Heather Horton
Queens College
City University of New York

Heather Horton (Ph.D., NYU Institute of Fine Arts) joined the Queens College Art Department in 2022, after teaching at Pratt Institute for eleven years and receiving the Distinguished Teacher Award there in 2022. She specializes in Renaissance Italy, but teaches across the Queens College curriculum. In courses such as Introduction to Art History I/II, Baroque and the Beginnings of Globalism, or graduate seminars, Horton’s courses emphasize cross-cultural analysis, artistic processes and techniques, and connections to our current moment.

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In 2024-25 Horton was a Kress Fellow for Teaching with Primary Sources at the Archives of American Art and in 2023-24, she was a Faculty Fellow for Open Educational Resources at Queens College. Horton recently published “Teaching Medieval Jerusalem: Student-Centered Approaches to Interpreting Historical Objects and Spaces,” in The Once and Future Classroom, the journal for the Teaching Association of Medieval Studies. She frequently presents her work at national conferences and serves on the College Art Association Education Committee.