Daniel R. Guernsey | Associate Professor

Daniel Guernsey is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of specialization are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art and European intellectual history. He is the author of The Artist and the State, 1777-1855: The Politics of Universal History in British and French Painting (London: Ashgate, 2007) as well as several articles on the philosophy of history in European art during the Romantic period. Other scholarly interests include theories civil society during the Enlightenment and aesthetic theory in German Idealism, especially the aesthetic theory of G. W. F. Hegel.

Professor Guernsey teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, twentieth-century modernism, art and politics, contemporary art, and methodology. He has also taught courses on theories of civil society in European social thought from Bernard Mandeville to Karl Marx as well as courses on Hegel and the origins of Marxism. His current research focuses on the religious, political, and economic dimensions of Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics.