Core Faculty

Photo	Name	Title/Interest	Email
	Camille Reiko Acosta	Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies Ph.D. UCLA Interests: Greek art and archeology, migration and colonialism, Greek-Egyptian interactions, ceramics, craft production, history of archeological theory and practice	acostacr@uci.edu
	Roland Betancourt	Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Chancellor's Professor Ph.D. Yale University Interests: Byzantine and Medieval Art, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Histories of race, gender, and sexuality	roland.betancourt@uci.edu
	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 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 Faculty Website	matthew.canepa@uci.edu
	Bridget R. Cooks	Professor of African American Studies, Art History, Culture and Theory and Visual Studies Chancellor's Fellow Ph.D. University of Rochester Interests: African-American art, Museum Studies, Feminist and Post-colonial Theory	b.cooks@uci.edu
	Abigail Lapin Dardashti	Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Interests: Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, decolonial theory	alapinda@uci.edu
	Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung	Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Brown University Interests: Modern and contemporary Korean art and design, global design history, economic development and globalization, critical and media theory	seungyj2@uci.edu
	Lyle Massey	4+1 MA Director, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Director of the Group for the Study of Early Cultures Ph.D. UCLA Interests: Gender Theory, Italian Renaissance and early modern European art, Science Studies, Medical Humanities	lmassey@uci.edu
	Tyrus Miller	Dean of the School of Humanities, Professor of English, Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Stanford University 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	tyrus@uci.edu
	James Nisbet	Department Chair of Art History and Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Stanford University Interests: Modern and contemporary art, theory, and historiography, Ecocriticism, Environmental history, History of modern science, History of photography	jnisbet@uci.edu
	Alka Patel	Professor of Art History, History, Religious Studies and Visual Studies Ph.D. Harvard University Interests: Early modern Islamicate diasporas in Cuba, South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, eleventh-eighteenth centuries, Modern historiographies	alka.patel@uci.edu
	Luiza Osorio G. Silva	Assistant Professor of Art History, Archeology, and Visual Studies Ph.D. University of Chicago 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	l uiza.ogsilva@uci.edu
	Bert Winther-Tamaki	Professor of Art History, Asian American Studies, and Visual Studies Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Interests: Asian-American Art, Modern and contemporary Japanese art and visual culture, Ecocriticism	dewinthe@uci.edu
	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 Interests: Modern Chinese art, Photography, Print culture	rwue@uci.edu

Lecturers

Photo	Name	Title/Interest	Email
	Ethan Robey	Senior Lecturer of Art History Internship Director Ph.D. Columbia University Interests: American art, expositions and spectacles, history of design and decorative arts, 19th- and 20th-century modernism	robeye@uci.edu
	Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli	Visual Studies Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Irvine	lziaiibi@uci.edu

Postdocs

Photo	Name	Title/Interest	Email
	Marianna Davison	Ph.D. University of California, Irvine	marianna.davison@uci.edu

Emeriti

Photo	Name	Title/Interest	Email
	George C. Bauer	Professor Emeritus of Art History	gcbauer@uci.edu
	Linda Freeman Bauer	Professor Emeritus of Art History	lfbauer@uci.edu
	Anna Gonosová	Professor Emeritus of Art History Published Books	agonosov@uci.edu
	James D. Herbert	Professor Emeritus of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Yale University Interests: modern European art Published Books	jdherb@uci.edu
	Judy C. Ho	Professor Emeritus of Art History	jchooran@uci.edu
	Margaret M. Miles	Professor Emerita of Art History, Classics, Religious Studies and Visual Studies Ph.D. Princeton University Interests: Greek and Roman Art, Architecture and Archaeology Published Books	mmmiles@uci.edu
	Sally A. Stein	Professor Emeritus of Art History & Film and Media Studies	surfstein@uci.edu
	Dickran Tashjian	Professor Emeritus of Art History	dltashji@uci.edu
	Cecile Whiting	Professor Emerita and Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Stanford University Interests: American Art, 20th Century Visual Culture Published Books	cwhiting@uci.edu

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