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Patricia Mainardi (born November 10, 1942) is a leading authority on nineteenth-century European art and European and American modernism, and a pioneering professor of women’s studies.
She is the Executive Officer (chair) of the doctoral program in art history at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques in France. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Mainardi received the 1989 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association for her book Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867.
Mainardi has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University and Williams College. In the early 1990s, Mainardi was the first president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA).
She is an editorial board member for the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and a past member of the Council of Field Editors for the journal caa.reviews.