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State University of New York at Binghamton

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5.04/23/2026

Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.

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About Thomas

Thomas McDonough is a professor of art history in the Arts and Culture faculty at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he joined the Art History Department in 1999 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 2006, and became full professor in 2022. He also serves as adjunct curator at the Binghamton University Art Museum. McDonough earned a BA with highest honors from Rutgers University in 1991, an MA in 1993, and a PhD in 1998 from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. His dissertation, “The Construction of Reserve: Urbanism and Experience in Rousseau’s Paris,” was advised by Linda Nochlin. A scholar of modern and contemporary art, his research interests include postwar European avant-gardes with particular emphasis on the Situationist International, postwar French architectural and urban history, and contemporary Black American art. He has taught as a visiting associate professor at Harvard University in 2014 and at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008-09.