Rate My Professor Eva Zak

Eva Zak serves as an adjunct professor in the Art History department at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she has taught courses including ARTD 1010, ARTD 3066 Modern Art, and other art history surveys, as listed in official Brooklyn College course schedules such as Spring 2022. Her professional affiliation with Brooklyn College is confirmed through CUNY faculty listings, including in the Music and Art Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College with the email eva.zak@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Eva Zak holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2017), an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2012), and a BA from Boston University (2010). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Adelphi University, located in Blodgett Hall 320, where she teaches courses on the evolution of Western art in social, cultural, political, and religious contexts. At Adelphi, she has received a Faculty Development Award for her project 'The Women Artists who brought Moscow to Paris' and serves on Faculty Senate committees. Zak also co-directs the Museum Studies undergraduate certificate program. Her research engagements include presentations such as 'Collective Voices: Championing Women's Labor in Early Soviet Cinema' at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC, October 2025), 'Uncovering Women, Revolution, and Cinema: The Lost Projects of Esfir Shub' and chairing a session at NECS 2025, 'The Archive and the Revolution: Shaping Historical Narratives' on otherness in early Soviet cinema, discussions on women artists of lyrical abstraction in 1971 at CAA 2025, and women of the Whitney Biennials. She contributed to the exhibition 'Lean On Me: Everyday Acts of Humanity' at Rockaway Artists Alliance.