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5/6/02

ELIZABETH KAHN NAMED FLINT PROFESSOR AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - Elizabeth L. Kahn, professor of fine arts at St. Lawrence 
University, has been appointed to the L.M. Flint Chair in Fine Arts. 
The appointment is for a term of five years, and includes a research 
stipend.
	A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Kahn earned a 
master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and the Ph.D. 
from UCLA. She joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1978; in 1986, 
she delivered the Frank P. Piskor Lecture, on the topic "Your Home 
Isn't Safe Anymore: The Cubist House and the French Decorative Arts 
of 1912."
	Kahn is the author of the book Marie Laurencin: Une Femme 
Inadaptée in Feminist Histories of Art, published this month by 
Ashgate Publishing, England. She also wrote the 1984 book The Neglected 
Majority: 'Les Camofleurs,' Art History and World War I, as well as 
a chapter of the 1997 anthology Modernism, Gender and Culture: A 
Cultural Studies Approach. In 1987, Kahn co-directed the St. Lawrence 
arts festival, on the topic "Art and the Vietnam Era: The Politics of 
Memory."

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