Daniel J. Sherman

Daniel Sherman is Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on modern art in Europe and the history of museums and commemoration. His books include The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (1999) and French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975 (2011, French translation 2016), which both won several prizes. He is also the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including Museum Culture (1994), Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11 (2006), and Museums and Difference (2008), and co-editor of two special issues of the journal French Historical Studies. He is currently at work on a history of newspaper clippings, especially their use in creating visual databases. He grew up in Washington, D.C., attended college and graduate school in New England, and now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. with his husband and two cats. His hobbies include baking and photography.