Smarthistory is a consortium of 35+ editors and more than 800 contributors drawn from more than 350 colleges, universities, research centers, and museums.
Specialized Content Fellows
Andrea Achi, Fellow of African and Byzantine art
Amin Alsaden, Fellow of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World
Panggah Ardiyansyah, Fellow of Southeast Asian Art
Kristen Brennan, Fellow of late 19th- and 20th-century Chinese art
Tamara Díaz Calcaño, Fellow of Caribbean art
Mya Chau, Fellow of Southeast Asian Art
Letha Chi’en, Fellow of Early Modern Art
Chelsea Herr, Fellow of Indigenous Arts of North America
Stacy Kamehiro, Fellow of Art of the Pacific
Haewon Kim, Fellow of Korean art
Melody Rod-ari, Fellow of Southeast Asian art
Sunanda K Sanyal, Fellow of Global Contemporary
Marika Sardar, Fellow of Islamic art
Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Fellow of Art of the Spanish Americas
Alice Sullivan, Fellow of Eastern European art
Kathy Zarur, Fellow of Modern and Contemporary South West Asian and North African art
Previous Content Fellows
Christa Clarke, Fellow of African art
Heather Graham, Fellow of Italian Renaissance art
Content and Acquisitions Editors
Sarah Barack is Contributing Editor for conservation and material technology. She is Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Sarah studied archaeology at Brown University. She received her Masters in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She also holds an MBA from Columbia University. Sarah completed a Mellon Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art focused on a technical study of 16th Century glass-working techniques and later joined the museum’s conservation staff. She also completed a Getty Postgraduate fellowship at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. She is co-chair for the K-12 Outreach Committee for the American Institute for Conservation.
Dr. Karen Barber is Contributing Editor for twentieth-century photography. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi, and specializes in the history and theory of twentieth-century photography. Her research explores interwar photography, photobooks, photographic exhibitions, and photography as it relates to Native America. She has also worked in significant photography collections in numerous American museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker is Contributing Editor for Ancient Roman and Etruscan art. His research is focused on Italo-Roman architecture and urbanism, but is interested in urbanism across the Mediterranean basin, as a well as in building techniques, city planning, Roman villas, and archaeological theory. Becker was trained in Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.) and has extensive experience as a classroom instructor and as an excavator, having worked for a number of years in and around Rome.
Dr. Kris Belden-Adams is Contributing Editor for nineteenth- and twenty-first-century photography. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi and is the author of Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped (2019, Routledge) and Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege (2020, Routledge). She also is the editor and contributor of two chapters to the volume Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Incessant Entanglement with Mishaps, Flops, and Disappointments (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017), and ‘These Are Our Stories’: Diverse Histories, Narratives, and Identities in Photographic Albums (Routledge, 2022).
Dr. Saskia Beranek is a Contributing Editor in the area of Early Modern Dutch and Flemish art. Her research focuses on female patrons and artists in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic with particular interest in the interaction between paintings, architecture, and garden design. Beranek received an M.A from Duke University and her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches widely on Renaissance and Early Modern topics in both art and architectural history.
Dr. Amy Calvert is the Contributing Editor for Ancient Egyptian art. Amy holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has been involved in several excavations in Italy, Egypt, and the U.S. She has acted as registrar in the field for the Osiris Temple Project with the Yale-University of Pennsylvania-New York University Expedition to Abydos and has worked at The British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan is Contributing Editor for the art of later China and Korea. She earned her M.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research concentrates on late imperial Chinese painting. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at Pepperdine University.
Dr. Cortney E. Chaffin is Contributing Editor for the art of ancient China. She earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on early Chinese art and archaeology. Her research interests focus on the materiality of death in ancient China and the rich array of fantastic hybrid animal imagery in early Chinese funerary art. She is a professor of Asian art history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Dr. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby is Contributing Editor for 19th Century Art and an Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Fine Arts Program at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her research can be found in publications such as The Burlington Magazine and History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism (Garland Press). She received her Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Dr. Caitlin Earley is Contributing Editor for Mesoamerican art. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington. She has performed field research in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, working most extensively with archaeological and museum collections in Chiapas, Mexico. She has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. She taught art history at University of Nevada, Reno, the University of Texas, Colorado College and Georgetown University.
Beth Edelstein is Contributing Editor for conservation and material technology. Beth is currently Conservator of Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Previously, she was an Associate Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Beth earned her M.A. from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Cloisters, studying Spanish polychrome tomb sculpture. Beth is co-chair with Sarah Barack of the K-12 Outreach Committee for the American Institute for Conservation.
Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman is Contributing Editor for early medieval art. She received her M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University where she studied the relationship between art and theology in the Carolingian era. She is the Assistant Professor and Program Director of Theology and the Arts at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and also teaches medieval art as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She has two books forthcoming in 2021: The Ashburnham Pentateuch: The Iconography of the Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer) and The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power (Baylor University Press).
Dr. Evan Freeman is Contributing Editor for Byzantine art and co-editor of the Smarthistory Guide to Byzantine Art with Anne McClanan. He is Assistant Professor and Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies in the Department of Global Humanities and at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University, he held an Andrew W. Mellow postdoctoral fellowship at Smarthistory and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Regensburg. He co-edited Byzantine Materiality (De Gruyter) with Roland Betancourt.
Dr. Senta German is Contributing Editor for the art of the Ancient Near East. Now at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Senta took her Ph.D. at Columbia University in Aegean, Greek, and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and art. She explores the intersection of art and ancient Greek society with specific attention to performance, gender and the impacts of the illicit antiquities trade and forgery. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Rutgers University and was Associate Professor of Classics and Art History at Montclair State University.
Dr. Heather Graham is Contributing Editor for Renaissance art in Central Italy and Associate Professor at Cal State University-Long Beach. Her research and publications explore Italian Renaissance art as it intersects with the history of the body and of the emotions, early modern medicine, mourning behaviors and death, gender and sexual culture, and religion.
Dr. Amanda Herring is Contributing Editor for ancient Greek art. She is assistant professor art history at Loyola Marymount University. She received her B.A. in Art History & Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. At LMU, she teaches courses on the art and architecture of the ancient world.
Dr. Sally Hickson is Contributing Editor for Renaissance art in Northern Italy and Associate Professor of Renaissance Art History at the University of Guelph. She has received the H.P. Krauss Fellowship in early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library at Yale University (2009), and the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from the Journal Renaissance and Reformation (2010). She is the author of Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries (Ashgate 2012), and the co-editor of Inganno—The Art of Deception (Ashgate, 2012).
Dr. Maya Jiménez is Contributing Editor for Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focused on the transatlantic dialogues between Latin American and European modern art. She is currently a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
Dr. Bryan C. Keene (he/él/they/elle) specializes in medieval and early modern manuscript illumination, with a particular focus on Italy. His research addresses transregional movement of objects and ideas, as well as the fields of “global” art history and queer premodern visual culture. He teaches at Riverside City College in California and was previously a curator and educator at the Getty Museum.
Dr. Rex Koontz is Contributing Editor for Pre-Columbian art in Mesoamerica. Rex is an art historian who works in the museum collections and archaeological sites of Mexico. He has written extensively on the ancient history of Mexico, including the recent Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajin (2009, University of Texas Press). He is also the author (with Michael Coe) of Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, the standard English introduction to the history of Ancient Mexico. He was recently one of three North Americans asked to contribute to the celebration of Mexico’s Bicentenary at the National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. He is currently Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Art, University of Houston.
Dr. Beatrice Leal in Contributing Editor for art of the Islamic world. She is an honorary lecturer in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, a trustee of the Hungate Medieval Art centre in Norwich (UK), and an associate of the Manar al-Athar image archive at the University of Oxford. Most of her research is on the material culture of the late antique, early medieval, and early Islamic Mediterranean and surrounding regions. She has a particular interest in non-figural imagery, and in the cultural associations and uses of materials.
Dr. Billie Lythberg is Contributing Editor for the Art of Oceania. Billie received her PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland (NZ), and completed post-doctoral research at Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA,UK). She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland Business School and an Affiliated Researcher at MAA. Billie explores Indigenous economies and aesthetics and has collaborated with Māori and Pacific artists, academics and communities towards co-developed research, co-authored publications, co-curated exhibitions, and projects of artistic and economic revitalisation. She has a particular passion for eighteenth-century Māori and Tongan artefacts, and the economic and political objectives their transactions were harnessed to.
Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay is Acquisitions Editor for Roman and Islamic Art, as well as concerns of cultural heritage and archaeology. She is an archaeologist and architectural historian. She has served on the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America. She is currently an Associate Professor at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the Executive Officer of the M.A. in Liberal Studies and a member faculty of the MA programs in Liberal Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Digital Humanities. She has a DPhil in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University.
Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland is Contributing Editor for Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Art. She recently received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, where she attended as a Thomas Lee scholar. Currently, she is working on a book project investigating depictions of visionary experience in early Renaissance Italy.
Dr. Arathi Menon is is Contributing Editor for South Asian Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Hamilton College. Menon earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, with a specialization in the art and architecture of South Asia and a focus on the material culture of the premodern Indian Ocean. Her research has examined medieval temple architecture in Kerala, and a syncretic and idiomatic mode of sacred art and architecture in Kerala’s churches, mosques, and synagogues. Menon’s research has been supported by the Steven Kossak Fellowship in Indian art, the Riggio Fellowship in Art History, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is co-editor of the Bulletin for the American Council of Southern Asian Art and has previously taught at Columbia University and at Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges
Dr. Wayne Ngata is an advisor on the art of the Pacific Islands. He is Head of Matauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He is an advocate for reo Māori and mātauranga Māori as platforms for helping Māori to contribute constructively to the advancement of New Zealand society, including the museum sector. His research interests include revitalisation of indigenous language and knowledge as future models of best practice.
Dr. Bonnie J. Noble is Contributing Editor for the Northern Renaissance. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University, her MA in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialization is the art of the Northern Renaissance, particularly sixteenth-century German painting.
Dr. Melody Rod-ari is Contributing Editor for Southeast Asian art. She earned her M.A. from Boston University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines modern and contemporary Thai Buddhist visual culture. She is currently Assistant Curator of Asian art at the Norton Simon Museum and Editor for the American Council for Southern Asian Art. Beginning in August she will join the faculty of art history at Loyola Marymount University.
Dr. Elizabeth Rodini (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is contributing editor for Museum Studies. She founded the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University and served for ten years as its Director and as Teaching Professor in the History of Art. She teaches and writes about museum and collection history, heritage landscapes, and the politics of culture. Dr. Rodini’s art historical work centers on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period, focusing on matters of object mobility, recontextualization, and reuse. Her current book project focuses on Gentile Bellini’s portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, using it as a lens to examine questions of authenticity, verisimilitude, ownership, cross-cultural exchange, and political identity in a global context.
Dr. Sarahh Scher is a Contributing Editor for Pre-Columbian South American Art. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Emory University and an M.F.A. in printmaking from New Mexico State University. Her research focuses on issues surrounding the representation of gender, identity, and costume in the Andean area. She teaches part-time at Salem State University.
Dr. Cristin McKnight Sethi is Contributing Editor for the art of South Asia. Cristin earned her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines South Asian art of the early modern to contemporary periods with a particular focus on the production and circulation of textiles and craft. She has held curatorial and research positions at a number of museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at the George Washington University.
Dr. Hannah Lubman Sigur holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Since 2003 she has taught at several Bay Area universities. From an initial emphasis on the traditional arts of Japan, her courses and interests now encompass a spectrum—across the arts of traditional and modern Asia to the material culture of internationalism and cross-cultural exchange particularly in the development of modernism, from contemporary craft to modern floral design. Her 2008 book, The Influence of Japanese Art on Design examines Japonisme, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and early Contemporary design across a range of media. Her deepest interests lie in the architecture of the world’s fairs from 1867 – 1915, particularly with respect to Japanese and American national identity.
Dr. Laura Tillery is the Contributing Editor for Northern European Medieval art. She received a Ph.D. in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania and held a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research concentrates on late-medieval multimedia devotional art in northern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Sea region, with particular focus on cross-cultural exchange and pre-modern race-making. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Art History at Hamilton College.
Dr. Allison Young is Contributing Editor for Global Modern and Contemporary Art. She is currently Assistant Professor for Contemporary Art History at Louisiana State University. A specialist in postcolonial and contemporary art of the Global South, Allison received her Ph.D. in Art History in 2017 from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with her dissertation “Torn and Most Whole: On the Poetics of Difference in the Art of Zarina Bhimji.” She previously held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, where her curatorial projects included Carlos Rolón: Outside/In (2018), Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories (2018), Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred (2018), Bodies of Knowledge (2019) and others.
Dr. Rachel Zimmerman is Contributing Editor for the early modern Portuguese empire. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on artistic production, circulation, and consumption within the early modern Portuguese world, particularly the colony of Brazil.
Dr. Bryan J. Zygmont is Contributing Editor for American Art. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland in 2006. He is currently Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Louisiana Tech University. Zygmont is the author of Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825: Gilbert Stuart, John Vanderlyn, John Trumbull, and John Welsey Jarvis, a book he partially wrote while a Visiting Scholar at the National Portrait Gallery. Zygmont was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013.
Former content editors
Dr. Esperança Camara was Contributing Editor for Mannerist and Baroque art.
Dr. Ellen Hurst was Contributing Editor for Byzantine art.
Dr. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank was Contributing Editor for Latin American Colonial and Native American/First Nation art.
Dr. Peri Klemm was Contributing Editor for African art.
Dr. Nancy Ross was Contributing Editor for Medieval Art.
Contributors
- Dr. Danielle Abdon
Danielle Abdon earned her PhD in Art History from Temple University (2020). She specializes in Renaissance architecture on the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas, as well as exchanges between Europe and the New World. Her research focuses on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century hospitals in Italy, Iberia, and the Americas, specifically how contemporary ideas of poor relief and public and environmental health promoted architectural and infrastructural innovations in hospital buildings.
See all contributions by Dr. Danielle Abdon - Iman R. Abdulfattah
man R. Abdulfattah is a PhD Candidate in Islamic Art and Archaeology at Universität Bonn, writing her dissertation on the urban complex commissioned by the Mamluk Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun (r. 1279-1290) in Cairo between 1284 and 1285. In addition to the material culture and built environment of medieval Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, she has published and lectured on Norman art and architecture in Sicily; the veneration of relics in Islam; and the network of antiquarians who were active during the first half of the 20th century, looking at their contributions to building important Islamic Art collections in the Middle East, Europe, and the US.
See all contributions by Iman R. Abdulfattah - The MAP Academy
The MAP Academy is a non-profit online resource that consists on an Encyclopedia of Art, Courses and Blog that encourage knowledge building and engagement with South Asian art. Its aim is to make art histories more accessible, based on the idea that doing so can have a positive social impact through broadening perspectives on humanity, heritage and culture.
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- Tuğrul Acar
Tuğrul Acar is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture and Middle East Studies at Harvard University with a specialization in Islamic art and architecture. His dissertation examines Mevlevi socio-religious architecture through the 13th and 15th centuries including the Muradiye Mosque with a focus on their patronage networks, socio religious functions and the practices of piety.
See all contributions by Tuğrul Acar - Emma Acker at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Emma Acker is Associate Curator of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and author of Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art (Yale)
See all contributions by Emma Acker at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Lisa Ackerman
Interim CEO, World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by Lisa Ackerman - Dr. Alissa Adams
Dr. Adams’s research interests include the intersection of popular culture and fine art, representations of political leaders, and artistic responses to theories of perception. She has published on Paul Delaroche’s depictions of Napoleon Bonaparte and often presents research at national and international conferences including the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era. Her current research is on the mediatization of artist's professional identities in the middle of the nineteenth century.
See all contributions by Dr. Alissa Adams - Dr. Jakub Adamski
Dr Jakub Adamski (b. 1985) is an art historian and a medievalist. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (MA in 2009, PhD in 2011), and since 2012 has been assistant professor at the Institute of Art History of the University of Warsaw (associate professor since habilitation in 2019). His main areas of research are the history of medieval, especially Gothic, architecture and sculpture. He is interested in 13th–16th-century church architecture in Poland, the German Empire, France and England, and especially its style, the history of rib vaulting and the development of spatial types in Late Gothic architecture.
