Lisa Gail Collins
Associate Professor of Art on the Class of 1951 Chair
Office: Taylor 312
Phone: 7029
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Lisa Gail Collins, who joined the Vassar faculty in 1998, teaches courses on African American visual art and material culture, interdisciplinary African American history, feminist thought, and twentieth-century social and cultural movements in the United States. She received her B.A. in Art History from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Ms. Collins is the author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003). She is also coauthor of African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003) and coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). She also served as associate editor for the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd. edition, (Macmillan Reference, 2005). She has taught at Barnard College and Princeton University and received grants from the Ford, Mellon, and Anyone Can Fly foundations.