Joel Eisinger

Associate Professor of Art History

Division of the Humanities

University of Minnesota, Morris

Office: HFA 3

Phone: (320) 589-6096

E-mail: eisingj@morris.umn.edu

COURSES

ArtH 1101 Principles of Art

ArtH 1121 Renaissance to Modern Art

ArtH 3201 Nineteenth-Century European Art through Postimpressionism

ArtH 3211 Early Modernist Art: Symbolism to Surrealism

ArtH 3221 Twentieth-Century Art: 1945 to the Present

ArtH 3231 History of Photography

ArtH 3241 African American Art

ArtH 3261 Chinese Art

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Art History, 1989

M.F.A., Indiana University, Photography, 1983

M.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, East Asian Studies, 1975

B.A., Indiana University, Political Science, 1973

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Carrie Mae Weems’s Colored People Series: Its Contextual Meanings,” The Annals of Scholarship, Interrogating Whiteness/Outing Representations of Race and Racism, vol. 14:1 (spring 2000): 43–52.

“Powerful Images: Two Famous Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Charles Moore,” exposure, vol. 33:1/2 (2000): 33–42.

Trace and Transformation: American Theory and Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

“Oedipal Syrup: Henry Holmes Smith's Mother and Son,” History of Photography 18:1 (February 1994):78–86.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES IN PROGRESS

The Invisible Norm, a book project concerning white racial identity in American photography from 1880 to 1980.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Editor of exposure, the journal of the Society for Photographic Education, 2000 - 2004.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Fragmentation, Unity, Invisibility: White Racial Identity in the Photography of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz,” presented at the Light Symposium, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, 2002.

“Race, Photography, Visibility,” presented at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference in Savannah, GA, 2001.

“Carrie Mae Weems’s Colored People,” presented at Outing Whiteness, conference of the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies of The Claremont Colleges, 1998.

“Looking at White Folk: Photographs by Roy DeCarava” presented at the national College Art Association Conference in New York City, 1997.