Contact information: (212) 998-8565, miriam.basilio@nyu.edu

Areas of interest: Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.

Select publications:
“Catalans! Catalunya. Posters and Propaganda in Spanish Civil War Barcelona," in Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudi to Dali (Cleveland Museum of Art and New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, forthcoming 2006).
“Neo-Expressionism," “Identity Politics" and “Activist Art," (short entries) in Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, forthcoming).
“Neo-Concrete," “Otra Figuracion" and “Pandemonium" (short entries) in Garrels, Gary. Drawing from the Modern 1945-1970 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005).
“Field Notes from a 'Native Informant,'" in None of the Above, Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists (Hartford: Real Art Ways in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2005).
“Satiric Line" (short entry) in Hoptman, Jodi. Drawing from the Modern 1880-1945 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).
“The Alcazar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Architecture and Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space. D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
“Reflecting on a History of Collecting and Exhibiting," in Miriam Basilio, Deborah Cullen, Fatima Bercht, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, eds. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo (New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004): 52-68.
Catalogue entries in Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection (New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2003).
“Genealogies for a New State: Painting and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 24:3 (Nov. 2003).
With Paulo Herkenhoff and Roxana Marcoci, “A Tempo Lexicon," Tempo, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
"Re-inventing Spain: Images of the Nation in Painting and Propaganda." Ph.D. Dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002.

Courses:
Topics in Museum Studies: Exhibiting Latin American Art in the United States, 1931-present (G49.3330);
Topics in Museum Studies: Blockbusters and Building Booms (G49.3330);
Topics in Museum Studies: Curating as Collaboration (G49.3330;
Research Seminar (G49.3991)

Haidy Geismar, Assistant Professor (a joint appointment in the Program in Museum Studies and the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science)

Contact information: (212) 998-8086, haidy.geismar@nyu.edu

Editor, Material World: http://www.materialworldblog.com

Areas of interest: Visual anthropology, Pacific anthropology, intellectual, cultural and indigenous property rights, economic anthropology, cross-cultural theories of value and valuation, materiality, contemporary indigenous art, museum theory and criticism

Select publications:
"Malakula: A Photographic Collection," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48:3 (Forthcoming).
"Building sites of memory: The Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Sound Walk," Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Historians of Australia and New Zealand, 15:2 (2006), pp. 1-11.
"Slit-Drums on Atchin: an unpublished manuscript by John Layard." Edited and with an introduction by Haidy Geismar. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. 47 (2005).
"Copyright in Context: carvings, carvers and commodities in Vanuatu," American Ethnologist, 33:3 (2005), pp. 437-459.
"Footsteps on Malakula: a report on a photographic research project," Journal of Museum Ethnography , Vol.17 (2005), pp. 191-207.
"The Spitting Image of Race? A Review of 'Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,'" Journal of Museum Ethnography (March 2005), forthcoming.
"Contemporary Traditions: Museum Collecting and Creativity in Vanuatu." In Karen Stevenson and Virginia Lee Webb (Eds.), Creative Arts in the Pacific, Bathurst: Crawford House, forthcoming.
"Reproduction, Creativity, Restriction: Material Culture and Copyright in Vanuatu," Journal of Social Archaeology, 5:1 (2005).
Introduction (with Heather Horst), Journal of Material Culture, 9:1 (2004), pp. 5-10.
"The Materiality of Contemporary Art in Vanuatu," Journal of Material Culture, 9:1 (2004), pp. 43-58.
"Fieldwork: A Review" (with Rebecca Empson), Cambridge Anthropology, 24:1 (2004), pp. 39-50.
"Negotiating Materiality: International and Local Museum Practices at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum" (with Prof. Chris Tilley), Oceania, 73:3 (2003), pp. 170-188.
Vanuatu Stael: Kastom and Creativity, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2003).
"What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction," Journal of Material Culture, 6:1 (March 2001), pp. 25-49. Reprinted in N.Thrift and A. Amin (Eds.), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Press (2003).

Courses:
History and Theory of Museums (G49.1500);
Topics in Museum Studies: Cultural Property, Rights and Museums (G49.3330);
Topics in Museum Studies: Anthropology in and of Museums (G49.3330).

Flora E. S. Kaplan, Professor Emerita

Contact information: flora.kaplan@nyu.edu

Areas of interest: Non-Western art of Africa and the Americas; material culture, museum studies, political anthropology, ethnography of gender.

