Zabel, Professor Emerita of Art History at Connecticut College, has published scholarly essays and exhibition reviews in many major journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art's "Making Mischief: Da
...MoreZabel, Professor Emerita of Art History at Connecticut College, has published scholarly essays and exhibition reviews in many major journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art's "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York" (1996); and "Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity" (MIT Press, 1999). She has published two books: Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde (2004) and Calder's Portraits: A New Language (2011). Zabel has participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Switzerland and a DAAD program in Germany and has received research grants from The Mellon Foundation and several from the Smithsonian Institution. Most recently she was a Senior Scholar at the National Portrait Gallery, where she curated an exhibition on the portraiture of Alexander Calder. She has presented papers at conferences across the United States as well as in Hawaii, Zurich and Istanbul. During her tenure at Connecticut College, Zabel taught survey courses on American and European modernism and on contemporary art, as well as more focused seminars on a wide range of topics. She was active as chair of her department, as well as in the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, the American Studies Program, and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, where she served on the board of directors. Since retirement Barbara has been active as a guest curator of several exhibitions and has continued to teach courses, most recently a seminar, "Art in the Anthropocene: Towards a New Environmentalism."
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