JENNIFER JANE MARSHALL

CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
338 Heller Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Marsh590@umn.edu
612-625-7120

EDUCATION
1997-2005

UCLA, Department of Art History

Major Field: American Art, Colonial-postwar
Minor Field: Critical Theory
Ph.D. Degree: June 2005
Dissertation: The Stuff of Modern Life: Materiality and Thingness in the Museum of
Modern Arts Machine Art Show, 1934
M.A. Degree: December 1999
Thesis:
Our Folk: A Tradition of Modernism, A Taste for Modernity

1994-1997

University of Arizona
B.A. Degree: May 1997, with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
Art of the United States: Colonial to Postwar
Interwar American Modernism
Material Culture Studies

Sculpture History and Theory

Museum History and Theory
African-American Art History

EMPLOYMENT
Jan 2009
Present

Assistant Professor of North American Art, Department of Art History

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Courses Developed:
The Harlem Renaissance: Visual Arts and Representations
Freshman seminar; Lib Ed requirements: Writing Intensive & Cultural Diversity Theme
ArtH 3577, Photo Nation: Photography in America
Undergraduate survey course; Lib Ed requirements: Arts & Humanities Core
ArtH 5565, American Art in the Gilded Age: Or, An Exercise in History, Big & Small
Advanced undergraduate/ graduate research-intensive course
ArtH 5575, Boom/Bust: American Art from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression
Advanced undergraduate/ graduate research-intensive course
ArtH 8520, Thing Theory: Theories and Methodologies
Graduate seminar

2006-Dec 2008

Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History

Stanford University

Summer 2002
Summer 2003

Instructor, Department of Art History

University of California, Los Angeles

PUBLICATIONS
Books:
In progress.

Subtraction: American Sculpture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

February 2012

Machine Art, 1934: Meaning, Materiality, Modernism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2012).

Journal Articles:
In progress.

Casting Doubts: The National Sculpture Society, 1929, and the Crisis of American Sculpture.

Spring 2010

Revisiting Materialitys Material Conditions, Wreck 3 (2010): online.

http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/WreckArticlePdfs/27_032810_122040.pdf

Dec 2008

In Form We Trust: Neoplatonism, the Gold Standard, and the Museum of Modern Arts
Machine Art Show, Art Bulletin 90.4 (December 2008): 507-615.

Spring 2008

Clean Cuts: Procter & Gambles Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests, Winterthur

Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 42.1 (Spring 2008): 51-76.

2002

Common Goods: American Folk Crafts as Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York City, 1932-33, Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 447-465.

Exhibition Catalogs & Anthologies:

Forthcoming

The Rodinoclasts: Remaking Influence after Rodin, in Rodin and America: Influence and
Adaptation, 1876-1936 (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, in association with Cantor Arts Center,
Stanford University).

2007

Toward Phenomenology: A Material Culture Studies Approach to Landscape Theory,

Landscape Theory, eds. James Elkins and Rachel Ziady DeLue (London: Routledge, 2007).

Review Articles:
Sept 2010

Fall 2009

A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Funding Art in the Great Depression, Review of:
Victoria Grieve, The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture, University of
Illinois Press, 2009, Reviews of American History (forthcoming, September 2010).
Review of exhibition, Noble Dreams & Simple Pleasures: American Masterworks from
Minnesota Collections, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009, Nineteenth-Century Art
Worldwide 8.2 (forthcoming, Fall 2009).

June 2007

Book review: Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler: Across Media, caa.reviews (College Art
Association, online content, 2007): http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/993

2003

Book review: Celeste Connor, Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle,
1924-1934, PART (Special Issue: American Modernism, 2003):
http://dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part9/modernism/reviews/marsh.html

Winter 2002

East of Harlem: Theresa Leininger-Miller, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American

Jennifer Jane Marshall

Marsh590@umn.edu

Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934, Art Journal 61.4 (Winter 2002):105107.
May 2001

Exhibit review: Shifting Tides/ Corrientes Cambiante: Cuban Photography Makes a Splash
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Capture Magazine (online content, 2001): no
longer available.

INVITED LECTURES
April 2011

Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble's Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests

Public lecture, St. Olaf College, Arnold Flaten Lecture Series

December 2010 Return from Bohemia: Return from Bohemia: American Scene Painting during the Great
Depression
Public lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
March 2010

Art Cant Be Common, Right?

