DR. HARRIET F. SENIE,
Director of Museum Studies
Professor of Art History
Phone: 212-650-7430
Email: hsenie@ccny.cuny.edu
Admissions: Office of Graduate Admissions
Harriet F. Senie has been director of museum studies and professor of art history at City College since 1986. She also teaches art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. In Fall 2000 she was visiting distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that (1982-85) she was associate director of The Art Museum, Princeton University; and from 1978-82, director of the Amelie Wallace Gallery at SUNY, Old Westbury. She is the author of The 'Tilted Arc' Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? (2002), Contemporary Public Sculpture (1992), and co-editor of Critical Issues in Public Art (1992; 1998), as well as numerous articles and essays on public art, memorials, and audience response, including "Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation," in Andrew McClellan, ed. Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (2003). She received her doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts in 1981; an MA in art history from Hunter College in 1978; and a BA in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in 1964. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11.