Dr mary kosut biography
Professor of Sociology.!
Mary Kosut Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Mary Kosut, associate professor of sociology, will spend four weeks in residence at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH beginning in mid-January.
Marin Kosut is a Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, where she teaches courses on art worlds.
McDowell Fellowships provide “time, space, and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent.”
An admissions panel of distinguished, and anonymous, professionals from various artistic disciplines select MacDowell Fellows, who receive exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three meals a day.
Kosut teaches courses on urban art worlds, outsiderness, feminist art, and visual cultures. She’ll be working on her manuscript “Other Art Worlds,” under contract with Columbia University Press, which “draws from five years of ethnographic research and my experiences curating shows in NYC, and takes a bottom-up perspective to focus on the art world 99%,” she explains.
“I reconsider what defines the New York art world, what it means to do a