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- Associate Professor
Byzantine and East Christian arts; Coptic art; Mediterranean studies; the Global Middle Ages
- Associate Professor
- Undergraduate Advisor
Art and decolonization, race and space, placekeeping, cultural geography, critical pedagogy, environmental racism, interdisciplinary methodologies, narrative and research, cartography, critical and comparative Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Studies
- She/Her/Hers
- Assistant Professor
Pre-Columbian art and archaeology; cultural heritage; conservation; collecting histories; cultural landscapes; culture contact; frontiers; metalworking and ancient technology; craft production.
- Professor
Modern architecture and urbanism; Cultural landscape of colonialism; British empire; Postcolonial and critical theory.
- She/Her/Hers
- Assistant Professor
Art of North America, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; landscape and ecologies; sculpture, decorative arts, and material culture; photography; theories of value and exchange; decolonial and critical theory
- Associate Professor
Islamic architecture and urbanism, 7th - 9th centuries and 17th century; medieval Islamic Iconography; modern art of the Arab world; critiques of the field.
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- Assistant Professor
Arts of the Iberian world, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; interactions of art and science; early modern antiquarianism; early modern art theory; histories of record-keeping and evidence-handling technologies; historiographies of art.
- Professor
Northern European Art, 15th - 17th century; Kunst- and Wunderkammern; History of Museums and Collecting; Early-Modern Spectacle.
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Advisor
Roman Republican sanctuaries; altars; ancient rituals; cults and burial practices.
- Professor
- Affiliate Faculty: Mind and Machine Intelligence
African and African Diaspora Arts and Visual Culture; Contemporary Art; Cultural Patrimony Research, and Critical Theory.
- Senior Lecturer
- Director of Museum Studies
17th- and 18th-century art and architecture in Italy; history of collecting and museums.
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- Associate Professor
- Director of the Art Design & Architecture Museum
Contemporary art; Japanese art (1868 to present); Global Surrealism; Museum Studies.
- Arts 1626 (AD&A Museum office)
- Arts 2312 (Faculty office)
- She/Her/Hers
- Professor
- Department Chair
Contemporary art; material culture, craft, and design; gender and artistic labor; art criticism; feminist historiographies and theory; alternative spaces; art school pedagogies; global exhibition practice and history; queer culture and theory.
- (805) 893-8060 (Chair’s office)
- Arts 1230 (Faculty office)
- Arts 1240 (Chair's office)
- Professor
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Early to Modern; intersections of texts, theories, and images.
- Professor
Modern architecture; domestic architecture; émigré architects; patronage; histories of modernism, revival styles, and sustainable architecture.
As of Fall 2023, Professor Welter is currently not accepting new graduate students.
- He/Him/His
- Senior Lecturer
Architecture of the United States; Contemporary architecture.
- Professor
- Graduate Admissions Advisor
Cultural history of European architecture and town planning, 17th - 19th centuries; theory and historiography of architecture.