Camille Reiko Acosta
Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies
Camille Reiko Acosta
Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies

Ph.D. UCLA

Research Interests

Greek art and archeology, migration and colonialism, Greek-Egyptian interactions, ceramics, craft production, history of archeological theory and practice

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Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Chancellor's Professor
Roland Betancourt
Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Chancellor's Professor

Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

Byzantine and Medieval Art, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Histories of race, gender, and sexuality

Matthew P. Canepa
Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran; Director of the Ph.D. Specialization in Ancient Iran and the Premodern Persianate World
Matthew Canepa
Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran; Director of the Ph.D. Specialization in Ancient Iran and the Premodern Persianate World

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research Interests

Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian art and archaeology, Iranian visual cultures and Afro-Eurasian exchange, Critical approaches to space, place, landscape, urbanism, and memory

Bridget R. Cooks smiling
Professor of African American Studies, Art History, Culture and Theory and Visual Studies, Chancellor's Fellow
Bridget R. Cooks
Professor of African American Studies, Art History, Culture and Theory and Visual Studies, Chancellor's Fellow

Ph.D. University of Rochester

Research Interests

African-American art, Museum Studies, Feminist and Post-colonial Theory

Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, art histories of African and Jewish diasporas in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, activism, cultural studies, racism, antisemitism, digital humanities

Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Brown University

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary Korean art and design, global design history, economic development and globalization, critical and media theory

Lyle Massey smiling
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, 4+1 MA Director, Director of the Group for the Study of Early Cultures
Lyle Massey
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, 4+1 MA Director, Director of the Group for the Study of Early Cultures

Ph.D. UCLA

Research Interests

Gender Theory, Italian Renaissance and early modern European art, Science Studies, Medical Humanities

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Dean of the School of Humanities, Professor of English, Art History and Visual Studies
Tyrus Miller
Dean of the School of Humanities, Professor of English, Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

Critical Theory and Aesthetics , Modernist and avant-garde studies in literature and visual arts, Modern Architecture and Urbanism, East-Central European studies;, Culture of socialism and post-socialism, Frankfurt School theory

James Nisbet
Department Chair of Art History and Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
James Nisbet
Department Chair of Art History and Professor of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary art, theory, and historiography, Ecocriticism, Environmental history, History of modern science, History of photography

Luiza Osorio G. Silva
Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies
Luiza Osorio G. Silva
Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research Interests

Ancient Egyptian material culture, materiality, kingship, the intersection of space and power, the contexts and audiences for art and architecture, the writing of historical narratives

Bert Winther-Tamaki
Professor of Art History, Asian American Studies, and Visual Studies
Bert Winther-Tamaki
Professor of Art History, Asian American Studies, and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Research Interests

Asian-American Art, Modern and contemporary Japanese art and visual culture, Ecocriticism

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Director of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Roberta Wue
Director of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Research Interests

Modern Chinese art, Photography, Print culture

Lecturers

Ethan Robey
Senior Instructor of Art History, Internships Director
Ethan Robey
Senior Instructor of Art History, Internships Director

Ph.D. Columbia University

Research Interests

American art, expositions and spectacles, history of design and decorative arts, 19th- and 20th-century modernism

Postdocs

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Postdoctorate Scholar
Marianna Davison
Postdoctorate Scholar

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Emeriti

George C. and Linda Freeman Bauer
Professor Emeritus of Art History
George C. Bauer
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Ph.D. Princeton University

Research Interests

Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture

George C. and Linda Freeman Bauer
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Linda Freeman Bauer
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Research Interests

Renaissance and Baroque art

Anna Gonosová
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Anna Gonosová
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Ph.D. Harvard University

Research Interests

Byzantine and Medieval art and architecture

James D. Herbert
Professor Emeritus of Art History and Visual Studies
James D. Herbert
Professor Emeritus of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

Modern European art

Judy C. Ho
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Judy C. Ho
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

Chinese art and archaeology, Buddhist art and popular religions

Margaret M. Miles
Professor Emerita of Art History, Classics, Religious Studies and Visual Studies
Margaret M. Miles
Professor Emerita of Art History, Classics, Religious Studies and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Princeton University

Research Interests

Greek and Roman Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Alka Patel
Professor Emerita of Art History, History, Religious Studies, and Visual Studies
Alka Patel
Professor Emerita of Art History, History, Religious Studies, and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

Research Interests

Early modern Islamicate diasporas in Cuba, South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, eleventh-eighteenth centuries, Modern historiographies

Sally A. Stein
Professor Emeritus of Art History & Film and Media Studies
Sally A. Stein
Professor Emeritus of Art History & Film and Media Studies

Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

American art, history of photography, feminist theory

Dickran Tashjian
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Dickran Tashjian
Professor Emeritus of Art History
Research Interests

American art and literature, American and European avant-garde, art and technology

Cecile Whiting
Professor Emerita and Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Cécile Whiting
Professor Emerita and Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Visual Studies

Ph.D. Stanford University

Research Interests

American Art, 20th Century Visual Culture