Caterina Pierre

Dr. Caterina Y. Pierre is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College and Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute. She received her doctoral degree in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2005. Dr. Pierre served as the Co-Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Concentration in Liberal Arts from 2012 through 2018. She has published numerous articles on sculpture of the Second Empire and the Third Republic in France, specifically on the work of Gustave Courbet, Jules Dalou, and Marcello. She also writes about American art, especially sculpture production by women artists. Dr. Pierre has taught on art and crime at CUNY Kingsborough, the Pratt Institute, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her first book, Genius Has No Sex: The Sculpture of Marcello (1836–1879) was published in 2010 by Éditions de Penthes/Infolio, in Geneva, Switzerland. Her book Redefining the Hero in Tomb Sculpture, 1871–1901: Monument as Memory in France, Italy and the United States is forthcoming from Routledge (2025). Her next book is about Ernest Durig, the forger of Auguste Rodin. Dr. Pierre has taught in the university system since 1999 and has taught online since the 2012–2013 academic year. Her online courses have included Art and Activism; Survey of Art History; Renaissance to 1900; Nineteenth Century Art; Twentieth Century Art; Women in the History of Art; Modern and Contemporary Sculpture; and History of Interior Design