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Susan E. Cahan is the first Associate Dean for the Arts in Yale College. Prior to joining Yale, Cahan served as associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she was also the Des Lee Endowed Professor in Contemporary Art. She earned her doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Cahan’s broad range of experience includes teaching at Bard College and UCLA, as well as curatorial work and oversight of education programs at both the New Museum of Contemporary Art (as deputy director) and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (as schools programs coordinator). Prior to her transition to full-time teaching, she was senior curator for the art collection of Eileen and Peter Norton and director of arts programs at the Peter Norton Family Foundation in Santa Monica, California.