Vivien Green Fryd is professor emerita in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Vanderbilt University and the author of numerous books. Along with Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860, she published Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper  and Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970. In 2012, she was the Terra Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Berlin’s Freie Universität. There, she began research for another book about her uncle who left Germany because of the Holocaust and became a photojournalist: Henry Ries’ Photographs of Iconic Berlin Monuments and Sites 1946-2000. Vivien has taught courses on western art history from the Renaissance to the present, impressionism, 19th- and 20th-century European art, and American art from the colonial period to the present.