Dr. Beth Harris is currently Director of Digital Learning at the Museum of Modern Art. Previously, she was assistant professor in the History of Art department..She also directed FIT's distance learning program for several years.. She is a Victorian Studies specialist and edited and contributed to Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2005). She has presented papers on instructional technology at conferences across the country (including the College Art Association, New Media Consortium, Educause, Merlot, etc.). Dr. Harris has authored essays on teaching with image technology including “The Slide Library: A Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital Future,” Teaching Art History with Technology: Case Studies (2008). Her work has been cited twice in the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report and together with Steven Zucker, she organized two conferences on using technology to teach with images.The website she co-founded with Dr. Steve Zucker (www.smarthistory.org) won the Webby Award for Education in 2009. She received her Master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and her Doctorate in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Courses:
HA 112 History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
HA214 Art in New York
HA 231 Modern Art

Current Projects and Interests:
www.smARThistory.us/blog
www.smARThistory.us/site

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