Foster, Grafton named to endowed positions
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Grafton
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Harold Foster was named the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, effective July 1, 2000; and Anthony Grafton was named the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, effective Sept. 1, 2000.
Foster joined the art and archaeology faculty in 1997. He previously taught at Cornell University, and served as director of critical and curatorial studies for an independent study program at the Whitney Museum.
Foster, whose field is modern art, is the author of three books and the editor of three others. He also has written numerous articles for professional and mainstream publications, and he has served as editor or on the editorial boards of several art magazines, including October Magazine. In 1998, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
A 1977 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton in English literature and art history, he holds an M.A. degree in English literature from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York.
Grafton joined the history faculty in 1975, after earning his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He was named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History in 1988 and the Dodge Professor of History in 1993.
A scholar of the Renaissance, Grafton is the author of numerous articles for professional journals and books, including "Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship," "The Footnote: A Curious History" and "Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Work of a Renaissance Astrologer."
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Grafton received the Behrman Prize for Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton in 1996. He has served as a visiting scholar at several institutions in Europe.
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