Sarah Lichtman
Chairperson of History of Art and Design; Professor
Biography
Sarah A. Lichtman, PhD, is the current chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. She previously served as Dean of the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, The New School and as Director of the MA program in History of Design and Curatorial Studies, offered jointly by Parsons and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Her scholarship and teaching are broadly collaborative and take an interdisciplinary and feminist approach. Her most recent publications include the co-edited Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias (Bloomsbury, 2021), Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories (Routledge, 2023), and Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges Through Art, Architecture and Design, 1945-1985 (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Sarah is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History and previously served as Book Reviews Editor.
Education
BA Vassar College
MA The Bard Graduate Center
PhD The Bard Graduate Center