Debora Leah Silverman is professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1992 in fine arts research.
[2] Silverman is the author of Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style (1989) which was a co-winner of the Berkshire History prize, and Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art[3] (2001) which was awarded a Ralph Waldo Emerson National Prize for Best Book in the Humanities and a PEN American Center Architectural Digest Prize for "outstanding writing on the visual arts."
She was awarded a fellowship from New York Public Library for 2015–16.
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