIDS, and the Making of a Global Queer Public Culture in Cape Town.” Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Brighton and University of Sussex. April 2019.
“Globalization After Apartheid: HIV/AIDS, Artist Proof Studio, and the Paper Prayers Campaign.” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York. February 2019.
“A Diasporic Virus: Queer Art and Criticism in the British Black Arts Movement.” British Art and the Global Conference, UC Berkeley. September 2018.
“Viral States and Queer Spaces: AIDS Activism and Art Alongside the U.S./Canada Border.” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. October 2017.
“Freedom as a Skill: Occupational Therapy and American Modernism.” Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Loughborough University. April 2017.
“Thinking Globally About Contemporary Histories of Art and Activism.” South African Visual Arts Historians Conference, University of Johannesburg. July 2016.
“La Vie en Rose: Love in Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood.” Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, Tufts University. October 2015.
“Competing Contracts: Cruising and Photography in the Digital Age.” Art History Graduate Symposium, UC Berkeley. April 2014.
“Cruising Atopia: The Mourning of the Gender Neutral in Photography.” The Renaissance of Roland Barthes, CUNY Graduate Center. April 2013.
“Visualizing the Transgender Body in Lili Elbe’s Man Into Woman.” Women and Art: Continuing Discourses Conference, Concordia University. March 2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer for “Modern and Contemporary Art in the Global South.” RISD, 2019.
Lecturer for “Queer Space: Explorations in Art and Architecture.” Tufts University, 2018. Cross-listed in Art History, Architectural Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Graduate of the Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program. MIT, 2016.
Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to Art History.” Prof. David Pullins, MIT, 2016.
Teaching Assistant for “Modern Art and Mass Culture.” Prof. Caroline A. Jones, MIT, 2015.
Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to Art History.” Prof. Kristel Smentek, MIT, 2014.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Mark Cheetham. University of Toronto, 2012-13.
Curatorial Research Assistant for Jonathan David Katz. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 2012-13.
Research Assistant for Cecily Hilsdale. McGill University, 2011-12.
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Graduate Student Representative for Doctoral Admissions Committee. History, Theory and Criticism Program, MIT, 2017.
Guest Critic, Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. MIT, 2014-17.
Programmer for Graduate Student Life Grant (with Angel Chen). MIT, 2016.
Co-Organizer for History, Theory and Criticism Forum Lecture Series (with Jessica Varner and Nushelle de Silva). MIT, 2016.
Search Committee Member for Chair in East Asian Art History. McGill, 2012.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Peer Reviewer for ASAP/Journal and Thresholds.
LANGUAGES
French (Fluent), German (Intermediate).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
College Art Association (2016-present) Association for Art History (2017-present)