[Updated
August 2002]
Paul
B. Jaskot
Department
of Art and Art History
1150
W. Fullerton
DePaul
University
Chicago,
Illinois 60614 (773)
325-2567 PJASKOT@depaul.edu Education: NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. in Art History, December 1993.Dissertation:
"The Architectural Policy of the SS, 1936-1945." NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY, M.A. in Art History, June 1988. SWARTHMORE
COLLEGE, B.A. in Art History and English Literature, June 1985. Current
Academic Appointment: July
2001-present:DEPAUL UNIVERSITY,
Chicago, Illinois, Associate Professor. Teaching topics include:
modern German architecture and art;Chicago
architecture and urbanism; modern Mexican art;art
historical methodology; modern architecture and art. Administrative
Appointments: March-June
2001:DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago,
Illinois, Acting-Chair, Department of Art and Art History. July
1999-July 2000:DEPAUL UNIVERSITY,
Chicago, Illinois, Co-Chair, Department of Art and Art History.Responsibilities
included:Chair of Personnel Committee,
oversight of art history hires (part-time and full-time), curriculum, facilities,
etc. Book: The
Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental
Building Economy
(London:Routledge, 2000). Articles: “Concentration
Camps and Cultural Policy: Rethinking the Development of the Camp
System 1936-1941.” In Lessons and Legacies VI: New Currents
in Holocaust Research, ed. Jeffrey M. Diefendorf (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, forthcoming).
"Heinrich
Himmler and the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds: The Interest of the SS in
the German Building Economy." In Culture and the Nazis, ed. Richard
Etlin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2002). [co-authored with
Barbara McCloskey] “Marxism and Art/History Today: Formation of the
Radical Art Caucus (RAC),” Kunst und Politik (2001), no. 1: 139-144.
“Robert Donley:
Urban Problems and Social Iconography.” In Robert Donley,
exhibition catalog (Chicago: Chicago Cultural Center, 2001):
n.p. [1-10]
"Architecture
and the Destruction of the European Jews." In The Holocaust's Ghost:
Writings on
Art, Politics, Law and Education,
ed. F.C. DeCoste and Bernard Schwartz (Edmonton: University of Alberta
Press, 2000):145-64. "Anti-Semitic
Policy in Albert Speer's Plans for the Rebuilding of Berlin." Art Bulletin
78 (December 1996), no. 4: 622-632. Reviews: On-line Review.
Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain.The Art World in Nazi Germany.
Review Essay.
"Berlin, Capital of the 20th Century." Review of Brian Ladd, The
Ghosts of
Review Essay (co-authored
with Andrew Hemingway). T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes
Review Essay.
"The Discreet Charms of Bourgeois Art." Review of Andrew Hemingway
and
Review
Essay."Radical Writing on Painted
Walls."Review of Anthony Lee, Painting
on the Left.Diego
Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals.Left
History 7 (Spring 2000), no. 1: 108-115. Review
Essay."Art and Politics in National
Socialist Germany." Review of Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt,
Auschwitz.
1270 to the Present. Oxford Art Journal 22 (Spring 1999), no.
1: 177-184. Review
Essay.Eva Forgacs, The Bauhaus
Idea and Bauhaus Politics. Design Issues 14 (Summer 1998), no.
2: 93-94. Lectures,
Symposia: August 2, 2002:
“Gerhard Richter/Adolf Eichmann: The Nazi Past in Post-War West German
May 11, 2002:
“Totalitarian Model or Fascist Exception? The Question of Political
Economy in
April 18, 2002:
Panel Organizer, “Fascism and Architecture Reconsidered,” Society of
April 8, 2002:
“Marxism and the Political Economy of Cultural Production,” Marxism and
March 14, 2002:
“Gerhard Richter/Adolf Eichmann: The Political Reception of the Nazi
Past
Nov. 9, 2001:
“Adolf Eichmann and Artistic Debates in Germany: The Broader Context
for
June
23, 2001:Moderator and Respondent."German
Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich." Henry
Moore Institute, Leeds, Great Britain. May 11-12,
2001:Conference Co-Organizer and
Panel Respondent."Eichmann in Jerusalem: 40
Years Later."DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois. March
1, 2001:"The Political Economy of
Hitler's State Architecture."College
Art Association,
Chicago, Illinois. February
24, 2001:"Looking Closely at the
Jews in Spielberg's Schindler's List."Symposium
in honor
of the retirement of Prof. T. Kaori Kitao, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania. November
17, 2000: "Concentration Camps and Cultural Policy:Rethinking
the Development of
the Camp System 1936-1941." Lessons and Legacies VI Conference, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois. November
9, 2000:"Nazi Architecture and the
Holocaust."Center for Holocaust
and Genocide
Studies, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey. September
15, 2000:Panel Commentator and Moderator."Gay
City, Secret City:The Sexual Landscape
Beyond "Official" Washington."The
Future of the Queer Past Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. August
21, 2000:" Stones and Steel:Technological
Consensus and Conflict in the Building Industry
during the Third Reich."Society
of Historians of Technology, Munich, Germany. June 27,
2000:"Architecture of Oppression:Berlin
1933-1945."Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois. April
30, 2000:"Anselm Kiefer and Post-War
Images of the Nazi Past."St. Louis
Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. February
25, 2000: Session Co-chair (with Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh).
