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James Denison is an American art historian, college professor, and museum curator specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States art and culture. Originally from Alexandria, Virginia, he is currently based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and works as a postdoctoral fellow at both Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. In this role, he combines academic teaching with curatorial research and public scholarship. He also serves as a visiting assistant professor of art history, contributing to higher education through teaching, research, and public lectures. His academic work focuses on themes of race, place, and cultural interpretation in American modernism, including critical analysis of artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

Denison completed his Ph.D. in the History of Art at the University of Michigan in 2023. His dissertation, titled Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism, examines how modernist artistic networks shaped ideas about American identity and cultural difference. His research has been recognized with several honors, including a Dissertation Finishing Fellowship, the Tappan Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching, and the Engle Graduate Fellowship from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. His scholarly work also engages broader cultural and institutional contexts, often connecting museum practice with academic research.

Before his current postdoctoral appointments, Denison gained extensive museum experience through fellowships and internships at major institutions. He worked as a Summer Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Center for American Art, where he conducted research for the American Watercolor exhibition and curated a gallery reinstallation. At the Birmingham Museum of Art, he served both as a Friends of American Art Curatorial Research Fellow and as a Goodrich Intern, contributing to exhibition research, wall texts, and public programming. Earlier roles included a curatorial internship at The Phillips Collection and a student assistant position at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, where he helped organize exhibitions and led youth education programs.

Denison earned his Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College, graduating with a double major in Art History and French and a minor in Biology, along with honors in Art History. His undergraduate thesis examined artist George Bellows and constructions of American masculinity. During his studies, he participated in the Sweet Briar Junior Year program in Nice, France. At Bowdoin, he was also active outside the classroom as a member of the men’s water polo team, a campus tour guide, a radio host, and a participant in student outreach and advocacy initiatives. He speaks English, French, and German and has professional skills in research, curating, editing, public speaking, higher education, and museum work.

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