Aron Vinegar is a scholar and author whose areas of expertise and study are the history and philosophy of art, architecture, and design, as well as photography. Vinegar holds a BA and an MA in art history from McGill University, and a PhD in art history from Northwestern University. Vinegar held several postdoctoral fellowships at McGill University and has taught at Ohio State University, the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and the University of Houston. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He coedited Heidegger and the Work of Art History (2014) and wrote Relearning from Las Vegas (2009). His most celebrated work, however, is I Am a Monument (2008), which rereads and reinterprets the now-classic 1972 text Learning from Las Vegas. Simon Sadler of the University of California, Davis called the book “a beguiling intervention.”