Ph.D. Alumni/ae (2000–present): Current Positions

We invite alumni/ae to share career news. Please contact Nicole Meily () with updates.

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Molly Aitken
(Ph.D., 2000)
Associate Professor, Art Department, City College of New York; Department of Art History, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Eric Anderson
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Modern Design History, Department of Theory and History of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design external link
Richard Anderson
(Ph.D., 2010)
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Head of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh
Talia Andrei
(Ph.D., 2016)
Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Christopher Drew Armstrong
(Ph.D., 2003)
Associate Professor and Director of Architectural Studies, Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Alessio Assonitis
(Ph.D., 2003)
Director, The Medici Archive Project (Florence) and Editor-in-Chief, Memorie Domenicane
Laura Auricchio
(Ph.D., 2000)
Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center and Professor of Art History, Fordham University

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George Baker
(Ph.D., 2001)
Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles external link
Noit Banai
(Ph.D., 2007)
Associate Professor, Art and Theory, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Sheila Barker
(Ph.D., 2002)
Founding Director of the Jane Fortune Research Program at the Medici Archive Project in Florence
Fabio Barry
(Ph.D., 2011)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Stanford University
Jens Bartel
(Ph.D., 2019)
Research and Collections Management, Shibunkaku Company Limited
Jessica Basciano
(Ph.D., 2012)
Senior Program Officer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Adrienne Baxter Bell
(Ph.D., 2005)
Professor of Art History; Director, College Honors Program; Director, External Student Scholarships, Marymount Manhattan College
Caitlin Meehye Beach
(Ph.D., 2018)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Fordham University and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2020–21) external link
Jordan Bear
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto
Jean-François Bédard
(Ph.D., 2003)
Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Emily Beeny
(Ph.D., 2016)
Curator in Charge of European Paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ellen Belcher
(Ph.D., 2014)
Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
Kim Benzel
(Ph.D., 2013)
Curator in Charge, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art external link
Katherine Boivin
(Ph.D., 2013)
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College, as well as Chair of the Art History and Visual Culture Department at Bard external link
Alexander Bortolot
(Ph.D., 2008)
Content Strategist, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Rachel Boyd
(Ph.D., 2020)
Ashmolean-Getty Paper Project Research Fellow, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Isolde Brielmaier
(Ph.D., 2003)
Deputy Director, New Museum, NYC and Curator at Large, International Center of Photography (ICP), NY external link
Stephen Brown
(Ph.D., 2003)
Curator, The Jewish Museum
Denise Budd
(Ph.D., 2002)
Associate Professor of Art History, Bergen Community College
Lorenzo Buonanno
(Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor of Art, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts external link
Diana Bush
(Ph.D., 2013)
Teaching Associate Professor of Art History, College of Arts & Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Raymond Carlson
(Ph.D., 2020)
Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, University of Oxford external link
Roberta Casagrande-Kim
(Ph.D., 2012)
Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Field Director, Amheida Excavations in Egypt, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University external link
Anne Chen
(Ph.D., 2014)
Postdoctoral Associate, Archaia: Yale Program for the Study of Ancient and Premodern Cultures and Societies, Yale University external link
Connie Choi
(Ph.D., 2019)
Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Heather Clydesdale
(Ph.D., 2016)
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, Santa Clara University
Joshua Cohen
(Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor, Art History, The City College of New York external link
Meredith Cohen
(Ph.D., 2004)
Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles
Sandrine Colard
(Ph.D., 2016)
Assistant Professor of African Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Susanna Cole
(Ph.D., 2013)
Distinguished Lecturer, Hunter College
Sonia Coman-Ernstoff
(Ph.D., 2018)
Audience Engagement Strategist, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution external link
Cynthia Conides
(Ph.D., 2001)
Associate Professor of History and Director of Museum Studies, SUNY Buffalo State
Emily Cook
(Ph.D., 2018)
History and Religious Studies High School Teacher, School of the Holy Child Rye, New York
Lindsay S. Cook
(Ph.D., 2018)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History, School of Art, Ball State University external link
Patrick Crowley
(Ph.D., 2011)
Associate Curator of European Art, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Joan Cummins
(Ph.D., 2001)
Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum
Carrie Cushman
(Ph.D., 2018)
Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