See all contributions by Dr. Jakub Adamski - Dr. Sabahat Adil
Sabahat Adil teaches history at Menlo School. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include pre-modern Arabic literature and culture, particularly from North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
See all contributions by Dr. Sabahat Adil - Maggie Adler, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Margaret (Maggie) Adler is Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, where she has organized or co-organized exhibitions on Audubon, hunting and fishing in American art, Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, Samuel F.B. Morse, and Sam Francis, among others. Prior to the Amon Carter, Maggie held the Barra fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She currently serves the field as co-chair for the Association for the Historians of American Art. Though her scholarly research focuses on nineteenth-century art, she is also passionate about collaborating with contemporary artists in helping them with large-scale commissions and has worked with Jenny Holzer, Pepon Osorio, and Gabriel Dawe on site-specific installations. She is currently planning a major commission with artist Mark Dion and collaborating on a traveling exhibition pairing Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington. She holds a BA in classical languages and art history and an MA in art history from Williams College.
See all contributions by Maggie Adler, Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Dr. Matthew Affron
Dr. Matthew Affron is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the author of numerous books on Modern Art including Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 (Yale), The Essential Duchamp (Yale), and Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (The Museum of Modern Art).
See all contributions by Dr. Matthew Affron - Dr. Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Jill oversees the museum’s collection of Native American art. She arrived at Mia in 2014, having previously served as assistant curator and Mellon Fellow of Native American Art at the St. Louis Art Museum. There, she installed the museum’s first three permanent galleries of Native American art and collaborated with Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte and Crow artist Wendy Red Star to bring Native understandings to works from their respective communities. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania, received her BA from the University of Maryland, and studied anthropology for her MA at the University of New Mexico. For her PhD (2008), also from the University of New Mexico, she focused on Navajo textiles, learning the Navajo language and living on the vast Navajo reservation for 4.5 years. Among her initiatives at Mia is showcasing native Minnesota artists, highlighting the art of native women, and bringing native perspectives to bear on the museum’s collection.
See all contributions by Dr. Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Minneapolis Institute of Art - Rose Aidin
Rose Aidin has taught History of Art A level and Art GCSE at a range of independent and maintained sector schools. Rose was Education Officer at the Association for Art History (AAH) from November 2014 to September 2016 where she oversaw and managed the development of the AAH's fast-track AS History of Art Outreach Scheme in state schools. She is now developing this scheme independently, through Art History Link-Up, a registered charity, which offers free fast-track AS Art History for state school students on Saturday mornings at The Wallace Collection.
See all contributions by Rose Aidin - Faris Al Ahmad
Faris Al Ahmad received an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research interests include Islamic history and cultures, contemporary Islamic thought. He is also a lecturer of Arabic language at Hunter College, CUNY.
See all contributions by Faris Al Ahmad - Dr. Salam Al Kuntar
Salam is a Lecturer Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Rutgers University. Until recently, she had been a Research Fellow at the Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania where she co-directed the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project. Until 2012, she worked for the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria. Salam received her Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She has extensive scholarly and field experience and has been the co-director of the Tell Hamoukar Expedition since 2005. Salam is also a National Geographic emerging explorer.
See all contributions by Dr. Salam Al Kuntar - Dr. Scott Allan
Scott Allan is the associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He received his B.A. in Art History and English Literature from Queen’s University, his M.A. in Art History from Williams College, and his Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. He is a specialist in 19th-century European painting, with a particular emphasis on France.
See all contributions by Dr. Scott Allan - Stephen D. Allee, Freer Gallery of Art
Stephen D. Allee is associate curator for Chinese painting and calligraphy at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. He received his B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and his M.A. from the University of Washington.
See all contributions by Stephen D. Allee, Freer Gallery of Art - Dr. Laura W. Allen
Dr. Laura W. Allen is Senior curator for Japanese art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. She earned her Ph.D. in Japanese Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.
See all contributions by Dr. Laura W. Allen - Dr. William Allen
Dr. William Allen teaches art history at Arkansas State University. William received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in Byzantine art and architecture. He has traveled widely and lived for periods in Turkey and Afghanistan.
See all contributions by Dr. William Allen - Dr. Amin Alsaden
Dr. Amin Alsaden is a curator, writer, and educator focused on transnational solidarities and cultural exchanges. Committed to advancing social justice through the arts, he champions diverse, inclusive, and global narratives. Alsaden's work interrogates political agency in public spaces, exploring themes of geography, colonialism, and displacement. With degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and the American University of Sharjah, he has taught at various institutions and contributed to publications like Artforum and Harvard Design Magazine. Originally from Baghdad, Alsaden now resides in Canada.
See all contributions by Dr. Amin Alsaden - Sarah Alvarez
Sarah Alvarez is the Senior Fellow in Public Art History at Smarthistory. She was previously the Director of School Programs in the Department of Learning and Public Engagement at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this role, Sarah oversaw professional development programs and curriculum resources for teachers, school partnership programs, museum-based experiences for K-12 students, and the Art Institute's docent program. Sarah actively engages in city-wide dialogue about quality arts education experiences for students and has published numerous articles about museum learning. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College and an M.A. in Art History from Rutgers University.
See all contributions by Sarah Alvarez - Lee Ambrozy
A specialist in Chinese art from the ninth through eleventh centuries, Lee Ambrozy is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where her research examines how images from nature circulated within early urban China’s art and material culture. She has more than fifteen years of expertise working with contemporary art within China, and obtained her M.A. at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis discussing the nationalist uses of traditional ink painting under Mao. She was editor and translator of Ai Weiwei's Blog (MIT Press, 2011) and editor of the first publication of seminal modern art texts in Chinese, Inside the White Cube: Artforum Fifty years of Art Criticism (Sanlian Books, 2017).
See all contributions by Lee Ambrozy - Bank of America
Bank of America's Masterpiece Moment is a video series that celebrates great works of art from museum collections around the world.
See all contributions by Bank of America - American Museum of Natural History
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American Museum of Natural History is a scientific and cultural museum located in New York City. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition.
- Dr. Jocelyn Anderson
Dr. Jocelyn Anderson received her Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2013. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the post of Early Career Lecturer in Early Modern Art at the Courtauld. She has received grants from the Marc Fitch Fund and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
See all contributions by Dr. Jocelyn Anderson - Dr. Eduard Andrei
Eduard Andrei (b. 1971) holds a PhD in art history from the National University of the Arts, Bucharest (2011), with a dissertation on the painting and architecture of Orthodox churches in Dobrudja at the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. He has a BA in Painting from the same university (1997), and an MA in “Sciences et Techniques des Arts” from the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Tunis (2004). He is the author of the book "Pictorul Costin Petrescu la New York, 1919-1920" (Paideia Publ. House, 2019). His articles on art history appeared in various Romanian and American publications. He is currently a researcher at the „G. Oprescu” Art History Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, within the Modern Visual Arts and Architecture Department.
See all contributions by Dr. Eduard Andrei - Dr. Marcella Ansaldi
Dr. Marcella Ansaldi is director of the Museo Ebraico di Venezia
See all contributions by Dr. Marcella Ansaldi - Dr. Colette Apelian
Dr. Colette Apelian obtained her doctorate in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles where she specialized in Islamic art and architecture. Dr. Apelian lives and researches in Morocco and is currently writing a manuscript on the histories of electricity, automobiles, and development in the old city of Fez during the French colonial period (1912-1956). Dr. Apelian teaches art history online for Berkeley City College in Berkeley, California.
See all contributions by Dr. Colette Apelian - Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Anna Arabindan-Kesson is a writer and art historian, and had a career as a registered nurse before beginning her academic career. She is an Associate Professor at Princeton University, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and directs Art Hx, a project that examines the intersections of art, colonialism and medicine. https://artandcolonialmedicine.com/
See all contributions by Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson - Angelica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art
Angelica Arbelaez is the Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art. Previously she was Programs Manager at Oolite Arts in Miami. She has an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a B.A. in Art History from Florida International University, Miami.
See all contributions by Angelica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art - Panggah Ardiyansyah
Panggah Ardiyansyah is a PhD candidate of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London. His research focuses on the afterlives of Hindu-Buddhist materials in Indonesia, which contributes to decolonizing Indonesian art history and archaeology. It primarily aims to deconstruct the rigid categorization opposing the classical period and the subsequent Islamic artistic tradition. The research also strives to reconstruct the long history of ancient Hindu-Buddhist materials across times and cultures in probing appropriations, transactions and reconfigurations.
See all contributions by Panggah Ardiyansyah - Kenseth Armstead
Kenseth Armstead is a multimedia installation artist. He received his B.F.A. from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and his M.S. in Integrated Digital Media from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berlin VideoFest, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
See all contributions by Kenseth Armstead - Roger D. Arnold
Roger Arnold joined the Newark Museum in 2015, having previously worked in the curatorial departments at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum for African Art.
See all contributions by Roger D. Arnold - Müge Arseven
Müge entered the Ph.D. program in 2014 as a Fulbright scholar and specializes in the ancient art and architecture of Greece, Anatolia, and the Near East. She received her B.A. in architecture and landscape architecture (2013), as well as her M.A. in architectural history (2014), from Istanbul Technical University. In her master’s thesis, Müge catalogued and contextualized the archaic architectural pieces from Larisa/Buruncuk in the Aeolis region of western Asia Minor. She also participated in the 2013 survey of this site and is currently a member of Columbia University’s excavations at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Onchestos. Her other research interests include the history of archaeology, particularly the in the Ottoman Empire, and the reception and propagandistic use of archaeological heritage in Turkey. In her dissertation, Müge examines the methods of representing sacred architecture in Greek vase painting in order to parse the aesthetic and semiological role of architecture in Greek visual culture. Her dissertation research has been generously supported by a Riggio Fellowship in Art History (2017-18) and a C.V. Starr Scholarship (2019-20). She is currently contributing to the Columbia MCAH-sponsored İstanbul Documentation Project. Müge is also passionate about the recontextualization of Ancient art in contemporary media and recreates Greek and Near Eastern artworks using digital tools.
See all contributions by Müge Arseven - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Located in Bentonville, Arkansas,
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art welcomes all to celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of nature.
- Dallas Museum of Art
The
Dallas Museum of Art is one of the largest art museums in America, located in the nation's largest arts district in downtown Dallas.
- El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso Museum of Art collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits works of art that support and illuminate the Museum’s permanent collection of American, European, and Mexican art.
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The
Minneapolis Institute of Art enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures.
- The Museum of Modern Art
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Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. We house one of the most compelling collections of contemporary art in the world, comprising roughly 7000 objects, and have a diverse history of ground-breaking, historically-significant exhibitions. For more visit www.moca.org
See all contributions by The Museum of Contemporary Art - The Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan regions.
See all contributions by The Rubin Museum of Art - Whitney Museum of American Art
The
Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art.
- Art21
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
See all contributions by Art21 - Dr. Darius Arya
Dr. Darius Arya (Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology) directs the American Institute for Roman Culture and is a frequent TV host in the US (PBS, National Geographic, History) and Italy (Rai5). He has been a Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and guest scholar at Getty Conservation Institute. He has directed numerous digs, including the Roman Forum and Ostia Antica and is a frequent collaborator with Italian superintendencies and museums.
See all contributions by Dr. Darius Arya - The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green. We explore art and art history through the lens of things happening today.
See all contributions by The Art Assignment - Richard McCoy and Associates
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See all contributions by Richard McCoy and Associates - Dr. Renée Ater
Associate Professor Emerita of American Art, Dr. Ater taught in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland from September 2000 to her retirement in July 2017. She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College (1987); a M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland (1993); and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland (2000). Her research and writing have largely focused on the intersection of race, monument building, and national identity. Currently she is a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, working on her digital project: Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement.
See all contributions by Dr. Renée Ater - Dr. Christopher D.M. Atkins
Christopher D.M. Atkins is the Van Otterloo-Weatherbie Director, Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
See all contributions by Dr. Christopher D.M. Atkins - National Gallery of Australia
The
National Gallery of Australia is custodian of the world's largest and most outstanding collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
- Dr. Lucienne Auz
Dr. Lucienne Auz received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Washington and her M.S. in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute. Her research and teaching interests span the disciplines of contemporary art history and disability studies. This intersectional approach offers an alternative method for the critical study of visual representation and a deeper understanding of human experience. Currently, Dr. Auz is researching the history of Outsider Art and non-profit art centers that serve artists with developmental, intellectual, and physical disabilities. Other research and teaching interests include socially engaged art, art conservation and technical art history, and ethical issues of the art world.
See all contributions by Dr. Lucienne Auz - Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman
Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman received her M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University where she studied the relationship between art and theology in the Carolingian era. She is the Assistant Professor and Program Director of Theology and the Arts at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and also teaches medieval art as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She has two books forthcoming in 2021: The Ashburnham Pentateuch: The Iconography of the Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer) and The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power (Baylor University Press).
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman - Dr. Heather Badamo
Heather Badamo writes on the arts of Byzantium and the East Christian world. Her research focuses on the intersection of Christian and Islamic visual culture, in particular the circulation of objects across the frontier zones of the eastern Mediterranean, with the related dissemination and transformation of artistic forms, ideas, and beliefs. Her book, entitled Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East (Pennsylvania States University Press, 2023), investigates how different Christian and Muslim communities mobilized portraits of St. George to stake a claim to their place in a world of many faiths.
See all contributions by Dr. Heather Badamo - Miriam Bader
Miriam Bader is the Education Director at the Tenement Museum in New York City. She also serves as an educational consultant for the National Park Service, Singapore Tourism Board, and other local and international organizations. Prior to joining the Tenement Museum, Miriam worked at The Museum at Eldridge Street, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Jewish Museum.
See all contributions by Miriam Bader - Jennifer Baez
Jennifer Baez is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Florida State University, where she teaches courses in the arts of Africa, and museum practice. Her research focuses on criollismo and Marian cults in the Atlantic World, and on Afro-Hispanic networks of artistic exchange in the Caribbean during the early modern period (1500–1800).
See all contributions by Jennifer Baez - Dr. Mia L. Bagneris
Mia L. Bagneris is Associate Professor of Art History and Africana Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Tulane University where she teaches African diaspora art history and studies of race in Western Art. Concentrating primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American art and visual culture, her scholarship explores the representation of race in the Anglo-American world and the place of images in the histories of slavery, colonialism, empire, and the construction of national identities.
See all contributions by Dr. Mia L. Bagneris - Dr. Austen Bailly
Dr. Austen Barron Bailly is the Chief Curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Bailly received her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a co-executive editor of the journal Panorama and has served as chair of the Association of Historians of American Art, and as a member of the Public Art Commission for the City of Salem.
See all contributions by Dr. Austen Bailly - Dr. Jen Baird
Dr. Jen Baird is a professor of archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is interested in the archaeology of Rome’s Eastern provinces and the archaeology of everyday life, and has also published on topics such as ancient graffiti, ancient urbanism, archaeological photography, archaeological archives, and the history of Classical archaeology. Many of these publications have focussed on the site of Dura-Europos in Syria.
See all contributions by Dr. Jen Baird - Dr. Chris Balachak
K Dr. Chris Balachak is Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education in Art History. specializes in histories of photography, modern and contemporary art, and visual culture. His research is focused on visual culture at the intersection of place-based politics, environmentalism, and high modernist social planning. His current research project considers the ways that American photographers responded to the environmental consequences of federal infrastructure throughout the 20th century.
See all contributions by Dr. Chris Balachak - Sanchita Balachandran
See all contributions by Sanchita Balachandran - Dr. Chris Balaschak
Dr. Balaschak is Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education in Art History at Flagler College. Professor Chris Balaschak specializes in histories of photography, modern and contemporary art, and visual culture. His research is focused on visual culture at the intersection of place-based politics, environmentalism, and high modernist social planning. Dr. Balaschak’s current research project considers the ways that American photographers responded to the environmental consequences of federal infrastructure throughout the 20th century.
See all contributions by Dr. Chris Balaschak - Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore
See all contributions by Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore - Sarah Barack
Sarah Barack studied archaeology at Brown University. She received her Masters in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She also holds an MBA from Columbia University. Sarah completed a Mellon Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art focused on a technical study of 16th Century glass-working techniques and later joined the museum's conservation staff. She also completed a Getty Postgraduate fellowship at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. She is co-chair for the K-12 Outreach Committee for the American Institute for Conservation.
