Katherine Hauser
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Art History
The Charlotte Lamson Clarke '53 Chair in Art History
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: Filene 118A
Phone: 518-580-5054
Email: khauser@skidmore.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours:
Mondays, 4:30 pm-5:30 pm (drop-in)
Wednesdays, 4:30 pm-5:30 pm (drop-in)
Or, by appointment/Zoom.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
- M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
- B.A., University of California at Davis
- Foothill Community College, CA
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
- Contemporary art
- Modern design
- History of photography
- 20th-century representational art
- 20th- 21st-century American activist art
- Industrial design and power
COURSES
- Scribner Seminar: Ethics of Design
- Ways of Seeing: Imag(in)ing the Modern World (AH108)
- Designing Power in the United States (AH214)
- Writing in Art History (AH220)
- Practices in Art History (AH221)
- Resist! Activist Art in the United States (AH261)
- History of Modern Design (AH265)
- History of Photography (AH321)
- NYC Art Market (on-site; AH351)
- Contemporary Art (AH364)
- Honors Project Development (AH373)
- Art History Seminars: Race and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art in LA (AH375)
- Art History Major and Beyond (AH380)
PUBLICATIONS (select)
- forthcoming, "Art History and Beyond: Art History Students Transitioning from College to Professional Life," in Equity-Enhancing Strategies for the Art History Classroom, ed. Kathleem Pierce and Jenevieve Delossantos (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press), 4000 words.
- with Paul Benzon, 鈥淰isual Literacy across the Disciplines: From Faculty Engagement to General Education and Beyond,鈥� Peer Review 21, no. 4 (2020): 16-19.
- 鈥淕eorge Tooker, Surveillance, and Cold War Sexual Politics,鈥� GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11 (2005): 391-425.
- 鈥淓dward S. Curtis鈥檚 Nostalgic Vanishing of the American Indian,鈥� in Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation, ed. Jill D. Sweet with Ian Berry (Saratoga Springs: Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at 超级吊钟奶, 2002), 31-36.
- "Audrey Flack's Still Lifes: Between Femininity and Feminism," Woman's Art Journal 22 (Fall 2000/Winter 2001): 26-30.
- "Photorealist Nostalgia and the American Family," Prospects 22 (1997 [published spring 1998]): 263-284.
- "The Anxiety of (Dis)respect: Names and Misnomers in the History of Women's Institutions," Women and Language 16 (Fall 1993): 22-28.
AWARDS (select)
- 2024-29 The Charlotte Lamson Clarke '53 Chair in Art History
- 2022 超级吊钟奶IdeaLab Innovative Pedgagoy Award for NYC Art Market Course
- 2021 超级吊钟奶 Faculty Development Grant: Guy Pene du Bois, Archives of American Art
- 2019 Doris E. Morgan Endowed Memorial Fund Faculty Development Grant, Skidmore. Funding to support building a design teaching collection for AH265 History of Modern Design class.
- 2010-11 Ralph A. Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching
SERVICE - LEADERSHIP
- Director, Media and Film Studies Program
- Chair, Art History Department
- Chair, Committe on Academic Standing
- Chair, Faculty Executive Committee
- Chair, Committee on Faculty Governance
- Director, Visualization Forum
- Co-Director, 超级吊钟奶in London