Harriet F. Senie
Professor of Contemporary American Art

Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1981

hsenie@ccny.cuny.edu

Professor Senie's chief research research areas are public art, memorials, memory and material culture, the American landscape tradition (themes of the road in American art and culture), and contemporary pilgrimage practice. She is also the Director of the M.A. Museum Studies Program at City College, where she also teaches. In Fall 2000 Prof. Senie was visiting distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as Associate Director of the Princeton Art Museum and Gallery Director at SUNY, Old Westbury.

Books:

Dangerous Precedent? The `Tilted Arc' Controversy. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Co-editor. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. Smithsonian, 1998.

Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy. Oxford, 1992.

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