See all contributions by Sarah Barack - Norma Barbacci
Norma Barbacci is Program Director for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by Norma Barbacci - Dr. Karen Barber
Dr. Karen Barber earned her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. Her work on interwar photography, photobooks, and photography and exhibitions has appeared in Exposure and Studies in Photography. She has also worked in significant photography collections in numerous American museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Karen Barber - David Bardeen
I am a graduate intern in the Department of Paintings, and a PhD candidate in Renaissance and Early Modern European Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
See all contributions by David Bardeen - Glenna Barlow
Glenna Barlow is the Manager of Education at the Columbia Museum of Art. She has a Master’s of Science in Elementary Education from the University of Mary Washington as well as a Master’s of Art in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University.
See all contributions by Glenna Barlow - Judith Barr
I’m a curatorial assistant in the Antiquities Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. My research focuses on the history of the Getty’s collection and on documenting the 20th century art market for antiquities.
See all contributions by Judith Barr - Art Basel
Art Basel connects leading art patrons and galleries across countries and continents.
See all contributions by Art Basel - Dr. Samantha Baskind
Samantha Baskind is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. She is the author of five books, most recently The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture.
See all contributions by Dr. Samantha Baskind - Barbara Bassett, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Barbara Bassett is Curator of Education and School and Teacher Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She previous held positions at the Hudson River Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and holds an MSED from Bank Street College of Education in Primary and Museum Education.
See all contributions by Barbara Bassett, Philadelphia Museum of Art - Stephen Battle
Program Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by Stephen Battle - Dr. Ron Baxter
Ron Baxter is an art historian specialising in the medieval period. After a brief flirtation with manuscripts, leading to the publication of Bestiaries and their Users in the Middle Ages (Sutton Publishing 1998), he turned to stone sculpture, and the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI), for which he is the Research Director and an active fieldworker. He took his first degree and his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was the Slide Librarian, and later the Conway Librarian, while teaching undergraduate courses. On his retirement from the Courtauld, he taught at York University for a while, but he is now freelance. In addition to his CRSBI work he frequently lectures and continually writes on art and architectural history and has recently published a monograph on Reading Abbey (The Royal Abbey of Reading (Boydell and Brewer 2016). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a member of the Fabric Advisory Committee of Peterborough Cathedral.
See all contributions by Dr. Ron Baxter - Roxanne Beason
Roxanne Beason is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Research and Content Development Specialist for the Indigenous art collections at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
See all contributions by Roxanne Beason - Dr. Cynthia Becker
Cynthia Becker (BA, University of New Orleans; MA, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of African art history in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Boston University. Her book Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity (University of Texas Press, 2006) won a Choice book award in 2007. She has written numerous articles about such topics as the Sahara as a cultural and artistic zone, Amazigh identity politics, contemporary art in the Maghreb, Black Indians in New Orleans, as well as counter-monuments to the Confederacy in New Orleans (her hometown). Her latest book, Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture, was published by the University of MN Press in November 2020.
See all contributions by Dr. Cynthia Becker - Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker
Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker is Contributing Editor for Ancient Roman and Etruscan art. His research is focused on Italo-Roman architecture and urbanism, but he is interested in urbanism across the Mediterranean basin, as a well as in building techniques, city planning, Roman villas, and archaeological theory. Becker was trained in Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.) and has extensive experience as a classroom instructor and as an excavator, having worked for a number of years in and around Rome.
See all contributions by Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker - Dr. Vlad Bedros
Dr. Vlad Bedros is senior researcher in Medieval Art and Architecture at the Romanian Academy’s George Oprescu Institute for Art History. Dr. Bedros also serves as Dean and Lecturer in the department of Art History and Theory at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. He earned his PhD from the same university with the dissertation, The Chancel Iconography in Moldavian Churches at the End of the 15th Century and in the First Half of the 16th Century. Dr. Bedros also authored the book, Armenian Artistic Heritage in Romania: Between the Nostalgia of Exile and Cultural Integration, published in 2011.
See all contributions by Dr. Vlad Bedros - Dr. Sarah Beetham
Sarah is Chair of the Liberal Arts Department in the School of Fine Arts at PAFA. She specializes in American art and particularly the monuments erected to citizen soldiers after the Civil War. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Delaware and a B.A. in art history and English from Rutgers University. Her current book project, Monumental Crisis: Accident, Vandalism, and the Civil War Citizen Soldier, focuses on the ways in which post-Civil War soldier monuments have served as flashpoints for heated discussion of American life and culture in the 150 years since the end of the war.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Beetham - DY Begay
DY Begay, a Diné (Navajo) born to the Tótshoníí clan (Big Water) and for the Táchii'nii clan (Red Running into Water/Earth), is a fifth-generation weaver. Begay’s tapestries encompass her interpretation of the natural beauty and descriptive colors of the Navajo reservation, reflecting on her Navajo identity and her family’s weaving tradition. Begay’s work has been exhibited in and collected by major museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Saint Louis Art Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Kennedy Museum of Art, C.N. Gorman Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Mesa Art Center, National Museum of Scotland, and the Heard Museum.
See all contributions by DY Begay - Dr. Kurt Behrendt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kurt Behrendt is associate curator of South Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He received his B.A. in Art History and Geology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Indian Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on 6th- through 9th-century Buddhist art and archaeology on the Indian subcontinent.
See all contributions by Dr. Kurt Behrendt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Dr. Kris Belden-Adams
Kris Belden-Adams is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi and specializes in the history of photography. She is the author of the books Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped (2019), and Photography, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics’: Picturing Privilege (2020).
See all contributions by Dr. Kris Belden-Adams - Dr. Alexis Belis
I'm an assistant curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
See all contributions by Dr. Alexis Belis - Silvia Beltrametti, JSD
Silvia Beltrametti is an intellectual property lawyer and lecturer of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of London and her Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Chicago. Her areas of research include matters related to intellectual property in the creative industry and the intersection of art, the art market, and the law.
See all contributions by Silvia Beltrametti, JSD - Dr. Erin Benay
Dr. Erin Benay is Climo Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She is a specialist in Italian painting and visual culture of the early modern period. Together with Lisa M. Rafanelli, she is the author of Faith, Gender, and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Ashgate, 2015) and more recently, Exporting Caravaggio: the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Giles, 2017). Dr. Benay has taught at the State University of New York, Oswego and at Marlboro College. She was a curatorial assistant at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, and at the Morgan Library in New York. She has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including the Samuel H. Kress grant in Renaissance Art History, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. In 2017 Professor Benay was awarded the John S. Diekhoff Award for excellence in graduate teaching.
See all contributions by Dr. Erin Benay - Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Alejo Benedetti is assistant curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
See all contributions by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Ortal Bensky
Ortal Bensky earned her BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She studied Islamic Art and Architecture as part of her MA degree at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
See all contributions by Ortal Bensky - Dr. Saskia Beranek
Dr. Saskia Beranek is a Content Contributer in the area of Early Modern Dutch and Flemish art. Her research focuses on female patrons and artists in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic with particular interest in the interaction between paintings, architecture, and garden design. Beranek received an M.A from Duke University and her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches widely on Renaissance and Early Modern topics in both art and architectural history.
See all contributions by Dr. Saskia Beranek - Daniella Berman
A specialist of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, Daniella Berman is a Ph.D. Candidate at N.Y.U.’s Institute of Fine Arts where she is completing her dissertation entitled “The Aesthetics of Contingency: History and the Unrealized Paintings of the French Revolution.” She was the Marica and Jan Vilcek Fellow in the department of drawings and prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019-2020) and the Theodore Rousseau Fellow in The Met’s department of European Paintings (2016-2017). She has worked at the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
See all contributions by Daniella Berman - Dr. Jimena Berzal de Dios
Dr. Jimena Berzal de Dios received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She is a Professor of Early Modern Art and Critical Theory at Western Washington University. Her research and writing explores viewership, reception, and performativity through an interdisciplinary lens.
See all contributions by Dr. Jimena Berzal de Dios - Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Dr. Mindy Besaw is Curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Dr. Jennifer Bethke
Dr. Jennifer Bethke earned her Ph.D. in 2005 from UC Berkeley. She teaches art history at Sonoma State University, and also works as an independent curator. She specializes in modern art, with an emphasis on the Italian avant-garde.
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer Bethke - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The videos below can be seen on Smarthistory because the Boijmans Museum generously makes their videos available for distribution.
See all contributions by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - Dr. Paul Binski
Dr. Paul Binski is Professor of the History of Medieval Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. He received a Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1984. He was a Research Fellow at Caius until 1987, when he left the UK with a Getty Postdoctoral award which he held at Princeton before moving to Yale as an Assistant Professor. In 1991 he returned to the UK to work at Manchester University before moving back to Cambridge in 1995. He was Slade Professor, Oxford University, 2006-07. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He is a Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge and the author of numerous books and essays.
See all contributions by Dr. Paul Binski - Dr. Claire Black McCoy
Dr. Claire Black McCoy is the William B. and Sue Marie Turner Distinguished Faculty Chair in Art History at Columbus State University. She was previously Associate Professor of Art History at Longwood University in Virginia, where she received the Maria Bristow Starke Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding teaching and research and served as Director of General Education. Dr. McCoy received her Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and specializes in nineteenth-century interpretations of Renaissance artists and their impact on the reception and criticism of sculpture in France.
See all contributions by Dr. Claire Black McCoy - Dr. Sheila Blair
Sheila Blair recently retired from the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, positions she shared with her husband and colleague Jonathan Bloom. Together and separately, they have written or edited a score of books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art. Her special interests are the uses of writing and the arts of the Mongol period. She is now preparing several articles on the art and architecture of the Mongols, including the chapters for the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Mongols edited by Michael Biran and Hodong Kim and The Mongol World (Routledge Worlds) edited by Timothy May and Michael Hope.
See all contributions by Dr. Sheila Blair - Dr. Patricia Blessing
Patricia Blessing is an associate professor at Stanford University. She specializes in the art and architecture of the Islamic world, with a focus on the eastern Mediterranean from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. In her current book project, Spaces of Artifice: Interiors and the Environment in Islamic Architecture, Blessing analyses interior spaces in relationship to nature, with an emphasis on water. She is also the author of two books, Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330 (Ashgate, 2014; Turkish translation Koç University Press, 2018) and Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
See all contributions by Dr. Patricia Blessing - Alice Blow
Alice Blow is an art historian, specializing in early modern English and French art. She is particularly interested in portraiture, visual ambiguity, and gender. She is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she also supervises undergraduate modules on Tudor art, and early modern to contemporary art collections. In 2019, she undertook an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
See all contributions by Alice Blow - Dr. Anna Blume
Anna Blume is a professor of art history and museum professions at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They received their B.A. in Art History and English from Williams College and their Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University. They teach courses on art of the Indigenous Americas, art of India, and art & ethics.
See all contributions by Dr. Anna Blume - Dr. David Boffa
David Boffa received his PhD in art history from Rutgers University, where his focus was late medieval and Renaissance sculpture in Italy. Since 2013 he has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Beloit College. His teaching and research interests range from medieval to modern, and he has recently taught classes on High Renaissance and Mannerism, The Legend of Zelda video game series, and the history of sports in art.
See all contributions by Dr. David Boffa - Dr. Michele Bogart
Michele Bogart is Professor Emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. She received her B.A. in Art History at Smith College and her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Chicago. Her areas of expertise include urban design and commercial culture, and she has published on public art, memorials, animation, landscape and garden history, photography, illustration, and advertising.
See all contributions by Dr. Michele Bogart - Christine M. Bolli
Christine Bolli has been teaching Art History and various topics in Humanities for more than 10 years. She is in the process of finishing her PhD dissertation, which focuses on 12th Century Cistercian architecture in Provence and its ties to local construction techniques. However, she enjoys teaching all areas and aspects of Art History, from ancient architecture to surrealist painting. Christine is currently the Graduate Program Manager for the History of Art and Architecture program at UCSB. She has also taught at Brooks Institute, AIU Online, CSU Channel Islands, College of the Redwoods, and University of California, Santa Barbara. Additionally she has done archival and cataloging work for both public and private collections and written for a number of online publications.
See all contributions by Christine M. Bolli - Dr. Odilia Bonebakker
Odilia Bonebakker is a curator and lecturer of Early Modern Art and Theory at the University of Connecticut. She received her B.A. and M.A. in the History of Art from Queen’s University and her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation was written on Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the lost art of cloth painting.
See all contributions by Dr. Odilia Bonebakker - Dr. Umberto Bongianino
Umberto Bongianino is departmental lecturer of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Arts, Markets, and Cultural Management from IULM University and his M.Phil in Islamic Art and Archaeology and D.Phil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. His research interests include the architecture and material culture of the Islamic dynasties that ruled across the medieval Mediterranean between the 7th and the 13th centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Umberto Bongianino - Dr. Alex Bortolot, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Alex Bortolot is the Content Strategist at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He spearheads curatorially-driven audience engagement opportunities by developing strategies designed optimize in-gallery visitor experience and collections-focused outreach programs, and works with the Deputy Director and Chief Curator to map out a content strategy that supports and extends Mia's global reach. A specialist in the arts of Africa, Bortolot has played a key role in reconceiving the African galleries, and is also the publication manager of the catalogue accompanying the 2013 exhibition “Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone.” He is the project leader of “Digital Diaspora: Reuniting the Arts of Islamic Somalia,” an online exhibition of Somali artworks co-curated with the Twin Cities Somali community to be launched in tandem with the 2016 exhibition “Islamic Africa: Art and Architecture.” Prior to his current appointment, Bortolot was an Assistant Curator at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Bortolot also curated a ground-breaking exhibition on masks, performance, and modernity in Mozambique, East Africa, at the Wallach Memorial Art Gallery at Columbia University. Bortolot earned a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the triennial Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award by ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, in 2011.
See all contributions by Dr. Alex Bortolot, Minneapolis Institute of Art - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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See all contributions by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Dr. Katherine Bourguignon, Terra Foundation of American Art
Dr. Katherine Bourguignon is a curator at the Terra Foundation of American Art in Paris.
See all contributions by Dr. Katherine Bourguignon, Terra Foundation of American Art - Dr. Lisa Boutin Vitela
Dr. Vitela received her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation analyzed the significance of ceramics created for Isabella d’Este, the most famous female patron of the Renaissance, and for her son Federico II Gonzaga within the context of the Mantuan court. Her articles about Renaissance banqueting practices and the reception of early modern ceramics have appeared in the journals Word and Image and Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal. Dr. Vitela is principal investigator of IDEA Ceramics, a website and database dedicated to Isabella d'Este's maiolica as part of the Isabella d'Este Archive (IDEA) digital project. Her current research projects analyze the collection and use of ceramics in the sixteenth-century papal and Medici courts to consider how the medium established identity and fit into broader artistic programs.
See all contributions by Dr. Lisa Boutin Vitela - Richard Bowen
Richard Bowen has lived in Rome for over 20 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in humanities from Middlesex University, and a master's degree in medieval and twentieth-century history from University College London.
See all contributions by Richard Bowen - Dr. Rachel Boyd
Rachel Boyd holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University, where she wrote her dissertation on the Della Robbia family workshop and Italian glazed terracotta sculpture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At present, she is Getty Paper Project Research Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Boyd - Dr. David Brafman
I've been the rare books curator at the Getty Research Institute since 2002. Before decamping from N.Y. to L.A., I was an adjunct professor in the NYU Classics Department and resident-expert at H.P. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, one of the world's leading dealers in rare books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. I came to that circuitous career path by getting a Ph.D. in classics and Arabic from Duke University (and the irresistible urge to head straight back to N.Y. the second I finished my doctorate).
See all contributions by Dr. David Brafman - Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo
Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo holds a Ph.D. in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin. Her speciality is twentieth-century Latin American art. She is currently a freelance Art Historian based in Miami.
See all contributions by Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo - Dr. Claire Breay, The British Library
Dr. Claire Breay is Head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library
See all contributions by Dr. Claire Breay, The British Library - Dr. Magdalene Breidenthal
Dr. Magdalene Breidenthal received her PhD in Art History from Yale University and is a specialist in Byzantine art. Her research focuses on monumental painting and its viewing conditions in Byzantine church interiors. She was the 2015-2018 Paul Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and teaches art history courses at Fordham University and Queens College, CUNY.
See all contributions by Dr. Magdalene Breidenthal - Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan
Dr. Kristen Brennan is Contributing Editor for East Asian Art. She earned her M.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research concentrates on late imperial Chinese painting.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan - Matthew Brennan
Matthew Brennan is research associate and associate instructor at Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He received his B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and is a PhD candidate in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. He specializes in the documentation, digitization, and visualization of art historical archaeological, and cultural heritage artifacts.
