Marci Kwon
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Art & Art History
Bio
Marci Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University, and co-director of the Cantor Art Center's Asian American Art Initiative. She is the author of Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton, 2021), and co-editor of the online Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné. She is the recipient of Stanford’s Asian American Teaching Prize, CCSRE Teaching Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and the Women's Faculty Forum Inspiring Early Career Academic Award, and the Mellon Foundation Emerging Faculty Leader award.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
Program Affiliations
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American Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Philosophy and Literature
Professional Education
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B.A., New York University (2007)
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M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2013)
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Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2016)
2024-25 Courses
- Art History as Practice
ARTHIST 496 (Win) - Art and Power
ARTHIST 5 (Spr) - Asian American Art
AMSTUD 186D, ARTHIST 186B, ARTHIST 386B, ASNAMST 186B (Aut) - Introduction to the Arts: Interdisciplinary Axes of Art
ARTSINST 101 (Win) -
Independent Studies (12)
- Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 290 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 680 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
ARTHIST 640 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Research
ARTHIST 650 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Extended Seminar
ARTHIST 660E (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study
ARTHIST 660 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work: Art History
ARTHIST 298 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
ARTHIST 620 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Paper
MTL 390 (Win, Spr) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Aut, Sum) - Teaching Praxis
ARTHIST 610 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Visual Arts Internship
ARTHIST 295 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Art and Power
ARTHIST 5 (Spr) - Beauty
ARTHIST 230 (Spr) - Concepts of Modernity I: Methods and Debates
MTL 334A (Aut) - Dissertation Seminar
ARTHIST 670 (Win, Sum) - Methods and Debates
ARTHIST 502 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Art and Power
ARTHIST 5 (Spr) - Asian American Art
AMSTUD 186D, ARTHIST 186B, ASNAMST 186B (Aut) - Kangnam Style: South Korea's Soft Power Empire
OSPGEN 21 (Sum) - Material Metonymy: Ceramics and Asian America
AMSTUD 284, ARTHIST 284, ARTHIST 484, ASNAMST 284 (Spr) - Methods and Debates
ARTHIST 502 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Art and Power
ARTHIST 5 (Spr)
- Art and Power
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Marco Antonio Flores, Ann Tartsinis, Martabel Wasserman -
Orals Chair
Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Delaney Holton, Emily Wang, Marcelo Yanez, Jennie Yoon -
Doctoral (Program)
Kelsey Chen, Bryn Evans