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 (Basel: 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 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019)

Teaching

Vanderbilt University

• 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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