See all contributions by Matthew Brennan - Dr. Alex Brey
Alex is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College focusing on the medieval Islamic world. Interests include cross-cultural transmission, landscape studies, and digital art history.His dissertation, “The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire,” traces patterns and networks of artistic exchange in Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle Eurasia through the lens of hunting imagery produced within the Umayyad empire (ca. 660-750). He received his B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Vassar College in 2008, and his M.A. in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Dale Kinney. Alex has worked on excavations of Late Antique and Medieval sites in Scotland, Jordan, and Israel, and participated in on-site research seminars in Turkey and Uzbekistan. He also has a deep interest in the intersection of Digital Scholarship and art historical research and pedagogy.
See all contributions by Dr. Alex Brey - Dr. Neil Brodie
Dr. Neil Brodie earned his Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Liverpool, and has held positions at the British School at Athens, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, and Stanford University’s Archaeology Center. He is the co-author (with Jennifer Doole and Peter Watson) of the report "Stealing History," commissioned by the Museums Association and ICOM-UK to advise upon the illicit trade in cultural material. He has written extensively on the illegal antiquities trade, and has worked on archaeological projects in the United Kingdom, Greece and Jordan.
See all contributions by Dr. Neil Brodie - Michelle L. Browder
Michelle Browder is an artist and activist based in Montgomery, Alabama.
See all contributions by Michelle L. Browder - Dr. Mary Brown
Dr. Mary Brown earned a Ph.D. in Pre-Columbian art history from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). She has also served in the United States Peace Corps (Thailand), previously worked for the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., and taught art history at Montclair State University in New Jersey, the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) in New York City, and most recently Kutztown University and Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. She is currently an independent art historian with a wide range of research interests including complex burials, textile ethnography, gender studies, evolutionary aesthetics, and animal imagery across cultures.
See all contributions by Dr. Mary Brown - Dr. Rebecca M. Brown
Rebecca M. Brown is a professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Her research engages in the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of South Asia and its diasporas from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her publications focus on the British colonial era, India’s anti-colonial movement, art after India’s independence, the politics of display in the long 1980s, KCS Paniker’s language of painting, and the work of Dayanita Singh, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Rina Banerjee.
See all contributions by Dr. Rebecca M. Brown - Dr. Katherine T. Brown
Dr. Katherine T. Brown is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Walsh University. She is also a member of the board of the Ohio Museums Association. Previously she was Director of Hay House, Program Coordinator for the University of Georgia's Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, Head of Education for the American Federation of Arts in New York, the Curator of Education at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and Curator of Education at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. In addition she has taught Art History at Wesleyan College in Macon, GA; Hunter College (CUNY); and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She earned her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her new book, titled Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art: Devotional Image and Civic Emblem, was published by Taylor & Francis Publishers in 2016, with a publication subvention from The Renaissance Society of America and The Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
See all contributions by Dr. Katherine T. Brown - Marlise Brown
Marlise Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Temple University, where she specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and architecture. Her research focuses on identity construction, gender and patronage, as well as the intersections of visual art, music, and theater. As a researcher and educator, she has worked at Temple University, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Palmer Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Marlise Brown - Alexandria Brown-Hejazi
Alexandria Brown-Hejazi is a PhD candidate in the Art History Department of Stanford University. She specializes in early modern art and architecture, with a focus on Italian states and Safavid Iran. She is committed to developing new methods in cross-cultural and global art history.
See all contributions by Alexandria Brown-Hejazi - Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art
Peter John Brownlee is curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art - Dr. Ashley Bruckbauer
Ashley Bruckbauer is a specialist in European visual culture from 1600 to 1900, with a particular focus on objects related to cross-cultural exchanges. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. A dedicated educator, she has taught in the Department of Art History at UNC-Chapel Hill and developed educational programs and resources for diverse audiences at the Ackland Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and National Gallery of Art in D.C.
See all contributions by Dr. Ashley Bruckbauer - Dr. Andrea Bubenik
Andrea Bubenik is an expert in Renaissance and Baroque Art, and the continued reception of early modern visual culture. She is an Associate Professor in Art History in the School of Communication and Arts, and was the Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions between 2019-2022. Her research interests include early modern printmaking, links between art and science, court cultures and collecting, and histories of reception for both iconic and lesser known works of art.
See all contributions by Dr. Andrea Bubenik - Nicole Budrovich
Nicole Budrovich is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Antiquities at the Getty Villa. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in Classical Civilizations and Integrative Biology, and holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include Roman domestic art, history of collecting, and the reception of antiquity.
See all contributions by Nicole Budrovich - Dr. Monica Bulger
Dr. Monica Bulger is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia, where she specialized in the material culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. Her current research focuses on artistic innovations and experiences of viewing in Protoarchaic and Archaic Greece. She has served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smarthistory and the Stavros Niarchos Fellow in Classical Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has excavated in Cyprus and Greece.
See all contributions by Dr. Monica Bulger - Dr. Catherine E. Burdick
Dr. Catherine Burdick holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing broadly in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and specifically in relationships between portraiture and hieroglyphs in Classic Maya sculpture. She has taught art history at several institutions, including Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and UIC.
See all contributions by Dr. Catherine E. Burdick - Timothy Anglin Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Timothy Anglin Burgard is the Ednah Root Curator-in-Charge of the American Art Department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. His many books include Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 (Yale), Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), and Revelations: Art from the African American South (Prestel).
See all contributions by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Sérgio Burgi
Sérgio Burgi is Head Curator of Photography at the Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro. He received his bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and his master’s degree in Photographic Conservation at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
See all contributions by Sérgio Burgi - Dr. Shelley Burian
Shelley Burian is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Textile Arts of the Americas at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. She received her B.A. in Art History from McGill University and her Ph.D. in Art History from Emory University. Her research specializes in the art of the ancient Americas.
See all contributions by Dr. Shelley Burian - Dr. Jill Burke
Dr. Jill Burke is a Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at The University of Edinburgh. She is an expert in Italian Renaissance Art, focusing on the representation and understanding of the body in Italy and Europe from around 1400–1600 and she has published widely in this field. Her most recent book, The Italian Renaissance Nude, was published with Yale University Press in 2018, and she was one of the curators of the Renaissance Nude exhibition.
See all contributions by Dr. Jill Burke - Dr. Juan Luis Burke
Juan Luis Burke is Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. He received his degree in Architectural Restoration from the Universidad de Alcalá, his M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Gothenburg, and his Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University. His research interests revolve around the history and theory of the architecture and urbanism produced during the period ranging from the sixteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on Latin America—particularly Mexico—and the connections between this region with Spain, Italy and North America.
See all contributions by Dr. Juan Luis Burke - Claire Burkert
Claire Burkert has lived and worked with indigenous artists in South and Southeast Asia for over 30 years. She began documenting Mithila wall painting in 1988 and founded the Janakpur Women’s Development Center in 1991. Now based in Nepal, Claire consults worldwide to artisan organizations. Her publications, which focus on indigenous art and architecture, include Himalayan Style (Roli, 2014).
See all contributions by Claire Burkert - Dr. Samantha Burton
Samantha Burton is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California, where she teaches undergraduate classes on visual culture, modern and contemporary art, the history of photography, and more. Her research focuses on transnational mobility and cultural exchange in the nineteenth-century British World. Sam is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the ways in which white settler Canadian women artists who lived and worked in Britain managed multiple and often competing ideas about empire, race, and national identity in the decades prior to World War I. Her research has been published in venues that include Victorian Studies, Journal of Canadian Art History, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Her biography of the artist Helen McNicoll, published by the Art Canada Institute, was released in 2017.
See all contributions by Dr. Samantha Burton - Dr. Amy Calvert
Dr. Amy Calvert is the Contributing Editor for Ancient Egyptian art. Amy holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has been involved in several excavations in Italy, Egypt, and the U.S. She has acted as registrar in the field for the Osiris Temple Project with the Yale-University of Pennsylvania-New York University Expedition to Abydos and has worked at The British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
See all contributions by Dr. Amy Calvert - Dr. Esperança Camara
Dr. Esperança Camara was Contributing Editor for Mannerist and Baroque art. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on Italian devotional art of the post-Tridentine period (1560-1640). In 2006 she received the Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership Award at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she was Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the MA in Studio Art Program.
See all contributions by Dr. Esperança Camara - Dr. Roselyn Campbell
I am an archaeologist and bioarchaeologist, specializing in Egyptian archaeology. I’ve worked at archaeological sites throughout Egypt as well as in South America, Europe, and the United States. I’m currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Getty, researching the dynamics of power and violence in ancient societies.
See all contributions by Dr. Roselyn Campbell - Dr. Kent Cao
Dr. Kent Cao earned a PhD in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He received M. St. in Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and read Archaeology and Anthropology at University College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Cao is a specialist in Chinese bronze art with a broad interest in trans-regional cultural interactions. His work has recently been supported by the Smithsonian, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Henry Luce Foundation.
See all contributions by Dr. Kent Cao - Dr. Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Taína Caragol is Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Caragol earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published essays on Latino and Latin American artists and has also written on the importance of archival preservation in contributing to a better understanding of the history of Latino and Latin American art in the United States.
See all contributions by Dr. Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution - Dr. Rachel M. Carlisle
See all contributions by Dr. Rachel M. Carlisle - Emily Casden
Emily Casden received her M.A. in art history from Hunter College in 2011. She specializes in twentieth-century modernism, with a strong interest in German Expressionism, Futurism, Interwar and Postwar art, and art theory and aesthetics.
See all contributions by Emily Casden - Dr. Andrew Casper
Andrew Casper is an art historian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art of southern Europe, with a particular focus on religious imagery, icons, and relics of the late 1500s and 1600s. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
See all contributions by Dr. Andrew Casper - Dr. Kimberly Cassibry
Dr. Kimberly Cassibry is Associate Professor of Art History, with a focus on the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean. Her first book, Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs (Oxford, 2021), explores how objects depicting distant places helped Romans understand their vast empire. It has a companion website here: https://wellesley-omeka-s.libraryhost.com/s/destinations-in-mind/page/Home
See all contributions by Dr. Kimberly Cassibry - Dr. Maria Castro
Maria Castro is Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in late-nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American art and is developed her dissertation on Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral.
See all contributions by Dr. Maria Castro - Dr. Emogene Cataldo
Emogene Cataldo is a writer who works with images and digital space. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University.
See all contributions by Dr. Emogene Cataldo - Dr. Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere
Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere is an adjunct lecturer at the Ontario College of Art and Design and Queen’s University. From 2019 to 2021 she held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and from 2017 to 2018 she was the Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. In addition to her interdisciplinary and collaborative research in pedagogical practices, she specializes in Canadian art histories with a focus on photographic and institutional histories. She has writing published in Environmental History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne/Canadian Art Review, and Journal of Canadian Art History.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere - Balboa Art Conservation Center
The videos below can be seen on Smarthistory because the Balboa Art Conservation Center generously makes their videos available for distribution.
See all contributions by Balboa Art Conservation Center - Walker Art Center
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Walker Art Center is a modern and contemporary art center located in Minneapolis. The Walker empowers people to experience the transformative possibilities of the art and ideas of our time and to imagine the world in new ways.
- Dr. Letha Ch'ien
Dr. Letha Ch'ien is Associate Professor of Art History at Sonoma State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on identity, ethnicity, and race in late medieval and early modern Venice.
See all contributions by Dr. Letha Ch'ien - Dr. Stephanie Chadwick
Dr. Stephanie Chadwick is an associate professor of art history in the Department of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and also the interim chair. She earned her Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston where her focus on twentieth-century art and visual culture built upon her background in nineteenth–century art, for which she completed an M.A. at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her research interests include modern European art and theory with an emphasis on French painting; relationships between art, literature, and colonialism; and art as multi-cultural exchange.
See all contributions by Dr. Stephanie Chadwick - Dr. Cortney E. Chaffin
Dr. Cortney E. Chaffin is a professor of Asian art history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on early Chinese art and archaeology. Her research interests focus on the materiality of death in ancient China and the rich array of fantastic hybrid animal imagery in early Chinese funerary art.
See all contributions by Dr. Cortney E. Chaffin - Dr. Michael Chagnon, Curator, Aga Khan Museum
Michael Chagnon is curator of the Aga Khan Museum. He received his M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and the History of Art as well as his Ph.D. in the History of Art from New York University. He specializes in painting and the arts of the book from the early modern Persianate sphere.
See all contributions by Dr. Michael Chagnon, Curator, Aga Khan Museum - Angela Chang
Angela Chang is Conservator of Objects and Sculpture and Assistant Director, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums
See all contributions by Angela Chang - Dr. Paroma Chatterjee
Paroma Chatterjee earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests lie in Byzantine and medieval Mediterranean art.
See all contributions by Dr. Paroma Chatterjee - Dr. Mya Chau
Mya Chau received her PhD in Art History from UCLA in 2020. She currently teaches at Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University. In addition, she serves as a Research Assistant for the Scholars Program and Curatorial Department at the Getty Research Institute.
See all contributions by Dr. Mya Chau - Dr. Mark Cheetham
Dr. Mark Cheetham is a professor of Art History at the University of Toronto who specializes in modern and contemporary art. He has published broadly on a number of topics, including ecocritcal art history. His most recent book is Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s (Penn State UP 2018).
See all contributions by Dr. Mark Cheetham - Dr. Chih-En Chen
Dr. Chih-En Chen was awarded a PhD by the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London. He won The Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) George de Menasce Memorial Trust Award in 2021, and currently teaches at the University of Toronto and works for the Gardiner Museum for the Chinese Collection Digital Interface Project.
See all contributions by Dr. Chih-En Chen - Olivia Chiang
Olivia Chiang is Professor of Art History at Manchester Community College/CT State Community College. She earned her M.A. in Art History from Yale University.
See all contributions by Olivia Chiang - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time. The museum interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge, and illuminate visitors and offer insight into the creative process.
- Art Institute of Chicago
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See all contributions by Art Institute of Chicago - Karin E. Christiaens
Karin E. Christiaens is a Ph.D. candidate (M.A., 2016; M.Phil., 2017) in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University specializing in the study of the eastern Mediterranean under the Roman Empire. As a practicing archaeologist she has excavated at the Athenian Agora, Hadrian's Villa, and the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Onchestos in Boeotia, where she currently serves as a site supervisor. She holds a B.A. in Art History and English from The College of New Jersey (2010), an M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from The University of Chicago (2011), and a Post-baccalaureate certificate in Greek and Latin from the Classics Department at Columbia (2014).
See all contributions by Karin E. Christiaens - Dr. Ali Clark
Dr Ali Clark is a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. She currently works on the ERC funded Pacific Presences project. Both her masters (2007) and PhD (2013) theses were on the Indigenous Australian collections at the British Museum. Her current research is focused on Kiribati, where she is interested in the contemporary resonance of historic museum collections, and the revival of certain cultural practices. She has previously worked on projects at the British Museum, and the October Gallery in London.
See all contributions by Dr. Ali Clark - Dr. Christa Clarke
Dr. Christa Clarke is Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum. Dr. Clarke has held fellowships at the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Clark Art Institute, and teaching appointments at NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, Rutgers University, Purchase College, and Drew University. She is currently a fellow of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and President of the Association of Art Museum Curators.
See all contributions by Dr. Christa Clarke - Dr. Gayle Clemans
Gayle Clemans holds a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art from the University of Washington. She specializes in issues of gender, race, and identity, and frequently explores these topics with her creative students at Cornish College of the Arts where she is an Associate Professor of Critical & Contextual Studies. Her essays and art criticism can be found in numerous publications including The Seattle Times.
See all contributions by Dr. Gayle Clemans - Dr. Lea Cline
Dr. Lea Cline received her Ph.D. in Art History, with a concentration in ancient Roman art and architecture, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and, from 2006-2010, a member of the Oplontis Project, producing a comprehensive study of the mosaics and painted pavements discovered in the Imperial villa (“Villa A” of Poppea) at Oplontis, near Pompeii. She is currently Associate Professor of Art History at Illinois State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Lea Cline - Craig Clunas
Craig Clunas held the chair of art history at Oxford from 2007 to 2018, the first scholar of Asian art to do so. Much of his work concentrates on the Ming period (1368-1644), with additional interests in the art of 20th century and contemporary China. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and taught art history at the University of Sussex and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Art in China (1997, second edition 2009) in the Oxford History of Art Series, and his other books include Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (1991); Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (1996); Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997); Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559 (2004); Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (2007), based on the 2004 Slade Lectures, and Screen of Kings: Art and Royal Power in Ming China (2013); several of these books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. His most recent book, is Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, published by Princeton University Press in 2017 and based on his AW Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, in 2012. He is currently researching the transnational history of Chinese art in the short 20th century, from 1911 to 1976. His lectures on ‘Chinese Art, 1911-1976: A Connected History’, delivered as Visiting Professor of Chinese Art at Gresham College in 2017-18, are available to watch here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/chinese-art-1911-1976-a-connected-history/ .
