Andrea Weiss named Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities and the Arts
Media and Communication Arts professor Andrea Weiss has been named the 2019-20 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Dean Erec Koch announced in May.
Weiss is an internationally renowned scholar and documentary filmmaker whose monographs include Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema (1993), In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain (2008), and Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank (2013). Her documentary films run chronologically from highly acclaimed Before Stonewall (1985) to the most recently lionized Bones of Contention (2017).
Weiss has been the principal animator of CCNY's Documentary Forum, which brings distinguished filmmakers to the college to work with members of the academic community and the broader community. Professor Weiss’s current documentary project, Flying Lessons, lies at the crossroad of the personal and the historical, examining the Berlin Airlift via the mediation of her father’s service as a volunteer cargo pilot.
Established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, the endowment supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year. The professorship provides up to two months of summer salary plus $10,000 to support research and creative activity.
Weiss will be installed this fall.
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