Ethan Robey Ph.D.

Associate Director, MA History of Decorative Arts

Bio: Associate Director, MA Program.
Formerly: Visiting Assistant Professor, Binghamton University; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University; Educational Technology Specialist, Media Center for Art History, Columbia University; American Historical Print Collectors Fellow, American Antiquarian Society. Publications: “’The Steady Supporters of Order’: American Mechanics’ Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture,” in Distinction and Identity: Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). ”Designing the Centennial” (book review) Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society (forthcoming).
Ph.D, Columbia University.

Courses

20th Century Graphic Design

This seminar explores the history of twentieth-century graphic design commencing with works from the Art Nouveau period and concluding with the recent digital revolution.

Proseminar

The Proseminar equips students with the skills required for scholarship in the history of decorative arts. Class discussions introduce a range of methodologies and critical approaches.

World’s Fairs

World’s Fairs - Art, Design and the World of Tomorrow examines the histories of the various European and American world’s fairs—from the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair—as a way of understanding both how cultural aspirations are represented at the exhibition, and the effects of the exhibition on the culture.