Eric Gollannek

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area United States

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Brooks College and Frederik Meijer Honors College

Education

As an art historian with depth of experience across the humanities, I engage students in the study of the arts and design, building on the strength of resources for experiential learning at Grand Valley and across the Great Lakes region. My teaching uses interdisciplinary approaches to actively engage students in problem-based learning in Honors courses on the History of Collecting, Art and Empire, and Home Places as well as Diversity in the United States, Survey of Art History, and as a member of a team-taught Honors course on European cultural history. My main areas of interest are in visual and material culture, cultural history, history of technology, planning and historic preserva...