Professor Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer received her PH.D from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, after being awarded a  Licence-ès-Lettres from the Institut d’ Art et d’Archéologie of the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and a doctorate from the School of Philosophy of the University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She specializes in European art of the late eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries, which she examines in the context of the cultural, social and political forces of its time.In her first book, French Images from the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830: Art and Politics under the Restoration (Yale, 1989), she studied the interaction between art and ideology in the reception, in France, of the events related to the Greek struggle for independence from Ottoman rule, in 1821. Her Eugène Delacroix: Prints, Politics and Satire (Yale, 1991) looks at the young Delacroix’s involvement with political graphic satire as evidence of both his liberal, oppositional politics and his search for a non-academic expressive vocabulary suited to his progressive modernism. Her Cézanne and Provence. The Painter in his Culture (Chicago, 2003), which was a finalist for the College Art Association's Mitchell Prize,considers Cézanne’s paintings as fashioned largely by his effort to address Parisian modernism from the angle of his provincial and Provençal loyalties at a time of regionalist affirmation in France. Along with articles in scholarly journals, she has published essays in a number of collective publications, including the Cambridge Companion to Delacroix (Cambridge, 2001), Critical Terms in Art History (2 nd ed., Chicago, 2003), The Grotesque in Art ( Cambridge, 2003), Re-penser La Restauration (2005), and Paris 1820 (2006).She was the guest editor of the Art Journal’s issue on Romanticism (1993) and served as the Book Review Editor of the Art Bulletin from 1995 to 1998. Her Art Bulletin article “Under the Sign of Leonidas: The Political and Ideological Significance of David’s Leonidas at Thermopylae” won the CAA’s Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize. She has held a J. P. Getty Fellowship, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study; a Senior Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; J. Stanley Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University; an American Philosophical Society fellowship; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught as visiting professor at Princeton University in 1993, 1995 and 2002. She is currently working on a new project that studies late nineteenth-century European classicism, and the resistance to it, in the context of imperialist cultural politics in the Mediterranean and of the rise of Modernism. Her book on the painter Théodore Géricault will be  published by Phaidon Press (London) in fall 2009.

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