Dr. Zucker is a specialist in 19th and 20th-century art. He chaired the Department of the History of Art from 2001-2006 when he became dean of the Graduate School. He is co-founder and Executive Editor of Smarthistory.org, winner of the 2009 Webby Award for Education and the 2008 AVICOM gold award from the International Council of Museums. Dr. Zucker is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and he has also taught at The School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and at The Museum of Modern Art.


Education:
Ph.D. Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
M.A. Hunter College, City University of New York
B.A. Bard College


Current Courses:
HA231 Modern Art


Selected Grant-Funded Research and Development:
Search Log Analysis Project with Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project (New Media Consortium), the
      Indianapolis Museum of Art, and ARTstor, 2009

Smarthistory.org and Portland Art Museum content development and analysis grant, Samuel H. Kress
      Foundation (co-author/project manager), 2009

Smarthistory.org design development grant, Samuel H. Kress Foundation (co-author/project manager), 2008


Selected Publications:
“The Slide Library: A Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital Future” (Teaching Art History with Technology: Case Studies, 2008)

“The Image Library as Learning Environment” (CAA News, 2005)

“Confrontations with Radical Evil: The Ambiguity of Myth and the Inadequacy of Representation,” in (Art History, 2001)

“The Language of Evil: Hannah Arendt and the Abstract Expressionist Response to the Second World War” (Analecta Husserliana, 1998)