Santa Clara University

Faculty - Jordana Moore Saggese

Art & Art History

Jordana Moore Saggese

Jordana Moore Saggese received her M.A. in Twentieth-Century European and American art in 2003. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with concentrations on Contemporary Art and Arts of the African Diaspora. She has taught a contemporary art course at the University of Illinois, writing courses at San José State University, and participated in public education programs through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the San José Museum of Art.

Her publications include catalogue entries for contemporary art exhibitions, several entries on African-American women artists in the Grove Dictionary of Art, as well as a recent article "The Myth of Neutrality: Re-Considering Conceptual Art Photography," published in the Spring 2007 issue of the journal exposure. Jordana was appointed as an Inclusive Excellence Predoctoral Fellow by the College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2007-08, and is currently finishing her dissertation on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.