Art

Art History Instructor

(408) 741-2533

cynthia.reiss@westvalley.edu

Arts Lab 3

Courses Taught / Teaching

Art 1A - Survey of Western Art 

Art 1B - Survey of Western Art

Art 1D - Art of the 20th Century

Art 12a, 12b - Art of Pre-Hispanic Mexico; Art of Colonial and Modern Mexico

Art 13- African-American Art History

Art 14 - Women in Art History 

 

Academic Service

Academic Senator

Chair, Global Citizenship Committee

Member, Student Access, Equity, and Success Committee

WVC Accreditation Self-Study Committee, Standard IV

ASCCC Committee- Governance and Internal Policies  Committee

ACCJC Site Visit Evaluation Committee

COMPASS Pilot Project Grant Writer and Project Director (WVC and CSU, San Jose) 

 

Fellowship

Salzburg International Studies Program

 

Current Projects

Submitted/Awarded COMPASS, phase II grant, May 2013

Submitted NEH Bridging Cultures grant, August 2012

 

Personal Projects

Board Member, Oakland Leaf

 

BLOGS

WVC Global Citizenship Blog

Art History Blog

Education thoughts

Education

Ph.D. Art History,

University of California, Irvine

MA, Art History,

San Francisco State University

BA, Art History,

University of California

BA, Comparative Literature,

University of California

Emphasis in Critical Theory  

 

Certificate, Leading Education Systems Nationally,                   Harvard University             

 

UC Hastings College of Law,

San Francisco, CA

 

                                                                                                                                                                        

Other

• Currently working on book entitled "Silenced Histories and Trauma in the Works of Three Latin American Artists"
• Presented paper at CALACS Conference at University of Montreal
• Presented paper at Escenarios Conference at University of California, Irvine
• Presented paper at "Literature and its Others" Conference at University of Helsinki, Finland