Richard Meyer

Bio

Areas of Specialization:
20th-century American art and visual culture

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Art & Art History

Administrative Appointments

• Interim Director, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Stanford University (2020 - 2021)
• Director of Graduate Studies, Art History & Film/Media Studies, Stanford University (2017 - 2021)
• Ethics Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
• Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University (2012 - Present)
• Adjunct Professor of Art History, University of Southern California (2012 - 2017)
• Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2010 - 2010)
• Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California (2008 - 2011)
• Director, The Contemporary Project, University of Southern California (2007 - 2012)
• Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History of Art (2006 - 2007)
• Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History (2004 - 2004)
• Acting Chair, Department of Art History, University of Southern California (2003 - 2003)
• Associate Professor, Art History and Fine Arts; Affiliated Faculty in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (2002 - 2012)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities (1998 - 1998)
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (1996 - 2002)
• Visiting Lecturer, Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology (1996 - 1996)
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, Henry Luce Foundation (1994 - 1995)
• Chester Dale Dissertation Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993 - 1994)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for the Humanities, United States Department of Education (1989 - 1993)

Honors & Awards

• Art Journal Award for “Artists Sometimes Have Feelings", College Art Association (2008)
• Mellon Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring, University of Southern California (2006)
• Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003)
• Phi Kappi Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Stanford University (2003)
• Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association (2003)
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Visual Arts (2003)
• First Annual Passing-the-Torch Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), City University of New York (2000)
• Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service, University of Southern California (1999)
• USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching (for curating course), University of Southern California (2009-2010)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Affiliate, Queer Caucus for Art (Affiliated Society of CAA)
• Affiliate, American Studies Association (ASA)
• Affiliate, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
• Affiliate, Association of Historians of American Art (Affiliated Society of CAA)
• Affiliate, College Art Association (CAA)
• Grant Reviewer, American Academy in Berlin
• Grant Reviewer, Getty Research Institute Residential Scholarship
• Grant Reviewer, Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
• Grant Reviewer, CAL Arts/Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
• Grant Reviewer, J. Paul Getty Grant Program
• Manuscript Reviewer, Theatre Journal
• Manuscript Reviewer, Art Journal
• Manuscript Reviewer, University of Minnesota Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, University of Chicago Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, The Art Bulletin
• Manuscript Reviewer, Duke University Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, American Art
• Manuscript Reviewer, MIT Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, Museum of Modern Art
• Manuscript Reviewer, Rutgers University Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Manuscript Reviewer, Blackwell Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, Columbia University Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, Manchester University Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press
• Manuscript Reviewer, Gender and History
• Manuscript Reviewer, Getty Research Institute
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of Pennsylvania
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Barnard College
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Wayne State University
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of Minnesota
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of California, Irvine
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of Michigan
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Harvard University
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of California, Los Angeles
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Bryn Mawr College
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of Toledo
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Columbia University, School of the Arts
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, University of Chicago
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Yale University
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Northwestern University
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Indiana University
• Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, Rice University
• Member, Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (2013 - 2013)
• Member, Gallery Committee, Stanford University (2012 - Present)
• Faculty Chair, Stanford in Washington (Arts) (2012 - 2013)
• Member, Search Committee, Emerging Practices in Design, Stanford University (2012 - 2013)
• Member, Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies/Henry Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in America Art (2012 - 2013)
• Member, 2012 Los Angeles CAA Centennial Committee, College Art Association (2010 - 2012)
• Member, Graduate 2nd Year Review Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2010 - 2011)
• Member, Search Committee, Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2010 - 2011)
• Member, Women’s Caucus for Art, College Art Association (2009 - 2012)
• Member, Advisory Committee, International Museum Institute, University of Southern California (2009 - 2011)
• Member, Pacific Standard Time Advisory Committee, Getty Research Institute (2009 - 2011)
• Chair, Personnel Committee, Art History, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2009 - 2010)
• Graduate Recruitment Officer, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2009 - 2010)
• Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee, Search for Dean, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (2009 - 2010)
• Evaluator, Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Southern California (2009 - 2009)
• Co-Director, Yale Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (2008 - 2011)
• Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California (2008 - 2011)
• Member, Provost’s Committee on Interdsiciplinary Hiring, University of Southern California (2008 - 2011)
• Member, Selection Committee, Provostial Ph.D. Fellowships, University of Southern California (2008 - 2010)
• Member, Faculty Merit Review Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2008 - 2009)
• Member, Search Committee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Art History, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2008 - 2009)
• Evaluator, Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Southern California (2008 - 2008)
• Director, The Contemporary Project, University of Southern California (2007 - 2012)
• Graduate Recruitment Officer, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2007 - 2008)
• Evaluator, Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Southern California (2007 - 2007)
• Member, Editorial Board, Images: A Journal of Jewish Visual Culture (2006 - Present)
• Juror, Third Annual Patricia and Philip Frost Essay Award, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2006 - 2007)
• Member, Undergraduate Evaluation Board, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania (2006 - 2007)
• Member, Diversity Practices Committee, College Art Association (2005 - 2007)
• Chair, Ph.D. Admissions and Recruitment Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2005 - 2006)
• Founding Director, Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California (2005 - 2006)
• Member, College Graduate Programs Advisory Committee, University of Southern California (2005 - 2006)
• Member, Roski School of Fine Arts, Third-Year Review Committee for Prof. Charlie Whit, University of Southern California (2005 - 2006)
• Mentor, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, University of Southern California (2005 - 2006)
• Member, Editorial Board, American Art (2004 - 2008)
• Member, Public Art Committee, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (2004 - 2006)
• Faculty Merit Review Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2004 - 2005)
• Member, Graduate Studies and Review Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2004 - 2005)
• Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2004 - 2005)
• Chair, Steering Committee, Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative, University of Southern California (2003 - 2006)
• Member, Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art Committee, College Art Association (2003 - 2006)
• Acting Department Chair, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2003 - 2003)
• Member, Joint Art History/Classics/Religion Search Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2003 - 2003)
• Member, Residential Scholars Selection Committee, Getty Research Institute (2003 - 2003)
• Contributing editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2002 - 2005)
• Advisor, Visual Culture Minor, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2002 - 2004)
• Chair, 3rd year review committee for Prof. Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2002 - 2003)
• Dean’s Consultative Committee for Selection of Art History Department Chair, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2002 - 2003)
• Member, Joint Art History/Classics Search Comimttee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2002 - 2002)
• Member, Steering Committee, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California (2001 - 2003)
• Member, Ph.D. Admissions Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2001 - 2002)
• Member, Search committee, Korean Art, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2001 - 2002)
• Member, Editorial Board, Documents: A Journal of Art, Culture, and Criticism (2000 - 2003)
• Member, Faculty Council, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California (2000 - 2002)
• Member, Search Committee, African-American Art and Visual Culture, University of Southern California Department of Art History (2000 - 2001)
• Member, Search Committee, Chinese art and Intellectual History, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1999 - 2000)
• Member, Search committee, 19th century European Art, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1998 - 1999)
• Member, Fisher Gallery Advisory Committee, University of Southern California (1997 - 2001)
• Advisor, Visual Culture Minor, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1997 - 2000)
• Member, Search committee, 17th and 18th century European Art, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1997 - 1998)
• Faculty chair, USC Art History Lecture Series, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1996 - 1998)
• Ph.D. Admissions Committee, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1996 - 1998)
• Faculty interviewer for President's Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Southern California (1996 - 1997)
• Member, Grade Appeals Panel, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California (1996 - 1997)
• Member, Search Committee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chinese Art, University of Southern California (1996 - 1997)
• Member, USC Planning Committee on Cultural Studies, University of Southern California (1996 - 1997)
• Co-creator (with Prof. Eunice Howe), Visual Culture Minor, University of Southern California Department of Art History (1996 - 1996)

