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    Prof. Warner with students at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    John-Michael H. Warner

    School of Art
    Associate Professor - Art History
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    CVA 267H
    Contact Information
    Email:
    jwarne26@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-4058
    Fax:
    330-672-4729

    Biography

    John-Michael H. Warner is an art historian trained in gender and women’s studies. Professor Warner teaches histories and theories of contemporary art, feminist and queer art and theory, and contemporary photography as well as environmental art history—each from a feminist and queer perspective. John-Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Art History from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a Master’s degree in Art History from Arizona State University, and a PhD in Art History and a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona. Published by the University of Arizona Press in 2018, John-Michael co-edited Border Spaces: The U.S.-Mexico Frontera with Katherine G. Morrissey. The edited collection is a series of art historical and environmental histories of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the turn of the twentieth-century through the turn of the twenty-first century. In January 2020, John-Michael was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-Confluence Center Fronteridades Fellowship, collaborating with Mary Jenea Sanchez, Gabriela Muñoz, and DouglaPrieta Trabaja. In addition, he is finishing the manuscript Earthquakes: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence: A Project for California (University of Arizona Press, forthcoming). Warner’s research interests include: border/borderlands studies, land use studies, ecocritical studies, theories of modern sculpture, social/relational art, and theorizing publics. 

    Undergraduate Teaching

    Art and Theory since 1940, Kent State University*
    Nations and Borders, Kent State University*
    Histories and Theories of Photography, Kent State University*
    Feminist and Queer Art and Theory, Kent State University*
     
    *Asterisk indicates upper division undergraduate course co-convened with graduate students
     

    Graduate Seminars

     
    Dirt and Water, Kent State University
    Social Interstices: Relational and Social Aesthetics, Kent State University
    Cultural Geographies of Land Use and Representation, Kent State University
    What is the Public? Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Other Culturally-Determined Landscapes, Kent State University
     
    Dr. Warner is a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Science and Design Research Institute.

    Education

    University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, BA
    Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, MA
    University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, PhD

    Publications

    • Border Spaces: The U.S.-Mexico Frontera, co-edited by Katherine Morrissey and John-Michael H. Warner (University of Arizona Press, 2018),

    News Stories

    School of Art Collection Acquires Section of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Running Fence", Katherine Morrissey and John-Michael Warner Awarded BRLA Southwest Book Awards, John-Michael Warner Awarded Fellowship for U.S.-Mexico Border Research,
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