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Jess Ziegenfuss, Ph.D.
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​Assistant Professor of Art History
​department of fine and performing arts
texas A&M International UNIVERSITY





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Dr. Ziegenfuss is a modern and contemporary art historian, visual studies scholar, and art critic teaching and working in South Texas.

Her scholarship explores the material and cultural life of objects, sites, and structures often on the borders of traditional art history. Topics at the center of her research include materiality, ecological art, vernacular art forms, and craft practices. In particular, her work critically examines the relationship between resource extraction, related industries (petrochemical, nuclear, mining), histories of slow violence, and the globalized art world.


Additionally, she is an independent curator who has conducted many exhibition projects in association with modern and contemporary  collections of photography, art, and ephemera. 

Her book project continues her  research on synthetics in the art of Eva Hesse. 



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EDUCATION

PH.D., VISUAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE (2021)

​M.A., WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (2013)

B.A., Women's studies and history of art, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (2009)

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