After graduating from college , she taught at Washington Square College , the University of California , Berkeley , and Mills College . She was appointed the first full-time professor of American art at Stanford University in 1980 . Over her tenure at Stanford she served as chair of the departments of art and art history . She also served as the director of the Stanford Humanities Center before becoming acting of the Stanford Museum of Art , now known as the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts . After the 1989 Loma Pieta earthquake , she led the reconstruction of the museum after it had been badly damaged
1989 Loma Pieta earthquake
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Wanda M. Corn