See all contributions by Craig Clunas - Jim Coddington
Jim Coddington was until recently the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at The Museum of Modern Art. Prior to joining MoMA in 1987 he was a Mellon Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His publications include studies of the materials and techniques of de Kooning, Pollock, Miro and others in MoMA’s collection as well as research on new imaging techniques for conservation studies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a Master’s degree in Conservation from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum program.
See all contributions by Jim Coddington - Dr. Julie Codell
Julie Codell is professor of Art History at Arizona State University. She received her B.A. in English from Vassar College, her M.A. in Art History from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Arts from Indiana University. Her areas of specialization are 19th-century visual culture in the UK and the US, the art press, Indian culture under the British Raj, life writings (autobiographies and biographies), travel narratives, representations of race and gender, material culture, the art market, the history of collecting, and world film.
See all contributions by Dr. Julie Codell - Adam S. Cohen
Dr. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggada Masterpieces and, with Jill Caskey and Linda Safran, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connecting World (Cornell UP and www.artofthemiddleages.com).
See all contributions by Adam S. Cohen - Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte
Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University. She works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements. Her recent book, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016) explores the intersections between art, politics, religion, and society in mural paintings located in colonial churches across the southern Andes.
See all contributions by Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte - Dr. Sara E. Cole
Sara E. Cole is assistant curator in the Antiquities Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Ancient History from Yale University. Her research focuses on the visual culture of Graeco-Roman Egypt and cross-cultural exchange in antiquity.
See all contributions by Dr. Sara E. Cole - Dr. Kristen Collins, curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum
Dr. Kristen Collins is curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. Recurring themes in her scholarship are transcultural exchange and resonance and reuse in the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristen Collins, curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum - Matt Collins
Matt Collins is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at Harvard University, where he specializes in medieval and modern cultural history. He earned his MA from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His thesis was on the convergence of propagandized literature, art and architecture under the fascist regime. His dissertation will deal with particular illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
See all contributions by Matt Collins - Carla Colon
See all contributions by Carla Colon - Dr. Sonia Coman
Sonia Coman is a Content Contributor in the area of Japanese art. Her research focuses on cross-cultural exchange, ceramics, and the relation between poetry traditions and visual and material culture. Coman received a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia, where she wrote her dissertation on the Japanese aesthetic principles that spurred a reinvention of French and Japanese ceramics in the late 19th century. At Columbia, she designed and taught an undergraduate seminar on the soft power of ceramic arts across world cultures. In 2018-19, Coman will explore Charles Lang Freer’s Japanese ceramics as the Anne van Biema Fellow at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
See all contributions by Dr. Sonia Coman - Library of Congress
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See all contributions by Library of Congress - Melissa Conn, Save Venice
Melissa Conn is Director Venice Office, Save Venice Inc.
See all contributions by Melissa Conn, Save Venice - Dr. Christina Connett
Dr. Christina Connett is Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She has an MA from the University of Auckland New Zealand, and a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Valencia in Spain. Connett has taught Art History and the History of Cartography at the Rhode Island School of Design and University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
See all contributions by Dr. Christina Connett - Dr. Margaret C. Conrads
Dr. Margaret C. Conrads, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,
See all contributions by Dr. Margaret C. Conrads - Dr. Lindsay Cook
Dr. Lindsay Cook is an art and architectural historian, medievalist, and digital humanist. She is Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History in the School of Art at Ball State University. From 2016-2019, she was a Project Member of the French-American Bridge for Medieval Musical Iconography, an international, interdisciplinary collaboration between Columbia University and the Sorbonne funded by a major grant from the FACE Foundation.
See all contributions by Dr. Lindsay Cook - Dr. Jago Cooper
Dr. Jago Cooper is Curator and Head of the Americas Section at the British Museum. Jago has worked on archaeological and heritage management projects in Latin America, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe. After finishing his Ph.D. at University College London in 2007 he joined the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in Archaeology. In 2008 Jago was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean’. In 2012 he edited Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers from Archaeology with Payson Sheets.
See all contributions by Dr. Jago Cooper - Sarah Cooper
I am the project specialist for public programs at the Getty Center, where I am working to bring music, performance, and art together through a wide range of creative programs. A recent transplant from New York, I am a diehard museum person, having worked at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as The Royal Academy of Arts in London.
See all contributions by Sarah Cooper - Louis Copplestone
Louis Copplestone is a doctoral candidate in the department history of art and architecture at Harvard University. He is writing a dissertation on the architecture of Buddhist monasteries built in eastern India and Bangladesh in the early medieval period.
See all contributions by Louis Copplestone - Emily Cornish
See all contributions by Emily Cornish - Dr. Nicole Corrigan
Dr. Nicole Corrigan received her PhD in Art History from Emory University in 2020. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Auburn University. Her research focuses on the art of medieval Iberia and the cult of the Virgin Mary.
See all contributions by Dr. Nicole Corrigan - Dr. Laurie Kalb Cosmo
Dr. Laurie Kalb Cosmo is currently a university lecturer at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and a member of the research group in Museums, Collections and Society. She has been a member of the faculty at Temple University Rome since 2008. Before moving to Europe, Dr. Cosmo was a curator and museum administrator at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, Autry Museum of the American West, Peabody Essex Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She has been a Research Associate at Peabody Museum of Harvard University, the recipient of a Smithsonian Institution doctoral fellowship, Fulbright Professional Award in Kuala Lumpur, and resident fellowships at School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe and Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy. Her interests are museum history and theory, cultural heritage preservation, politics and art, applied arts, craft, and vernacular traditions, and Italian fine art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is a past board member of the International Council of Museum’s International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME) and a research affiliate of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development in Leiden, NL.
See all contributions by Dr. Laurie Kalb Cosmo - Pippa Couch
Pippa Couch holds a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and specializes in the art from Antiquity to Byzantium. She is a cultural learning professional with experience in leading and transforming engaging learning programs for diverse audiences and is currently Head of Learning at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K.
See all contributions by Pippa Couch - Dr. Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). He has been called the “curator of the dispossessed” for championing underrepresented artists and uncommon perspectives on well-known artists. He has collaborated with many contemporary artists, and in 2014 organized the largest American museum exhibition of David Lynch’s visual art. A native of Chicago, he studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago before receiving his MA and PhD (2006) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his work on American art he has emphasized regional diversity, integrating artists of Illinois, Wisconsin, California, and other areas into installations, thematic exhibitions, and his scholarship. Before joining Mia he was the senior curator and Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, where he oversaw more than 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives of George Tooker, Peter Blume, and Elizabeth Osborne. He acquired more than 2,000 objects for PAFA, mostly gifts, including the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women and major collections of work by Sue Coe, Ellen Lanyon, and Miriam Schapiro.
See all contributions by Dr. Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art - Dr. Charles Cramer
Charles A. Cramer is Associate Professor Art History at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. His publications include Abstraction and the Classical Ideal, 1760-1920 (University of Delaware Press, 2006), and “Alexander Cozens’s New Method: The Blot and General Nature,” Art Bulletin 79, no. 1 (March 1997): 112-129.
See all contributions by Dr. Charles Cramer - Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a Ph.D. candidate in the art history program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a teaching artist and performer whose scholarly research focuses on camp and collage in queer performance in the postwar period. She has taught modern art and art of the United States at City Tech, The City University of New York.
See all contributions by Jack Crawford - Dr. Alexis Culotta
Alexis Culotta specializes in the art and architecture of sixteenth-century Rome. Her research investigates the working relationships of artists and how the tensions of competition, collaboration, and innovation drove artistic and architectural practice in the Eternal City and beyond. Her recent book, Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael’s Circle to 1527 (Brill, 2020), explores how the Renaissance artist’s style – one infused with borrowed visual quotations from other artists both past and present – proved influential in his relationship with associate Baldassare Peruzzi and in the development of the artists within his thriving workshop. Shedding new light on the important, yet often-overshadowed, figures within this network, this book calls upon key case studies to illustrate how this visual language and its recombination evolved during Raphael’s Roman career and subsequently served as a springboard for artistic innovation in the years following Raphael’s death.
See all contributions by Dr. Alexis Culotta - Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Brandy Culp is the Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Dr. Elizabeth Cummins
Dr. Elizabeth Cummins received her doctorate at Emory University in 2013. In 2007, Dr. Cummins was a Visiting Researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, followed by a year-long American Research Center in Egypt fellowship conducting research in Egypt for her dissertation. Her areas of specialization include ancient Egyptian and Roman art. She has taught at Upper Iowa University and the University of Reno, Nevada
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Cummins - Emma Cunliffe
My research interests focus on the types of damage sustained by archaeological sites in the Middle East in peace and war, and developing ways of identifying and recording the threats using satellite imagery and social media. This work has primarily focused on Syria and Iraq. As a part of this, I am interested in civil-military relations before, during, and after conflict. My other research interest is the links between wellbeing, heritage, and communities, and the effects when they are separated. I am a member of the UK Committee of the Blue Shield (www.ukblueshield.org.uk, a charity working to protect archaeological sites from conflict and natural disasters, and a volunteer for the NGO Heritage for Peace (www.heritageforpeace.org).
See all contributions by Emma Cunliffe - Corey D'Augustine
Corey D’Augustine is a conservator of modern and contemporary art and a technical art historian. He is the principal conservator at Corey D’Augustine Conservation and regularly works for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum among other clients. Corey lectures on art history and art conservation at New York University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Pratt Institute, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is a specialist in American and European Post-war art and his research interests include 20th century painting materials and the conservation of monochrome paintings.
See all contributions by Corey D'Augustine - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The videos below can be seen on Smarthistory because the National Gallery of Art generously makes their videos available for distribution.
See all contributions by National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. - Frank Dabell
Frank Dabell studied at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He is a former fellow of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After many years in New York, he returned to Rome, where he was raised, and is now part of the art history faculty at Temple University Rome.
See all contributions by Frank Dabell - Dr. Elisa Dainese
Elisa Dainese is currently a lecturer and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in the History of Art Department. In 2012, she obtained a PhD in Architectural Design from the IUAV University of Venice (Italy), with a dissertation focused on post-war architecture, Team Ten, Aldo van Eyck, and the fascination for Dogon art and architecture of Mali (Africa). Dr Dainese is the author of articles and essays published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (“Histories of Exchange: Indigenous South Africa in the South African Architectural Record and the Architectural Review,” Dec 2015), Le Corbusier, 50 years later (2015), New Urban Configurations (2014), Nuove qualità del vivere in periferia (2013), Landscape and Imagination (2013), and Catalogo della Mostra Internazionale Triennale d’Architettura Milano (2012).
See all contributions by Dr. Elisa Dainese - Dr. Radha Dalal
Dr. Radha Dalal is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar and is part of a research team working on a Qatar National Research Fund’s National Priorities Research Program grant titled “Museums in the 21st Century and Global Art History: Building Knowledge Base through Online Resources in Qatar.” Prior to joining VCU Qatar, she taught Art History and Asian Studies at the College of Charleston.
See all contributions by Dr. Radha Dalal - Dr. Joseph Dauben
Dr. Joseph Dauben is Distinguished Professor of History at Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He has published widely on many subjects including the History of Science, the History of Mathematics, the Scientific Revolution, Sociology of Science, and Intellectual History. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University.
See all contributions by Dr. Joseph Dauben - Jon Davies
Jon Davies is a curator, writer and PhD Candidate in Art History at Stanford University where he is completing a dissertation entitled “The Fountain: Art, Sex and Queer Pedagogy in San Francisco, 1945–1995.” He previously held curatorial positions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and the Art Gallery of Ontario. His book Trash: A Queer Film Classic was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2009, and his anthology More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings was published by Concordia University Press in 2021.
See all contributions by Jon Davies - Dr. Surekha Davies
Dr. Surekha Davies is a historian of science, art, and ideas, and the author of the award-winning
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her next book,
Humans: A Monstrous History, will be published by the University of California Press as a lead trade-list title in spring 2025. Shorter essays about culture and history, and publication- and tour-related news, appear in her free newsletter at
surekhadavies.substack.com.
- Tess Davis
Tess Davis is an Affiliate Researcher in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow and Executive Director of The Antiquities Coalition. Tess comes to this project from the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation — a not-for-profit institution based in the United States — where she was Executive Director until 2012. She previously worked for the nongovernmental organization Heritage Watch in Cambodia, first as Project Coordinator, and finally Assistant Director. Her career began at the Archaeological Institute of America. For the past decade, Tess has devoted herself to fighting the pillage of ancient sites and trafficking of artifacts, particularly in Southeast Asia. She serves on the Advisory Board of Heritage Watch and is Vice Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
See all contributions by Tess Davis - Teresa DeWitt, Totem Heritage Center Museum Attendant
Teresa DeWitt is a museum attendant at the Totem Heritage Center Museum in Ketchikan, Alaska. She is of the Cape Fox tribe, or the Sanyaa Kwáan (Southward Tribe of the Tlingit).
See all contributions by Teresa DeWitt, Totem Heritage Center Museum Attendant - Megan Lorraine Debin
Megan Lorraine Debin is Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Cuesta College. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned a Master’s degree in Latin American studies and a BA in Art History. Her research primarily focuses on contemporary performance and land art in Mexico. Other research interests include pre-Columbian art, global indigenous arts, street art, Internet/new media, and activist art.
See all contributions by Megan Lorraine Debin - Dr. Karl Debreczeny
Dr. Karl Debreczeny is Senior Curator at the Rubin Museum of Art. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago. His research interests include exchanges between Tibetan and Chinese artistic traditions, Tibetan Art, and Sino-Tibetan relations.
See all contributions by Dr. Karl Debreczeny - Dr. J.V. Decemvirale
J.V. Decemvirale is a Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. He was a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at Syracuse University and earned his PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, his research focuses on the histories of Black and Latinx art spaces in Los Angeles.
See all contributions by Dr. J.V. Decemvirale - Dr. Nancy Demerdash
Dr. Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi's doctoral work and forthcoming publication focuses on the architecture and urban planning of postwar reconstruction schemes in Tunisia in the wake of the Second World War, but she has also written on issues of artistic activism, censorship, and museum curation of modern and contemporary arts of the Maghreb and Middle East. Demerdash-Fatemi studied Islamic art and architecture and modern architectural history, respectively, at the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.M.Arch.S.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.).
See all contributions by Dr. Nancy Demerdash - Dr. Matthew Dennis
Dr. Matthew Dennis is Professor Emeritus of History and of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at Oregon since 1988. His research interests and teaching are diverse. He has written on colonial America and the early national United States, the history of American Indians, American colonialism, nationalism, and identity, the American landscape and environment, and the history of death, relics and mortal remains, and public memory and commemoration. His books include Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010); Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar (Cornell University Press, 2002); Riot and Revelry in Early America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002) (co-editor); Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations: A Country by Country Guide, 3 vols. (Facts on File, 2006) (general editor); and Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 1993), which won the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Award and the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize from the American Society for Ethnohistory. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Bard Graduate Center in New York, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Beinecke Library at Yale University. He is currently engaged in the research and writing of a book-length study, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory.
See all contributions by Dr. Matthew Dennis - Dr. Sarah Derbew
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Derbew - Simona Di Nepi
Simona Di Nepi is the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
See all contributions by Simona Di Nepi - Dr. Jessi DiTillio
Jessi DiTillio is a curator, writer, art historian, and a co-founding member of Neon Queen Collective. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and was 2019-2020 ACLS/Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Fellow. She researches 20th century American Art with a focus on African American artists, affect theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary art engaging the politics of difference.
See all contributions by Dr. Jessi DiTillio - Dr. Ella Maria Diaz
Ella Maria Diaz is associate professor in English and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University and was a lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute until 2012. Diaz is author of Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: Mapping a Chicano/a Art History (2017) and has published articles with Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Chicana-Latina Studies Journal, and ASAP/Journal.
