Alan  Wallach

Professor Emeritus

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Areas of Specialization

The history of American art; the history of art institutions in the United States

Education

1963   BA, Mathematics, Columbia College

1965   MA, History of Art, Columbia University

1973   PhD, History of Art, Columbia University

Academic Positions

Academic Positions Assistant and Associate Professor (1979), Kean College of New Jersey, 1994-1989; Visiting Professor UCLA (1982-83), NYU (1984, 1985), Stanford University (1987), CUNY Graduate Center (1988), University of Michigan (1989), Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Delaware (2006), Robert Sterling Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History, Williams College Program in Art History (Fall 2008),  Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien and Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, (Fall 2010), Director of the Academic the Program, William and Mary in Washington Program (Fall 2011)

Courses Taught

• 19th century American art

• 20th century American art

• The Museum in the United States

• The Art Museum

• Landscape and Vision in the United States, 1800-1875

• Art, Politics, and American Culture from the Popular Front to the Cold War

• Political Marxism and the Rise of Cultural Studies

• American in the 1960s: Days of Hope, Days of Rage

• Contemporary Art and Criticism

Research

Thomas Cole, Vision and Landscape, The Hudson River School, "Luminism," and the Corporatization of Museums

Fellowships and Grants

Fellowships/Grants/Honors/Awards 2007 College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award