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Karen-edis Barzman,
Associate Professor,
and Director of CEMERS;
Ph.D., John Hopkins University.
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E-mail: kbarzman@binghamton.edu
Office: Fine Arts 220B (and Library North 1129, CEMERS)
Phone: (607) 777-2009 (and 777-2730, CEMERS)
Office Hours: tba
Specialization: Early modern visual and material culture; the institutions of art, art education, and criticism; art, religion, and the state in the early modern era; feminist theory, gender studies, and feminist histories of art.
Karen-edis Barzman is Associate Professor in the Art History Department. Currently, she is also Director of Binghamton University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS).
After receiving her B.A. in 1978 from New York University, Professor Barzman was awarded a Master’s degree by Bryn Mawr College in 1980 and a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins University in 1986. While completing her dissertation in 1984, she began teaching at the University of Maine, where she was tenured and promoted in 1992. She subsequently taught at Cornell University before joining the faculty at Binghamton University in 1999, in a department in which she has served as Acting Chair and as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Graduate Studies.
Since receiving her Ph.D. in 1986, Professor Barzman has been the recipient of major grants and fellowships in addition to smaller awards and prizes from research foundations and universities where she has taught. Her external funding has included a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities (1987-88), a Villa I Tatti Fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy (1990-91), a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant with Travel Stipend (1995), and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Universitá Federico II in Naples, Italy (Spring 2005).
