Welcome Professor Emilie Boone

The DAH is thrilled to introduce our new faculty member, Emilie Boone. Professor Boone will join us officially on September 1, 2022. She will be on leave and not teaching until the spring ’23 semester, however.

Emilie Boone is an assistant professor of African American/African Diaspora Arts in the Department of Art History at New York University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Amherst College, a master’s in art history from Washington University in St. Louis and a doctorate in art history from Northwestern University.

Boone researches and teaches the art and visual culture of the African Diaspora with a focus on photography. Within her chronologically broad area of expertise, she foregrounds African American art historiography, vernacular photography, Caribbean visual culture, and portraiture. Her book A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography is forthcoming in 2023 with Duke University Press. She has published on 19th century to contemporary art and visual culture in leading peer-reviewed journals including American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, African Arts, and History of Photography. Book chapters authored by Boone have appeared in the first comprehensive publications on the history of Haitian photography and African Canadian art history.

Prior to her appointment at NYU, Boone served as an assistant professor at New York City College of Technology, CUNY and as a faculty member in the Art History Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition, Boone held post-doctoral fellowships at Williams College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her most recent honors include the 2022 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation).

Congratulations to Professor Pepe Karmel

We are happy to announce that, effective September 1, 2022, Pepe Karmel has been promoted to full Professor in recognition of his 2020 book Abstract Art: A Global History and other recent accomplishments.  In addition to his ongoing research on abstract and contemporary art, he is also the guest curator for the exhibition “Dialogues with Picasso,” on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga through 2023.  His new book, Picasso: 100 Works, will be published next year by Thames & Hudson.  He is on sabbatical this fall, gathering information for a new book on global contemporary art.

Professor Michele Matteini to Receive Tenure

Yu Zhiding, An Imperial Gift of Books and Inkstones, early 18th c., Palace Museum, Beijin

Michele Matteini will officially be a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art History as of September 1, 2022. He very much looks forward to continuing his research on late imperial Chinese painting, but, most importantly, to continue sharing his time with students and colleagues at NYU. Please join us in congratulating him!

We have been very happy to have him among our ranks since 2015.