Katherine Hauser graduated from the University of California at Davis and received her MA and PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles. Katherine began teaching at Skidmore in 1997 in her areas of research and interest: 19th- and 20th-century art and design, including a history of photography. In addition she teaches courses on gender for the Women's Studies program, as well as a course on women and art. Katherine's particular area of research interest is 20th-century representational art, on which she has published in The Woman's Art Journal and Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.

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