Faculty
Camille Acosta, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Assistant Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (Greek art and archaeology, migration and colonialism, Greek-Egyptian interactions, ceramics, craft production, history of archaeological theory and practice)
Roland Betancourt, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of Art History; Religious Studies; Visual Studies (Byzantine and Medieval art, critical and queer theory; histories of race, gender, and sexuality)
Matthew P. Canepa, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair and Professor of Art History; History; Religious Studies; Visual Studies (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 Cumbo, Ph.D. University of Rochester, Chancellor's Fellow and Professor of African American Studies; Art History; Culture and Theory; Visual Studies (African American art, museum studies, feminist and post-colonial theory)
Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY, Assistant Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin American, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, decolonial theory)
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung, Ph.D. Brown University, Assistant Professor of Art History; East Asian Studies; Visual Studies (Korean art and design, global design history, critical and media theory)
Lyle Massey, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (Italian Renaissance and early modern European art, gender theory, science studies)
Tyrus Miller, Ph.D. Stanford University, Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of English; Art History; Comparative Literature; Visual Studies (modernist and avant-garde studies in literature and visual arts; critical theory and aesthetics; modern architecture and urbanism; East-Central European studies; culture of socialism and post-socialism; Frankfurt School theory)
James P. Nisbet, Ph.D. Stanford University, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (modern and contemporary art)
Luiza Osorio G. Silva, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (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)
Alka Patel, Ph.D. Harvard University, Professor of Art History; History; Religious Studies; Visual Studies (South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, historiographies, Islamic diasporas in Cuba)
Bert Winther-Tamaki, Ph.D. New York University, Professor of Art History; Asian American Studies; East Asian Studies; Visual Studies (modern Japanese art and visual culture, Asian American art, art and ecology)
Roberta Wue, Ph.D. New York University, Director of the Graduate Program in Visual Studies and Associate Professor of Art History; Visual Studies (modern Chinese art, photography, print culture)