Two Recent Department Graduates Make Moves in the Field

Dr. Sara Berkowitz ('20) & Dr. Devon Zimmerman ('20) engage exciting new opportunities

Drs. Sara Berkowitz and Devon Zimmerman, recent graduates of the Department are moving on from current positions to engage new and exciting positions.

Dr. Sara Berkowitz will be joining Widener University (Chester, PA) in Fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of the Visual and Performing Arts. In this role, she will teach a range of globally-reaching and thematic art history courses including "Art of the Human Body," "Art and Science," "Global Early Modern Art" and "Women and Art." She was also hired, in part, to foster relationships between the arts and sciences through developing a Medical Humanities Certificate Program in the future that would work closely with Widener's School of Nursing, and collaborating with Widener's Human Sexuality Studies Masters program. In the coming years she will also serve as an Affiliate Faculty of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies. 

Dr. Devon Zimmerman started in mid-April at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art as their Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Art. The museum is located on roughly three acres of land on the water overlooking Maine's iconic coastline. The collection is small, about 3,000 works, but with strong holdings of early 20th century modernists, including Marsden Hartly, Walt Kuhn, Peggy Bacon, Robert Laurent, Hamilton Easter Field, and Charles Woodbury. It also hosts a rotating series of special exhibitions during the season. Read more about Devon's appointment here.

Devon arrives at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art after a successful sojourn at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum, for which institution he is in the process of co-curating an exhibition at the museum that will open in November of this year. It will critically explore design at the 1900 Paris Exposition, charting the undercurrents of colonialism and nationalism at the fair. It will also include a loan from the Library of Congress of W.E.B Du Bois' data visualization he and his students from Atlanta University exhibited at the fair—the first time the original data visualizations have been viewable to the public since 1901. 

Congratulations Devon and Sara!