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