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Deadlines extended! Serve on a CAA Committee or Editorial Board
posted Jan 27, 2020

Attendees at the 2020 Annual Conference in Chicago. Photo: Stacey Rupolo
Each spring, members have the opportunity to provide crucial service to the field and gain an inside view by volunteering to work on a CAA committee or editorial board.
Any member may self-nominate for the following positions or (after ascertaining interest) nominate another member. For more information, please click on the links below.
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
Art Journal—Editor-In-Chief
Deadline (extended): June 1, 2020
caa.reviews—Field Editor for East Asian Art
Deadline (extended): June 1, 2020
Publications Committee—Two Members
Deadline (extended): June 1, 2020
PAST OPPORTUNITIES
Art Journal / Art Journal Open (AJO) Editorial Board—Three Members
Deadline: April 15, 2020
The Art Bulletin Editorial Board—One Member
Deadline: April 15, 2020
The Art Bulletin—One Reviews Editor or Coeditor Team
Deadline: April 15, 2020
caa.reviews Editorial Board—Three Members (One an Emerging Professional)
Deadline: April 15, 2020
caa.reviews—Eight Field Editors
African Art, African Diaspora/African American Art, Architecture and Urban Planning, Asian Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions: East Coast, Exhibitions: Midwest, Exhibitions: West Coast
Deadline: April 15, 2020
caa.reviews Seeks Three Editorial Board Members, One an Emerging Professional
posted Jan 27, 2020
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for two individuals to serve on the caa.reviews Editorial Board for four-year terms, July 1, 2020–June 30, 2024. Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals with stature in the field and experience writing or editing books and/or exhibition reviews; institutional affiliation is not required.
One of the editorial board seats is reserved for an Emerging Professional, defined as an active member of CAA who is in graduate school or in the first two (2) years of their career after graduate school.
CAA encourages applications from candidates with a strong record of scholarship who are committed to the imaginative development of caa.reviews. An online journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of recent books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts.
The editorial board advises the editor-in-chief and field editors for the journal and helps them to identify books and exhibitions for review and to solicit reviewers, articles, and other content for the journal. The editorial board guides the journal’s editorial program and may propose new initiatives for it. Members stay abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and academic conferences, symposia, and other events in their fields.
The caa.reviews Editorial Board meets three times a year, twice in the spring and fall and once at the CAA Annual Conference in February. Members also attend the annual meeting of the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors at the Annual Conference. Members pay their travel and lodging expenses to attend the meeting at the conference. Meetings in the spring and fall are currently held by teleconference. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not currently serve on the editorial board of a competitive journal or another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter describing their interest in and qualifications for appointment, editorial vision and/or experience, as well as additional relevant information regarding experience commissioning and/or writing reviews and related research, curatorial, or creative projects. Please send material to managing editor Joan Strasbaugh, jstrasbaugh@collegeart.org, with either caa.reviews Editorial Board member or Emerging Professional in the subject line.
Deadline: April 15, 2020
caa.reviews Seeks Eight Field Editors
posted Jan 27, 2020
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for EIGHT individuals to join the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors for a three-year term July 1, 2020–June 30, 2023. An online journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of new books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to art history, visual studies, and the arts.
The journal seeks eight field editors in the following areas:
- African Art
- African Diaspora/African American Art
- Architecture and Urban Planning
- Asian Art
- Contemporary Art
- Exhibitions: East Coast
- Exhibitions: Midwest
- Exhibitions: West Coast
Working with the caa.reviews editor-in-chief, the caa.reviews Editorial Board, and CAA’s staff editor, each field editor selects content to be reviewed, commissions reviewers, and considers manuscripts for publication. Field editors for books are expected to keep abreast of newly published and important books and related media in their fields of expertise, and those for exhibitions should be aware of current and upcoming exhibitions (and other related projects) in their geographic regions.
The Council of Field Editors meets yearly at the CAA Annual Conference. Field editors must pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference. Members of all CAA committees and editorial boards volunteer their services without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please email a statement describing your interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to managing editor Joan Strasbaugh, jstrasbaugh@collegeart.org. In the subject line please include Council of Field Editors [and the subject area you are applying for].
Deadline: April 15, 2020
The Art Bulletin Seeks Reviews Editor or Coeditor Team
posted Jan 27, 2020
The Art Bulletin Editorial Board invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of reviews editor for a three-year term July 1, 2021–June 30, 2024 (with service as incoming reviews editor designate July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021). The Art Bulletin, published quarterly by CAA, features leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions.
Candidates should be art scholars with stature in the field and experience in editing book and/or exhibition reviews; institutional affiliation is not required. Candidates should be published authors of at least one book.
The reviews editor is responsible for commissioning all book and exhibition reviews in The Art Bulletin. He or she selects books and exhibitions for review, commissions reviewers, and determines the appropriate length and character of reviews. The reviews editor also works with authors and CAA’s editorial director in the development and preparation of review manuscripts for publication. He or she is expected to keep abreast of newly published and important books and recent exhibitions in the fields of art history, criticism, theory, visual studies, and museum publishing. This is a three-year term, which includes membership on the Art Bulletin Editorial Board.