Select publications:
“Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion." In Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity, ed. Jacob K. Olupona. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2003.
“Some Thoughts on Ideology, Beliefs, and Sacred Kingship Among the Edo (Benin) People of Nigeria." In African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions, ed. Jacob K. Olupona. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2003.
“Twice Told Tales: Yoruba religious and cultural hegemony in Benin, Nigeria." In Orisa Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture, ed. Jacob K. Olupona. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
“Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African Gender," editor and contributor. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, vol. 810. 1997.
Museums and the Making of "Ourselves": The Role of Objects in National Identity, ed. Leicester University Press.1994; 2nd ed. 1996, 3rd edition, 1998/1999.
A Mexican Folk Pottery Tradition: Cognition and Style in Material Culture in the Valley of Puebla. Southern Illinois University Press. 1994.

Museum Meanings, book series co-editor with Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. London and New York: Routledge Ltd. The series explores the museum as symbol in Western society since the Renaissance; and analyzes the relationships between museums and their publics through a range of theoretical perspectives and interactions with artifacts, exhibitions, and architecture, including studies grounded in sites, identities, and communities. Nine books published; three in preparation.

Jennifer Stampe, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies

Contact information: (212) 998-8384, jennifer.stampe@nyu.edu

Areas of interest: Politics of representation; museum history, theory, and ethnography; public culture, tourism and, heritage; state, civil society, and public spheres; indigeneity; Native North America and United States.

Select publications: to be posted.

Courses:
History and Theory of Museums (G49.1500);
Topics in Museum Studies: Museums and Indigenous Peoples (G49.3330);
Internship (G49.3990)

Jeffrey Trask, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies

Contact information: (212) 998-8397, jeffrey.trask@nyu.edu

Areas of interest: Cultural and intellectual history of the 19th- and 20th-century United States; museum history; collecting and material culture; public history; gender and urban-landscape studies.

Select publications:
"The Sons of Liberty," in Bret E. Carroll, ed. American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003).
"Apprenticeship and Men's Education," in Bret E. Carroll, ed. American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003).

Courses:
History and Theory of Museums (G49.1500);
Historic Houses, Cultural Landscapes and the Politics of Preservation (G49.2223)

Glenn Wharton
Research Scholar
Program in Museum Studies / Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts

Contact information: (212) 998-3592, glenn.wharton@nyu.edu
Personal web page: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~gew3

Areas of interest: Conservation of cultural materials with specialization in contemporary art and archaeology, public participation in conservation, history and philosophy of conservation

Select Publications:
“The Challenges of Conserving Contemporary Art." In Altshuler, B. (ed.), Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. 163-178.
“Caring for Outdoor Bronze Plaques, Part I: Documentation and Inspection" & "Part II: Cleaning and Waxing". National Park Service Conserve O Gram pamphlet series. 2005. Online at: http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html
“Planning Physical and Conceptual Longevity in Public Art Commissions," Public Art Review, 32. Spring 2005. 36-37.
“Heritage Conservation as Social Intervention: The Case of a Royal Hawaiian Monument". In Heritage Preservation as a Tool for Social Change. US/ICOMOS Conference Postprints. In Print. 2006.
“Indigenous Claims and Heritage Conservation: An Opportunity for Critical Dialog". Journal of Public Archaeology. In Print. 2006.
“Public Participation in Conservation". In Conservation and Maintenance of Contemporary Public Art. Cambridge Arts Council. 2002. 30-35.
Editor. Field Notes: Practical Guides for Archaeological Conservation and Site Preservation. Nos. 11-20. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution & Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan. 2002.
“The Role of Conservation in the Design of Conceptual Monuments". In Monuments & the Millennium Proceedings of a joint conference organized by the Stone and Metal Sections of UKIC and English Heritage. 20-22 May 1998. English Heritage. London. 2001.
“Field Conservation at Kaman-Kalehoyuk: A Holistic Approach". Proceedings from conference: The International Institute for Conservation 16th International Congress. Copenhagen. August 1996. Co-authored with Scott Carroll.
“Sweetness and Blight: The Conservation of Chocolate Works of Art". Proceedings from conference: From Marble to Chocolate: the Conservation of Modern Sculpture. Co-authored with Sharon Blank & Claire Dean. Tate Gallery. London. 1995.
Guide to Maintenance of Outdoor Sculpture. Co-authored with Virginia Naude. American Institute for Conservation, Washington, D.C. 1992.

Courses:
Museum Conservation and Contemporary Culture (Museum Studies G49.2222);
The Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art (Institute of Fine Arts).

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