History & Art History

Marion F. Deshmukh (Ph.D., Columbia University) teaches modern German history, the Third Reich and Holocaust, European cultural history, German painting, and the arts. Her research has focused on the intersection between painting and politics in 19th and 20th Century Germany. She has published and edited works on German impressionist artists and World War I, the National Gallery of Berlin after 1945, the arts in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in exhibition catalogues and in Central European History, Art History, German Studies Review, and publications of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and the German Historical Institute. She curated an exhibition on the graphic works of Max Liebermann in 2006, Max Liebermann, Works on Paper (Goethe Institut, Washington, DC). She is the recipient of two German Academic Exchange Fellowships (DAAD), a Fulbright, J. P. Getty, Virginia Humanities Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She is on the Board of Editors of the German Studies Review and an officer of the Friends of the Goethe Institut and the German Historical Institute.

Germany, Europe