The reviews editor attends the three annual meetings of the Art Bulletin Editorial Board held three times a year: in the spring and fall plus one at the CAA Annual Conference in February. The fall and spring meetings are currently held by teleconference. Members are expected to pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference in February. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation. The reviews editor submits an annual report to CAA’s Board of Directors.
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be simultaneously serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. The Art Bulletin also encourages nominations from two-person editorial teams representing divergent and/or complementary fields and approaches. CAA seeks applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on the Art Bulletin Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please email a letter describing your or your nominee’s interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to Joan Strasbaugh, Managing Editor, at JStrasbaugh@collegeart.org.
Deadline: April 15, 2020
Finalists will be interviewed on the afternoon of Friday, May 1, in New York.
The Art Bulletin Seeks Editorial Board Member
posted Jan 27, 2020
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for one individual to serve on the The Art Bulletin Editorial Board for a four-year term, July 1, 2020–June 30, 2024. The ideal candidate has published substantially in the field and may be an academic, museum-based, or independent scholar; institutional affiliation is not required. The Art Bulletin features leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions.
The editorial board advises The Art Bulletin editor-in-chief and assists by seeking authors, articles, and other content for the journal; performs peer review and recommends peer reviewers; may propose new initiatives for the journal; and may support fundraising efforts on the journal’s behalf. Members also assist the editor-in-chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, and events in their fields.
The Art Bulletin Editorial Board meets three times a year, with meetings in the spring and fall plus one at the CAA Annual Conference in February. The spring and fall meetings are held by teleconference. Members pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference in February. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal. Members may not publish their own work in the journal during the term of service. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on The Art Bulletin Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please email a letter describing your interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to managing editor Joan Strasbaugh, at jstrasbaugh@collegeart.org.
Deadline: April 15, 2020
Deadline extended: CAA Seeks Two Publications Committee Members
posted Jan 27, 2020
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for two members-at-large to serve on the Publications Committee for a three-year term, from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2023.
The Publications Committee is a consultative body that meets three times a year: in the spring, in the fall, and again at the CAA Annual Conference in February. Through its chair, the CAA vice president for publications, the committee advises the CAA Publications staff and the CAA Board of Directors on publications projects and meets with chairs of the editorial boards of The Art Bulletin, Art Journal/AJO, and caa.reviews. The committee chooses candidates to serve on CAA’s book-grant juries; sponsors a practicum session at the Annual Conference; and, with the CAA vice president for publications, serves as liaison to the board, membership, editorial boards, book-grant juries, and other CAA committees.
Committee members pay their travel and lodging expenses to attend the meeting at the Annual Conference. Meetings in the spring and fall are held by teleconference. Members of all committees volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
We encourage applications from individuals who have served as members of CAA editorial boards in the past, and/or have considerable writing, editorial, or publishing experience. Candidates must be current CAA members and may not serve concurrently on other CAA committees or editorial boards. Applicants may not be individuals who have served as members of a CAA editorial board within the past five years. The Publications Committee is committed to upholding CAA’s values statement on diversity and inclusion.
Please address in your application how your experience would contribute to the Publications Committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Appointments are made by the CAA president in consultation with the CAA vice president for publications.
Please email a letter of interest, a CV, and your contact information to managing editor Joan Strasbaugh at jstrasbaugh@collegeart.org. Please include “Publications Committee” in the subject line.
Deadline (extended): June 1, 2020
Art Journal / Art Journal Open (AJO) Editorial Board Seeks Three New Members
posted Jan 27, 2020
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for three individuals to serve on the Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board for a four-year term: July 1, 2020–June 30, 2024. Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals; institutional affiliation is not required. Art Journal, published quarterly by CAA, is devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture. AJO is an online forum for the visual arts that presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of original content. Committed to fostering new intellectual exchanges in the fields of modern and contemporary art, AJO prioritizes material that makes meaningful use of the web and publishes on a rolling basis.
The editorial board advises the Art Journal and AJO editors-in-chief and assists them in seeking authors, articles, artists’ projects, and other content for the journal; performs peer review and recommends peer reviewers; guides the journals’ editorial programs and may propose new initiatives for them; promotes and advocates for both journals; and may support fundraising efforts on their behalf. Members also assist the editors-in-chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and events.
The Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board meets three times a year, with meetings in the spring and fall plus one at the CAA Annual Conference in February. The fall and spring meetings are currently held by teleconference. Members are expected to pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference in February. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. Members may not publish their own work in the journals during the term of service. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on the Art Journal / AJO Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please email a letter describing your or your nominee’s interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information to Joan Strasbaugh, Managing Editor, at JStrasbaugh@collegeart.org.
Deadline: April 15, 2020
New in caa.reviews
posted Jan 24, 2020
Delia Cosentino reviews The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Lori Boornazian Diel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Natalie Dupêcher discusses Susan Laxton’s Surrealism at Play. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jessi DiTillio writes about the exhibition catalog Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, edited by Raphaela Platow and Lowery Stokes Sims. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Jan 22, 2020
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New in caa.reviews
posted Jan 17, 2020

Joyce S. Cheng discusses The Forces of Form in German Modernism by Malika Maskarinec. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Nikolaus Dietrich reviews The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., edited by J. Michael Padgett. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Max Koss writes about Jenny Anger’s Four Metaphors of Modernism: From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme. Read the full review at caa.reviews.






