People
- Professor
17th-century Dutch Art; Visual Culture & History of Science (16th - 18th centuries); Early Modern Gender Studies; Portraiture.
- Assistant Professor
East Christian and Byzantine art; Coptic art; medieval Mediterranean studies; the Global Middle Ages; postcolonial theory; art and war.
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- Assistant Professor
Pre-Columbian art and archaeology; cultural heritage; conservation; cultural landscapes; culture contact; frontiers; metalworking and ancient technology; craft production.
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- Assistant Professor
Mesoamerican art; ancient and colonial Latin America; art theory and aesthetics; materiality; art and language.
- Professor
Modern architecture and urbanism; Cultural landscape of colonialism; British empire; Postcolonial 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.
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- Associate Professor
- Department Chair
Surrealism; French art (interwar period); European 20th-century Art; American Post-WWII Art; Visual Culture; Critical Theory.
- (805) 893-8060 (Chair’s office)
- Arts 1240 (Chair's office)
- Arts 1218 (Faculty office)
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Advisor
Roman Republican sanctuaries; altars; ancient rituals; cults and burial practices.
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2022
- Professor
African and African Diaspora Arts and Visual Culture; Contemporary Art; Cultural Patrimony Research, and Critical Theory.
- Arts 1226
- 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
- Undergraduate Advisor
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.
- 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.
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- Continuing Lecturer
Architecture of the United States; Contemporary architecture.
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Admissions Advisor
Cultural history of European architecture and town planning, 17th - 19th centuries; theory and historiography of architecture.