Art historian, curator, and educator specialized in modern and contemporary art, Dr. Sarah Linford works closely with emerging and established artists, galleries and museums on both sides of the Atlantic. She has curated widely, working at and with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the musée d'Orsay, the Petit Palais, among others. Educated primarily in France and the United States, she attended the École normale supérieure-Ulm; the University of Paris 7; her French D.E.A. won first international student prize at Trinity College, Dublin; her French doctorate garnered the prestigious Musée d'Orsay prize for best dissertation on the period 1848-1914. In the United States, her degrees in art history and comparative literature - first prize at the University of Berkeley - were followed by Masters and Ph.D. degrees in modern and contemporary art from Princeton University. In addition to curating and publishing, Professor Linford has taught and advised internationally, including at the post-graduate honor’s program of the universities of Munich and Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the École normale supérieure-Cachan, the Universities of California, the University of Quebec at Montréal, the Universities of Paris-Ouest (Nanterre) and of Paris-Est (MLV), the École du Louvre, and the Cooper-Hewitt-Smithsonian. After five years at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, teaching and establishing relations with the city’s historic foreign academies and Rome’s major cultural institutions, while actively curating and publishing, and with continued ties to France and the United States - most recently for the UCLA/Getty program in the Digital Humanities and as guest professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts - she joined the faculty of John Cabot University’s Department of Art History and Studio Art.