Jodi Kovach is the Pamela and Christopher Hoehn-Saric Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Education at The Gund, Kenyon College. In this role, she partners with faculty across disciplines to integrate art into the curricula and oversees the museum’s academic engagement and educational programs. She holds a PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. Her scholarship focuses on international modernism and global contemporary art, with a specialization in Mexican art, and has appeared in academic journals such as Art Journal. Her publications on museum pedagogy include Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition, and Campus Engagement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), co-edited with Heather Flaherty, Curator of Education at The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College; and STEM in the Art Museum: Innovative Pedagogies for 21st-century Science Curricula. a special thematic issue of UMAC Journal co-edited with Liliana Milkova, Nolen Curator of Education and Academic Affairs, Yale University Art Gallery.

Board member since: 2025

Current position: Communications team member