Jeanette Kohl, chair of the Department of the History of Art, gave the commencement speech at UCR’s partner university in Germany, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Kohl was invited by FAU’s chair of the art history department, Professor Christina Strunck. The visit was part of an ongoing collaboration between the two universities. The partnership began in 2013, after a graduate student workshop with faculty and students from FAU in Riverside. Kohl and another UCR art history professor, Kris Neville, took a group of seven graduate students on a summer study trip abroad to the German university in 2014. Read more
Born and raised in Buffalo, New York and transplanted to Southern California at age 8, she has been captivated by the power of museums from a young age. Trips to art museums, historical houses and centers, parks, and other cultural attractions pepper the landscape of her childhood memories and in turn dictated her educational path. In pursuit of her passion for the history of art, she completed a Bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Art History and Administrative Studies and a Master’s degree in the History of Art, both from the University of California, Riverside.
Megan develops and oversees all adult public programs, including artists’ talks, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and courses. Prior to joining the Whitney in 2014, she was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she previously worked in the curatorial and education departments at the New Museum. She is completing a PhD in art and archaeology at Princeton University.
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