The Stanford Humanities Center is delighted to announce the appointment of Katja Zelljadt as the new associate director of the Center. She will come to Stanford for the beginning of winter quarter 2011.
Zelljadt currently heads the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, running the fellowship and academic programs for approximately fifty researchers in the broad field of art history. She helped found the Getty Research Journal, a peer-reviewed venue for scholarly writing, and has been its managing editor for the last three years.
Director Aron Rodrigue praised Zelljadt’s work at the Getty Research Institute, highlighting her “professionalism, unique background experience, and enthusiasm.”
Zelljadt received her PhD in German history from Harvard University, taught at the University of Southern California, and has worked at various museums such as the Harvard Art Museums and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. Her interests and publications have focused on historiography, collecting, display, and museum history, as well as urbanization, historic preservation, and photography. Her current project looks at picturing trades in the sixteenth century.
Zelljadt succeeds Matthew Tiews, who served as associate director of the Humanities Center from 2005-10. He left the Center at the end of September to assume the new university position of executive director of arts programs.
