Rate My Professor Mark Pohlad

Mark B. Pohlad serves as Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture within DePaul University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, contributing to Arts and Culture scholarship since joining the faculty in 1992. A first-generation college student, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, where his dissertation examined the careerist-historical aspirations of Marcel Duchamp. At DePaul, Pohlad teaches courses in American Art, History of Photography, Nineteenth-Century Art, and Art from 1900-1945. He also instructs in the First-Year Program, including Discover and Focal Point courses, and participates in the Honors Program.

Pohlad’s research interests include the history of photography, American Art, and the relationships between word and image, with additional focus on Chicago art history and the art and photography associated with Abraham Lincoln. His publications feature articles in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, The Magazine Antiques, and the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, where his summer 2013 article discusses Chicago printmaker Charles Turzak’s 1932 woodcut biography of Lincoln. In 2017, Ohio State University Press published his monograph James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland, accompanying a multi-venue museum exhibition that began at the Columbus Museum of Art. He is currently researching Abraham Lincoln’s connections to Chicago for a forthcoming book from Southern Illinois University Press. Pohlad received a Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship as part of the 2021-22 OpEd Project cohort and a DePaul University Distinguished Service Award.