Clare Fitzgerald (she/her/hers) joins the Department of Art and Music Histories in Fall 2025 as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor. She will teach classes on art of the Ancient through Medieval periods.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, she was the Lisa and Bernard Selz Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University from 2018-2022 where she mounted five exhibitions on a wide range of topics dealing primarily with art of the ancient world, archaeology, and its reception as well as editing two catalogues during her tenure. She taught on the graduate level at ISAW, focusing on issues of curatorial practice and theory and was a founding member of ISAW’s Committee for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Access. She curated the permanent installation of the Ancient Mediterranean collection at the Newark Museum of Art in 2017 and served as Curatorial Consultant for a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant at Hamilton College from 2023-2025.

Her research focuses on the definition of ritual space thought image in ancient Egyptian tombs in Thebes as well as self-presentation of Egyptian elite in the post-Amarna New Kingdom art. She is also interested in the history of Egyptian objects in American museum collections.

She has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and her research has been supported by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).

Fitzgerald earned a Ph.D. in 2013 from Emory University and B.A. in 2004 from New York University.