Rank: Adjunct Professor
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1993
Department Member Since: 2000
An adjunct professor in the Department of History, Kenneth Neal has taught courses on the history of the skyscraper in America, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance, and a general introduction to the history of art specifically designed for students who are not enrolled in the School of Art. Dr. Neal also teaches in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and is one of the more popular lecturers in Pitt's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Although his primary focus is the art and architecture of the United States, he has taught courses on a wide range of subjects, including French Impressionism, the history of urban form, architectural theory, the art of the Middle Ages, and Chinese painting. In addition to writing extensively on the American painting collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, he has contributed to The Burlington Magazine and The Grove Dictionary of Art. His doctoral dissertation on the early Carnegie Internationals was the basis for A Wise Extravagance: The Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibitions, 1895 - 1901, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1996.
Office: BH 240
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213