Christopher Wood#
| Membership Number: | 5512 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://wp.nyu.edu/christopherwood |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Professor, Department of German, New York University
- 1992 - 2014 Assistant Professor, (from 1996) Associate, (from 2000) Full Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Fields of Scholarship
- History of European art, 1300-1900
- Historiography of art history (history of the discipline of art history)
- German literature and culture, esp. 18th and 19th centuries
- History of ideas, critical theory, aesthetics
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Aby Warburg Visiting Professor, Warburg-Haus and University of Hamburg
- Oct 2019 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh
- 2018 Jacob-Burckhardt-Preis des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz
- 2018 Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti
- 2017 Fellow, Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University
- 2016 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2016 Team-Teaching Stipend, with Juliet Fleming, from Center for the Humanities, NYU
- 2014, 2018 Fellow, Kolleg-Forschergruppe BildEvidenz, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2012 Senior Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
- 2011 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2011 Review of Hans Belting, Bild-Anthropologie, in Art Bulletin 86 (June 2004): 370-73, was selected as one of 39 texts for inclusion in the Art Bulletin Centennial Anthology, 1911-2011
- 2009 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, for Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art
- 2004 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
- 2002 NEH / Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
- 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1995 - 1996 Morse Fellowship, Yale University
- 1989 - 1992 Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
- 1983 - 1984 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschsdienst (DAAD) fellowship, Munich
- 1980 Jacob Wendell Scholarship, Harvard University
