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Modern/ContemporaryJONATHAN P. RIBNER725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210B Director of Graduate Admissions; Associate Professor; Nineteenth-Century and Modern Art. B.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D. New York University. Professor Ribner was appointed to the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1985. A specialist in European painting and sculpture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Professor Ribner researches the art of France and England in relation to the history of politics, law, literature, religion, and science. The author of Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix (University of California Press, 1993), he is currently working on a book concerned with art and Anglo-French rivalry in the age of Victoria. He regularly presents papers at the annual meetings of the College Art Association and the Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and has published articles and book reviews in The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, The British Art Journal, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and The American Historical Review. He teaches two courses each semester, including one graduate course, and the modern section of the spring survey course. In addition to AH 790 "Colloquium in 19th-Century Art, Professor Ribner offers courses with various topics under the rubric AH 889 "Seminar in 19th-Century Art. These topics include "Art and Nationalism in Europe, 1774-1900," "Impressionism through Symbolism," and "The Age of Victoria." Professor Ribner also teaches a graduate seminar in the art of Picasso. He has served as first reader for two dissertations on 19th-century European art, and has regularly been the advisor for Master's Scholarly Papers in topics covering twentieth-century and contemporary art, as well as that of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ribner was awarded a Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. from the American Council of Learned Societies (1987) and Junior Fellowships from the Humanities Foundation, Boston University (1993-94, 1987-88). KIM SICHEL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202E Associate Professor; History of Photography and Modern Art. A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University Professor Kim Sichel has been teaching at Boston University since 1987. A scholar of photographic history and European modernism, she served as Chair of the Art History Department from 2002 to 2005, as Director of Museum Studies, and as Director of the Boston University Art Gallery from 1992 to 1998. Professor Sichel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern European art and the history of photography. She advises a large number of graduate students studying photography and modern art, as well as advising dissertations in the American and New England Studies Program. Her research specialties are in the history of photography. Recent books include Germaine Krull/Monte Carlo (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), and Evelyn Hofer (Steidl, 2004). She is the author of Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity, (1999), published in English by MIT Press and in German by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. This book was a finalist for the Kraszna-Kraus Foundation awards for best photographic history book of 1999, and won an award for best photography monograph for 1999 from the Maine Photographic Workshops. In addition, she has published numerous articles, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues in Europe and the United States. The catalogues include Street Portraits 1946-1976: The Photographs of Jules Aarons (2003); Brassai: Paris le jour, Paris la nuit (1988); From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography (1995); Black Boston: Documentary Photography and the African American Experience (1994); Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library (1992); Turn of the Century Photographs by Robert Demachy (1983); Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity, and the Documentary Mode (1998); and Philip Guston 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles (1998) . Current projects include a study of historical and contemporary aerial photography, and a book on documentary photography in the 1970s. Professor Sichel has received a Fellowship for University Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-1995), a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1994-1995), has been a Junior Fellow at the Boston University Humanities Foundation (1996-1997, 1989-1990) and served as a Senior Fellow in 2005-2006. GREGORY WILLIAMS725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 215C Assistant Professor; Contemporary Art. BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA, Tufts University; PhD, City University of New York. Gregory Williams received his PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Since arriving at BU in 2005, he has delivered lectures and participated in conferences in Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Beacon (New York) and Cologne. An editor-at-large of Brooklyn’s Cabinet magazine, he has published art criticism in numerous periodicals, including Artforum International and Texte zur Kunst, and has contributed several essays to international exhibition catalogues. He has written catalogue essays for the retrospective exhibitions of Rosemarie Trockel at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2005) and Martin Kippenberger at the Tate Modern in London (2006). His essay, “Jokes Interrupted: Martin Kippenberger’s Receding Punch Line,” first published as part of the Kippenberger retrospective at the Tate Modern, was reprinted in Jennifer Higgie, ed., The Artist’s Joke (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). He teaches lecture courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels in modern and contemporary art and critical theory. His book-in-progress explores art, humor and politics in West Germany from the 1960s through the 1980s. Professor Williams has received several fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a grant from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, as well as a Faculty Research Visit Grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). He was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Getty Foundation, which will support a leave of absence during the 2008-2009 academic year. PATRICIA HILLS725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 301B Professor; American Art. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., City University of New York, Hunter College; Ph.D., New York University Professor Hills teaches courses on American art and visual culture, and is a specialist in the history of American painting, African American art, and art and politics. Major books and catalogues for exhibitions she organized include: Stuart Davis (1996), John Singer Sargent (1986), Alice Neel (1983), Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s (1983), The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection (1980), Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910 (1977), The Painters' America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910 (1974), The American Frontier: Images and Myths (1973), Eastman Johnson (1972). She has also contributed essays to catalogues of major exhibitions, such as Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (1993), Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990 (1992), The West as America (1991), Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket (1990). Her articles have appeared in American Art, Oxford Art Journal, Prospects, Archives of American Art Journal, Dictionary of Women Artist, The Encyclopedia of New York City, American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts Vol. 2, Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850 (1998), and Redefining American History Painting (1995). Eastman Johnson: Painting America (1999), which she co-curated with Brooklyn Museum of Art curator Teresa A. Carbone, won the Henry Allen Moe Prize for most outstanding exhibition catalogue in the State of New York for the year 1999. She has held both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center and the W. E. B. Du Bois Center, both of Harvard University. Her textbook/anthology, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is currently writing a book on Jacob Lawrence. |
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| Boston University Department of Art History | August 17, 2007 |