"Marxism and Art History Today."College
Art Association, New York, New York. February
4, 2000:Panel organizer."Art
as a Weapon:Art and Politics in
Interwar Germany."DePaul University
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. October
10, 1999:“Cultural Policy and Political
Culture:The Example of the SS Barracks
in Nuremberg.”German Studies Association,
Atlanta, Georgia. (organizer of session “Cultural and Political Production
in Weimar and Nazi Germany”) June
4, 1999: "SS Concentration Camps and Alberts Speer's Architecture."Paper
for the symposium "Kultur und Staatsgewalt.Formen
und Folgen der "Kulturpolitik" im Dritten Reich und in der DDR.Ein
deutsch-amerikanisches Kolloquium."Hannah
Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research, Technical University in Dresden,
Germany. April
7, 1999: "Oppressive Architecture: The Interest of the SS in Nazi Architecture."Loyola
University, 'Kultur und Kaffee' lecture series, Chicago, Illinois. March
22, 1999: "The Interest of the SS in the German Building Economy."Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. March
3, 1999: Panel Commentator."Culture
at the Edge: Elitism and Theory in Academics."DePaul
University, Centennial Public Lecture Series, Chicago, Illinois. Feb.
16, 1999: "History, Class and Ethnicity in Spielberg's Schindler's List."California
State University, Fullerton, California. Feb.
4, 1999: Respondent.J.A. Lindstrom,
"Richie Daley Goes to the Movies: Toward a New Historiography of Film Exhibition."Chicago
Film Seminar, Chicago, Illinois. Jan.
13, 1999: "What, exactly, is the political function of architecture?The
Example of the SS and the German Building Economy."Archeworks,
Chicago, Illinois. May
11, 1998: "The Jews in Spielberg's Schindler's List."Paper
for the symposium "Representing
Ethnicity in Film," DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. April
9, 1998: "Architectural Policy and the Destruction of the European Jews."Lecture
in the series 'Art in the Holocaust: Expression Under Constraint,' co-sponsored
by the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, and the Bernard
and Rochelle Zell Center for Holocaust Studies at the Spertus Institute
of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois. March
7, 1998: "Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Party Rally Grounds: The Interest
of the SS in the German Building Economy."Paper
for the symposium, "Architecture, Culture and Politics," Graham Foundation
for the Advanced Study of the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois. December
12, 1997: "The Architectural Policy of the SS: Himmler's Interest in the
Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds."University
of London, London, England. December
11, 1997: "The Architectural Policy of the SS: Himmler's Interest in the
Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds."University
of Reading, Reading, England. December
4, 1997: "The Political History of SS Architecture."Winchester
School of Art, Winchester, England. November
8, 1997: "Kiefer's Use of National Socialist Architecture in the Era of
Kohl's Political Success."Universities
Art Association of Canada, Vancouver, Canada. May
19, 1997: "Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List."The
Alfred W. Chase and Mary Jane Crowe Lectures in History, Culture, and Politics,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. April
28, 1997: "The Popular Use of the History of the Holocaust: Spielberg's
Schindler's
List."Beloit College, Beloit,
Wisconsin. February
14, 1997: Session Chair."Political
History and German Art, 1871-1945."College
Arts Association, New York, New York. October
13, 1996: "Himmler and the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds: The Interest
of the SS in the German Building Economy."German
Studies Association, Seattle, Washington.(Organizer
of panel, 'Technocrats or Ideologues?Experts,
Economics and Policy Making in the SS,' in conjunction with Michael Allen,
Case Western Reserve) February
22, 1996: "Anselm Kiefer's Reliance on National Socialist Architecture."College
Art Association, Boston, Massachusetts. September
24, 1995: "The Depoliticization of Architecture at the End of World War
II: The Case Made for Albert Speer."German
Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois. April
4, 1995:"Foucault and Penal Institutions
Revisited:Post-structuralism and
a Critical Political History of Architecture."Society
of Architectural Historians, Seattle, Washington. January
28, 1995:"The Ideological and Punitive
Function of Architecture for the SS."Paper
presented at the symposium "Architecture and Institutions,"University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. April
8, 1993:"Architecture and the Holocaust."Paper
given in conjunction with the symposium "The Changing Role of the Artist
and Critic in Society," Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. February,
1993:"The Architectural Policy of
the SS."College Art Association,
Seattle, Washington. June
4-6, 1992:"The Architectural Policy
of the SS and Albert Speer's Plans for Berlin in National Socialist Germany."Midwest
Graduate Seminar in German Studies, Goethe-Institut, Chicago, Illinois. April
11, 1992:"European Modernist Architecture
Between the Wars."Architectural
Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. April
8, 1989:"Paul Gauguin and Jakob
Meyer de Haan:Artistic Collaboration
and Economic Dependence in Gauguin's Practice 1887-1891."Northwestern
University Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois. April
17, 1988:"Jefferson, Latrobe and
the Virginia State Penitentiary:Prison
Reform and Architecture in Eighteenth-century America."UCLA
Art History Graduate Student Symposium, University of California at Los
Angeles. Jury
Participation: March,
July 2001: International Architectural Competition of Ideas for the Redesign
of the Reich Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg (historical consultant;non-voting
jury member) Awards: Excellence
in Teaching Award (1997-98) Excellence
in Teaching Award (Nominated, 1996-97) Fellowships
and Grants: June-Aug.,
2001: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Illinois.Faculty
Research and Development Summer Grant. Dec.
