Department of History of Art & Architecture

leeann.custer@vanderbilt.edu

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Education

• 2021 PhD, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
• 2017 MA, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
• 2010 BA, History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• 2022–2025 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
• 2021–2022 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Arizona

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• “The Clean, Open Air of John Sloan’s Tenement Paintings,” American Art 37, no. 2 (Summer 2023)
• “Teaching ‘Determinants of Urban Form’ at the University of Pennsylvania, 1960–1964” in Denise Scott Brown: In Others’ Eyes, edited by Frida Grahn, BirkhäuserVerlag, 2022
• “Teaching Complexity and Contradiction at the University of Pennsylvania, 1961–1965,” in Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty, edited by David B. Brownlee and Martino Stierli, The Museum of Modern Art, 2019

Teaching

Vanderbilt University

• Early American Modernism, 1865-1945
• Art and the Environment in the United States
• First Year Writing Seminar: Art, Race, and Urban Space

University of Arizona

• Introduction to American Art
• Nineteenth-Century American Art
• Twentieth-Century American Art
• Art and the Environment in the United States

Georgetown University

• Experiencing American Art

University of Pennsylvania

• Twentieth-Century New York: Theories, Images, Realities (co-taught interdisciplinary course with Joan Ockman, Weitzman School of Design)

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