About

Richard Evan Meyer

Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts

Contact Information
E-mail: rmeyer@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-9571
Office: VKC 351

LINKS
Curriculum Vitae
 

Education
B.A. History of Art, Yale University, 1/1988
M.A. History of Art, UC Berkeley, 1/1991
Ph.D. History of Art, UC Berkeley, 1/1996
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 01/01/2002-  
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 01/01/1996-01/01/2002  
Visiting Instructor, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 01/01/1996  
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 01/01/1996  
 

Visiting and Temporary Appointments
Katherine and Keith Sachs Professor, Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007   
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Meyer studies modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on twentieth-century American art, cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies, censorhip and the public sphere, and the history of photography. His research is particularly concerned with the ongoing cultural debate over sexuality and gender and its effects upon modern art and visual culture. Professor Meyer's work has appeared in a variety of venues, ranging from art journals and museum publications to anthologies of lesbian and gay theory and literary criticism.
 

Research Specialties
20th-century American Art; history of photography; visual culture; gay and lesbian studies; censorship and the public sphere.
 

Publications

Book
Meyer, Richard Evan and David Román (Ed.). (2006). Art Works, Parts I and II, Two special issues of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. (Vol. 12, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
 

Journal Article
Meyer, R. E. (2006). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Duke University Press. Vol. 12 (3), pp. 441-464.
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
Museum Exhibition , "Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered," Exhibition of Warhol paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs guest curated for the Jewish Museum in New York. "Warhol's Jews" will travel to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco this fall (October - December 2008). Review of exhibition: New York Times, March 28, 2008., 2007-2008   
 

Honors and Awards
Charles C. Eldredge Prize for the best book on American art, 5/2003  
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 1999  
Residency at the Getty Center for Humanities and Arts, Postdoctoral Fellowship at Getty Research Institute for History of Art & Humanties, 1998  
 
 
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