Faculty & Staff

Department Chair

Karen Gonzalez Rice

Associate Professor of Art History, Chair 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

kgonzal1@conncoll.edu

Faculty

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)

rwbal@conncoll.edu

Di Luo

Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Chinese Art • Chinese Architecture • Architectural History • Architecture • Asian Art • World Art • Digital Humanities

Christopher B. Steiner

Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of the Museum Studies Program

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

cbste@conncoll.edu

Anna Vallye

Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

(On Sabbatical: Fall 2020 - Fall 2021)

History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture

avallye@conncoll.edu

William Pollack

Adjunct Instructor of Art History

Associated Faculty

Yibing Huang

Associate Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art, and culture • Modernism and postmodernism • Chinese American literature and art • Indigenous poetics and global modernity • Cultural translations between Chinese and American poetry

yhua@conncoll.edu