Humanities Center’s new associate director hails from Getty Research Institute

KATJA ZELLJADT has been named the new associate director of the Humanities 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. She directs the fellowship and academic programs for about 50 researchers in the broad field of art history. She also helped found the Getty Research Journal, a peer-reviewed venue for scholarly writing; she has been its managing editor for three years.

She received her PhD in German history from Harvard and taught at the University of Southern California. She has worked at several museums, including the Harvard Art Museums and Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches Museum. Her interests and writing have focused on historiography, collecting, display and museum history, as well as urbanization, historic preservation and photography.

ARON RODRIGUE, director of the Humanities Center, praised “her professionalism, her unique background experience and her enthusiasm.” He described her work at the Getty Research Institute as “superb.”

Zelljadt succeeds MATTHEW TIEWS, who assumed the new position of executive director of arts programs for the School of Humanities and Sciences on October 1.

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