Jordan Troeller

Jordan Troeller is an Assistant Professor (Junior Professor) at the Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she holds a Junior Professorship for Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practices. As a Freigeist Fellow funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, she leads the multi-year research initiative The M/Other Project: Creativity, Procreation, and Contemporary Art, which examines maternal aesthetic practices across Europe, the U.S., and Latin America through the lenses of art history, feminist philosophy, and critical theory.

• Education: BA in History of Art and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (University of California, Berkeley, 2007); MA and PhD in History of Art and Architecture (Harvard University, 2012 and 2018)

Her research focuses on intersections of modern/contemporary art with themes of maternal identity, reproductive justice, care labor, and nonnormative family structures. The M/Other Project employs comparative analysis of artworks, archival research, and theoretical frameworks to challenge patriarchal and Eurocentric art paradigms, exploring how maternal aesthetics might redefine creativity as a practice of sustaining life.

Key affiliations:

• Leuphana University Lüneburg (Institute of Philosophy and Cultural Studies collaboration)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (Cassullo Teaching Fellow 2015-16, Visiting Lecturer 2016-19)

Awards & Fellowships:

• Freigeist Fellowship (VolkswagenStiftung)
• Leuphana Gender and Diversity Award (2023)
• Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (2022)
• Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at Whitney Museum (2008-09)