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Emily Braun
Distinguished Professor of late-19th- and 20th - Century European and American Art.

Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 1991

emily.braun@hunter.cuny.edu

In addition to her work on modern Italian art and fascist culture, Professor Emily Braun has published on renaissance architecture, late nineteenth-century European painting, twentieth-century American art, women's studies, Jewish history, and contemporary painting and sculpture. She was awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty Foundation (1993), the Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2001), and a Fellowship from the New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (2002). As a contributing author, she has twice received the annual Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts (Northern Light: Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian Painting (1982) and Gardens and Ghettos. (1990) In 2005 she won a National Jewish Book Award forThe Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name.

Books and Catalogues:

The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons (co-authored with Emily Bilski). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics under Fascism (Cambridge University Press, London, 2000). Italian edition published by Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2003.

Editor. Giorgio de Chirico and America. New York and Turin: Hunter College and Umberto Allemandi, 1996.

Editor. Italian Art in the 20th Century, London and Munich: The Royal Academy and Prestel Verlag, 1989.

Thomas Hart Benton: The America Today Murals, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown Mass., 1985.

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