Susan M. Merriam

Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture

Primary Academic Program: Art History

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Environmental Studies, Experimental Humanities, Human Rights

Biography: Select Fellowships: Mellon Conservation Fellowship; Harvard University Art Museums (2002-2003); Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington -Clarice and Robert Smith Fellow (1999-2000); Belgian American Educational Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (1997-1998).



Select Publications: Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image (2012), “The Garland Pictures’ Reception in Seventeenth-Century Flanders and Italy,” Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, ed. Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti. (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington VT: Ashgate Press, 2009). Her current book manuscript in progress is Inventing the Animal in Early Modern Europe.



B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Faculty, Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. At Bard since 2003.
Phone: 845-758-7163
Website: https://arthistory.bard.edu/?page_id=58
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Department: Arts
Location: Fisher Annex
Office: 115