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From the UNM website:
David L. Craven, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico (USA), has degrees in Art History from Vanderbilt University (1974) and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979 and wrote his dissertation under Prof. Donald Kuspit, a student of T.W. Adorno.
Since 1993, he has been a Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he is also associated with the Latin American Institute. In addition, he has been a Lecturer at Duke University (1978), a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (1980), and a Professor at the State University of New York, Cortland (1978-93). In 1991, he won the Excellence Award from the State of New York and the U.U.P. Faculty Union, for his scholarly publications and distinguished teaching and in 2003 he won a Faculty Acknowledgement Award at UNM.
He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin (1985), and Guest Lecturer at several institutions in the United Kingdom (1991) including, Cambridge University, the University of Essex, and the University of East Anglia - as well as in Nicaragua (1990) at the Universidad de Centroamérica and the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In addition, he has been a Visiting Professor at four different institutions: Universität Bremen (1988), the University of Leeds (1991), and the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of U.N.A.M., Mexico City (1995) and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2007). In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Collegium Budapest in Hungary. In 2003, he was Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Texas, Austin.
He has written catalog essays for several museums both in the USA and abroad. These include Mythmaking in the McCarthy Period for the Tate Gallery in England (1992); an essay for the Norman Lewis exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (1998); an essay for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid (1999), and an essay for the Museo Antiguo Colegio San IIdefonso in Mexico City (2005).
Craven has guest edited a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal (1994) on Meyer Schapiro, published numerous articles that have appeared in the leading journals of 25 different countries throughout Europe and the Americas, and written six books. He also has written entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985), The Dictionary of Art (1996), and the Encyclopedia of Latin American Art (1999).
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David Lee Craven