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AROUND THE QUADS

Krauss, Waldron Named University Professors

By Alex Sachare ’71

Art history professor Rosalind Krauss and law professor Jeremy Waldron have been named University Professors, bringing to 11 the number of faculty members who hold Columbia’s highest rank. The appointments recognize exceptional scholarly merit and distinguished service to Columbia. University Professors have the opportunity to teach in any Columbia department that they choose.

Rosalind Krauss, working on her dissertation in 1969. PHOTO: ANN GABHART

“Rosalind Krauss and Jeremy Waldron exemplify the outstanding scholarship and instructional leadership that characterizes Columbia University faculty,” said President Lee C. Bollinger. “Rosalind’s scholarship has transformed the field of modern art criticism and further distinguishes Columbia’s art history programs. Jeremy is one of the world’s leading legal philosophers and is an exceptionally dedicated teacher. It is appropriate that they are recognized for their efforts to cultivate a new generation of scholars and to make Columbia a leading university for the study of art history and jurisprudence.”

Krauss is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, director of the master’s program in modern art and a leading critical voice among modern art historians. She has taught at Columbia since 1992 and is the founder of the master’s program in critical and curatorial studies. She is the only woman among the 11 current University Professors and only the second woman to hold that rank, following Carolyn Bynum, who went to Princeton in 2002.

An esteemed art historian, Krauss specializes in 20th-century art. She has published several books, including Bachelors (2000); Formless: A User’s Guide (2000), The Picasso Papers (1999), A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-medium Condition (1999), October: The Second Decade, 1986–1996 (1998), The Optical Unconscious (1994) and The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1986). The last is one of the most widely-read books on modern art and cultural theory. Krauss is co-founder and editor of the journal October, which examines relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, and also publishes regularly in Artforum, Art International and Art in America.

Krauss has served as visiting curator at such leading museums as the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) the Corcoran Museum of Art (Washington, D.C.) and several New York museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. Prior to joining Columbia’s faculty, Krauss taught at CUNY’s Graduate Center (as distinguished professor), Princeton, MIT and Wellesley. She has an A.B. from Wellesley (1962) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard (1964, 1969).

Jeremy Waldron, in classroom.

Waldron, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, is the director of Columbia’s Center for Law and Philosophy. He began teaching at Columbia in 1997 and works in the area that connects jurisprudence, theories of politics, and moral and political philosophy.

Waldron is a globally respected and influential political philosopher. He has written about a wide range of issues in social, legal and political philosophy. His books include God, Locke and Equality (2002), Law and Disagreement (1999), The Dignity of Legislation (1999), Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91 (1993), Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man (ed. 1988) and The Right to Private Property (1988). He is associate editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and a member of the editorial boards of Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Ethics.

A New Zealand native, Waldron regularly returns there to teach at Victoria University of Wellington. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. Prior to joining Columbia’s faculty, Waldron taught at Princeton, UC Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, Oxford University and University of Otago. He has a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Otago (1974, 1978) and an M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford (1980, 1986).

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