Flager College - Faculty Profiles

Department:

Research, Professional and Creative Activity:

• Published in peer-reviewed journals including Photographies and Octopus
• Contributor to books and catalogs including Reconsidering the New Industrial Parks (2010, Sternberg Press); Hammer Projects: 1999-2009 (2009, Hammer Museum); Words without Pictures (2009, LACMA); Isabelle Hayuer (2008, National Research Center for Contemporary Digital Art); The Frieze Yearbook (2008, Frieze)
• Contributor to periodicals such as Frieze, Art Review, and Folio Weekly
• Member of College Art Association
   

Professional Profile:

Professor Balaschak received his doctoral degree in 2010 from the Ph.D. program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine. He earned his M.F.A. in Criticism and Theory from the Art Center College of Design and his B.A. from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.  Dr. Balaschak specializes in the history of landscape photography. 

Teaching and Related Service:

Courses Taught:

• Art History II
• Art History III
• Visual Culture
• History of Photography
• Art History IV: Special Topics

Previously taught at:

•  California State University, Long Beach
•  University of California, Irvine