Anne Higonnet
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Anne Higonnet is an American art historian. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor at Barnard College.{{Cite web |title=Anne Higonnet {{!}} Barnard College |url=https://barnard.edu/profiles/anne-higonnet |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=barnard.edu}}
Biography
Higonnet received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1980 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988. She was an assistant professor at Wellesley College before joining the Barnard College faculty.{{Cite news |last=Truitt |first=Anne |date=1990-06-03 |title=A FIRST IMPRESSIONIST |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/books/a-first-impressionist.html |access-date=2022-05-16 |issn=0362-4331}}
Higonnet's scholarship focuses on 19th century art, art collecting, and the history of childhood.{{Cite web |title=Anne Higonnet |url=https://slate.com/author/anne-higonnet |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}} She created an online project with the Morgan Library & Museum on fashion plates from the Journal des Dames et des Modes from 1797 to 1804 to demonstrate the revolution in women's fashion during the early 19th century, namely, how women turned their underwear into outerwear, adopted Indian textiles, and invented the handbag.{{Cite web |title=What They Wore: Art Historian Spotlights Revolutionary Fashion Magazine |url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-they-wore-art-historian-spotlights-revolutionary-fashion-magazine |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Columbia News |language=en}} She is a biographer of Berthe Morisot.{{Cite news |last=Barnes |first=Julian |date=2019-09-12 |title=Julian Barnes · The Necessary Talent: The Morisot Sisters · LRB 12 September 2019 |language=en |volume=41 |work=London Review of Books |issue=17 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n17/julian-barnes/the-necessary-talent |access-date=2022-05-16 |issn=0260-9592}}
Her students include Denise Murrell, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Melissa |date=2018-12-26 |title=How a Businesswoman Became a Voice for Art's Black Models |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/arts/design/posing-modernity-curator-manet-olympia.html |access-date=2022-05-16 |issn=0362-4331}}
Higonnet was a 2019-2020 Radcliffe fellow.{{Cite web |title=Anne Higonnet |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anne-higonnet |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University |language=en}} She also received a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship.{{Cite web |title=Anne Higonnet |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/anne-higonnet/ |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}
She is currently married to Yale University economist John Geanakoplos.{{Cite web |first=Alon |last=Harish |date=2010-01-26 |title=Neighbors spar over school drop-off |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/01/26/neighbors-spar-over-school-drop-off/ |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Yale Daily News |language=en}}
In 2010, Higonnet was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for an incident involving the parent of a Worthington Hooker Middle School student.{{Cite web |last=Harish |first=Alon |date=2010-01-26 |title=Neighbors spar over school drop-off |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/01/26/neighbors-spar-over-school-drop-off/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=Yale Daily News |language=en}} It was alleged that Higonnet grabbed the parent's collar and yelled at them for improperly using the Everit Street back gate, which abuts a residential street, instead of using the front entrance.{{Cite web |date=2010-06-10 |title=Hooker Gate Case Closed |url=https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/hooker_gate_case_dismissed |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=New Haven Independent |language=en}} She faced a fine of up to $500 or up to three months in jail.{{Cite web |last=Harish |first=Alon |date=2010-01-26 |title=Neighbors spar over school drop-off |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/01/26/neighbors-spar-over-school-drop-off/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=Yale Daily News |language=}} The case was dismissed five months later, after Higonnet voluntarily served 10 hours of community service and wrote a “letter of regret.”
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