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Anne Higonnet
Professor
Columbia University
Art History, Barnard College |
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Biography
Anne Higonnet is Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Professor Higonnet received her Ph.D. in 1988 from Yale University, where she later taught, and she was Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College until 2001. Professor Higonnet specializes in nineteenth-century arts and the history of art history, and also teaches museum studies and collecting. Professor Higonnet is the author of several books, including Pictures of Innocence: the History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood (London, 1998) and Berthe Morisot’s Images of Women (Cambridge, Mass, 1992); she is editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of the History of Childhood (MacMillan, 2004), and has recently finished a history of personal collections museums.
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