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Meredith Davis
(Ph.D., 2005)
Associate Professor of Art History, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Sabina de Cavi
(Ph.D., 2007)
Profesor auxiliar, Department of Art History, FCSH, Universidade Nova, Lisbon
Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire
(Ph.D., 2013)
Associate Curator, Fine Arts, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, and Affiliated assistant professor in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, Winterthur/University of Delaware
T.J. Demos
(Ph.D., 2000)
Professor and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Debra Diamond
(Ph.D., 2000)
Elizabeth Moynihan Curator South and Southeast Asian Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution external link
Sonja Drimmer
(Ph.D., 2011)
Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst external link
Kevin D. Dumouchelle
(Ph.D., 2017)
Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

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Adam Eaker
(Ph.D., 2016)
Associate Curator, European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Frank Feltens
(Ph.D., 2016)
Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution external link
Christina Ferando
(Ph.D., 2011)
Dean of Jonathan Edwards College and Lecturer of History of Art, Yale University
Andrew Finegold
(Ph.D., 2012)
Assistant Professor of Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas, University of Illinois at Chicago external link
Tatiana Flores
(Ph.D., 2003)
Professor of Art History & Latino and Caribbean Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Meredith Fluke
(Ph.D., 2012)
Director, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross
Daria Rose Foner 
(Ph.D., 2020)
Research Associate to the Director, The Morgan Library & Museum 
Michael Anthony Fowler
(Ph.D., 2019)
Assistant Professor of Art History, East Tennessee State University
Chelsea Foxwell
(Ph.D., 2008)
Associate Professor of Art History and the College, University of Chicago external link
James Frakes
(Ph.D., 2002)
Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte external link

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Sofia Gans
(Ph.D., 2018)
History Teacher, Pierrepont School, Westport, Connecticut
William T. Gassaway
(Ph.D., 2019)
Associate Educator, Academic and Professional Programs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Senta German
(Ph.D., 1999)
Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, Montclair State University
Claire Gilman
(Ph.D., 2006)
Chief Curator, The Drawing Center
Elizabeth Gollnick
(Ph.D., 2018)
Curatorial Associate, Photography and Modern and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Nicole Griggs
(Ph.D., 2017)
Editor-in-Chief, La Gazette Drouot International, France external link
Max Grossman
(Ph.D., 2006)
Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Texas at El Paso external link
Celeste Lovette Guichard
(Ph.D., 2005)
Professor of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design
Kai Gutschow
(Ph.D., 2005)
Associate Professor & Associate Head of Design Ethics, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University external link

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Rachel Haidu
(Ph.D., 2003)
Associate Professor of Art History and Department Chair, University of Rochester
Teresa Harris
(Ph.D., 2012)
Curator of Avery Classics, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Anna Ratner Hetherington
(Ph.D., 2013)
Visual Arts Department Chair and Art History Instructor, Horace Mann School
Beth Hinderliter
(Ph.D., 2008)
Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of the Duke Gallery of Fine Art, James Madison University
Ellen Hoobler
(Ph.D., 2011)
William B. Ziff, Jr. Associate Curator of the Arts of the Americas, 1200 BCE - 1500 CE, Walters Art Museum
Christina Hunter
(Ph.D., 2003)
Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation

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Frederick Ilchman
(Ph.D., 2014)
Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings and Chair, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Kristine Juncker
(Ph.D., 2006)
Special Assistant to the Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Jacqueline Jung
(Ph.D., 2002)
Professor in the History of Art and Medieval Studies, Yale University external link