Program Affiliations

• American Studies
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professional Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Department of History of Art, History of Art (1996)
• M.A., University of California at Berkeley, Department of History of Art, History of Art (1991)
• B.A., Yale University, History of Art (1988)

2024-25 Courses

• Independent Studies (10)
  • 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)
  • Teaching Praxis
    ARTHIST 610 (Aut, Win, Spr)
  • Visual Arts Internship
    ARTHIST 295 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
• Prior Year Courses

  2023-24 Courses

  • Dissertation Seminar
    ARTHIST 670 (Win)
  • Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    ARTHIST 499, FEMGEN 299 (Win)
  • Overlooked/Understudied
    ARTHIST 441 (Aut)
  • Putting it together: The Art of Curating
    ARTHIST 288 (Aut)
  • Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing
    ARTHIST 294 (Win)

  2022-23 Courses

  • Art History in the First Person
    ARTHIST 242A, ARTHIST 442 (Spr)
  • Graduate Pedagogy
    ARTHIST 405A (Aut)
  • Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    ARTHIST 499, FEMGEN 299 (Win)
  • Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing
    ARTHIST 294 (Win)

  2021-22 Courses

  • Censorship in American Art
    AMSTUD 167, ARTHIST 160, CSRE 160, FEMGEN 167 (Aut)
  • Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Queer Cinemas around the World)
    FEMGEN 299 (Win)
  • IMBY (In My Backyard): Faculty Scholarship in Art History and Film/Media Studies
    ARTHIST 601 (Spr)
  • Warhol's World
    ARTHIST 251, ARTHIST 451 (Aut)

Stanford Advisees

• Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
  Linden Hill, Ann Tartsinis, Jennie Yoon
• Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
  Ron Reichman
• Doctoral (Program)
  Dejan Vasic