Elizabeth Adan
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 34, Rm 143
- Phone: 805-756-1564
- Email: eadan@calpoly.edu
About Elizabeth Adan
Professor Adan teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art and Design, and she holds the following degrees: B.A., Art History, U.C. Davis; M.F.A., Studio Art, U.C. Santa Barbara; M.A., Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., Contemporary Art, Religion, and Cultural Analysis with a Doctoral Emphasis in Women's Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara. She was also an Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2000-01, and she is the author of "Ritual and Contemporary Visual Art" in Religion in the Practice of Daily Life (forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 2009). Her research interests include contemporary art, feminist theory and practice, critical theory, and ritual and performance studies.