Ladislav Kesner - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 2004 Ph.D. in History of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno
- 1985 Graduated from Charles University (sinology, oriental studies and art history)
- 1979-84 Philosophical Faculty, Charles University Prague, 1984
Employment History
- 2006 - Department of Art History Faculty of Arts Masaryk University, Brno, associate professor since 2007
- 1999 - 2007 museum and art management consultant - managing teams of 3-8 people on over 20 projects (visitor studies, strategic planning and feasibility studies for museums, multimedia educational systems)
- 1996-98, 1991-93 deputy general director of National Gallery in Prague in charge of collections and research (directly supervising over 40 people and major exhibition and educational projects)
- 1991-93 Head of Asian Arts collection, National Gallery (directly supervising10), Prague
- 1986-97 curator of Chinese art, National Gallery, Prague
Teaching
- 2013 Robert Arnheim Professor, Humboldt University Berlin
- since 2006 - Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno
- 2005 - 2006 Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
- 1993 - 2003 (intermittently) Department of Art History, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University
- 1995 visiting professor, Department of History of Art, University of Chicago
- 1991 - 1992 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
Number of PhD. students supervised:
- Currently 6
- Supervision of 16 M.A. theses (14 successfully defended, 2 in preparation)
- 2007 - 2008 fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (3 months)
- 2006 - 2007 senior fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Wien (4 months)
- 2002 visiting scholar, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and Humanities (4 months)
- 1995-96 Central European University research grant
- 1993-94 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, visiting scholar at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (12 months)
- 1992-93 The J. Paul Getty Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities
- 1989-90 Fulbright Scholar Program Award, University of California, Berkeley (12 months)