Maud Lavin is a nonfiction writer and cultural historian. She is a professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recent recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

 and a National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

 grant.
Her most recent book is Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women. She is currently doing research for her new book coauthored with SooJin Lee and
Fang-tze Hsu, Lipstick Dreams: Images of Femininities Circulating Among China,
South Korea, and the U.S.
Her former students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago include curator Reba Katrib, critic Lori Waxman, design historian Ross Elfline, artist Haseeb Ahmed, artist and craft historian Sarah Alford, and designer Ismaji Cahyono.

Publications

• Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women (MIT, 2010)
• The Oldest We’ve Ever Been (Arizona, 2008), as editor and co-author
• The Business of Holidays (Monacelli/Random House, 2004), as editor and co-author
• Clean New World: Culture, Politics and Graphic Design (MIT, 2001)
• Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontgaes of Hannah Hoech (Yale, 1993)