Iskin, Ruth

Ruth E. Iskin holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received the Andrew W. Mellon fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum. Her publications include essays in The Art Bulletin, Discourse and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. She teaches art history and visual culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Iskin was invited to serve as co-director of Womanspace Gallery along with Gretchen Glicksman, and soon founded (and edited) Womanspace Journal to document its exhibitions and events and to serve as an early platform for writing on women's art.