Invited Panelist, Public pecha kucha-style event, Weisman Art Museum

June 2009

Museums
Invited Panelist, Public Symposium, Whats Modern about American Art, 1900-1930?
Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, jointly with the Milwaukee Art
Museum and the New Britain Museum of American Art

Feb 2009

The Material Conditions of Materiality: Toward a Social Art History of the Thing
Keynote Speaker, University of British Columbia, Art History, Visual Art and Theory
28th Annual Graduate Symposium, Material Affinities: Intersections that Matter

November 2008 The Art of Parts: Machines And Beauty in the Great Depression, MOMA, 1934
Public lecture, UC Davis, Sponsored jointly by the UC Davis Design Program, Art and Art
History Department and History Department

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Feb 2010

Co-Chair of panel: Theorizing Things

College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

Nov 2006

Intelligent Design: Functional Form in Alfred Barrs Interwar Modernism

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting, New York, NY

May 2004

Material / Culture: Toward an Interpretation of Form as History

Yale University
Symposium: The New American Art History

Feb 2004

Form as Gold Standard: Aesthetic and Commercial Value in the Museum of Modern Arts
Machine Art Exhibition, 1934
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA

Oct 2003

Representing Americanization: The Museum of Modern Arts Machine Art Exhibition, 1934
University of Texas, Austin
Symposium: America: Visions and Divisions

Jennifer Jane Marshall

Marsh590@umn.edu

Oct 2000

Is Post-Feminism Post-Modern Feminism?

Co-Chair and Presenter for Workshop: In the Academy and on the Street: What Could a
"Post-Feminism" Be?
Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference

March 2000

A Tradition of Modernism, A Taste for Modernity: Holger Cahills Display of Folk Art at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932-33
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Symposium: Intersection: Object, Display, Audience

April 2000

Still Men: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Glamour in George Hurrells Portraits of Ramon
Novarro, 1929
University of Durham, England
Symposium: Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative

May 1999

The Peaceable Kingdom: American Nationalism, Modernism, and Folk Art at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, 1932
UCLA
Symposium: Race, Nation, Aesthetics, and the Fabrication of Modernities

March 1999

Aesthetics and Athletics: Masculinity, Race, and the Sculptural Body in Richmond Barths
The Boxer
Great Lakes American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kalamazoo, MI

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

2010-12

University of Minnesota
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

Summer 2009

University of Minnesota
Imagine Fund Grant, Arts & Humanities Faculty Award

2005-06

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship

2004-05

Terra/American Council of Learned Societies

Dissertation Fellowship in American Art

Spring 2004

Hagley Museum and Library

Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellow

2003-04

UCLA, Department of Art History

Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship

1998-2003

United States Department of Education

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (Deferred during AY 2000-2001 to assume teaching assistantship.)

Summer 2002

Muse dArt Amricain, Giverny

Terra Foundation, Summer Resident Fellow

Summer 2001

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Preferred Participant Fellowship

Jennifer Jane Marshall

Marsh590@umn.edu

2000-2001

UCLA Department of Art History

Teaching Assistantship

1997-98

UCLA Graduate Division

Entering Grant

MUSEUM COLLABORATIONS & EMPLOYMENT

2006-Present

Collaborator for exhibition, Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Summer 1999

Harry and Yvonne Lenart Intern

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Department of Photography

1994-1997

Research Assistant, C. Leonard Pfeiffer Collection

University of Arizona Museum of Art

SERVICE
Department:
2009-Ongoing

Member of the Graduate Studies Committee

Department of Art History, University of Minnesota

2009-2010

Member of Search Committee, Art of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World

Department of Art History, University of Minnesota

2009-2010

Member of the Chairs Advisory Committee

Department of Art History, University of Minnesota

2007-08

MFA Thesis Committee in Art Practice

Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History

Spring 2007

Search Committee Member, Assistant Art Librarian

Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library

University:
Fall 2010

University of Minnesota, College of Continuing Education

Instructor, Learning Life Course: Regionalist Painters of the Great Depression

Feb. 2010

Center for Writing, Panel Speaker

Grading Student Writing

Spring 2009
Present

American Studies Department, Affiliate Faculty Member

Spring 2009
Present

Council on Liberal Education, Member of LE Committee

Professional:
Spring 2011

Referee for Terra Summer Residency, Terra Foundation of American Art

Jennifer Jane Marshall

Marsh590@umn.edu

August 2010

Manuscript reviewer for American Quarterly

Public:
Spring 2010

Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC)

Jury member on grant review panel; responsible for awarding Minnesota state funding for
local arts initiatives

Oct 2009

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Docent Training Lecture: American Painting: 1920s and 30s

Feb 2007

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Docent Training Lecture: Modernism

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association
Association of Historians of American Art
The Minnesota Association of Museums

Jennifer Jane Marshall

Marsh590@umn.edu