Diana Greenwald

Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PN Phone: (+44) 07531235497 E-Mail: diana.greenwald@wadh.ox.ac.uk www.dianagreenwald.com

Education
Univeristy of Oxford D.Phil. Candidate, Faculty of History Dissertation: Continuing the methodological experimentusing econometrics to study art historystarted in my M.Phil., but in an American context. I will use exhibition indices from around the U.S. (Boston, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia), information about print sales and press coverage to explore connections between the art world and socio-economic change. Supervised by Prof. Kevin ORourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College. 2011 - 2013 2013 - Present

University of Oxford M.Phil. in Economic and Social History

Courses include Quantitative Methods (a rigorous survey of statistical and econometric methods), Themes and Debates in British Agrarian History, Peasants: Societies, Economies and Polities, Economic History II: Money, Finance & Cycles in History, Social and Economic History of France, 1600-1720. Dissertation (Dist.): Painting the Provincial: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salon. Used econometric methodologies to study the influence of socio-economic factorse.g. urbanization, employment share, etc.on the frequency with which images of rural life were exhibited at the Paris Salons during the 19 th century. Supervised by Prof. Kevin ORourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College. 2007-2011

Columbia University, New York, USA

B.A. in Art History 3.95 cumulative GPA; Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Departmental Honors Honors Senior Thesis: The Big Picture: Thomas Morans The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the Development of the American West. Explored the interaction between taste for particular styles of American landscape painting and the changing federal economic strategies for the management and development of the Western frontier. Specifically investigated this interaction from 1860 to 1875 and with particular reference to the passage of the National Parks Act (1871). Independent Study: Designed and completed Europes New Orders, 1938-1945, a seminar about cultural and political similarities between belligerent nations involved in World War II. Resulting final project was original research on Signal, a widely circulated Nazi magazine, and its relation to concepts of a common European identity before, during and after the war. Quantitative courses: Multivariable Calculus, Principles of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics (audited) January June 2010

Universit de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Direct-enrollment via Wellesley-in-Aix study abroad program. 2004-2007

Horace Mann School, New York

Work Experience Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford

Summer 2013 - Present

Research assistant to Prof. Doyne Farmer, professor of mathematics and Co-Director of Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. To help with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, working to gather data about different episodes of government intervention into industry and its effects on productivity. Provides full D.Phil. funding. Summer 2012-Present

InVenture, New York

InVenture is a start-up hybrid company founded in 2009half not-for-profit and half for-profit that aims to provide access to credit to small business owners and entrepreneurs in the developing world, at present specifically India and Kenya. Worked for co-founder Bonnie Oliva on various operations and strategy projectsmost exhaustive project was the preparation of accounts for their Series A venture capital funding round. Also worked with the chief product developer on creating the credit-scoring algorithm associated with InSight, the companys SMS-based accounting system. Summers 2010, 2011, 2012

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Curatorial Intern, American Painting & Sculpture, The American Wing (2011, 2012) Intern to Elizabeth Kornhauser, Curator of Paintings. Helped complete research for upcoming special exhibitions. Found a previously little-known collection of 19th century images of New York City in another department in the museum. Researched this collection and put together a presentation and proposal for a special exhibition featuring it. Decision pending about if and when this exhibition will be mounted. Researched potential acquisitions, the permanent collection and incoming donations. Specifically, assigned the task of attributing a number of pieces that had been previously misattributed or whose creator was unknown. By the end of the summer I firmly attributed one piece and tentatively attributed another. Helped with the organization and management of collections in preparation for the January 2012 opening of over thirty new paintings galleries in the American Wing. Worked alongside the curators to decide which paintings should be put on display and where they should be placed for historical and stylistic reasons. Wrote gallery labels.

Intern, Digital Media and Education Departments (2010) For the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Historythe museums online art encyclopediareviewed essays, timelines and art images. Identified thematic connections between these different components to prepare them to be better integrated into the Timeline via hyperlinks. Gave several tours a week to summer camp groups of children ranging in age from 5 to 16years-old. Participated in Connections, an online audio program meant to make the museum more accessible. I was and am the only intern to have participated. Specifically, I was recorded discussing the topic of Taste with chief drawings curator George Goldner.

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University

Summer 2010

Research assistant to Prof. Stiglitz, winner of 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Helped complete research for upcoming book on the underlying causes of the current financial crisis and how they may be related to underlying causes of the Great Depression. Specially studied import and export of agricultural commodities in Argentina from c.1920 to c. 1960. Used current account data as

proxy for the health of the Argentinian economy and analyzed how the countrys monetary policy successfully mitigated the immediate effects of the Depression. Victoria & Albert Museum, London Summer 2008 Intern for curator Marta Weiss in the Photographs Department. Worked on cataloguing the 100,000+ works in the photographs collection; located photographs that had been missing since the beginning of the 20th century.

Grants, Fellowships & Prizes

Predoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum July October 2014

Economic & Social Research Council (UK), DTC Interdisciplinary Funding Grant June 2013 Received 900 to fund a one-day conference in May 2014 bringing together social scientists and humanities scholars studying similar topics. The conference focuses on music history, art history and literary history.
Each session features pairs of scholarsfor example, an economist who studies the effects of war on 500 19th 20th century composers creative output and a Modern Languages scholar focusing on Tchaikovskys career, celebrity and its relation to his displacement by war.

Senior Thesis Research Travel Grant, Columbia University

August 2010

Presentations & Talks

Quantitative and Qualitative: What the Humanities Should (and Should Not) Learn from the Social Sciences, Humanities in the 21st Century, Oxford March 2014 The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Case Study of 19th century French Genre Painting, Research Student Discussion Group in the Digital Humanities, Oxford December 2013 Oxford History Graduate Network Research Showcase, Oxford November 2013

The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salons, 1831-1881, The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791-1881, University of Exeter, UK Septmber 2013

Painting the Provincial: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salons, 1831-1881, Graduate Workshop in Economic & Social History, Nuffield College, Oxford March 2013

Painting the Provincial: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salons, 1790-1881, Ashmolean Museum Research Seminar, Oxford January 2013

French Graduate Seminar, Merton College, Oxford

October 2012

Publications, Projects & Conferences

Charting a Canonical Trajectory: Understanding Structural Constraints and Sample Bias in the Study of 19th Century American Art Fall 2015 The Gender Parity Database: A State-by-State Analysis of American Women's Rights and Wellbeing, 1870-1970 with Vellore Arthi Fall 2015 Weakness in Numbers? Female Wellbeing in the American West with Vellore Arthi

Fall 2015

Conference co-organizer, Genius for Sale! Artistic Production and Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century, Wolfson College, Oxford May 2014 The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salon in J. Kearns and A. Mills (eds.), Painting for the Salon/Peindre pour le Salon, 1791-1881 (Oxford and Berne: Peter Lang, 2014) Spring 2014 (forthcoming) Painting the Provincial: Charting Rural Genre Painting at the Paris Salon, The Wadham Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 4. Spring 2014 (forthcoming)

Additional Skills

Languages: fluent French speaker, reader and writer; advanced Spanish reader and conversational speaker, beginning German. Computing: excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel (with some Visual Basic abilities), PowerPoint, QuickBooks, Stata, SPSS, Wordpress, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.