Laura Katzman

Biography

EDUCATION Ph.D. Art History, Yale University M.Phil. Art History, Yale University M.A. Art History, Yale University B.A. Fine Arts, New York University AREAS OF EXPERTISE Twentieth-century American and European art; history of photography; public art; museum studies. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Dr. Katzman was Associate Professor of Art and Director of the Museum Studies Program at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (1995-2007). She has been a Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at Smith College and a Guest Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Hamburg in Germany. As a Visiting Curator at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Maier Museum of Art, she has organized numerous exhibitions of American photography that have toured the United States.

Research Interest

Twentieth-century American and European art; history of photography; public art; museum studies.