Karen Frostig

Associate Professor at Lesley University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge MA, and Visiting Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.  Ph.D. in Visual Culture and Critical Theory, Union Institute (2002).  Scholarly interests:  Feminist art criticism, Memory Studies, Genocide Studies, Holocaust Studies, Art and Trauma, Diaspora Studies, Social Activism and Ecofeminism.

Recent Publications
Author (2009). “Transnational Dialogues Dealing with Holocaust Legacies” In E. Delacruz, 
A. Arnold, A. Kuo & M. Parsons (Eds.), G.L.O.B.A.L.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N., Art and Education. Reston, VA: National Art Education. (forthcoming)

Co-editor with Kathy A. Halamka (2009). Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism,
2nd edition. Newcastle,UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 415 pp.  Paperback 
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0239-0

Co-editor with Kathy A. Halamka (2007). Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Newcastle,UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 415 pp. ISBN (13): 9781847183767   www.blazediscourse.com

Co-author with Michele Essex (2007). Expressive Arts Therapies in Schools: A Supervision and Program Development Guide (Korean, Trans. 2nd ed.). Seoul, South Korea: Sigma Press.

Author (2006). “The Permeable Classroom or the Tilted Arc Revisited.” Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 26(1),176-194.

Author (2006). “The paucity of relational experience between teachers and students.” In Beudert, L. (Ed.). work, pedagogy and change: foundations for the art teacher educator, Reston, VA: National Art Education, pp. 97-98.  

Author (2006). “Ellen Driscoll: Transforming Transitory Space.” Art New England,  February/March, 12, and 63.

Author (2004). “Public Art: Welcoming Mike Glier’s Town Green to the Newly Renovated Cambridge City Hall Annex” Art New England. June/July,16-17.

Recent Fellowships and Awards
Center for Research Fellowship Program, Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: “Post- Silence: Memory, Art and Activism Seventy Years After the  Anschluss” (2009-10).

Shelley Tyre Fund “Erinnerung aus dem Exil/Exiled Memories” (2008-09).

Lesley University Faculty Development Grant:  “The Vienna Project” (2008-09).

Grants from Erste Stiftung, the Zukunftsfond, and the University of Vienna, sponsoring exhibition and conference for “Erinnerung aus dem Exil/Exiled Memories” (2008).

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cambridge Arts Council Grant “Legacy of War” (2008).

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Newton Cultural Council Grant “Legacy of War” (2008).

Center for Research Fellowship Program, Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: “Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism” (2007-08).

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Newton Cultural Council Grant “Ancestral Conversations (2007).

Center for Research Fellowship Program, Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: “Legacy of War” (2006-07).

Lesley University Faculty Development Grant:  “Legacy of War” (2005-06).

Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ: “Legacy of War” (2005).

Center for Research Fellowship Program, Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: “Tree Memorial” (2004-05).

Recent Conferences
Presenter (2009). “Art and Trauma: Methods of Inquiry, Dialogue and Transformation”. Sociology of the Arts (ESA), 9th European Sociological Association Conference, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.

Presenter (2009). “Trust and the Law”.  Roundtable on Art and Genocide,8th Bienneial International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Conference, Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution,George Mason University, Arlington, VA.     

Presenter (2009). “Lawful Atrocities”. Curating Difficult Knowledge Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Presenter (2009). “Data as Memory and Memory as Data”. Digital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues. Inter-Disciplinary.net and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Crowne Plaza Hotel-The Pitter, Salzburg, Austria.

           
Panel chair with Martina Reuter, Wochenkalusur (2009). Inventive Concepts: Models of Participatory Leadership in the Arts; Panelists: Anglela Ellsworth, Scott Rigby, Eun Jung Park Smith, Pamela Allara, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and Abigail Satinsky; College of Art (CAA) 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Presenter (2008). “Erinnerung aus dem Exil/Exiled Memories”. Vertriebenes Recht/Expelled Law, Institut für Rechtsphilosophie, Religions- und Kulturrecht Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien, Juridicum, A-1010 Wien, AT.

Presenter (2008). “Inhabiting Memory”. Public Memories Project, Visible Memories International Conference, Communication and Rhetorical Studies Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

Presenter (2008). “Using the Lens of Photography to Develop New Models of Inquiry”. Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice, The 2008 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Communications, Urbana, IL.