from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space.
Bois is a professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky,[1] and at the European Graduate School.
From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at Harvard University as Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
Professor in Modern Art,[2] after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
[4] Bois has written books and articles on artists of European modernism.