Karen Greenwalt

Karen Greenwalt is an art historian whose research and teaching focus on global contemporary art. Greenwalt's current project, tentatively titled Framing the Islamic: Art, Nationhood, and the Migrant Body, engages with and problematizes contemporary framings of the Islamic. The project explores artists from the so-called Islamic world, whose work facilitates not only a deconstruction of the Islamic in art history, but also the ways Islam has been claimed and positioned by a variety of forces—from sensationalist portrayals in the global media, to reactionary politicians, and Islamic fundamentalists. At OSU, she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art history, as well as museum and exhibition studies.