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Gregg Horowitz is chair of the Institute’s Social Science and Cultural Studies Department. Prior to that, he was Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 2010. His areas of specialization include aesthetics and the philosophy of art history, critical theory of culture, and philosophy and psychoanalysis. Horowitz received several awards while at Vanderbilt including the Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. He has also received the Berthold Leibinger Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin as well as teaching and research fellowships at numerous U.S. institutions.

In addition to Vanderbilt, Horowitz has taught at The University of Chicago, Sarah Lawrence University, The School of Visual Arts, and Rutgers University. He has authored books including Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford University Press, 2001) and The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste. Essays by Arthur C. Danto (co-edited and co-written with Thomas Huhn; Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1998) and has authored numerous essays and reviews on poetry, video art, politics and psychoanalysis. Horowitz has also presented his work at a variety of national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars and has organized conferences and served on selection and program committees.

Horowitz received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and film from Sarah Lawrence College, a master’s degree in philosophy from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University. He is a current resident of Greenwich Village.