Associate Professor of Art History

Ph.D., Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
M.A., Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
B.A., Art History and English, University of Pennsylvania, 1992

Samantha Baskind has taught at CSU since August 2004, before which she taught at the University of Miami (where she held a joint appointment in art history and Judaic studies), James Madison University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Her courses include Twentieth-Century Art and American Art from Colonial Times to the Present, and her most recent seminar was “Jewish American Art and Culture.”

Her research focuses on twentieth-century American art and culture and the role of the Jewish American artist in the modern world. Presentations on these subjects have been made at the annual conferences of the College Art Association, Association for Jewish Studies, American Culture Association, Southeastern College Art Association, World Congress of Jewish Studies (in Israel), American Academy of Religion, and Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.

Her book, Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004), was funded by grants from the Terra Foundation for the Arts and American Council of Learned Societies, the Jewish Historical Society of New York, and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, in addition to receiving a Koret Jewish Studies Publications Program award. She is sole author of Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (2007), a College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Work, 2006-7. A co-edited volume with Ranen Omer-Sherman, The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, is forthcoming in December 2008. Recent articles have appeared or are slated to appear in American Art, Steinbeck Studies, Jewish Social Studies, and Art Criticism, among other venues. Her newest research has been funded by the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Dr. Baskind's biography has appeared in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Who's Who in America.

 

Office Phone:
216.687.2096

Email:
s.baskind@csuohio.edu

Main Art Office Phone:
216.687.2040