CV – Employment & Education

maria elena buszek : curriculum vitae
Professor of Art History
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Visual Arts
Office: CU Bldg. 800G
Mail: Campus Box 177, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364
e-mail: maria.buszek@ucdenver.edu
phone: 303/315.7413

EMPLOYMENT
2010-present   University of Colorado, Denver  (Denver, CO)
[2022-present] Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Media
[2010-2022] Associate Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Media
[2010-present] Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty and Graduate Faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2015                  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (Philadephia, PA)
Summer Programs in the Humanities for College and University Teachers, Drexel University
Faculty for “The Canon and Beyond: Teaching the History of Modern Design”

2002-2010         Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO)
Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts (2004-2010)
Special Instructor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts (2002-2004)

2000-2002         Santa Monica College (Santa Monica, CA)
Full-time Instructor of Art History, Fine Arts department

2000                    Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Curatorial Assistant, Department of American Art

1999                    The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Helena Rubenstein Foundation Intern, Department of Painting and Sculpture

1995-1998           The University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Instructor of Art History, Introduction to Art History (1998)
Research Assistant: Special projects (1997-1998)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (1996-1997)
Graduate Research Assistant: Spencer Museum of Art Slide Library (1995-1996)

1994-1995          The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
Research Assistant to the Curator of American Art

EDUCATION
2003         Ph.D. with Honors, History of Art
The University of Kansas

1996         M.A., History of Art 
The University of Kansas

1993         B.A., Art History and Mass Communication 
Creighton University