![]() Since his arrival at Yale in 1992, he served as Director of the Yale Center for the Study of American Art and Material Culture, a group of interested Yale faculty, graduate students, and museum professionals who meet weekly during the semester for presentations on the theme of that academic year. ![]() He served as the Chair of the department from 2000 to 2006 and from 2012 to 2016. He has also taught seminars on craft and design in India and in Australia. This can be seen in his role as founding co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft and guest editor of a special issue of American Art focusing upon craft as well as his work as co-curator and publication author of six different exhibitions: New American Furniture (Museum of Fine Arts, 1989) Inspiring Reform: Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement (Davis Museum, Wellesley College, 1997) Wood Turning in North America Since 1930 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2001) The Maker’s Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003) Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions (Peabody Essex Museum, 2006) and Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism (Michener Art Museum, 2014).Īt Yale, Cooke teaches lecture courses on American material culture from the fifteenth century to the present as well as an introductory course on global decorative arts and offers seminars on a variety of topics including material culture theory, material literacy, the American interior, American furniture, and modern craft. In tracing the social lives of objects from creation to purchase, and from use to experienced meaning, it charts exciting new directions in art history.Ĭooke has also written extensively on modern craft, historicizing and explicating more recent forms of production. His most recent book, Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History (Princeton University Press, 2022), looks at the production, consumption, and circulation of functional aesthetic objects made from clay, fiber, wood, and nonferrous base metals. His books include Making Furniture in Pre-industrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (Johns Hopkins Press, 1996) and Inventing Boston: Design, Production and Consumption in the Atlantic World, 1680–1720 (Yale University Press, 2019), both of which focus upon the context of craftsman-client relations in colonial North America. ![]() Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, focuses upon American material culture and decorative arts. ![]() ![]() M.A., Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware, 1979Įdward S. ![]()
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