Society of Fellows • Princeton University
Joseph Henry House • Princeton, NJ 08544
scberger@princeton.edu • 925-286-8215

Academic Appointments

• 2016 University of Southern California
  Assistant Professor of Art History (Starting August 16)
• 2013 Present Princeton University
  Society of Fellows, Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow
  Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology
  Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities

Education

• Ph.D. 2012 University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art
  Dissertation: “The Art of Philosophy: Early Modern Illustrated. Thesis Prints, Broadsides, and Student Notebooks”, Supervisor: Jean Michel Massing
• M.Phil. 2008 University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art
  Distinction, highest mark of the year
  Dissertation: “‘Une belle plaine fertile’: A Botanical Visualization of an Aristotelian System of Logic”
• B.A. 2007 Columbia University, Columbia College
  Major: Philosophy (honors); Concentration: Art History
  Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude
  Thesis: “Comprehending Immanuel Kant’s Notion of Noumenon”

Awards and Research Funding

• 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Upcoming from July 1)
• 2016 Panofsky-Fellowship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (Upcoming from May 11 for three months)
• 2016 Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II with Professor Lorraine Daston (Upcoming from July 1-31)
• 2011-2013 Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• 2011-2012 Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford (declined 2012-2013 academic year)
• 2012 College Art Association Professional-Development Fellow in Art History
• 2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library (one month)