Biography
Greg Foster-Rice is Associate Provost for Student Success Initiatives and Full Professor of Art History at ÌÀ²»ÈÈÊÓƵ, where he has taught since 2002. In his administrative role, he advances data-informed strategies that support student success, including curricular alignment, faculty and staff training, and holistic support for Columbia’s diverse student body. He helped design and works closely with the Center for Student Success, where he regularly advises students. As a teacher, he emphasizes student-centered, active learning and SCALE-UP pedagogies that invite students’ voices into the classroom. As a scholar, Foster-Rice focuses on photography, visual culture, and the American landscape. He curated and co-authored the catalogue for The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity and Politics, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2018 as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago initiative. He also co-curated The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton University Art Museum; that exhibition’s catalogue received the Philip Johnson Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2015. Recently, he has worked with students, faculty, and staff to preserve the history of the Wabash Arts Corridor while continuing to write and speak on photography and the American landscape, the subject of his first book, Reframing the New Topographics (2011). He earned a BA in History and Art History from Rice University and a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University.
Instructional Areas
As a teacher Foster-Rice is engaged in a wide range of photographic media (historical/digital, still/video) and their relationships to a variety of contexts (artistic, cinematic, commercial, photojournalistic, and scientific). He teaches the History of Photography surveys, Upper-level Theory courses, and special topics courses.
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Foster-Rice's current research focuses on the intersection of photography and issues of urbanism, landscape, and identity. He also writes more generally about art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Degrees
B.A., Art and Art History Rice University 1994
M.A., Art History Northwestern University 1995
Ph.D., Art History Northwestern University 2003