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Jordan Troeller is Junior Professor of Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practices at the Institute for Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) at Leuphana. As Freigeist Fellow, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, she also leads the research initiative “The M/Other Project: Creation, Procreation and Contemporary Art.” Her research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary art in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including topics such as: sculpture and sexuality, craft, textiles, fiber art, photography and archival practices, intersectional feminism and Queer Studies, as well as exile and diasporic visual culture. Jordan Troeller completed her academic training at the University of California, Berkeley (BA), and at Harvard University (MA, PhD).
- Since 04/2023: Juniorprofessur für Kunstwissenschaft, insb. Ästhetische Praxis, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
- 2021-23: Postdoc, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Nomativität, Kritik, Wandel,” Freie Universität Berlin
- 2019-21: Universitätsassistentin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
- 2018: Promotion (PhD), Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture
- 2015-19: Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, Cassullo Teaching Fellow (2015-16) and Visiting Lecturer (2016-19)
- 2012: MA, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture
- 2008-09: Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies (Advisor: Hal Foster, Princeton)
- 2007: BA, University of California, Berkeley, Double major: History of Art and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Highest Honors
Selected Awards
2023
Leuphana Gender and Diversity Award
15.01.2022 – 15.05.2022
Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley
04/2020
Nominated for the teaching prize "Excellence in Teaching" at the Universität Graz
Keywords
- Didactics of art education
- Science of art
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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Research collaborations from the last five years
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Visualizing the Invisible: The Maternal Turn in Artistic and Curatorial Practices in Central Europe
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.25 → 30.11.28
Project: Research
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Urban ARTotale Re:New
Bremer, V. (Project manager, academic) & Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.25 → 31.12.26
Project: Teaching
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DFG Research Init 5700: TransExil. Negotiations of aesthetics and community in postrevolutionary Mexico - Subproject 4: Cultural anthropology, indigenism and local materialities in the context of exile
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic), Noack, K. (Project manager, academic) & Bremer, V. (Project staff)
01.04.25 → 31.03.29
Project: Research
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The M/Other Project: Creativity, Procreation, and Contemporary Art (Freigeist Fellowship)
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.23 → 30.04.28
Project: Research
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Curator and researcher for the exhibition Lucia Moholy: Exposures, Kunsthalle Praha
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic), Forbes, M. (Project manager, academic) & Tichy, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.21 → 30.05.24
Project: Research
Research output
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Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury
Troeller, J., 06.05.2025, The MIT Press. 355 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop
Troeller, J., 02.07.2024, In: Art Bulletin. 106, 3, p. 64-90 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Maternal in Drag: Towards a Mother-Driven Theory of Artistic Creation
Troeller, J., 2022, In: Kritische Berichte. 50, 2, p. 45-52 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Drawing Lessons: Ruth Asawa’s Early Work on Paper
Troeller, J., 10.08.2021, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard. Muir, L. (ed.). Yale Universtiy Press, p. 149-166 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research
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A (still) marginal modernity, or the artist as stenographer
Troeller, J., 01.05.2020, In: October. 172, p. 3-7 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Surrogates
Fiduccia, J. (Organiser) & Troeller, J. (Organiser)
29.09.2022 → 01.10.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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Michelangelo’s Matrix: The Childbirth Metaphor in Italian Renaissance Art Theory
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
13.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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Hausfrau Photography: Value and Gender in an Unrealized Photobook
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
19.01.2022 → 20.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
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Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) and the gendered Language of Sculpture`s Histories
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
05.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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Travel and Collaboration
Troeller, J. (Organiser), Becker, A.-G. (Organiser), Peselmann, V. (Organiser), Reisinger, S. (Organiser), Troncoso, P. C. (Organiser) & Wang, Y. (Organiser)
17.06.2021 → 18.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Prizes
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Leuphana Gender and Diversity Award 2023
Troeller, J. (Recipient), 04.07.2023
Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Research
Press/Media
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Otto Piene at Neue Nationalgalerie and Deutsche Bank KunstHalle
03.11.14
1 Media contribution
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