Maura McCreight, PhD
Curriculum Vitae
Home
New York, NY
mauramccreight@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. Dissertation: A Photographic Gendered History of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62)
M.Phil., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
History of Photography, major; Art since 1900, minor. Area of focus: Middle East and North Africa
M.A., Stony Brook University, SUNY, New York, NY
Philosophy and the Arts, Advanced Certificate in Aesthetics
B.A., College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Philosophy and Fine Arts
Recent Professional Experience
Open Education Program Assistant, International Center of Photography (ICP), 10/2025-present
Consultant, American Council of Learned Societies, 09/2025-present
Seasonal Temp, Festivals, and Programming, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 05/2025-07/2025
CUNY Rockefeller Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Interpretation, 09/2024-05/2025
Adjunct Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College, 06/2025-present
Adjunct Lecturer, Art History, New York City College of Technology, 01/2022–08/2025
Emerging Scholars Liaison, Photography Network, 9/2023-2027
Manifold Graduate Fellow, Digital Initiatives, Graduate Center, 08/2023-9/2025
Teaching
Lectures and Seminars (Instructor of Record)
Art 1010: Art: Its History and Meaning
Art 3066: Modern Art
Art 3124: Islamic Art
Art 1100: History and Appreciation of Photography
Art 1104: Art of the United States
Art 11: Introduction to Western Art
Art 12: Introduction to Art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East
Publications
Book Chapters
Forthcoming 2027, The Open Pedagogy Cookbook, Part II A lid for every pot: Technology, “A New Recipe for the Humanities Survey: Digital Tool and Student Agency on Manifold”, Association of College and Research Libraries, Chicago.
Forthcoming 2027, World Herstory: A History of the World’s Women, “1950-1990 Decolonizing Women” Routledge, London, UK.
2021-22, New Media Art 2022, CICA Press, Gimpo, Korea
Chapter, “Visual Mobility & Containment: Movement between North Africa and Europe expressed by artists Lydia Ourahmane and Ursula Biemann.”
2020, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis, Pluto Press, London
Edited by Marina Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar
Chapter Excerpt, "Turtle Island," "Free them all! Prisoner Solidarity and Abolition in the Pandemic."
Online Publications
2025, “Kathryn Mathews Degraff: une journaliste américaine dane la guerre d’Algérie”, par Maura McCreight et Elaine Mokhtefi, Édition du 15 julliet au 1er septembre 2025, Histoire colonial et postcoloniale
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2024, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center
Issue 25: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation, “Like a Painting: Re-imagining Pedagogy in the Humanities with CUNY Manifold”
Book Reviews
2024, Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES), Cambridge University Press
Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, The Franco-Algerian War Through a Twenty-First Century Lens,
December 2024
Catalogs
2016, Michael Heizer: Altars, distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery
Awards/Fellowships/Grants
Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Fellow, Summer Seminar 2026, Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World with Ariella Azoulay
University Fellowship, Art History, Graduate Center, 2024-2025
Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative Grant (BRESI), Fall 2023
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) Fellowship, 2023-2024
Award for Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center, 2023
Grant for Research Travel, Art History Department, Graduate Center, 2023
University Fellowship, Art History Department, Graduate Center, 2023-2024
Annotated Open Resource Guide Winner, Mina Rees Library, 2023-2024
Award for Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center, 2023
Singer Family Doctoral Fellowship, The Image Centre, 2022
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Fellow, 2022
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship, 2022
Early Research Initiative Grant, Graduate Center, 2022
Award for Images of Research Winner, Graduate Center, 2021
Award for Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center, 2021
Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Graduate Center, 2021
Conference Presentations
March 2026, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Literature and Solidarity in Times of War, co-presenter with Elaine Mokhtefi, “Women, Witness, and Solidarity: Narrating Algerian Nurse-Combatants during the Algerian Revolution (1954-62)”
October 2025, African Studies Association (ASA) 2025, Cultural Responses to Memory, Trauma, and Violence, Invited Presenter, “The Gendered Archive: Memory, Trauma, and Resistance in the Algerian War”
August 2024, Digital Humanities 2024 (DH2024), Reinvention and Responsibility
Invited Presenter, “Publishing with Manifold”
February 2024, CAA 112th Annual Conference
Session: Deceit by Design: Colonial Fabrications of Care and Countercolonial Subversions in North Africa, Presenter, “Women Photographs as Propaganda During the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962)”
March 2021, Graduate Student Association 31st Annual Symposium, University of Arizona, Art Histories of Activism: Photography, Film, and Ephemera in Response to Crisis
Presenter, "Distinct Images: The Interior Lives of FLN Moudjahidates مجاهدةت"
January 2021, Art Teleported Korea 2021, CICA Museum
Presenter, “Visual Mobility & Containment: Movement between North Africa and Europe expressed by artists Lydia Ourahmane and Ursula Biemann.”
September 2019, Presenter, “Migration and the Mediterranean Sea: Visual Mobility and Political Resistance of Ursula Biemann and Lydia Ourahmane”
Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Professional Service
Doctoral Student Representative for Art History, Doctoral Graduate Student Council, Graduate Center, 2021-2022
Co-Chair, Anti-Racist Task Force, Graduate Center Art History Forum & Committee, 2021-2022
Other Professional Experience
Curatorial
Guest Curator "Art Teleported 2021", CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
“Rotten Sun,” Denis Gardarin Gallery, UNTITLED Miami Beach, December 2015
“Contiguous: 30 Works,” Denis Gardarin Gallery, in the artist's Red Hook studio, Brooklyn
September 2015
Museum and Gallery Employment
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seasonal Temp, Festival and Programming, 2025-present
Marlborough Gallery, Assistant to Directors, 2016-2017
Gagosian Gallery, Publications Intern, 2014-2015
Gallery Manager, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA 2010-2012
Interim Education Department Assistant, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2011
Gallery Guide, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2008-2010
Languages
French - good reading, good speaking
Arabic - reading with dictionary, beginner speaking
Professional Affiliations
Photography Network, CAA
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
African Studies Association (ASA)
McCreight - CV