Education

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Ph.D., 2010, Art History
Major: American Art, Minor: Modern Art
Dissertation title, American Autoscapes: Stuart Davis and the View from the Road, 1920-1940

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, M.A., 2002, Art History
Major: American Art, Minors: Modern and Contemporary Art, Pre-Columbian Art
Thesis title, Outside from the Inside: Assimilation and Jewish Identity in the Art of Florine Stettheimer

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1997-1999, Post-baccalaureate program, Art History

Brown University, Providence, RI, B.A. 1990, International Relations

Publications

  • “Conjuring Form: Traversing the Physical and the Spiritual in the Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch,” Chapter 3 in Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Skira, 2022, pp. 107-129.
  • “Public Housing in California,” “Aliso Village,” “Chestnut Court,” and “Star Apartments,” Society of Architectural Historians, Archipedia, (in revision).
  • “Generations of Feminist Intelligentsia: June Wayne and Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Joans of Art” in selected conference papers from “Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers and Literati, 2015” Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, (accepted for publication, funding fell through).
  • Book Review, The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 7 (2015).
  • Book and Exhibition Review, Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 33/2 (Winter, 2008).

Conferences/papers/talks

  • “An Introduction to Womanspace,” guest speaker at Revealing Womanspace in Time,” Womanspace Gallery, 11007 Venice Blvd., April 19, 2023.
  • “Generations of Feminist Intelligentsia: June Wayne and Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Joans of Art” [“Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers and Literati,” The Department of American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 2015.]
  • “The role of informal networks in the feminist art movement of Los Angeles: 1964-1978,” [“Gender/Identity,” SECAC, Roanoke, VA, 2016, (panel canceled).]
  • “A Sedimentation of Histories: Renée Green and Partially Buried Woodshed” [Art History Graduate Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2005.]
  • “A Genealogy of Post-Feminism,” “Postfeminism in the Academy and on the Street” [Barnard Conference on Feminist Art and Art History, 2000.]
  • “Racial Turmoil in the Post-Reconstruction Era: Winslow Homer’s The Watermelon Boys,” [Graduate Conference on 19th Century Studies, University of Washington (Seattle), 1999.]
  • Moderator, “Subtle Networks: Challenging Patterns of Patronage” panel, “Subtle Histories” [UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, 2004.]

Museum, Gallery, & Arts Related Experience

  • Researcher and Curatorial Assistant, “Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950,” The Huntington Art Collections, American Art Division, San Marino, CA, 2007
  • Oral Historian, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library, Los Angeles, CA, 2010-2011
  • Writer/Consultant, June Wayne and The June Wayne Collection, Los Angeles, CA, 2011-2012
  • Gallery Coordinator, Cunningham Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998- 1999
  • Legal Assistant, Graubard, Mollen, (Raymond) Horowitz, Pomeranz & Shapiro, NY, NY, 1995 - Supervised transfer of significant artwork collection bequeathed to MoMA and the MET
  • Awards and Honors Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship, 2007-2008; UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Summer Travel Fellowship, Summer 2007; UC Teaching Assistantships (multiple years 2001-2007); UCLA Regents Fellowship, 1999-2000