Carol Becker

Carol Becker is dean of the School of the Arts and professor of the arts at Columbia University. She is the author of The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change (Prentice Hall & IBD, 1987); The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility (Routledge, 1994); Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety (State University of New York Press, 1996); Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002); Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Paradigm Publishers/Routledge, 2009); and Losing Helen (Red Hen Press, 2016). She has written numerous articles and travels widely to lecture about art, artists, and their place in society. 

Carol Becker is a member of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Advisory Committee.