ann jensen adams, associate professor

curriculum vitae

specialization
17th-century Dutch Art; Visual Culture & History of Science (16th—18th centuries), Early Modern Gender Studies; Portraiture

email
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office hours
W 2-3
Arts 1216

phone
805 893 7710

B.A. Radcliffe College

Ph.D. Harvard University

 
Ann Jensen Adams received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her approaches to her field of 17th-century Dutch art and visual culture has been shaped in part by her undergraduate degree from Radcliffe College in Government, and several years making stained glass windows as a practicing artist. Her primary areas of research are in the areas of the history of science, portraiture, and the role of images in constructing gender identities. Professor Adams has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation,  the Ministry of Education and Science, The Netherlands, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York  (Chester Dale Research Fellowship), the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Trust; she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 2005. Her publications include Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009); editor of New Approaches to Rembrandt: Rembrandt's Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter (Cambridge University Press, 1998); and curator and catalogue author of the exhibition Seventeenth-Century Dutch and  Flemish Paintings in New York Private Collections, National Academy of Design, New York (1988). In addition to reviews and encyclopedia entries, articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and De Zeventiende Eeuw (forthcoming). She has written essays for several exhibition catalogues and anthologies in the area of 17th-century Dutch Art. Her current research addresses the relationship of the history of science to 17^th-century visual culture and includes an annotated edition of the account book of the Utrecht patrician Carel Martens, and a monograph with catalogue raisonné on the 17th-century Dutch painter Thomas de Keyser. Professor Adams has served on the Board of Directors of the Smart Art Museum University of Chicago, the College Art Association Committee on Electronic Information, the Faculty Editorial Board of the University of California Press, as well as the University of California System-wide Faculty Senate. Before coming to UCSB, Ann Jensen Adams taught at the University of Chicago. 

undergraduate courses

The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Parts I and II
Rethinking Rembrandt
Gender and Power in the Early Modern Period
Freshman Seminar: Close Looking. Examining Works of Art

graduate seminar 

2007 - 2008      Reproductions & Authenticity: Honest copy, Faithful reproductions,
                         Fiendish forgery
2006 - 2007      Time and Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Art and Culture
2006 - 2005      Visuality and Text in Early Modern Europe and the Americas
                         (co-taught with Jeanette F. Peterson)
2004 - 2005      Proseminar: Introduction to Art Historical Methods
2003 - 2004      Vermeer: The Sphinx of Delft. The Man, The Work, The Myth
2002 - 2001      Identity, Representation, and Facticity in the Early Modern Period
2001 - 2000      Vision, Knowledge, and the Scientific Revolution
2000 - 2001      The Natures of Nature