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Alison L. Hilton
Wright Family Distinguished Professor of Art History 
Chair, Department of Art, Music and Theater
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
Phone: (202) 687-7010
Fax: (202) 687-3048
E-mail: hiltona@georgetown.edu

Courses

ARTH 353 Seminar:  Arts of Russia
ARTH 401 Senior Colloquium: Art and Interpretation*
Guidelines for Art History Papers

AMTH 135 American Art
AMTH 104 Modern Art
AMTH 256/356 Russian&Soviet Art in the 20th Century
AMTH 355 Russian Art
AMTH 282 Seminar: Art of the 1930s
ARTH 304 Seminar: Myth and Modern Art
ARTH 285/ 385  Art Confronting Difference
Teaching Areas
Renaissance to Modern Art, Modern Art; Nineteenth Century Art, Twentieth Century Art, American Art,
Contemporary Art, Impressionism, Russian Art, Women and Art; American Civilization IV; Art and Popular Culture  in Russia.

Selected Seminars Topics:  Matisse, New Realism, Iconography of Modern Art, Modern Art and Public Issues, Art and Literature in the Late 19th Century, Art of the 1930s, Twentieth Century Women Artists, Cultural Cannibalism, The Russian Avant-Garde; Art of the 21st Century; Myth and Modern Art, Arts of Russia, Art Confronting Difference.
Education
B.A. Vassar College (Art History)

M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University
(Art History and Archaeology)

Academic exchanges at :
Leningrad State University

Moscow State University
Professional Activity

Previous teaching positions include: University of Connecticut, Storrs, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Wayne State University, Detroit.
Curatorial and research positions at the Hillwood Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

Major area of research is Russian and Soviet art. Recent publications include Russian Folk Art and articles on nonconformist art and on women and gender issues in Soviet art; currently working on Russian Impressionism.
New: a virtual exhibition, "The World of Russian Folk Art" on the web: http://www.rusfolkart.ru.

•Selected Publications
•Conference papers and lectures


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