Johanna Sluiter ’10

Johanna Sluiter ’10 is an art historian and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern in Switzerland in the Department of Architectural History & Preservation at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte (The Institute of Art History).

Sluiter’s research interests include:

• History and theory of 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism
• Environmental studies, ecology, and issues of climate
• Colonial networks and postcolonial critique
• Historiography of architecture
• Exhibition histories

Sluiter has been a lecturer at The American University of Paris in the Department of Art History & Fine Arts and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Prior to that, Sluiter was a Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Predoctoral Fellow at Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art in the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA).

Sluiter earned degrees at New York University, including a PhD in Art History, Criticism and Conservation in 2022, an MPhil in 2018, and an MA in 2016 following her graduation from Purchase summa cum laude, where she earned the President’s Award for Achievement in Humanities.