Juliet Koss

Scripps College

February–June 2016

Juliet Koss is Associate Professor of Art History at Scripps College in Claremont, California. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Soviet art, architecture, and related fields, she is the author of Modernism after Wagner (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), a finalist for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. She was a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in 2009 and, in 2011, the Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin; in 2015, she is a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. At the Clark, she will work on “Model Soviets,” a book on the Soviet obsession with construction in the 1920 and 1930s that explores how images of architecture—photographs of models, still and moving images of buildings under scaffolding, and representations of com­pleted works—emblematized the construction of the Soviet state.