
The University of New Mexico
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February. 14, 2006
Two UNM Faculty Awarded Guest Professorships in Berlin
Two University of New Mexico faculty members have been awarded guest professorships at Humboldt University in Berlin . David Craven, Art and Art History professor in the College of Fine Arts; and Susanne Baackmann, associate professor of German Studies in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, College of Arts and Sciences, both received the Spring 2007 Rudolf Arnheim professorship in art history and cultural studies.
This prestigious senior guest professorship, which goes to scholars with international reputations and major publications in the visual arts, is one of the highest awards given by Humboldt to senior scholars from other institutions.
Both Craven and Baackmann have been at UNM since 1993 and have, between them, published five books and edited a sixth since joining the UNM faculty. As scholars-in-residence at Humboldt, they will each conduct research on their respective book manuscripts and give public presentations in Berlin based on their projects.
The Rudolf Arnheim professorship was named for an art historian who studied at Humboldt in the 1920s. The annual selection of recipients is made by a committee of art history faculty at Humboldt as well as representatives of other agencies.
Baackmann will use the Rudolf-Arnheim professorship to work on her book, “Memories of War, Wars of Memory,” a study on Germany 's ongoing search for a post-Berlin Wall unified identity.
Craven will continue work on several books including editing and translating an anthology on the new German art history from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Craven and Baackmann will also edit and prepare for publication a selection of the papers to be presented at “Modernism—Fascism—Postmodernism,” a conference scheduled for Sept. 20-23 at UNM.
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