Claudia Calirman has a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Her specialty is modern, contemporary and Latin American art. She is the 2008-09 Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She teaches at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has taught at Parsons the New School of Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Claudia is also a Lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Guggenheim Museum. She has written art reviews for Art Nexus, Art in America and Arte el Dia. She curated the exhibitions “Informed by Function” and “Endless Lines” at Lehman College Art Gallery. Her book on “Brazilian art under Dictatorship: 1968-74” is forthcoming from Duke University Press.