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Kirwin, Liza Deputy Director

Positions

Deputy Director, Archives of American Art 1979 -

Primary sources documenting the history of American art.

education and training

Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park , Dissertation: It’s All True: Imagining New York’s East Village Art Scene of the 1980s 1999
M.L.S., Catholic University of America 1984
B.A. in Art History, Johns Hopkins University 1979

awards and honors

Secretary's Research Prize, 2012
Carl Bode Prize , conferred by American Studies Department, University of Maryland at College Park, 1999