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History of Art Faculty Listing

 

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Professor Matthew Biro, Chair

Academics and Requirements

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Professors

Matthew Biro, Critical Theory, 20^th-Century Art

Celeste Brusati, Renaissance & Baroque Art

Elaine K. Gazda, Etruscan and Roman Art, Classical Archaeology

Daniel Herwitz (Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities), European Avant-Garde

Alex Potts (Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of the History of Art), Modern Art and Sculpture, Critical Theories of Art

Martin Powers (Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures), Chinese Art and Comparative Culture

Christopher Ratté, Classical Archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey

Jennifer Robertson, (Sociocultural Anthropology), Socio-cultural and Historical Anthropology and Ethnography

Margaret C. Root, Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Greece

Elizabeth Sears (George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of the History of Art), Medieval Art and Historiography

Susan Siegfried (Denise Riley Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and Women's Studies), 18^th- and 19^th-Century European Art

Ray Silverman, Art and Visual Cultures of Africa, Museum Studies

Patricia Simons, Italian Renaissance Art, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Associate Professors

Kevin Carr, Visual Culture

David Doris, African Art and Visual Culture

Christiane Gruber, Islamic Art

Megan Holmes, Italian Renaissance Art

Howard Lay, 19^th-20^th Century Art and Theory

Achim Timmermann, Medieval Art and Architecture

Rebecca Zurier, American Art

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Assistant Professors

Joan Kee, Modern and Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Art

Tom Willette, Renaissance and Baroque Art

Claire Zimmerman, 19th/20th-Century Architecture

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Affiliated Faculty

Beth Genn, (Professor, Dance) 19^th- & 20^th-Century European and American Art

Michle Hannoosh (Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures), French language and literature; 19^th-century literature, art, and culture

Sharon Herbert (Professor, Classical Studies) (John G. Pedley Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology & Greek) Director, Kelsey Museum, Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East

Andrew Herscher (Associate Professor, Architecture / Slavic Languages and Literatures), Modern and contemporary architecture, urbanism, and visual culture in Central and Southeastern Europe

Helmut Puff  (Professor, Germanic Languages and Literature / History), (Richard Hudson Research Professor of History), Early Modern German Literature and History, Gender Studies

Lydia Soo (Associate Professor, Architecture), Early Modern Architecture

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Professors Emeriti

R. Ward Bissell, Baroque Art in Italy and Spain

Richard Edwards, Chinese art

Marvin Eisenberg, Medieval and Renaissance art

Ilene H. Forsyth, Early Mediaeval, Romanesque Art

Joel Isaacson, Nineteenth Century European Art

Diane M. Kirkpatrick (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), 20^th-century Art, History of Photography, Cinema, New Media

Victor H. Miesel, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art

Walter M. Spink, Indian Art

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