Joseph Alchermes
Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Art History and Architectural Studies
Late Roman art • Early Christian art • Byzantine art • Medieval architecture
Robert Baldwin
Associate Professor of Art History
(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)
Late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Post-Impressionist art, Mercantile culture in European art and literature (1300-1700) • Landscape in European art and literature (1350-1920) • Music in European art, literature, and society (1400-1920) • Gender and art (1300-1920)
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Associate Professor of Art History
Contemporary art (1945-present) • Experimental art • Performance studies • Contemporary art and the body • American studies; contemporary art in America • Religion in contemporary art • Trauma studies • Art and ethics
Christopher B. Steiner
Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of the Museum Studies Program
(On sabbatical, Fall 2018)
African art and material culture • Art market and collecting • Images of race and "otherness" in visual culture • Offbeat museums and visionary art • Censorship and museum controversies • Vernacular photography
Anna Vallye
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant garde art and architecture
Abigail Van Slyck
Dayton Professor of Art History
American architecture • Gender issues in architecture • Vernacular architecture and cultural landscape studies • Spaces of childhood • Library architecture
William Pollack
Adjunct Instructor of Art History
Yibing Huang
Associate Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, cinema, popular culture • Comparative studies of modernism and postmodernism in China and in the West • Cultural translations between Chinese poetry and modern American poetry
Sabrina Notarfrancisco
Associate Professor of Theater
Costume design • Costume construction • Costume history • Costume shop management
Barbara Zabel
Professor Emeritus of Art History
American art • European modernism • Gender issues in the Machine Age • Portraiture in the 20th century
John H. B. Knowlton
Professor Emeritus of Art History