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Subhashini Kaligotla
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor, History of Indian and South Asian Art, Yale University external link
Susan Kart
(Ph.D., 2013)
Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa, Lehigh University
Katherine Kasdorf
(Ph.D., 2013)
Associate Curator, Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, Detroit Institute of Arts
Sarah Kelly Oehler
(Ph.D., 2010)
Field-McCormick Chair and Curator, Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago
Dipti Khera
(Ph.D., 2013)
Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University external link
Kyle Killian
(Ph.D., 2008)
Assistant Professor, Museum & Cultural Heritage Studies, Medieval Art & Architecture, Florida State University
SeungJung Kim
(Ph.D., 2014)
Associate Professor, Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History, University of Toronto
Il Kim
(Ph.D., 2010)
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Auburn University
Christian Kleinbub
(Ph.D., 2006)
Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History, Ohio State University
Clare Kobasa
(Ph.D., 2020)
Assistant Curator and Study Room Manager, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum
Kathryn Kremnitzer
(Ph.D., 2020)
Associate Vice President, Specialist, 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby's

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Alison Langmead
(Ph.D., 2003)
Clinical Professor and Director, Visual Media Workshop and Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Susan Laxton
(Ph.D., 2004)
Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside
Soyoung Lee
(Ph.D., 2014)
Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator, Harvard Art Museums
Emily Liebert
(Ph.D., 2013)
Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
M. Jordan Love
(Ph.D., 2012)
Carol R. Angle Academic Curator and Director of the Education Department, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

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Risham Majeed
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Ithaca College
Andrew Manson
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, College of Design, University of Kentucky
Jaleh Mansoor
(Ph.D., 2007)
Associate Professor of Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia
Jessica Maratsos
(Ph.D., 2014)
Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Marlowe
(Ph.D., 2004)
Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Director, Museum Studies Program, Colgate University
Francesca Marzullo
(Ph.D., 2020)
Research Associate, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lucy Maulsby
(Ph.D., 2007)
Associate Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
Megan K. McCarthy
(Ph.D., 2015)
Vice President of Major Gifts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  
Arathi Menon
(Ph.D., 2019)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Hamilton College
Kate Morris
(Ph.D., 2001)
Professor of Art and Art History and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Santa Clara University
Denise Murrell
(Ph.D., 2013)
Associate Curator, 19th and 20th Century Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Albert Narath
(Ph.D., 2011)
Assistant Professor of the History of the Built Environment, Department of Art History and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonathan T. D. Neil
(Ph.D., 2010)
Associate Professor, Art Business and Arts Management, and Director, Center for Business and Management of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University; Contributing Editor, ArtReview Magazine; Board Member, Defy Ventures external link
Aimee Ng
(Ph.D., 2012)
Curator, The Frick Collection

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Stephanie O'Rourke
(Ph.D., 2016)
Assistant Professor, School of Art History, University of Saint Andrews
Alexandra Onuf
(Ph.D., 2006)
Associate Professor of Art History and Department Chair, University of Hartford

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Giulia Paoletti
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Virginia external link
John Peffer
(Ph.D., 2002)
Associate Professor of Art History, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Richard Pegg
(Ph.D., 2001)
Director and Curator of Asian Art, MacLean Collection, Chicago external link
Elizabeth Perkins
(Ph.D., 2015)
Associate Educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Türkan Pilavcı
(Ph.D., 2017)
Lecturer in History Department and Field Director of the Tarsus-Gözlüküle Excavations, Boğaziçi University
Neeraja Poddar
(Ph.D., 2014)
The Ira Brind and Stacey Spector Associate Curator of South Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Eszter Polonyi
(Ph.D., 2017)
Assistant Professor in Cultural History, Nova Gorica University, Research Center of the Humanities, Slovenia-Italy external link
Barbara Porter
(Ph.D., 2001)
Director Emerita of the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman (2006-2020), now called American Center of Research (Jordan)
Olivia Powell
(Ph.D., 2012)
Director of Development, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute external link

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Aaron Rio
(Ph.D., 2015)
Associate Curator of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tina Rivers Ryan
(Ph.D., 2016)
Assistant Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery external link
Catherine Roach
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University external link
Judith Rodenbeck
(Ph.D., 2003)
Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Department Chair, University of California, Riverside
Kristin Romberg
(Ph.D., 2010)
Associate Professor of Art History, School of Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger Rothman
(Ph.D., 2000)
Professor of Art History, Bucknell University external link
Nadja Rottner
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan
Kathryn M. Rudy FRSE
(Ph.D., 2001)
Professor of Art History, University of Saint Andrews external link

