DISSERTATION FELLOW 2025 – 2026

Vanessa Troiano

For a Dissertation on Susan Weil

Dissertation Fellow Vanessa S. Troiano is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, “Susan Weil: Artistic Trailblazer,” is the first critical biography to survey the career of American artist Susan Weil (b. 1930). Vanessa earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. with Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her honors include a Women Writing Women’s Lives Kathy Chamberlain Award, a United States Teaching Assistantship with Fulbright Austria in Vienna, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin. Vanessa’s writings have appeared in Routledge Research in Art History, Smarthistory, and Art History Teaching Resources. She has taught at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and CUNY’s Brooklyn, City, and Queensborough campuses.