Assistant Professor
Art and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences
Blodgett Hall 320
516.877.4156
ezak@adelphi.edu
PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art (2017)
MA, NYU, Institute of Fine Arts (2012)
BA, Boston University (2010)
Art History Senior Thesis
Contemporary Art
Modern Art
S/T: History Of Graphic Design
The Met: A Global Museum
The Met: A Global Museum
Art and the World II
History of Modern Art
History of Graphic Design
History of Contemporary Art
Women in the Arts
Art and Propaganda
Zak, Eva, ed. Victoria Barr Paintings. New York: KDP, 2022.
Zak, Eva. “Elizaveta Svilova.” In Women Film Pioneers Project, edited by Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta. New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2020.
Zak, Eva. “Mark Rothko’s Late-Career Turn to Paintings on Paper.” Sotheby’s Contemporary Art. New York: Sotheby’s, 2019.
Zak, Eva. “Georges Braque.” In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London: Routledge, 2018.
“The Archive and The Revolution: Shaping Historical Narratives.” ASEEES Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
“Collective Voices: Championing Women’s Labor in Early Soviet Cinema.” SECAC Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Uncovering Women, Revolution, and Cinema: The Lost Projects of Esfir Shub, 1930-1939.” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
“The Pursuit of Labor: Esfir Shub’s Unfinished Revolution 1940-1949.” Making a Living, Making Art: Wage Labor, Class, and the Female Avant-Garde, 1920-1948 workshop, Constructor University, Bremen, Germany
“The Emotional, The Revelatory, The Intuitive: The Women Artists of Lyrical Abstraction, 1971.” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York
Interviews
“Art at the Crossroads: Konstantin Akinsha on Ukrainian Modernism.” Co-authored with Olga Blackledge. Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 20, 2025.
“A Safe Space for Brave Programming: Heleen Gerritsen on Navigating goEast.” Co-authored with Olga Blackledge. Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 20, 2025.
“Interview with Glenn Ligon.” Co-authored with Alessia Grossomodo. Immediations Journal 3, no. 4 (December 2015): 88–95.
Reviews
“Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset: Edited by Zoë Ryan and Valentine Sarmiento Cruz, Translated by Natalie Espinosa. Feminist Modernist Studies, September, 1-3.
“I Don’t Know, Tate Modern.” Disegno Daily. London, 2014.
“Malevich in his Milieu.” Hyperallergic. New York, 2014.
“The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014, Victoria & Albert Museum” Disegno Daily. London, 2014.
Lauder Research Center for Modern Art Publication Grant, Metropolitan Museum, 2025
Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, 2025
Reviews Editor, Apparatus Journal of Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe
Committee Member, Eur'orbem, Europe Orientale, Balkanique et Médiane
Exhibition Juror, "Lean on Me: Everyday Acts of Humanity," Rockaway Artists Alliance