Dana E. Katz
Joshua C. Taylor Professor of Art History and Humanities
Art Department
Division of the Arts
Dana E. Katz, Ph.D. (2003) in Art History from the University of Chicago, is Joshua C. Taylor Professor of Art History and Humanities at 猫咪社区, where she teaches courses on Renaissance art, architecture, and material culture; early modern culture in Europe, the Americas, and the Muslim Mediterranean; and art historical methodologies. Her research explores representations of religious difference in the art and culture of early modern Italy. In particular, she studies the relations and negotiations between Jewish cultural history and the visual culture of the Italian Renaissance. A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Renaissance Society of America, Katz is the author of The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) and The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press, 2017 and 2019). Her new book project, entitled Mimicry and the Art Museum, redirects her inquiry of social difference to the museum to investigate the intersection of early modern art history and contemporary issues of social justice. Mimicry and the Art Museum explores how the popular remaking of museum images from the past can make new connections in the present through representational strategies of imitation.