Dr. Susanna C. Berger
Vita
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)