Martina Hesser, PhD

Martina works as a professor for Art History at National University, San Diego State University, Grossmont College, San Diego Mesa College, UCSD, Santa Monica College, Los Angeles Valley College and at Los Angeles City College. At these schools she teaches a wide array of classes on Western, Non-Western, Modern and Contemporary Art.

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Martina was Financial Director and Board Member of the Art Historians of Southern California for ten years. Moreover, for three years she was a member of the Education Committee at the College Art Association, and a member of the Academic Senate at San Diego Mesa College for nine years. 

Before that Martina worked for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense. She created a Gallery for Contemporary Art called "ATRIUM ROSSAU." She was also supervisor for acquisitions, personnel and legal affairs for the Military History Museum in Vienna, which is owned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense.

Even earlier Martina worked as an executive researcher for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. Her research focused on designing and implementing visitor-friendly educational strategies for the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Applied Arts and the Graphic Collection Albertina in Vienna.

While still in graduate school, Martina was a staff writer for the magazine "Kunsthistoriker Aktuell," a journal published by the Austrian Association of Art Historians. Later she became a staff writer for the weekly magazine "Mercury" in Newport, RI and covered museum and arts events, theater productions. She has published extensively.