Rose-Carol Long
Professor of 19th and 20th Century European Art

PhD, Yale, 1968

rlong@gc.cuny.edu

For fifteen years as chair of the Ph.D. Program in Art history, Professor Long guided the expansion of the Program from approximately 100 students to its present size of 240 students.  A specialist in European visual culture of the modern period, especially in Germany, Central Europe, and Russia, she has been an evaluator for the NEH Fellowship Program and for the Getty Grant Program.  Among her numerous awards are a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Younger Humanist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies.  She helped to found and was President of the CAA-affiliated Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture (HGCEA) and is currently treasurer. She is working on a book dealing with identity issues in the Weimar Republic.

Books:

German Expressionism:  Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism, annotated edition, G.K. Hall & Co./Macmillan,  1993; paperback edition, University of California Press, 1995.

Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style,  Clarendon Press, 1980.

With John Bowlt. The Life of Vasily Kandinsky in Russian Art: A Study of "On the Spiritual in Art." Oriental Research Partners, 1980.

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