Anne Higonnet
Professor, Barnard
Nineteenth-Century arts; history of the history of art
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988

Biography
Anne Higonnet works on nineteenth century art, childhood, and collecting. A Harvard College B.A, she received her PhD from Yale University in 1988. She taught for years at Wellesley College and is now Professor of Art History at Barnard College. She has published four books and dozens of articles on topics ranging from Impressionism to contemporary photography. Her many awards include Guggenheim, Getty, and Social Science Research Council fellowships, as well as grants from the Mellon, Howard, and Kress Foundations. Most recently, she was awarded a Barnard College Presidential Award, and was the faculty speaker at the 2009 Columbia University MA graduation.

Teaching
Teaching and research projects for the 2009-2010 academic year include: an experimental undergraduate seminar at and about a museum, the Frick Collection, funded by the Mellon Foundation; an undergraduate travel seminar on Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century, complete with a trip to Paris; and an investigation into the creation and history of a mysterious masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum, Marie-Denise Villers’s Young Woman Drawing, helped by graduate students Sarah Schaefer and Susan Wager. In the spring of 2009, graduate students, led by Catherine Roach and Emerson Bowyer, organized an major conference on 19th century images, called Multiplying the Visual. Jordan Bear successfully defended his PhD thesis in May 2009.

Publications
Publications include: Berthe Morisot. A Biography. (multiple editions 1989-95); Berthe Morisot's Images of Women. (Harvard University Press, 1992); Pictures of Innocence; the History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood (Thames & Hudson, 1998); Lewis Carroll (Phaidon, 2008); "Myths of Creation; Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin," (in Significant Others, eds. Isabelle de Courtivron and Whitney Chadwick, Thames & Hudson, 1993); and the essays on images in vol.s IV and V of The History of Women, eds. Michelle Perrot and Georges Duby (multiple European, American, and Asian editions, 1992-95.) Her fifth book, on collection museums, is due to appear with Periscope Publishing in 2009.

Contact Information
301 Barnard Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-5050
E-mail: ahigonne@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1:30-3 p.m. and by appointment