Prof. Dr. Jordan Troeller

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C16.123
Fon +49.4131.677-2560, jordan.troeller@leuphana.de
Juniorprofessor*in, Junior professorship of Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices

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Vita

Jordan Troeller is Junior Professor of Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practices at the Institute for Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) at Leuphana. As Freigeist Fellow, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, she also leads the research initiative “The M/Other Project: Creation, Procreation and Contemporary Art.” Her research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary art in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including topics such as: sculpture and sexuality, craft, textiles, fiber art, photography and archival practices, intersectional feminism and Queer Studies, as well as exile and diasporic visual culture. Jordan Troeller completed her academic training at the University of California, Berkeley (BA), and at Harvard University (MA, PhD).

  • Since 04/2023: Juniorprofessur für Kunstwissenschaft, insb. Ästhetische Praxis, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  • 2021-23: Postdoc, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Nomativität, Kritik, Wandel,” Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2019-21: Universitätsassistentin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
  • 2018: Promotion (PhD), Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture
  • 2015-19: Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, Cassullo Teaching Fellow (2015-16) and Visiting Lecturer (2016-19)
  • 2012: MA, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture
  • 2008-09: Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies (Advisor: Hal Foster, Princeton)
  • 2007: BA, University of California, Berkeley, Double major: History of Art and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Highest Honors

Selected Awards

2023
Leuphana Gender and Diversity Award

15.01.2022 – 15.05.2022
Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley

04/2020
Nominated for the teaching prize "Excellence in Teaching" at the Universität Graz

Projects

  1. Visualizing the Invisible: The Maternal Turn in Artistic and Curatorial Practices in Central Europe
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  2. Urban ARTotale Re:New
    Veronica Bremer (Project manager, academic) , Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Teaching

  3. DFG Research Init 5700: TransExil. Negotiations of aesthetics and community in postrevolutionary Mexico - Subproject 4: Cultural anthropology, indigenism and local materialities in the context of exile
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Project manager, academic) , Karoline Noack (Project manager, academic) , Veronica Bremer (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  4. The M/Other Project: Creativity, Procreation, and Contemporary Art (Freigeist Fellowship)
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  5. Curator and researcher for the exhibition Lucia Moholy: Exposures, Kunsthalle Praha
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Project manager, academic) , Meghan Forbes (Project manager, academic) , Jan Tichy (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 2025 , 355 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

  2. Special Issue: Weimar Photography: Bauhaus, Cultural Difference, Exile: Part 1
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Editor) , 2020 , 162 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 02.07.2024 , in: Art Bulletin, 106, 3 , p. 64-90 , 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. The Maternal in Drag: Towards a Mother-Driven Theory of Artistic Creation
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.01.2022 , in: Kritische Berichte, 50, 2 , p. 45-52 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  3. A (still) marginal modernity, or the artist as stenographer
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.05.2020 , in: October, 172 , p. 3-7 , 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Lucia Moholy’s idle hands
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.05.2020 , in: October, 172 , p. 68-108 , 41 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.02.2015 , in: ARTnews, 2/2015 , p. 92 , 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Drawing Lessons: Ruth Asawa’s Early Work on Paper
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 10.08.2021 , p. 149-166 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research

  2. Breuer’s New Women
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.01.2019 , p. 311–332 , 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. Anni Albers’s ‘Pliable Plane’: Writing on Architecture and the Nomadic Textile
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.01.2019 , p. 217-228 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  4. Katalogeinträge
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 22.09.2015

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research

  5. The Factographic Gesture
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Author) , 01.01.2014 München, Berlin , p. 118–125 , 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research

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Activities

Press / Media

  1. VKhUTEMAS at Martin-Gropius-Bau
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  2. Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  3. Otto Piene at Neue Nationalgalerie and Deutsche Bank KunstHalle
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

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Prizes

  1. Leuphana Gender and Diversity Award 2023
    Jordan Elizabeth Troeller (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Teaching