Carrie Lambert-Beatty

professor, history of art and architecture, Harvard

Carrie Lambert-Beatty is an art historian at Harvard University whose research focuses on art since 1960. She received her PhD from Stanford in 2002. Her book *Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s* was published by MIT Press in 2008 and was the winner of the de la Torre Bueno book prize for advancing the field of dance history scholarship. Two recent articles on socially-engaged contemporary art, in the journals *Signs* (Winter 2008) and October (Summer 2009), are part of the book Lambert-Beatty is currently writing called *Just Art: Imagining Art's Efficacy*.