Shawon Kinew joins Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture
This article is part of a series introducing new faculty members. Two years after receiving her Harvard Ph.D., Italian Renaissance and Baroque scholar Shawon Kinew has joined the Department of History of Art and Architecture as an assistant professor. She is also a Shutzer Assistant Professor at Radcliffe. Kinew was born in Canada on the tribal territory of the Anishinaabe. She has been a lecturer at Stanford, and held residential fellowships with the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and the Getty Research Institute. Q&A Shawon Kinew GAZETTE: Where did you grow up? KINEW: I grew up very close to the island where my dad was born on Lake of the Woods and in Winnipeg, which in some ways was a typical suburban upbringing although not at all because I was going back and forth between two places. We had a home on our reservation. Both of my parents worked for the tribal...