Rate My Professor Mark Pohlad

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.