iwade@usc.edu 2004 Apex Avenue, 11
619-490-7876 Los Angeles, CA 90039
APPOINTMENTS
2023–2025 Dornsife Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in General Education
University of Southern California
EDUCATION
2016–2023 University of Southern California
Ph.D., Art History
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Recipient
Dissertation: “Exposing Urban Form: Commercial Architectural Photography in
Los Angeles, 1938-1981”
Committee: Vanessa R. Schwartz (chair), Suzanne Hudson, William Deverell, Megan Luke
Major Field: History of Photography, 1800-present
Minor Field: American Art, 1865-present
2018 University of Southern California
M.A., Art History
2011–2015 University of Chicago
B.A., Honors in Art History
Thesis with Honors, Department of Art History
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2021 – 2022 Beaumont Endowed Fellowship, University of Southern California, one year
Winter 2022 Photographic Arts Council – Los Angeles Fellowship, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, one month
2020 – 2021 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, one year
Summer 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Huntington Library, three months
2016 – 2022 Provost Fellowship in the Humanities, USC Dornsife Department of Art History
Summer 2019 Summer Travel Award, Visual Studies Research Institute, USC
Summer 2019 Summer Travel Award, Department of Art History, USC
Summer 2018 Travel Award, Department of Art History, USC
PUBLICATIONS
Book, Co-Editor and Author
Spring 2025 “‘The Tyranny of the Glossy Photograph’: Architectural Photography
and the Commercial Streets of Los Angeles,” in Ed Ruscha’s Streets of
Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City
Getty Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Summer 2024 “Harry Drinkwater and the Limits of Architectural Photography.”
American Art Vol. 38, no. 4 (Summer 2024): 84-115.
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
2022–2024 Research Associate
Getty Research Institute
2019–2022 Research Assistant
Getty Research Institute
2019–2020 Research Assistant, Director’s Office
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2018–2019 Graduate Intern for project “Ed Ruscha: Streets of Los Angeles”
Getty Research Institute
Fall 2014 Curatorial Intern
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Summer 2013 Curatorial Intern
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
February 2024 ““Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: Photography Archive or Urban Dataset?”
College Arts Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
October 2023 “The Limits of Genre: Harry Drinkwater and Architectural Photography, 1966-69”
Photography Network Symposium
April 2023 Guest Lecture, American Studies 102, Photos of America: Technology, Representation, and Landscape
University of California, Berkeley
February 2022 “Harry Drinkwater, the Watts Uprising, and the Limits of Architectural Photography”
Getty Graduate Symposium, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2021 “Ed Ruscha, Architectural Photography, and the Digitization of Los Angeles”
The Photography Network Symposium
Summer 2020 Workshop moderator, “Pop, Strip, Sprawl: Architecture, the City, and the Streets of Los Angeles”
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2020 “Framing the Formless: Photography’s Urban Renewal in 1940s Los Angeles”
College Arts Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Fall 2019 “Contemporary Case Study: Civil War, Public Art, and Other Monuments,” Guest Lecture, Art History 255 Culture Wars: Art and Social Conflict
USC, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2018 “Translating Across the Page: Architectural Photography, Magazines, and Los Angeles”
Southwest Art History Annual Conference, Taos, NM
Spring 2018 “Stuccoed Portraits, Resurfaced History: Los Angeles Vernacular in Art by Judy Fiskin, John Valadez, and Agnès Varda”
College Arts Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2018 Panel moderator and organizer, “Ritual in Rearview: A Conversation between Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, and Barbara McCullough”
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Fellow in General Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2025 No Place Like it: The Art and Architecture of Home
Instructor of Record (2 sections)
Fall 2024 Los Angeles Plays Itself: Art and Visual Culture of the City
Instructor of Record (3 sections)
Spring 2024 Los Angeles Plays Itself: Art and Visual Culture of the City
Instructor of Record (3 sections)
Fall 2023 Los Angeles Plays Itself: Art and Visual Culture of the City
Instructor of Record (1 section)
Representing Crises: Photography and Conflict
Instructor of Record (1 section)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2019 Culture Wars: Art and Social Conflict in the Modern World
Professor Suzanne Hudson
Spring 2019 Honors College, Symbols and Conceptual Systems: Icons
Professor Vanessa Schwartz
Spring 2018 History and Theory of Photography
Dr. Samantha Burton
Fall 2017 Foundations of Western Art
Professor Ann Marie Yasin
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Summer 2018 Research Assistant to Professor Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2020)
2015 – 2016 Research Assistant to Dr. Leslie M. Wilson, Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase
University of Chicago
LANGUAGES
French: Reading, writing, speaking
Spanish: Reading, writing proficiency
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
2020 – Co-organizer, Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Group
Visual Studies Research Institute, USC
2018 – 2019 Graduate Student Faculty Representative
Department of Art History, USC
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2016– College Arts Association, member
2020– Photography Network, member