Dr. Heidi Cook
Assistant Professor of Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies
Fall 2025
Monday/Wednesday 2:30-3:30 p.m., Tuesday/Thursday 1:30-3:00 p.m. and by scheduled appointment.
Dr. Cook directs the art history program and helps oversee the museum studies minor at Truman. Her regularly offered courses include ART 223 Global Art from 1400 to the Present, ART 326 Contemporary Art, ART 325 Modern Art, ART 324 Renaissance Art, IDSM360 Museum Studies, as well as courses for upper-level art history majors including ART 429 Historical Methods.
She completed her PhD in the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the modern art, architecture, and design of Central and Eastern Europe. It highlights visual constructions of nationalisms and other political identities, and explores the relationship between modernity and tradition.
She recently published the essay “Design, Politics, and Croatian Folk Heritage: Gingerbread and Lace,” in the edited volume Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging edited by Rebecca Houze and Grace Lees-Maffei and published with Routledge in 2022, and a paper on “Maksimilijan Vanka’s Beautiful Jela Wove Three Wreaths,” in Art and State in Modern Central Europe, published by the University of Zagreb in 2024.