Dana Hogan

Dana Hogan specializes in the art of early modern Europe with a focus on cross-cultural exchange, portraiture, and women as makers and patrons of art. Her current book project restores women artists’ rightful places in the history of cross-cultural exchange, centering representations of people and objects from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Her interdisciplinary research has been presented at national conferences and in peer-reviewed journals such as Early Modern Women, Itinerari, and Comitatus.

At Middlebury College she teaches courses on topics including Italian Renaissance art, women in art, and the digital humanities. She has also taught Art History courses at Syracuse University and Duke University, where she earned a PhD in Art, Art History & Visual Studies along with graduate certificates in College Teaching and Feminist Studies. Prior to her doctoral studies she earned degrees in Art History and Comparative Literature from Williams College, and in Italian Renaissance Art through Syracuse University in Florence.

As a member of Midd.data, Professor Hogan teaches courses that approach the study of art history using data-driven methods and digital tools. Her interest in digital art history began as a fellow in the Duke Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab (formerly Wired!) and a research lead for Project Vox, an open-access educa­tional resource that illuminates the lives and works of marginalized philosophers for public audiences. She has organized panels on digital art history for the College Art Association conference, and  contributed to interdisciplinary collaboratives including Humanities Unbounded, the Visualizing Cities Lab, and the Annotated Treatises Digital Project.

In addition to the study of art history, she is interested in museum practice, having held positions at the Norton Museum, the Smithsonian, Planet Word, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (where she has also been an exhibiting artist).