See all contributions by Dr. Ella Maria Diaz - Dr. Mya Dosch
Dr. Mya Dosch is an Assistant Professor at Cal State University, Sacramento. She has a PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her area of specialization is 20th-century art of Latin America, and her research focuses on artistic and architectural projects in Mexico City that memorialize the 1968 student movement and the massacre of student activists in Tlatelolco Square.
See all contributions by Dr. Mya Dosch - Linda Downs
Linda Downs was Executive Director of the College Art Association. Previously, she had been Executive Director of the Figge Art Museum, Head of Education for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Curator of Education at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She holds a Master of Arts in the History of Art from University of Michigan. Downs has published numerous papers and monographs, most notably on the work of Diego Rivera.
See all contributions by Linda Downs - Dr. James Doyle
James Doyle is Assistant Curator for the Art of the Americas and oversees The Met's collections from Mesoamerica and Central America. His specialty is the ancient Maya, and he conducted archaeological fieldwork on the preclassic period (1000 B.C.–A.D. 150) in northern Guatemala. Before joining the Museum, he held a postdoctoral appointment in Precolumbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and taught art-historical and archaeological seminars at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He received his PhD from Brown University.
See all contributions by Dr. James Doyle - Dr. Kathleen Doyle, The British Library
Dr. Kathleen Doyle is Lead Curator for Illuminated manuscripts at the British Library
See all contributions by Dr. Kathleen Doyle, The British Library - Dr. Maeve K. Doyle
See all contributions by Dr. Maeve K. Doyle - Dr. Kristopher Driggers
Dr. Kristopher Driggers is the Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art at the Tucson Museum of Art. His research focuses upon Mesoamerican painted manuscripts and sculptural traditions of the ancient Americas.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristopher Driggers - Dr. Megan Driscoll
Dr. Megan Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Richmond. She came to Richmond from Washington, DC, where she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Her research explores the intersections between postwar photographic and time-based media and discourses on race in the African diaspora, and she is currently writing a book that examines how artists have interrogated the popular notion that the internet represents a new, digital public sphere. She received her PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018.
See all contributions by Dr. Megan Driscoll - Dr. David Drogin
Dr. David Drogin has been a professor in the History of Art Department at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology since 2004 and has previously taught at Wesleyan University, Harvard and Yale. A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
See all contributions by Dr. David Drogin - Dr. Xiaohan Du
Xiaohan Du earned a PhD in Art History at Columbia University. She studies premodern Chinese and Japanese art. Her research focuses on Sino-Japanese exchanges in the context of Chan/Zen Buddhism in the 13th and 14th centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Xiaohan Du - Trinity College Library, Dublin
See all contributions by Trinity College Library, Dublin - Berfu Durantas
Berfu Durantas teaches at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
See all contributions by Berfu Durantas - Dr. Tamara Díaz Calcaño
Dr. Tamara Díaz Calcaño received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research work focuses primarily on 19th-century Caribbean art and visual culture, and on artists’ movements between the Caribbean and Europe during this period. She currently teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.
See all contributions by Dr. Tamara Díaz Calcaño - Dr. Davor Džalto
Dr. Davor Džalto is Professor in Religion and Art at Stockholm School of Theology
See all contributions by Dr. Davor Džalto - Dr. Lane Eagles
Lane Eagles is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle focusing on late medieval and Renaissance art history. She received her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and her M.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on gender and fashion in early modern visual culture. She is currently on the Critical and Contextual Studies faculty at Cornish College of the Arts.
See all contributions by Dr. Lane Eagles - Dr. Caitlin Earley
Caitlin Earley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is an art historian who studies the art of Latin America with a particular focus on ancient Maya sculpture. She has performed field research in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, working most extensively with archaeological and museum collections in Chiapas, Mexico. She has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. She taught art history at the University of Texas, Colorado College and Georgetown University.
See all contributions by Dr. Caitlin Earley - Dr. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby
Dr. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby is Contributing Editor for 19th Century Art and an Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Fine Arts Program at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her research can be found in publications such as The Burlington Magazine and History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism (Garland Press). She received her Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
See all contributions by Dr. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby - Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis is Project Associate Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and author of The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations, Yale University Press (2017)
See all contributions by Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art - Dr. Sarah Eckhardt
Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art · Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt - Kevin Eckstrom
Kevin Eckstrom, Chief Public Affairs Officer, Washington National Cathedral
See all contributions by Kevin Eckstrom - Utah System of Higher Education
See all contributions by Utah System of Higher Education - Dr. Efrat El-Hanany
Dr. Efrat El-Hanany is a faculty member in the Art History Department at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a BA in Art History and East Asian Studies and a BA in Education. She earned an MA and a PhD from Indiana University in Bloomington. Her PhD dissertation, Beating the Devil: Images of the Madonna del Soccorso in Italian Renaissance Art (2006), focuses on issues of iconography, gender, and social and religious history. Her engagement with art history has taken many forms, with interests in contemporary art and the art of China. Her publications in these fields include the 2005 article “Sex in the Imperial Garden: An Unpublished Chinese Pillow Book in the Kinsey Institute,” in Apollo: The International Magazine of the Arts, and her paper “The Heroics of Disability: The Terry Fox Monument Phenomenon” presented at the CAA Annual Conference in New York (2015).
See all contributions by Dr. Efrat El-Hanany - Dr. Nausikaä El-Mecky
Dr. Nausikaä El-Mecky is a fellow of the interdisciplinary research group Bildakt und Verkörperung at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a lecturer at the Freie Universität in Berlin and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Cambridge in 2013 for her thesis “Dangerous Art: Towards a Theory of Organised Legal Attacks on European Art.”
See all contributions by Dr. Nausikaä El-Mecky - Dr. Helen Burgos Ellis
Dr. Helen Burgos Ellis holds a Ph.D. in Art History and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA. Dr. Ellis is in the process of completing her book titled, Aztec Science: Plant Sexuality and the Domestication of Maize in the Codex Borgia. She has conducted extensive archival, museum and field research in indigenous communities throughout Mexico with the help of a Fulbright-Hays/IIE Fellowship 2011–12 generously funded by the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Ellis is a lecturer in the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies at both CSULA and UCLA where she teaches courses on indigenous art and modern Mexican and Mesoamerican literature. She also works as a Research Assistant in the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute.
See all contributions by Dr. Helen Burgos Ellis - Dr. Emily Engel
Engel received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009. Her research has been funded by the Getty Grant Program and the Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Major Grant, among others. She recently completed a material culture research project with Thomas Cummins that was published by Getty Publications entitled, Manuscript Cultures in Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches (2015). Engel has published articles on the politics of taste in colonial South America, Bolivarian portraiture, and pilgrimage in the Andean highlands. She is currently editing A Companion to Early Modern Lima(under contract with Brill Publications), a compilation volume that systematically presents current interdisciplinary research on the sixteenth-century city from urban development, politics and government to society and culture. Engel is also working on a book project entitled Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections which explores the visualization of history in late-colonial official portraits. Until 2015, she served as Assistant Professor of Art History and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City.
See all contributions by Dr. Emily Engel - Dr. Kelly Enright
See all contributions by Dr. Kelly Enright - Dr. Abby R. Eron
Abby R. Eron is a Ph.D. candidate in American art at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation research concerns the Symbolist impulse in American art across media circa 1900. She currently serves at the department's Writing and Research Advisor for undergraduate students. Abby received her MA from the University of Maryland in 2014. Her thesis, entitled “Visualizing American History and Identity in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial,” considered public sculpture of the 1930s, New Deal art, gender, race, and conceptions of the “melting pot.” She received her BA (magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa distinction) from Brandeis University in 2010, majoring in Art History and International Studies and minoring in French.
See all contributions by Dr. Abby R. Eron - Dr. Madeline Eschenburg
Dr. Madeline Eschenburg teaches at Washburn University. She received her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh where she specialized in contemporary Chinese art history. Her research focuses on contemporary artists’ responses to poverty and prejudice that are a result of urban/rural discrepancies in China. In addition to teaching, she is also excited about curating exhibitions and leading students on study-abroad trips.
See all contributions by Dr. Madeline Eschenburg - SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
SAFE shows why we must protect our shared cultural heritage and creates concrete ways for everyone to take action.
See all contributions by SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone) - Dr. Christina Faraday
Dr Christina Faraday is a historian of art and ideas, with a special interest in how images and objects can communicate in powerful ways. She is an Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the art and architecture of Tudor England.
See all contributions by Dr. Christina Faraday - Dr. Allen Farber
Dr. Allen Farber has taught at the State University of New York College at Oneonta since 1981. He has been responsible for teaching a range of courses including upper level courses in Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance art. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980..
See all contributions by Dr. Allen Farber - Dr. Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
See all contributions by Dr. Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian - Dr. Sophia Maxine Farmer
Sophia Maxine Farmer received her B.A. in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in Italian Modernism with an emphasize on Futurist art and literature, Fascist visual culture, and environmental art histories. Her work examines the socio-political structures that affected the production of artworks during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Sophia Maxine Farmer - Robyn Farrell, The Art Institute of Chicago
Robyn Farrell is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) where she curates the moving image program in the Donna and Howard Stone Gallery for Film, Video, and New Media and has helped organize several exhibitions and collection presentations at the AIC, including Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! (2013), Frances Stark: Intimism (2015), Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams (2016), Dennis Oppenheim: Projections (2016), and Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat (2017). She is an internationally recognized scholar on the work of German filmmaker and video art producer Gerry Schum, including his landmark art on television broadcasts such as Land Art (1969). She spoke most recently at the Herbert Foundation in Ghent, Belgium, in 2017 and organized the first formal program of Schum’s work in Chicago and New York in 2014.
See all contributions by Robyn Farrell, The Art Institute of Chicago - Dr. Ariel Fein
Dr. Ariel Fein (PhD Yale University 2021) studies the medieval visual cultures of Byzantium and the Islamic world. Her research focuses on intercultural artistic connections across the frontier zones of the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the arts of Norman Sicily and the Arab-Christian communities of medieval Egypt and Ifriqiya.
See all contributions by Dr. Ariel Fein - Dr. Frank Feltens, Freer Gallery of Art
See all contributions by Dr. Frank Feltens, Freer Gallery of Art - Dr. Frank Feltens, The Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art
Frank Feltens joined the Freer|Sackler as an Anne van Biema fellow in Japanese art, and he became the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art in 2017. He holds a PhD in Japanese art history from Columbia University (2016). Feltens is a specialist in Japanese painting with a particular focus on the late medieval and early modern periods. Additional interests include Japanese photography and the intersections between paintings and ceramics. Feltens has published and lectured on a range of topics related to Japanese art. Recent work includes articles on the painters Ogata Kōrin and Sakai Hōitsu, and the photographer Domon Ken. Prior to coming to the Freer|Sackler, he worked at MoMA, the National Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and, in Tokyo, the Nezu Museum and the temple Sensōji. Feltens is a longtime practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony in the Urasenke tradition and received the honorary pseudonym Sōchoku in 2017.
See all contributions by Dr. Frank Feltens, The Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art - Hannah Rose Feniak
Hannah is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is completing her dissertation about Spanish architectural production and building materials under the Franco regime. After receiving her BA in Art History and Communications Studies from McGill University, Hannah completed her MA at the IFA, where she assessed the role of photography in Chandigarh’s design and discursive construction. She has instructed courses at NYU and the University of Barcelona.
See all contributions by Hannah Rose Feniak - Agnieszka Anna Ficek
Agnieszka Anna Ficek is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation ‘From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination’ focuses on transatlantic visual and material cultures, as well as the cultural and scientific exchange between France and the Spanish American colonies. She has taught Art History survey courses, and specialized courses in Baroque and Rococo art at Baruch College, City College of New York, and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
See all contributions by Agnieszka Anna Ficek - Dr. Andrew Findley
Dr. Andrew Findley is a Classical art and architectural historian who has spoken and published in topics related to Roman architectural history and art history teaching methodology. He earned his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana.
See all contributions by Dr. Andrew Findley - Dr. Steven Fine
Dr. Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and founding Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies. A cultural historian, Fine specializes in Jewish history in the Greco-Roman period. His work focuses mainly upon the literature of ancient Judaism, art and archaeology and the ways that modern scholars have interpreted Jewish antiquity. Professor Fine’s most recent volume, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel was published by Harvard University Press in 2016. His Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology received the 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. Fine is an editor of IMAGES: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Art and Visual Culture and section editor for Judaica of the Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture (forthcoming).
See all contributions by Dr. Steven Fine - Dan Finn
See all contributions by Dan Finn - Julia Fischer
Dr. Julia Fischer is a Lecturer of Art History at Georgia Southern University. She has also taught at Columbus College of Art and Design, Denison University, and The Ohio State University. Her dissertation is titled “For Your Eyes Only: Private Propaganda in Roman Imperial Cameos.” Her research explores the iconography of Roman imperial cameos.
See all contributions by Julia Fischer - Dr. James Fishburne
James Fishburne is the Director of Forest Lawn Museum. In 2014 he earned his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from UCLA. He has taught courses on ancient Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art history at UCLA, Pierce College, Valley College, and California State University, Long Beach. From 2015 through 2018 James worked at the Getty Research Institute where he developed and implemented programming for the Scholars Department. James joined Forest Lawn in 2018 and has curated multiple exhibitions, including "The Elevated Eye: Aerial Photography Past and Present" and “Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style.”
See all contributions by Dr. James Fishburne - Dr. Kylie Fisher
Dr. Kylie Fisher is an independent art historian whose research focuses on early modern European prints. She earned her doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in May 2020 where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow.
See all contributions by Dr. Kylie Fisher - Dr. Courtney Fiske
Courtney Fiske holds a Ph.D. in 20th-century art and architecture from Columbia University and a B.A. from Harvard University. Her dissertation focused on the work of Gordon Matta-Clark. She is currently Content Strategy Manager at Foundation Capital.
See all contributions by Dr. Courtney Fiske - Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, a specialist in the art of colonial Latin America, received her Ph.D. from The City University of New York. She is Associate Professor of Art History at Muhlenberg College where she teaches courses in Renaissance, Baroque, and Latin American art.
See all contributions by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford - Dr. Joshua Fitzgerald
Joshua is an ethnohistorian and museum education specialist focusing on the visual and material culture of Indigenous communities from Mexico's early-modern period (~1300-1700). Currently, he is the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, researching his first book project on Mesoamerican and Spanish-Colonial learning environments (architecture, artwork, and texts) to understand the dynamic aspects of cultural resilience, place-based learning, and the persistence of local knowledge of Indigenous identity. His other interests include Nahua wildlife science and human-animal relations, the social dynamics of religious indoctrination, and educational videogames and gaming pedagogy about Colonial Latin America.
See all contributions by Dr. Joshua Fitzgerald - Dr. George Flaherty
Dr. George Flaherty is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). His research and teaching focus primarily on modern and contemporary art and architecture as well as film and video, centered in Mexico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and their diasporas in the United States. His scholarly interests extend to the urban humanities, postcolonial/subaltern studies, and Afro-Latin American/Latinx studies.
See all contributions by Dr. George Flaherty - Dr. Theresa Flanigan
See all contributions by Dr. Theresa Flanigan - Megan Flattley
Megan Flattley is a PhD candidate in Art History and Latin American Studies and an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship at Tulane University. In 2021, with the support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Megan will be living in Mexico City and conducting research for her dissertation, "Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Perspective and Spatiality in the Work of Diego Rivera."
See all contributions by Megan Flattley - Tessa Fleming
See all contributions by Tessa Fleming - Dr. Holly Flora
Holly's scholarly work explores the themes of narrative, imagination, materiality, and gender in the devotional art of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. She has received a number of research fellowships, including awards from the American Association of University Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, the Samuel Kress Foundation, and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2010-11 she was appointed the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize Fellow in Medieval Studies at the American Academy in Rome. More recently, in 2015-16 she was the Jean-Francois Malle Fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, and in 2016-17 she was awarded an Artists and Scholars grant from the Louisiana State Board of Regents.
See all contributions by Dr. Holly Flora - Meg Floryan
Meg Floryan earned her Masters in American Fine & Decorative Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
See all contributions by Meg Floryan - Dr. Emily Floyd
Emily C. Floyd is Lecturer in Visual Culture and Art before 1700 at the University College London. Her research focuses on material cultures of religion in the colonial and pre-Columbian Americas, particularly religious print culture in South America. She is interested in the movement, materiality, and agency of objects. She has published on Inca metalwork, silversmith-engravers in colonial Lima, and religion and the digital humanities. Floyd is Editor and Curator at the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR--mavcor.yale.edu).
