[2] After receiving his doctorate, Nemerov began his teaching career at Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Art History.
In 2012, Nemerov transferred back to become the Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
[3] Throughout his career, Nemerov has focused primarily on the study of American art dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a variety of media.
[4] Additionally, he has worked to organize exhibitions on artists such as William Rush at the Wistar Institute (2002) and Remington at the Norman Rockwell Museum (2006).
[5] In 2011, he has organized "To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America" exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum.