education
May 1984 Master of Fine Arts, Long Island University, C.W. Post, Brookville, NY
May 1965 Bachelor of Arts, Barnard College, New York, NY
administrative & academic positions
2011-present Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
2004-2010 Dean, Arts & Humanities, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
2003-2004 Professor, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1997-2003 Associate Professor, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1995-2004 Chairperson, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1992-1997 Assistant Professor, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1990-1995 Coordinator of Photography, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1988-1992 Instructor, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1986-1988 Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, Long Island University, C.W. Post Center, Brookville, NY
1986-1988 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Art and Photography, Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York, Bayside, NY
1985-1988 Adjunct Photo Instructor, Art Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
selected lectures and presentations
2020 Gallery talk, SAFE/HAVEN: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove, Stonewall National Museum & Library – Wilton Manors Gallery, Wilton Manors, FL
2018 Gallery talk, Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem, Stonewall National Museum & Library – Wilton Manors Gallery, Wilton Manors, FL
2016 Gallery talk. Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem, fotofoto gallery, Huntington, NY.
2015 Gallery talk, 80 for the 80s, fotofoto gallery, Huntington, NY.
2004 Featured lecturer/photographic presentation, Real Women. Women’s Faculty Association, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
2002 Featured lecturer/photographic presentation, Real Women: Challenging the Stereotypes. Here, Now…Justice for All. Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
2001 Featured lecturer/photographic presentation: Susan Kravitz, Professional Women Photographers, New York, NY
2000 Featured photographic presentation: A Lesbian Community in Transition: Photographs of Cherry Grove Women. National Women’s Studies Association Convention, Boston, MA
1999 Panelist/photographic presentation: Real Women. International Women’s Film Festival, Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, New York
1998 Panelist/photographic presentation: Breaking the Silence: Learning from Aging Women. SUNY/New Paltz Women’s Studies Conference, New Paltz, New York.
1998 Speaker/photographic presentation: Promises Made…Promises Kept… Women’s Center, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1998 Panelist: Managing as Feminists: How Administrators Build Community. National Women’s Studies Association Convention, Oswego, New York
1997 Panelist: Consciousness Raising and Sexuality in the ’90’s. SUNY/New Paltz Women’s Studies Conference, New Paltz, New York
1997 Panelist/photographic presentation: Un/Masking Women: Dangerous Realities. National Women’s Studies Association Convention, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 Lecture/photographic presentation:The American Dream: Image and Reality. Nassau Community College 7th Annual Selected Scholars Program, Garden City, NY
1996 Panelist/photographic presentation: Among Women: Artists & Writers Reinterpret Relationships. National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY.
1994 Lecture/photographic presentation: Susan Kravitz. The Firehouse Art Gallery Featured Artist Series, Garden City, NY
1994 Photographic presentation: Us and Them. NCC Women’s Studies Project, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1991 Lecture/photographic presentation: Paul Strand’s Blind Woman: a radical photographic vision. 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
published photographs
2023 London Review of Books blog, “Edie Dancing, 1987” January 18
2014 International New York Times, Paris edition. “A Gay Haven on Fire Island.” Sept. 2 – LINK 1 LINK 2
2014 Newsday, “Remembering the Grove Photo Exhibit.” Aug. 15
2012 ExploreLI, “’Still Life Still’ at fotofoto.” Aug. 31
2012 Newsday, “Still Life Still.” Sept. 1
2007 Center for the Arts, Huntington, LI, September edition.
1996 Newsday, January 21st
1992-1993 The Women’s Record, “Shescapes,” monthly column of photographs by Susan Kravitz
1990 The Newsday Magazine, “Image Page”
1989 POSITIONEN, VHS Stuttgart, “Dokumentation einer Umfrage unter Fotografinnen und Fotografen”
1989 The Newsday Magazine, “A Colorful Invasion,” June 25th
1988-1993 The Women’s Record, cover photographs