Biography

Art historian Susanna Phillips Newbury (she/her/they) is an expert on the social history of 20th- and 21st-century art, histories of photography and architecture, urban studies, and economic geography. She writes frequently on topics of contemporary art, photography, and architecture for both scholarly and critical journals. In addition to her single-authored book The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), recent publications include "The Art of Witnessing" in the edited volume Aesthetics of Gentrification (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and "Anti-Sitcom Video Art" in The Microgenre (Bloomsbury, 2020).

In addition to teaching art history at UNLV, Dr. Newbury is Vice Chair of the board of trustees of the Nevada Humanities Council, a statewide organization that fosters, equity, inclusion, and connection for all Nevadans through grants and public programming.