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Tomoko Sakomura
(Ph.D., 2007)
Dean of Students and Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College
Victoria Sancho Lobis
(Ph.D., 2010)
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Benton Museum and Associate Professor of Art History, Pomona College external link
Victoria Sanger
(Ph.D., 2000)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University and Vice President for New York Grantmaking, EHA Foundation
Drew Sawyer
(Ph.D., 2016)
Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum external link
Sarah C. Schaefer
(Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor, Modern Art, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee external link
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
(Ph.D., 2018)
Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Abbe Schriber
(Ph.D., 2020)
Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Stephanie Schwartz
(Ph.D., 2007)
Associate Professor in American Art, University College London external link
Christine Sciacca
(Ph.D., 2008)
Associate Curator - European Art, 300–1400 CE, Walters Art Museum
Johanna Seasonwein
(Ph.D., 2010)
Consultant, Propeller external link
Anna Seastrand
(Ph.D., 2013)
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Phoebe Segal
(Ph.D., 2008)
Mary Bryce Comstock Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Siddhartha V. Shah
(Ph.D., 2019)
Director of Education & Civic Engagement and Curator of South Asian Art, Peabody Essex Museum external link
Ellen Shortell
(Ph.D., 2000)
Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Julia Siemon
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Curator, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Rachel Silveri
(Ph.D., 2017)
Assistant Professor, School of Art + Art History, University of Florida external link
Zachary Stewart
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University external link
Abigail Susik
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Art History, Willamette University external link

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Robin Thomas
(Ph.D., 2007)
Associate Professor of Art History and Architecture, Pennsylvania State University external link
Erin Thompson
(Ph.D., 2010)
Associate Professor of Art Crime, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY external link
Chun-Yi Joyce Tsai
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Researcher, Department of General Planning, National Palace Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
Alexandra Tunstall
(Ph.D., 2015)
Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design

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Lee Ullmann
(Ph.D., 2010)
Senior Director, MIT Sloan School of Management external link

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Hérica Valladares
(Ph.D., 2006)
Associate Professor of Classics, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Curriculum in Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill external link
Anna Vallye
(Ph.D., 2011)
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College external link
Stefaan Van Liefferinge
(Ph.D., 2006)
Director of the Media Center for Art History and Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University
Julia Vázquez
(Ph.D., 2020)
Curatorial Fellow, Marisol Bequest, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Lorenzo Vigotti
(Ph.D., 2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence

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Susan Wager
(Ph.D., 2015)
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, University of New Hampshire
Mark Watson
(Ph.D., 2012)
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Clayton State University external link
Laura Weinstein
(Ph.D., 2011)
Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Terri Weissman
(Ph.D., 2006)
Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, School of Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Veronica White
(Ph.D., 2009)
Curator of Teaching and Learning, Princeton University Art Museum
Robert Wiesenberger
(Ph.D., 2018)
Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects, Clark Art Institute, and Lecturer, Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art
Alena Williams
(Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Siona Wilson
(Ph.D., 2005)
Associate Professor of Art History, College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center
Richard Wittman
(Ph.D., 2001)
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anne T. Woollett
(Ph.D., 2004)
Curator, Department of Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Lei Xue
(Ph.D., 2009)
Associate Professor of Art History, Oregon State University

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Serdar Yalcin
(Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Macalester College, Saint Paul external link
(Gloria) Yu Yang
(Ph.D., 2018)
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Art and Architecture, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Carolyn Yerkes
(Ph.D., 2012)
Associate Professor of Art History, Princeton University external link
Gillian Young
(Ph.D., 2018)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Wofford College external link
Margaret Young-Sánchez
(Ph.D., 2000)
Head of Exhibitions and Collection Services, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Susan Kennedy Zeller
(Ph.D., 2002)
Curator Emerita of Native American Art, Brooklyn Museum