Victor PitsoeSooran Choi is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont, where her teaching and research focus on decolonization, global feminism, ecocriticism, and contemporary East Asian art. Her work critically engages with marginalized artistic practices, Cold War visual culture, and alternative pedagogies that challenge Eurocentric and patriarchal art historical frameworks. She has published in Rebus, Multiple Modernisms, and Religion and the Arts, with essays on South Korean performance art, shamanism, gender fluidity, and subversive aesthetics. Her scholarly and curatorial experience directly shaped 'Pedagogical Reckoning', which synthesizes theory and practice to promote institutional change. Choi has received major fellowships from the College Art Association, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the Mellon Foundation. She has taught at CUNY, NYU, and UVM, designing inclusive, interdisciplinary curricula. She also co-leads national initiatives on Korean/Asian studies, integrating intersectional pedagogy into academic and cultural institutions.
Gillian Greenhill Hannum is a Professor Emerita of Art History at Manhattanville University in Purchase, New York, where she served on the faculty from 1987 to 2021. A photo historian with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, she has published on photographic topics, has presented widely at national and international conferences, and has contributed to several books and exhibition catalogs. Most recently, she co-edited, with Kyunghee Pyun, 'Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism' (2023) and a special issue of the journal 'Religion and the Arts' titled "Keeping the Faith: Religion, Gender, and the Arts in the Twenty-first Century" (2023). She continues to teach at Manhattanville on a part-time basis. Read More Read Less