https://kathleenapierce.com/menu 2025-05-04T11:13:47+00:00 always 0.5 https://kathleenapierce.com 2026-03-03T18:43:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1126214249230655880487447112284/horizontal-yellow.svg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2251820111412527668894782303102/888A6545.jpg https://kathleenapierce.com/writing 2026-01-15T16:08:28+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2253424321645765560636141841278/medical-history.jpg <div style="text-align: left;"><small> “Photograph as Skin, Skin as Wax: Indexicality and the Visualisation of Syphilis in Fin-de-Siècle France,” <i>Medical History,</i> 64 no. 1 (2020) | <a data-umami-event="medhistoryPDF" href="https://freight.cargo.site/m/M2431926033145137679205496367998/KPierce_Syphilis-and-Indexicality-Article.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> | Awarded the <a data-umami-event="Zakon" href="http://historyofdermatology.org/zakon-prize/" target="_blank">38th annual Samuel Zakon Prize</a> from the History of Dermatology Society and the <a data-umami-event="Bynum" href="https://www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/news/bynum-prize-2017/" target="_blank">William Bynum Essay Prize</a> from <i>Medical History</i> in 2017</small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2253424651565783318931472493438/buildings-and-landscapes-cover.jpeg <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“New Spaces for a New Midwifery at the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York,” <i>Buildings &#x26; Landscapes</i> 29, no. 1 (2022) | <a data-umami-event="NewSpacesPDF" href="https://freight.cargo.site/m/Z2431925985663218433477110508414/Pierce_New-Spaces-for-a-New-Midwifery.pdf">PDF</a></small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2253463733188266017388007631742/Screenshot-2025-03-11-at-5.28.27PM.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small data-umami-event="Looking seeing knowing from writing clickthrough">“Mirar, Ver y Saber: Pensar a través de la visualidad en la educación y la práctica médica con ‘La naturaleza se revela ante la ciencia’, de Louis-Ernest Barrias” / “Looking, Seeing, and Knowing: Thinking through Visuality in Medical Education and Practice with Louis-Ernest Barrias’s <i>Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science,</i>” <i>Boletín de Humanidades Médicas 5</i>, no. 20 (2024) | <a data-umami-event="Looking seeing knowing PDF english" href="https://files.cargocollective.com/c453250/KPierce_Looking-Seeing-and-Knowing.pdf" target="_blank">PDF (English)</a> | <a data-umami-event="Looking seeing knowing PDF spanish" href="https://files.cargocollective.com/c453250/KPierce_Mirar_Ver-y-Saber.pdf" target="_blank">PDF (Spanish translation)</a> </small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2253466284170057226608191056766/synapsis-icon.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Instrumentalized Images: The Trouble with Representation, Truth, and Affective Power in Histories of American Gynecology,” <i>Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal</i></small> (2023)</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2253470319063281957245835127678/Thumbnail_Affecting-Images.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small> “Affecting Images: A Guided Self-Reflection Document for a Trauma-Informed Art History Classroom,” <i>Art Journal Open, </i> co-authored with Jenevieve DeLosSantos (2023)</small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2253485358453917579685043481470/ncfs.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Review of Aro Velmet, <i>Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, its Colonies, and the World</i>,” <i>Nineteenth-Century French Studies</i> (2022) </small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2254733762833053885398416468862/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-12.35.33PM.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Holding Space: A Roundtable Conversation on Trauma and Teaching in the Museum,”  <i>Art Journal Open</i>, (co-author, 2021) </small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2254738506745333833136386452350/germ-city.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small> “Exhibition Review: <i><a href="https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/germ-city">Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis</a></i>,” <i>Nursing Clio </i>(2019)</small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2254740412220209671038230178686/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-12.41.59PM.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth,” <i>Nursing Clio</i><br /></small></div> (2018) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2254742778291838285393868204926/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-12.44.08PM.