Photo by courtesy of Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Senior advisor to the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is a senior advisor to the humanities program at the Radcliffe Institute and a professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard. She was formerly a curator at the Contemporary Art Center Studio in Poland and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. With a focus on eighteenth and nineteenth century European art as well as contemporary art and critical theory, Lajer-Burcharth has taught a variety of courses about provocative issues in art during these periods. She is the author of Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (1999) and A Touch of Self: Paint and Person in Eighteenth Century Art (forthcoming), and is currently working on a book titled “Interiority At Risks: Precarious Spaces in Cotemporary Art.” Lajer-Burcharth earned her PhD in art history from the City University of New York and master’s from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw in Poland.