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Jeanette Kohl is a German art historian who lives and teaches in the US. She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Kohl is an expert in Italian Renaissance art and architecture and a strong advocate of public education. Her work pays particular attention to the aesthetics and the agency of sculpture. She has published widely on portraiture and on concepts of mimesis and representation in the Early Modern period. Her interdisciplinary and trans-historical interests resulted in a number of publications on medieval reliquaries, on cultural and medical aspects of the human face, object cultures, literature and art, and the reflections of the Renaissance in contemporary art.

Kohl comes from a non-academic background and was the first in her family to attend university. She studied German Literature and Art History at the Universities of Trier and Cologne. In the mid-1980s, she was an intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. From 1987-1989, she gained experience on the art market as a gallery assistant in Cologne and Düsseldorf. She earned her PhD with ‘summa cum laude’ from the University of Trier in 2001 (advisors Prof. Dr. Alexander Perrig, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf). Her dissertation Fama und Virtus. Bartolomeo Colleonis Grabkapelle (Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 2004) received the University’s award for outstanding dissertations in the Humanities.

From 2001 to 2004, she was a Postdoc Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Art History (Kunsthistorisches Institut) in Florence, then an Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig (2004-2008), and a Visiting Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (2007). From 2006 to 2009, she chaired the academic network Die Macht des Gesichts / The Power of Faces – the first art historical network funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Together with Conrad Rudolph (Medieval Art History), and Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury (Computer Engineering), she was on the team of F.A.C.E.S. – Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at UCR (2012-2015).

Kohl was a fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institut/Max-Planck-Institut in Florence (Postdoc 2001-2004), the Getty Research Institute (2014), and Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, a Kaete-Hamburger Kolleg, at the University of Cologne (2015). She received project funding from DAAD, DFG, the Mellon Foundation, the Mario Molina Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the NEH.

She is on several editorial boards and reviewer for renowned publishing houses, journals, and fellowship programs.

She is also involved in shaping a new Medical Humanities program at UCR.

In 2013, Kohl initiated a university partnership between the departments of Art History at UCR and at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) in Erlangen, Riverside’s German partner city.

She has written as a journalist for contemporary art magazines and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Since 1995, she is married to Germanist Johannes Endres. They have a daughter who studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and they live in Palm Springs, California.