Art History Faculty

Karen edis Barzman, Professor Emerita

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

 

Kevin M. Hatch, Associate Professor

BA, University of Toledo; MA, University of Delaware; PhD, Princeton University

Affiliated: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

Specialty: Postwar and contemporary art; American art and visual culture; new media practices; media theory

Jeffrey Kirkwood, Associate Professor

BA, University of Colorado; MA, University of Chicago; MA, PhD, Princeton University

Specialty: Media theory and history; early and proto-cinema; history of technology; new media

Tom McDonough, Professor

BA, Rutgers College; MA, PhD, New York University

Specialty: European avant-gardes; modern art and architecture; public space; radicalism; 20th century French cultural politics and intellectual life

Katie Reinhart, Assistant Professor

BA, University of Wisconsin; MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, University of Cambridge

Specialty: Art and visual culture of the early modern period; history of science; print culture

Pamela G. Smart, Associate Professor

BA (Hons), University of Otago; MA, PhD, Rice University

Affiliated: Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Anthropology of artworlds; museum studies; critical aesthetics; patronage and philanthropy; materials and materiality

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2018-2019

Shannon P. Steiner, Visiting Assistant Professor

MA, Bryn Mawr College

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: The visual culture of the Byzantine empire; precious metalwork and the generation of scientific knowledge through artistic practice; art and architecture of medieval Syria

John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, University of Nottingham, England; MA, The Royal College of Art, London

Specialty: Histories of photography; twentieth-century American cultural history; cultural theory and criticism; history and theory of art history

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-2002

Julia Walker, Associate Professor

BA, Trinity University; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliated: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls

Specialty: Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism; architectural theory; social and political memory in postwar German visual culture

Andrew R. Walkling, Professor

BA, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Seventeenth-century British history, visual culture, literary studies, performance/drama studies, and musicology; early music performance practice

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010-2011; University Award for Outstanding Graduate Director, 2008-2009

Alexis Wang, Assistant Professor

PhD, Columbia University

Specialty: Art and architecture of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean