Melanie Corn

Dr. Corn, age 40, is the first female president in CCAD’s 136-year history, and is now one of only six women serving as presidents of member institutions of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).

Dr. Corn’s academic and pedagogic work combines interests in contemporary visual culture and theories of gender and sexuality, and her graduate art history work focused on the visual crisis surrounding the AIDS epidemic. She received her BA in Art History from Stanford University, her MA in Art History from University of California Santa Barbara where she also completed doctoral coursework and exams, and her EdD in Higher Education Management from University of Pennsylvania.