Christina Grace Cogdell (born 1969 in Austin) is an American art historian and educator.
Born to John Cogdell and Ann Conkling, Cogdell received two summa cum laude degrees in American Studies: a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (1991) and a Master of Arts from the University of Notre Dame (1994).
[2] She then returned to Austin to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (2001), and wrote a doctoral dissertation titled "Reconsidering the Streamline Style: Evolutionary Thought, Eugenics, and United States Industrial Design, 1925–1940," under the supervision of Linda Dalrymple Henderson and Jeffrey L.
[3] Upon graduating, Cogdell began teaching as Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Fullerton.
Cogdell then held a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008.