See all contributions by Dr. Emily Floyd - Dr. Thomas Folland
Dr. Thomas Folland is an Associate Professor of Art History at Los Angeles Mission College. Formerly a curator and art critic based in Toronto, he received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2010. His article “Robert Rauschenberg’s Queer Modernism: The Early Combines” was published in The Art Bulletin in 2010 and an exhibition catalogue on the work of HK Zamani for CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles in 2012. His recent essay “Robert Rauschenberg's Red Show: Theater, Painting, and Queerness in 1950s Modernism" was published in the January 2017 issue of Modernism/modernity and "Readymade Primitivism: Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and African Art" was published in the British journal Art History in 2020.
See all contributions by Dr. Thomas Folland - Dr. Billie Follensbee
Billie is Professor and Museum Studies Program Coordinator at Missouri State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Billie Follensbee - Dr. Valentina Follo
Valentina Follo is the Director of CIEE Global Institute – Rome. She graduated summa cum laude in classical archaeology at University La Sapienza in Rome and also studied at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After receiving her M.A. in pedagogy of antiquity from the University of Ferrara, she completed her Ph.D. in Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania. For years, Dr. Follo has been sharing her passion for the Eternal City with American university students in various capacities. In addition to teaching at Loyola University and IES Abroad, she has created and supervised numerous student internship and exhibition opportunities as curator of the Norton-Van Buren Archaeological Study Collection at the American Academy in Rome.
See all contributions by Dr. Valentina Follo - Diana Folsom
Diana Folsom (Choctaw) is the Director of Digital Collections at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She earned a BA in Art from San Diego State University and an MA in Creative Art - Painting, from Hunter College, City University of New York. Before her role at the Gilcrease Museum, she worked for 22 years at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Diana Folsom - Edward Fosmire
Ed Fosmire is an Assistant Professor of Art, teaching classes in Art Concepts, Asian art, and African art. Professor Fosmire began his teaching career at Santa Ana College in 1994 as an adjunct faculty member and has also taught at Goldenwest College and Chapman University. He was appointed a full-time faculty member at SAC in 2015. He has also worked as an administrator at several museums including the Laguna Art Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art (where he was the Executive Director), and Long Beach Museum of Art. Professor Fosmire has curated a number of exhibitions and recently wrote the exhibition catalog for the 2014 Bowers Museum exhibition, Heavenly Horses: 2,000 of Chinese and Japanese Equine Art. His interests include the interface between cultures, especially Western and Asian cultures and the resulting artworks, movements, and styles. A recent trip took him to India where he examined south Indian monuments and their possible Western influence. Professor Fosmire has a BA and MA from CSU Long Beach and in his spare time likes to surf, play the guitar, and visit museums and galleries.
See all contributions by Edward Fosmire - Dr. Elisa Foster
Dr. Elisa Foster specializes in late Medieval and early modern French art and architecture. She received her PhD from Brown University and has taught at Paris College of Art, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Arlington, among others. Beginning in January, she will be a Lecturer in the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University.
See all contributions by Dr. Elisa Foster - Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2002. Dr. Foster received her Ph.D. at Yale University. She has taught at Williams College, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently an adjunct professor in the History of Art department. Before the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dr. Foster held curatorial posts at the Indiana University Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she was chief curator and director of research and publications. Dr. Foster has received numerous grants and fellowships and has been a Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a visiting fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2015, she was Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
See all contributions by Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art - The Dunhuang Foundation
The Dunhuang Foundation is committed to public engagement activities rooted in the themes of Buddhism, the Silk Road, and cultural heritage preservation. The Foundation identifies areas where modest investments have a meaningful impact while building new individual and institutional partnerships. Read more here: http://dunhuangfoundation.us/
See all contributions by The Dunhuang Foundation - Dr. Michael Anthony Fowler
Dr. Michael Anthony Fowler is Assistant Professor of Art History at East Tennessee State University. He completed a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in 2019, specializing in ancient Greece and the Near East. An award-winning educator, Dr. Fowler teaches courses across the global history of art, seeking to introduce students to the diversity of visual cultures around the world and to the critical role that the arts continue to play in expressing, shaping, and responding to peoples’ ideals and realities. In his research and scholarship, Dr. Fowler focuses on topics related to material religion, iconography, gender, and violence (and their intersections). Since 2015, he has been a member of the team excavating the sanctuary of Poseidon at Onchestos (Boeotia, Greece), and for the past five years has served on the excavation’s senior staff as Supervisor of Site B (the administrative center). He has also participated in archaeological investigations at the sanctuary of Apollo on the Cycladic islet of Despotiko and in the hinterland of Marsala (W Sicily).
See all contributions by Dr. Michael Anthony Fowler - Dr. Abram Fox
Dr. Abram Fox holds a doctorate in art history and archaeology from the University of Maryland, where he specialized in eighteenth century British and American painting. In addition to his dissertation research on the transatlantic artistic and educational exchange centered on the workshop of Benjamin West, Abram has published work on twentieth-century Czech postcards, and comic books in art history.
See all contributions by Dr. Abram Fox - Dr. Carmen Fracchia
Carmen Fracchia is a Professor of Hispanic Art History at Birkbeck University of London. Her work focusses on the Hispanic intellectual, political, and religious thought about local Spanish and transatlantic slavery, freedom, subjectivity, and hybridity and their articulations in the visual form during the Hapsburg dynasty.
See all contributions by Dr. Carmen Fracchia - Elena Franchi
See all contributions by Elena Franchi - Dr. Razan Francis
Dr. Razan Francis received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on the visual culture of the Islamic world, particularly the artistic interactions in Iberia and across the Mediterranean. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She has previously taught at Bennington College, Northeastern University, and Furman University.
See all contributions by Dr. Razan Francis - Razan Francis
See all contributions by Razan Francis - Dr. Evan Freeman
Dr. Evan Freeman is Contributing Editor for Byzantine art and co-editor of the Smarthistory Guide to Byzantine Art with Anne McClanan. He is Assistant Professor and Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies in the Department of Global Humanities and at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University, he held an Andrew W. Mellow postdoctoral fellowship at Smarthistory and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Regensburg. He co-edited Byzantine Materiality (De Gruyter) with Roland Betancourt.
See all contributions by Dr. Evan Freeman - Dr. Bernard Frischer
Dr. Bernard Frischer has authored, or co-authored, six books and many articles on virtual heritage and on the Classical world and its survival. He is Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Previously, he was Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Virginia where he was Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory. Dr. Frischer’s many projects include “Rome Reborn,” the virtual recreation of the entire city of ancient Rome within the Aurelian Walls. He received his Ph.D. in Classics summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg.
See all contributions by Dr. Bernard Frischer - Dr. Cécile Fromont
Dr. Fromont is professor in the history of art department at Yale University. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800), on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World, and on the slave trade.
See all contributions by Dr. Cécile Fromont - Laura F. Fry
Laura F. Fry is the Senior Curator and Curator of Art at the Gilcrease Museum. She was previously the inaugural Haub Curator of Western American Art at the Tacoma Art Museum.
See all contributions by Laura F. Fry - World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by World Monuments Fund - Bérénice Gaillemin
Bérénice is an anthropologist and an art historian specializing in Indigenous culture from Mexico and Bolivia. One of her interests is the study of alphabetical and pictorial colonial Nahua texts as well as contemporaneous ritual and pictorial writings. As a research specialist at the Getty Research Institute she is currently part of the Florentine Codex initiative, focused on a 16th-century manuscript from Mexico written in Spanish and Nahuatl.
See all contributions by Bérénice Gaillemin - Dr. Shana Gallagher-Lindsay
Dr. Shana Gallagher-Lindsay has taught the history of Western art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, S.U.N.Y., since 1994. Her areas of specialization are modern and contemporary art, and photography. She completed her Ph.D. at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2003, writing her dissertation on the installation artist, Marcel Broodthaers.
See all contributions by Dr. Shana Gallagher-Lindsay - Anabelle Gambert-Jouan
Anabelle Gambert-Jouan specializes in the arts of medieval Spain and Italy. She earned degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, the University of Oxford, and Yale University, where she is completing her Ph.D.
See all contributions by Anabelle Gambert-Jouan - Dr. Jim Ganz, senior curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum
Dr. Jim Ganz is the Senior Curator and Department Head of the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European and American photography, with emphasis on early French photography, the history of photography in California, and the relationship between photography, painting, and the graphic arts. He has organized or co-organized more than 40 exhibitions on diverse subjects, including monographic exhibitions on Édouard Baldus, Willard Worden, Peter Stackpole, and Arthur Tress. He received his Ph.D. in art history from Yale University.
See all contributions by Dr. Jim Ganz, senior curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum - Dr. Isabelle Gapp
See all contributions by Dr. Isabelle Gapp - Dr. Mariachiara Gasparini
Dr. Gasparini is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History at the University of Oregon. Previously she taught at the University of California Riverside, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and Santa Clara University. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Naples "L' Orientale" and East Asian Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London (University of Manchester). In 2015, she completed her Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies: Global Art History at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany.
See all contributions by Dr. Mariachiara Gasparini - Dr. Davide Gasparotto
I'm senior curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
See all contributions by Dr. Davide Gasparotto - Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson
Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is Associate Professor the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has a Fil.Lic. in art history from Lunds University in Sweden, where she focused on contemporary art and social consciousness, specifically in the work of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon. She also holds an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Ph.D in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota.
See all contributions by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson - Elizabeth Gerber, LACMA
Elizabeth Gerber is LACMA's Manager of School and Teacher Programs.
See all contributions by Elizabeth Gerber, LACMA - Dr. Senta German
Dr. Senta German is an associate professor, department of Classics and Humanities, at Montclair University. She was at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, and took her Ph.D. at Columbia University in Aegean, Greek, and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and art. She explores the intersection of art and ancient Greek society with specific attention to performance, gender and the impacts of the illicit antiquities trade and forgery. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Rutgers University.
See all contributions by Dr. Senta German - Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic
Dr. Beth S. Gersh-Nesic earned her Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York Graduate Center and currently teaches art history at Purchase College. Her specialty is Modern Art with an emphasis on Picasso and Cubism.
See all contributions by Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic - Dr. Patty Gerstenblith
Patty Gerstenblith is a distinguished research professor of law at DePaul University and director of its Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law. She is founding president of the Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (2005-2011), a director of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield and senior advisor to the ABA's Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee. In 2011, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as the chair of the President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee in the U.S. Department of State, on which she had previously served as a public representative in the Clinton administration.
See all contributions by Dr. Patty Gerstenblith - Caroline Gillaspie
See all contributions by Caroline Gillaspie - Dr. Parme Giuntini
Dr. Parme Giuntini received her Ph.D. from UCLA where she focused on 18th century British portraiture and the development of a modern domestic ideal. She directs the Art History program at Otis College of Art and Design where her scholarly interests in portraiture and gender have broadened into fashion and identity.
See all contributions by Dr. Parme Giuntini - Dr. Bryan Givens
Bryan is an associate professor of History at Pepperdine University.
See all contributions by Dr. Bryan Givens - Dr. Aaron Glass
Aaron focuses on various aspects of First Nations visual art and material culture, media, and performance on the Northwest Coast of North America, both historically and today. Themes recurring in his work include colonialism and indigenous modernities, cultural brokerage and translation, the politics of intercultural exchange and display, discourses of tradition and heritage management, history of anthropology and museums, and cultural and intellectual property. Previous research and film projects have examined the intercultural history of totem poles; ethnographic mediation of the Hamat’sa or “Cannibal Dance” of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) of British Columbia; and Edward Curtis’s 1914 silent melodrama, In the Land of the Head Hunters. He has curated two exhibits for the Bard Graduate Center Focus Gallery: “Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast” (2011); and “The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology” (2019), the latter in partnership with U’mista Cultural Centre. He is currently co-director of a major collaborative project to create a critical, annotated edition—in print and digital media—of Franz Boas’s landmark 1897 monograph on Kwakwaka’wakw culture.
See all contributions by Dr. Aaron Glass - Dr. Robert Glass
Dr. Robert Glass is Assistant Professor of Art History, Ball State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Robert Glass - Dr. Maura Gleeson
Maura Gleeson holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Florida. She is an educator and independent scholar who specializes in 18th and 19th century French art, with an emphasis on women artists and patronage networks. She is also the Subject Matter Expert for a forthcoming Art History series on the popular YouTube channel, Crash Course.
See all contributions by Dr. Maura Gleeson - Allison Glenn, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Allison M. Glenn is Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She was previously the Manager of Publications and Curatorial Associate for Prospect.4:The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, which opened November 2017.
See all contributions by Allison Glenn, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Dr. Jacopo Gnisci
Dr. Jacopo Gnisci is an art historian specialising in Ethiopian Art and Christian manuscript illumination. He is currently based at the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History (University of Texas, Dallas).
See all contributions by Dr. Jacopo Gnisci - Peggy Goede Montalván
Peggy Goede Montalván earned her Magister Artium in Ancient Latin American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has been teaching at both universities with a focus on Andean colonial art, the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inca society. Furthermore, she has co-curated several exhibitions in museums and is an editor of Mexicon—The Journal of Mesoamerican Studies.
See all contributions by Peggy Goede Montalván - Victor Gomez, Curatorial Associate, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Victor Gomez is Curatorial Associate, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
See all contributions by Victor Gomez, Curatorial Associate, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Dr. Renee M. Gondek
Dr. Renee Gondek received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Virginia, specializing in Greek vases of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E. Currently based in Northern Virginia, Dr. Gondek teaches at the University of Mary Washington, acts as a steering committee member for Kerameikos.org, and serves as a board member for the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
See all contributions by Dr. Renee M. Gondek - Dr. Emily Elizabeth Goodman
Dr. Emily Elizabeth Goodman is Associate Professor of Art History at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego where she won numerous academic awards. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary American art, food history, and feminist theory.
See all contributions by Dr. Emily Elizabeth Goodman - Robert E. Gordon
See all contributions by Robert E. Gordon - Dr. Heather Graham
Heather Graham is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. Her research and publications explore Italian Renaissance art as it intersects with the history of the body and of the emotions, early modern medicine, mourning behaviors and death, gender and sexual culture, and religion.
See all contributions by Dr. Heather Graham - Dr. Kim Grant
Kim Grant is Professor of Art History at the University of Southern Maine. Her publications include All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor (Penn State University Press, 2017) and Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
See all contributions by Dr. Kim Grant - Dr. Maribeth Graybill
See all contributions by Dr. Maribeth Graybill - Dr. Adriana Greci Green
Dr. Adriana Greci Green is Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology/American Indian Studies from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on 18–20th-century Native American histories, exploring the contexts in which material culture, art, dress, and cultural performance are produced and circulated, both historically and today. She also looks at how Native Americans have been represented in museums, popular culture, and the media.
See all contributions by Dr. Adriana Greci Green - Dr. Hilary N. Green
Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies and serves as the co-program director of the African American Studies program at the University of Alabama. She also has a partial appointment in American Studies. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016) as well as articles, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and chapters in The Urban South During the Civil War Era, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Epidemics and War: The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History, ed. Rebecca Seaman (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2018) and Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives, ed. Paul Quigley and Jim Hawdon (New York: Routledge, 2019). Her article entitled “At Freedom’s Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-1872” received the 2016 Lawrence Brewster Faculty Paper Award from the North Carolina Association of Historians.
See all contributions by Dr. Hilary N. Green - Tyler Green
Tyler Green is an historian, critic, and author whose work examines the ways in which artists and their work have engaged with and impacted national histories. Green is also the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, the leading audio program about art.
See all contributions by Tyler Green - Amy Butler Greenfield
See all contributions by Amy Butler Greenfield - Larisa Grollemond
See all contributions by Larisa Grollemond - Micha Gross
Micha Gross co-founded the Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv in 2000. Since then he heads the Center which promotes the modernist architecture of Tel Aviv and produces exhibitions. Gross has published multiple books and is actively involved in several research projects in cooperation with different academic institutions
See all contributions by Micha Gross - Jason Guberman-Pfeffer
Jason is the Executive Director, Digital Heritage Mapping, Inc. and Coordinator, Diarna Geo-Museum
See all contributions by Jason Guberman-Pfeffer - Bruce Guenther
See all contributions by Bruce Guenther - Dr. Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Dr. Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Guerrero holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She curated un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, and Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy, at the Whitney, and she was also part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 in 2020.
