Faculty

  • Matthew Biro

    Matthew Biro

    Professor and Chair 110A Tappan Hall

    Modern and Contemporary Art, Aesthetic and Interpretive Theories, Philosophies of Technology 734.615.8453 / mbiro@umich.edu


  • Celeste Brusati

    Celeste Brusati

    Professor 170A Tappan Hall

    Renaissance and Baroque 734.615.8453 / cbrusati@umich.edu


  • Kevin_Carr

    Kevin Carr

    Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies 70B Tappan Hall

    Japanese visual culture 734.764.6223 / kgcarr@umich.edu


  • David Doris

    David Doris

    Associate Professor 65 Tappan Hall

    African arts and visual cultures 734.764.5604 / dtdoris@umich.edu


  • Elaine Gazda

    Elaine Gazda

    Professor 150F Tappan Hall and the Kelsey Museum

    Ancient Roman and Graeco-Roman 734.763-6111 / gazda@umich.edu


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    Christiane Gruber

    Associate Professor 10A Tappan Hall

    Islamic painting; Persian and Turkic book arts; codicology and paleography; texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension (mi‘raj); Islamic representations of the Prophet Muhammad; modern Islamic visual and material culture; and Iranian post-revolutionary art and visual culture. 734.764.5400 / cjgruber@umich.edu


  • Daniel Herwitz

    Daniel Herwitz

    Professor of Philosophy
    Director, Institute for the Humanities
    Inst for Humanities

    Philosophical aesthetics of Film, Television, Visual Art, Architecture, Music, study of contemporary culture and politics, interest in the project of the essay 734.936.3520 / herwitz@umich.edu


  • Megan Holmes

    Megan Holmes

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair 150B Tappan Hall

    Italian Renaissance 734.763.0517 / holmesml@umich.edu


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    Joan Kee

    Assistant Professor 70D Tappan Hall

    Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on East and Southeast Asia; art and the law jkee@umich.edu


  • Howard Lay

    Associate Professor 120D Tappan Hall

    Modern art and nineteenth-century French painting 734.763.3236 / hglay@umich.edu


  • Alexander Potts

    Alexander Potts

    Max Loehr Collegiate Professor 170D Tappan Hall

    Modern art and theories of art; History of sculpture 734.615.6042 / adpotts@umich.edu


  • Martin Powers

    Martin Powers

    Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures 120A Tappan Hall

    Chinese art; comparative culture 734.764.5402 / mpow@umich.edu


  • Christopher Ratte

    Christopher Ratté

    Professor of Archaeology
    IPCAA Director
    2132 Angell Hall
    150C Tappan Hall

    Classical Archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey. 734.764.7517 / ratte@umich.edu


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    Jennifer Robertson

    Professor 204-C West Hall, 170C Tappan Hall

    Socio-Cultural and Historical Anthropology and Ethnography 734.763.4682 / jennyrob@umich.edu


  • Margaret Root

    Margaret Root

    Professor and Curator 170F Tappan Hall and the Kelsey Museum

    Ancient Near East and Classical traditions 734.764.9304 / mcroot@umich.edu


  • Elizabeth Sears

    Elizabeth Sears

    George H. Forsyth Junior Collegiate Professor of History of Art and Director of Graduate Studies 150E Tappan Hall

    Medieval art and historiography 734.763.6110 / esears@umich.edu


  • Siegfried_Susan

    Susan Siegfried

    Denise Riley Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and Women's Studies, Professor of History of Art and Professor of Women's Studies 150D Tappan Hall

    Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French painting 734.763.5917 / siegfrie@umich.edu


  • Raymond Silverman

    Raymond Silverman

    Professor 120B Tappan Hall and the U-M Museum of Art

    Visual cultures of Africa, museum studies 734.615.9847; 734.936.6401 / silveray@umich.edu


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    Patricia Simons

    Professor 170B Tappan Hall

    Renaissance and Baroque Europe, with some interest in intersections with Islamic cultures; Gender and sexuality studies 734.763.5073 / patsimon@umich.edu


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    Achim Timmermann

    Associate Professor 150A Tappan Hall

    Medieval art and architecture, Northern Renaissance art 734.763.6112 / achimtim@umich.edu


  • Tom Willette

    Thomas Willette

    Assistant Professor 10B Tappan Hall

    Italian Renaissance and Baroque 734.936.0285 / willette@umich.edu


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    Claire Zimmerman

    Assistant Professor 70E Tappan Hall

    Nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture 734.936.0280 / zimclair@umich.edu


  • Rebecca Zurier

    Rebecca Zurier

    Associate Professor 120C Tappan Hall

    American nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art and architecture 734.763.5840 / rzurier@umich.edu