Prof. Dr. Laura Katzman

Professor of Art History

Art History

James Madison University

7870 Archbold Terrace

US

20818 Cabin John, Maryland

katzmalr@jmu.edu

https://www.jmu.edu/artandarthistory/faculty-and-staff/faculty/katzman-laura.shtml

2024121804

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Professor of Art History, James Madison University (2007-present)

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

"Mining the Archive: Photography, Modernity, and the Office of Information for Puerto Rico." Research-in-progress for book and exhibition on documentary photography of Puerto Rico in the 1940s.

Frühere Position(en)

Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art, John F. Kennedy- Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin (2018-19)
Associate Professor of Art and Director of Museum Studies, Randolph College (1995-2007)
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Smith College Program at the Smithsonian Institution (2003-07)
Fulbright Scholar & Guest Professor, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik and Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg (2002-03)
Visiting Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums (1995-2001)

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Drawing on the Left: Ben Shahn and the Art of Human Rights (Harrisonburg: Duke Gallery of Fine Art, 2017; second printing 2018).
Principal author, Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam (University Park: Penn State University Press, revised second edition, 2014).
Co-author, Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000).

Artikel

“The Fine Art of Memorialization: A Conversation with Gunter Demnig,” in Marius Henderson and Julia Lange, eds., Entangled Memories: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017): 39-68.
“Source Matters: Ben Shahn and the Archive,” Smithsonian Archives of American Art Journal 54:2 (Fall 2015): 4-33.
Co-author, “The (Im)permanent Collection: Lessons from a Deaccession,” Museum 88:1 (January/February 2009): 3; 54-64.

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

20th Century Art of the United States; History of Photography; New Deal Documentary Photography; Public Art: Monuments and Memorials; Museum Studies; Visual Culture and Material Culture Studies