Jeannene Przyblyski is Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs as well as Chair of the History and Theory of Contemporary Art program in the School for Interdisciplinary Studies. A PhD in Art History from UC Berkeley, Przyblyski is an artist, historian, urban strategist, and instructor. After teaching at SFAI for many years preceding, she joined the faculty in 2005 and has been the chair of SFAI’s program in History and Theory of Contemporary Art since its inception, in 2006, as part of SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Przyblyski has lectured frequently at arts and cultural institutions across the Bay Area, including the de Young, the Legion of Honor, SFMOMA, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is the executive director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets—a visual arts and urbanism think tank that incubates and promotes art and political interventions in city life—and serves as an artist and consultant for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. She has worked on the Board (from 2002 to 2007), and works on the Advisory Council (ongoing since 2007), of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), where she is a frequent contributor to its publications. From 2004 to 2009, she served the City of San Francisco on the San Francisco Arts Commission, where she chaired the Visual Arts committee and was a member of both the Civic Design Review and the Executive committees. She also serves on the advisory committee of Root Division, a community arts and education organization in San Francisco. Przyblyski’s publications span topics in the history of art, photography, and urbanism, and include Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-century France (coeditor) (1999), The Nineteenth-century Visual Culture Reader (coeditor) (2004), and The Camera on the Barricades: Photography and the Paris Commune of 1871 (forthcoming).