Dr. Custer Lee Ann is a newly arriving art & architecture history professor here at Vanderbilt University. Her undergraduate education was completed at Harvard and her Ph.D was completed at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing her undergrad degree, Dr. Custer moved to New York City to work at the Guggenheim Museum. Dr. Custer’s academic and research interests lie in how images mediate ideas of place and space in order to ask whose experiences they fortify and whose they omit. Dr. Custer’s work has been supported by the Smithsonian, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the New York public library, and many more. Currently, Dr. Custer’s research is interested in the utilization, commoditization, and interpretation of air in urban New York City from 1880 to 1940.
