Lauren Kroiz

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

Spring 2009

  • Art and Globalization (ARTH 021)
  • Photographic Invention (ARTH 244)
Phone (207) 721-5180
Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department ART
Work Location 206 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail lkroiz@bowdoin.edu
Lauren G. Kroiz: Bowdoin College: Art History

Education

Ph.D. 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
         Dissertation title: “New Races, New Media: The Struggle for an American Modern Art, 1890-1925”
A.B. 2002 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Publications

“Cameron Gray: Mise en Scene,” Catalog Essay, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA. October 2007

“Stealing Baghdad: The City of Opa-Locka, Florida and The Thief of Bagdad,”
The Journal of Architecture (London, England), Vol. 11, No. 5, 585-592. November 2006

“Marcel Pagnol,” “A Face in the Crowd and Eli Kazan,“ “The River and Jean
Renoir,” “The Man From Planet X and Edgar G. Ulmer.” Summer Public
Program Notes for National Gallery of Art’s Film Programs Department,
Washington, DC. Summer 2005

Editor, Thresholds 27: Exploration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA.
“Introduction” in ibid, 4-11. Fall 2003

Editor, Thresholds 26: Denatured. Spring 2003

Lectures and Presentations

“The Tyranny of Bric-a-Brac: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ as Decorative Arts
Reform,” presented at the American Literature Association Annual Conference
in San Francisco, CA. May, 2008

“A New Importation: Pluralism and the Definition of ‘Straight Photography”
presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Dallas/Fort
Worth, TX. February, 2008

“Modernizing ‘a Grey Race’: Dissertation Research in Progress,” presented at
HTC and Harvard Graduate School of Design Ph.D. colloquium. May, 2006

“Stealing Bagdad: The City of Opa-Locka, Florida and The Thief of Bagdad”
presented at Visualising the City Conference organized by the Department of
Screen Studies at Manchester University (UK). June 28, 2005

“Sadakichi Hartmann and The Thief of Bagdad (1924),” on “Filmic Others”
Panel, Research in Progress Workshop, MIT. April, 2005

CCA (Centre Canadien d’Architecture)-HTC Research Fellowship Presentation,
MIT. May, 2005

“Regulating Novel Objects: French Archaeology in Mexico from 1860 to 1880,”
presented at the New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, 27th
Annual Student Symposium. February, 2005