Richard Theodore Neer is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago. From 2010 to 2018 he was the Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry , where he continues to serve as a Co-Editor. Since 2019, he has been Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1991, his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. He has received fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C., and the American Academy in Rome. In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1]