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“An Interview with the Material Collective,” <i>Rutgers Art Review</i>, Volume 33/34 (co-author, 2018)| <a href="https://files.cargocollective.com/c453250/Vol-33_34_An-Interview-with-the-Material-Collective.pdf" onclick="ga('gtag_UA_142680679_1.send','event','pdf','download','materialcollective')" target="_blank">PDF</a></small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2254757561641666164744500128638/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-12.57.28PM.png <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Hard Lessons: Trauma, Teaching, Art History,” a critical pedagogy series exploring trauma-informed pedagogy in art and art history for <i>Art Journal Open</i>, co-guest-edited with Jenevieve DeLosSantos (2021-2023)  </small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2291423805750793789612068547454/Giris-cropped.jpg <div style="text-align: left;"><small>“Scarified Skin and Simian Symptoms: Experimental Medicine and Picasso’s <i>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</i>,” <i>Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide</i>, 17 no. 2 (2018) | <a data-umami-event="NCAW PDF" href="https://freight.cargo.site/m/D2431926473284451277915397925758/NCAW_871.pdf">PDF</a> | Winner of the 2019 <a data-umami-event="Koren" href="https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-koren-jr-prize" target="_blank">William Koren Jr. Article Prize</a> from the <i>Society for French Historical Studies</i></small></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2431913850325055591058903509886/cover.jpg “‘Typical Cases’: Representation, Racializing Medicine, and the Politics of the Case Study in the Moulages Collections of the Hôpital Saint-Louis,” <i>Histoire, Médecine et Santé</i> 27 (2025) | <a data-umami-event="TypicalCasesPDF" href="https://freight.cargo.site/m/D2511127358210872195647066712958/HMS27_03_Pierce.pdf">PDF</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2747172826957082084531468872574/Combined-cropped-fitzpatrick-scales.png “Looking Well: Art Historical Interventions for a more Equitable Medicine,” <i><a data-umami-event="ArtAndTheCriticalMedVolLinkClickthrough" href="https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350506367">Art and the Critical Medical Humanities</a></i> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) | <a data-umami-event="ConfabulationsPDF" href="https://freight.cargo.site/m/P2747161492447419714066026179454/Pierce_Looking-Well.pdf">PDF</a> https://kathleenapierce.com/teaching 2025-03-17T15:45:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2256613910882680906239060585342/art-and-med-photo.png <b>Art and Medicine <br /> <br /> </b>How did medical practices like dissection shape artistic education and practice? How and why have physicians visually represented medical research? How have visual representations of the body shifted understandings of race, gender, health, and ability? This course centers intersections of art and medicine from the early modern period to the present to disentangle how medical understandings of the body filter into artistic production and popular thought and vice versa. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2256614010550439136491767966590/art-and-med-photo.png <b>Art and Medicine <br /> <br /> </b>How did medical practices like dissection shape artistic education and practice? How and why have physicians visually represented medical research? How have visual representations of the body shifted understandings of race, gender, health, and ability? This course centers intersections of art and medicine from the early modern period to the present to disentangle how medical understandings of the body filter into artistic production and popular thought and vice versa. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2256614096124884894430377913214/representing-animals-2.png <b>Representing Animals</b><br /> <br />What constitutes the animal, and what role does representation play in shaping responses to this question? How and why have artists across time and place deployed animals as visual signs? How did the collection of animal specimens in the West both depend on and sustain networks of imperialism? And how and why do scientists picture animals? This course poses the above questions, investigating the space between animal studies and art history. <b></b> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2256615194812961924571272162174/imp-des-crop.png <b>Imperial Design<br /> <br /> </b> <br />This course asserts that histories of design, decorative arts, and material culture in Europe and the United States reveal critical—and even inexorable—histories of imperialism, spotlighting topics such as exchange, violence, migration, appropriation, materiality, and indigenous agency. While objects like porcelain bowls, tea cups, salt cellars, or yards of textile have long been treated as benign indicators of style and status, this course asks students to think through these objects’ roles as agents of empire.  https://kathleenapierce.com/speaking 2026-03-16T17:27:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://kathleenapierce.com/contact-me 2025-03-17T15:45:33+00:00 always 0.5