1998-Dec. 1999: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Illinois.University
Research Council Competitive Research Grant. June-July,
1999:SUMMER INTSITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST
AND JEWISH CIVILIZATION, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.Institute
Fellow. June-Aug.,
1996: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Illinois.Faculty
Research and Development Summer Grant. Spring,
1995:BELOIT COLLEGE, Beloit, Wisconsin.Faculty
Travel and Research Grant. Sept.-Dec.
1993:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston,
Illinois.University Scholar. July-August
1992:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston,
Illinois.Dissertation Year Grant. July
1992: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF ART, Berlin, Germany.Travel
Scholarship. Sept.
1991-June 1992:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY,
Evanston, Illinois. University Scholar. Sept.
1990-June 1991:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY,
Evanston, Illinois. University Scholar. Aug.
1990-Apr. 1991:DEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER
AUSTAUSCHDIENST, Bonn, West Germany. Fellowship for Study at the Bundesarchiv,
Koblenz. Oct.
1989-July 1990:DEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER
AUSTAUSCHDIENST, Bonn, West Germany. Fellowship for Study at the Zentralinstitut
für Kunstgeschichte and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich. Sept.
1986-June 1989:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY,
Evanston, Illinois. University Scholar. July
1988:NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston,
Illinois. Departmental Travel Grant for Pre-Dissertation Research. Additional
Experience: Jan.
1996-present: RADICAL ART CAUCUS.Initiator
and Co-organizer.Editor of
on-line discussion list; coordinator of and Secretary for annual meeting. June
2002-June 2003: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY FACULTY COUNCIL, Secretary. (Faculty
Council Representative 2001-2004)
April
1998-present: AD HOC COMMITTEE ON GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL FACULTY AND
STAFF, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.Recording
Secretary, Co-organizer. June
24-25, 2001:Honors Examiner, Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Jan.
2000:"New Objectivity.Artistic
and Political Struggle in Weimar Germany," Depaul University Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois.Curatorial assistance;author
of wall text. April-June
1999: "Auschwitz Eyewitness: The Art of Jan Komski," DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois. Curatorial assistance; author of wall text. Sept.1997-May
1998: "The Social History of Chicago Architecture and Urban Planning in
Practice: A Case Study of the Near West Side."Faculty
Coordinator and Advisor.Case
study of Chicago architecture and urban planning, conducted as part of
the Experimental Undergraduate Research Projects initiative. Sept.
1996-April 1997:"The Social History
of Chicago Architecture and Urban Planning in Practice: A Case Study of
the Near South Side."Faculty
Coordinator and Advisor.The
first of several case studies of Chicago architecture and urban planning,
conducted as part of the Experimental Undergraduate Research Projects initiative. July
19, 1996:"Newstalk Berlin," 93.6
FM, Berlin, Germany.Interview covering
my work and the exhibition Art and Power, German Historical Museum,
Berlin. Oct.
4, 1995: "Talk of the City," WBEZ RADIO, 91.5 FM, Chicago, Illinois.Panelist
in discussion of architecture, urban development and historical restoration
along Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago. Sept.
1991-Jan. 1992:COLLADO & MARTINEZ,
ARCHITECTS, Chicago, Illinois. Advisor.Participated
in discussion and critique of project entry for the "International Competition
of Ideas:A Development Scheme for
the Warsaw City Core"; author of textual description of competition entry. Primary
Research Interests: Modern
Art and Architecture in Germany, 1871-1998. U.S.,
Mexican and European Art and Architecture, 1893-1945. The Political
History of Art. Marxism
and Art History.