Visual Studies Faculty

Photo	Name	Title/Interest	Email
	Camille Reiko Acosta	Assistant Professor of Art History 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	Chancellor's Professor, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies 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 and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran; Visual Studies 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	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 and 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

Photos: Evelina Pentcheva

Contact Visual Studies

3000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-2785

Phone: 949-824-5830

Email: visualstudies@uci.edu