Buszek invited to teach at national humanities institute

Maria Elena Buszek, professor of art history at the College of Arts and Media Associate at CU Denver, has been invited to join a group of international scholars in Philadelphia this summer to teach a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer institute on the history of modern design.

The institute, aimed at teaching college and university professors, was planned by the NEH due to the dearth of qualified faculty who teach design history. Faculty were chosen by NEH Program Director David Raizman based on their work on researching and teaching design history with the goal of training more colleagues on the basics of this curriculum.

Buszek designed CU Denver’s History of Modern Design course in 2012, after having taught the course for eight years at the Kansas City Art Institute. CAM is one of the few campuses in the United States that offers this curriculum taught by an art historian with a significant scholarly/pedagogical background in the subject.