See all contributions by Dr. Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art - Dr. Colin Gunckel
Dr. Colin Gunckel is a historian of Latinx media and art, Latin American cinema, and popular culture between the U.S. and Mexico. His first book, "Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II" (Rutgers University Press, 2015) examines the relationship of Mexican audiences to the birth of Hollywood, the rise of Mexican cinema, and the transformation of Los Angeles into an urban metropolis. His research and scholarship on Chicanx art and culture include work on cultural center Self Help Graphics and Art, the artist collective Asco, photographer Oscar Castillo, social movement print culture and photography, and early punk from East L.A. In every case, Gunckel engages archival materials, primary sources, and oral histories to rethink prevalent assumptions about Chicanx cultural production, challenging entrenched historical accounts of art, music, and media in the United States.
See all contributions by Dr. Colin Gunckel - Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch is Teel Curator of African and Oceanic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and author of "The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument," Oxford: Routledge, 2018.
See all contributions by Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch - Mark Guranaccia
See all contributions by Mark Guranaccia - Sebastian Hageneuer
Sebastian Hageneuer received a MA in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is currently a PhD candidate at the same university focusing on “The Development History of Architectural Reconstruction in the media of Near Eastern Archaeology”. Since 2008, he also runs a bureau for scientific visualisation called “Artefacts”, that specialises in the reconstruction and presentation of ancient architecture.
See all contributions by Sebastian Hageneuer - Dr. Nathalie Hager
Nathalie N. Hager is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. She is writing her dissertation on World Art History, a turn in the discipline away from national histories and area studies towards modes that foreground connection and exchange, and how its discourse is developing in art historical theory and scholarship, museums, and pedagogy.
See all contributions by Dr. Nathalie Hager - Dr. Elizabeth C. Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph. D. is an assistant professor at Fort Valley State University and art historian whose research focuses on visual culture of the African diaspora, feminism, and Afrofuturism. Her first book is Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art (Routledge), which is the winner of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant. Dr. Hamilton has published research in Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art, African Arts, the International Review of African American Art, Harper's Bazaar, Smithsonian Voices, and CAA Reviews.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth C. Hamilton - Dr. Amy Hamlin
Dr. Amy K. Hamlin focuses on early twentieth-century German art, particularly the work of Max Beckmann. Hamlin earned a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at St. Catherine University, where she teaches across the art history curriculum.
See all contributions by Dr. Amy Hamlin - Dr. Jessica Hammerman
See all contributions by Dr. Jessica Hammerman - Dr. Shaina Hammerman
See all contributions by Dr. Shaina Hammerman - Dr. Maya Harakawa
Dr. Maya Harakawa is Assistant Professor of Black and Latinx Diasporas in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. At U of T, she is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include art and visual culture of the 20th century, particularly after 1945; Black art and Black artists; and the relationship between art and politics.
See all contributions by Dr. Maya Harakawa - Dr. Kristen M. Harkness
Dr. Kristen M. Harkness specializes in Russian art of the late-nineteenth century and its relationship to the varied arts and crafts movements then developing across Europe. Dr. Harkness is currently a Lecturer at West Virginia University and an Instructor at University of Pittsburgh where she earned her Ph.D.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristen M. Harkness - Sophie Harland
Sophie Harland completed her Masters at the Courtauld Institute of Art, writing on the reproduction of ancient sculpture in eighteenth-century Britain. During her studies she wrote for and edited gallery publications and delivered public talks in the Courtauld Gallery.
See all contributions by Sophie Harland - Dr. Katherine Harper
Dr. Katherine Harper is the Curatorial Fellow of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston.
See all contributions by Dr. Katherine Harper - Courtney Harris
Courtney Harris is Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
See all contributions by Courtney Harris - Dr. Beth Harris
Beth is co-founder and executive director of Smarthistory. Previously, she was dean of art and history at Khan Academy and director of digital learning at The Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA, Beth was Associate Professor of art history and director of distance learning at the Fashion Institute of Technology where she taught both online and in the classroom. She has co-authored, with Dr. Steven Zucker, numerous articles on the future of education and the future of museums, and is the editor of Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (2005). She received her Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and her doctorate in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
See all contributions by Dr. Beth Harris - Dr. Julie Harris
Julie Harris (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1989) is a specialist in the art of medieval Iberia. Among other topics, she has published on ivory carving, the fate of art and architecture during Reconquest warfare, and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. She has participated in three of Therese Martin’s international research projects: “Reassessing the Role of Women as Makers” the “Treasury of San Isidoro in León,” and the ongoing “Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond.” Her recent publications have appeared in Ars Judaica, Gesta, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medieval Encounters, Journal of Medieval History and Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, edited by Elina Gertsman (AUP, 2021). She was recently awarded a Center for Spain in America fellowship at the Clark Institute for her project on the decorative Carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles.
See all contributions by Dr. Julie Harris - Dr. Shawnya L. Harris
Dr. Shawnya L. Harris is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at Georgia Museum of Art. She earned her Ph.D. degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has curated several exhibitions and is the former director of University Galleries at North Carolina A&T State University. Her research interests include modern and contemporary arts of the African diaspora and issues related to art collecting and patronage.
See all contributions by Dr. Shawnya L. Harris - Leila Anne Harris
Leila Anne Harris is a doctoral student in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specializes in the history of photography. Her research and writing focus on nineteenth century photography, gender, and domesticity.
See all contributions by Leila Anne Harris - Dr. Mazie Harris
Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs, Getty Museum
See all contributions by Dr. Mazie Harris - Dr. Ben Harvey
Dr. Benjamin Harvey is an associate Professor of art history at Mississippi State University, Ben received his graduate degrees from the University of Birmingham, UK, and UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on word-and-image issues in the art and literature of nineteenth- century France and early twentieth-century Britain. His work has appeared in numerous venues, including publications by Cornell University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Palgrave MacMillan.
See all contributions by Dr. Ben Harvey - Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey
Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey is Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American art, notably landscape painting, southwestern abstraction and Texas art. Her most recent exhibitions are “The Civil War and American Art” (2012), “Variations on America: Masterworks from the American Art Forum Collections” (2007) and “An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection” (2006). Her current work supports an exhibition on the considerable impact of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on American art and culture. Harvey joined the museum’s staff in 2003 as the curator for the museum’s Luce Foundation Center for American Art, an innovative study center with visible storage. She was the museum’s chief curator from 2003 to 2012. Harvey oversaw the installation of the permanent collection galleries in 2006 after a major renovation of the museum’s historic landmark building. In 2008, she was a fellow at The Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York City. Previously, Harvey was curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art. The book The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880 (1998), won the 1999 Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America as the most significant contribution to 19th-century fine arts studies. She earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia in 1983, and she holds both a master’s degree (1985) and doctorate in art history (1998) from Yale University.
See all contributions by Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey - Dr. Peter Harvey
See all contributions by Dr. Peter Harvey - Dr. Elizabeth S. Hawley
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hawley (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History / Visual Studies at Northeastern University. She is a specialist in art of the United States and modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on Native American art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research interests also include feminist/women’s art, political/activist art, and art of the American West. She is currently preparing a book manuscript examining the transcultural, intersectional dialogues that occurred among Pueblo and Anglo artists working in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her research has been supported by the Lunder Institute for American Art, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, and the Pittsburgh Foundation. Hawley balances her research and teaching with an active curatorial practice. In the past, she has contributed to exhibitions at MoMA, the Laguna Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and she is currently working on a show titled Native Feminisms, opening at NYC gallery apexart in January 2021.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth S. Hawley - Lauren Haynes, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
See all contributions by Lauren Haynes, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Dr. Sharon Hecker
Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator who specializes in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is a leading international authority on Medardo Rosso, and has written on other key twentieth-century Italian artists such as Lucio Fontana and Luciano Fabro, Dr. Hecker earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.
See all contributions by Dr. Sharon Hecker - Dr. Virginia Heckert
Dr. Virginia Heckert is a curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York. She specializes in German photography between the two World Wars and contemporary photography that privileges objectivity and materiality.
See all contributions by Dr. Virginia Heckert - Dr. Christian A. Hedrick
See all contributions by Dr. Christian A. Hedrick - Dr. Jennifer Henneman, Denver Art Museum
Jennifer R. Henneman, Ph.D. is Assistant Curator at Denver Art Museum, Petrie Institute of Western American Art. Henneman earned a Ph.D. in 19th century British and American art history and visual culture from the University of Washington in Seattle, a Master of Arts in art history from The American International University in London and a Bachelor of Arts in studio art and French from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer Henneman, Denver Art Museum - Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry is PhD Candidate in the art history program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he’s writing a dissertation on German Expressionism. He’s been a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Dia Art Foundation, and most recently, a Scholar-in-Residence at LACMA’s Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. In 2019 he received a DAAD One-Year Research Grant to study in Berlin.
See all contributions by Joseph Henry - Dr. Betty Hensellek
Betty Hensellek is an art historian and archaeologist of Iran, Central Asia, and the Steppe. Her current research projects investigate cosmopolitanism in the age of the Great Silk Roads (first millennium CE). She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Cornell University, and her research has been funded by Cornell University, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
See all contributions by Dr. Betty Hensellek - Dr. Margaret Herman
Dr. Margaret Herman earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she specialized in early twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. She holds an M.A. from Queens College, and has taught courses in art and architectural history at City College, Parsons, and Montclair State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Margaret Herman - Dr. Chelsea Herr
Dr. Chelsea Herr is the Jack and Maxine Zarrow Curator of Indigenous Art and Culture. She received her PhD in Native American Art History from the University of Oklahoma.
See all contributions by Dr. Chelsea Herr - Dr. Amanda Herring
Amanda Herring is assistant professor of art history at Loyola Marymount University. She received her B.A. in Art History & Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. At LMU, she teaches courses on the art and architecture of the ancient world.
See all contributions by Dr. Amanda Herring - Dr. Carol Herselle Krinsky
Carol Herselle Krinsky, Professor of Art History, has taught undergraduates at New York University since 1965. She is the author of books on the 1521 edition of Vitruvius' De architectura, Rockefeller Center, Synagogues of Europe, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and Contemporary Native American Architecture, as well as many articles, book chapters, and reviews. She received the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award in 2004 as well as several teaching awards from her university.
See all contributions by Dr. Carol Herselle Krinsky - Dr. Sally Hickson
Dr. Sally Hickson is Contributing Editor for Renaissance art in Northern Italy and Associate Professor of Renaissance Art History at the University of Guelph. She has received the H.P. Krauss Fellowship in early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library at Yale University (2009), and the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from the Journal Renaissance and Reformation (2010). She is the author of Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries (Ashgate 2012), and the co-editor of Inganno—The Art of Deception (Ashgate, 2012).
See all contributions by Dr. Sally Hickson - Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Patricia Hickson is the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
See all contributions by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Helen Hillyard
Helen Hillyard is Assistant Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
See all contributions by Helen Hillyard - Dr. Zulfikar Hirji
As an anthropologist and social historian I am interested in how human societies articulate, represent and perform understandings of self, community and other. My research focuses on Muslim societies in a range of historical and contemporary contexts. I am particularly concerned with the diverse ways in which Muslims express and articulate issues of deep human concern as well as matters of daily life. I also interrogate knowledge produced about Muslims, by academics and others.
See all contributions by Dr. Zulfikar Hirji - Dr. Naraelle Hohensee
Dr. Hohensee holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. A specialist in post-modern architecture and urbanism, she is also a professional digital media producer with experience in television production, print, and web design.
See all contributions by Dr. Naraelle Hohensee - Kristin Holder
MA/MS candidate in Art History and Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
See all contributions by Kristin Holder - Ishmael Hope
Ishmael Angaluuk Hope (Tlingit name Khaagwáask') is a Tlingit and Inupiaq poet, Indigenous scholar, art educator, video game writer, film actor, and novelist.
See all contributions by Ishmael Hope - Lily Hope at Portland Art Museum
Lily Hope was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska to full-time artists. She is Tlingit Indian, of the Raven moiety. Following her matrilineal line, she’s of her grandmother’s clan, the T’akdeintaan, originating from the Snail House in Hoonah, Alaska. Lily learned Ravenstail weaving from Clarissa Rizal, and Kay Parker, both of Juneau. She learned Chilkat weaving from Clarissa Rizal as well, who, until her passing in December 2016, was one of the last living apprentices of the late Master Chilkat Weaver, Jennie Thlanaut. Lily weaves both Ravenstail and Chilkat textiles. A recent ensemble, Little Watchman, blends the two styles. Lily teaches both Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving in the Juneau community, in the Yukon Territory, and down the coast of SE Alaska, into Washington and Oregon. She also demonstrates internationally, and offers lectures on the spiritual commitments of being a weaver. Her first Ravenstail ensemble (a collaboration with Clarissa Rizal), Copper Child, had a run of exhibits and shows, winning first place in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Juried Art Show, 2012. It is now in the permanent collection at Sealaska Heritage. Lily finished her first adult-size Chilkat robe on May 31, 2017, after 17 months and over 1700 hours at the loom. Please visit Sealaska Heritage Institute’s blog post about the ‘cutting off the loom’ cermony, held the afternoon before final completion. Lily’s robe, titled the Heritage Robe, now lives in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon. Lily lives in Juneau, Alaska, with her husband, author Ishmael Hope, and five children.
See all contributions by Lily Hope at Portland Art Museum - Dr. Jane Horan
Dr. Jane Horan received her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Auckland in 2012. In her thesis, she explored the interactions of value, values and valuables in the Cook Islands' ceremonial economy in New Zealand. She currently holds a research associates position in the Property Department of the University of Auckland Business School.
See all contributions by Dr. Jane Horan - Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens
Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens is currently a Mary Griggs Burke Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in 2021. She was a 2017-18 Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University from 2017-19, where she investigated the development of video practices by Tokyo-based artists in the 1970s. She assisted with the Japan Society's 2019 exhibition "Made in Tokyo: Architecture & Living, 1964/2020," served as Research Assistant for "Gutai: Splendid Playground" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2013), was a 2012-13 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, and previously worked as Assistant Curator and Interim Programs Manager at Art in General. She has also contributed to publications produced by ArtAsiaPacific, Art Tower Mito, the Mori Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, ArtPhil, Takuro Someya Gallery, Art in General, and Hyperallergic, and produced translations for Art Platform Japan BUNKA-CHO, Josai University's Review of Japanese Culture and Society, and Tokyo Opera City, among others.
See all contributions by Dr. Nina Horisaki-Christens - Dr. Heather Horton
Dr. Heather A. Horton specializes in Medieval and Renaissance art and architectural history, especially the works of the pivotal writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. Horton earned her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. She is a frequent guest lecturer at The Cloisters Museum and has taught art history at New York University, The City University of New York, and Purchase College; currently she teaches art and design at Pratt Institute.
See all contributions by Dr. Heather Horton - Dr. Brad Hostetler
Dr. Brad Hostetler specializes in the art and material culture of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, with a particular emphasis on portable luxury objects from the ninth through the twelfth centuries. He teaches courses at Kenyon College on the art and architecture of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, including ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Islamicate world.
See all contributions by Dr. Brad Hostetler - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
See all contributions by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Dr. Rebecca Howard
Rebecca Howard received both her PhD in Early Modern Art History and MA in Western Art History from The Ohio State University and her BA from Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Her research interests include portraiture, questions of identity, early modern neuroscience and anatomy, word and image theory, and early modern mnemonic tactics and commemorative devices.
See all contributions by Dr. Rebecca Howard - Kaila Howell
See all contributions by Kaila Howell - Elaine Hoysted
Elaine Hoysted is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art at University College Cork,Ireland. Her research focuses on the representation of motherhood inRenaissance Florence. She received a BA (Hons) (2008) and MPhil in History ofArt (2012) at University College Cork. She is also an assistant lecturer in theDepartment of History of Art and the Centre for Adult Continuing Education,University College Cork. She has published a number of papers on the representation of motherhood in Renaissance Italy.
See all contributions by Elaine Hoysted - History Hub
History Hub was created as part of 'Citizens: 800 years in the making', a National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project led by Royal Holloway, University of London. Exploring the history of liberty, protest, rebellion and reform from Magna Carta to the Suffragettes and beyond, Citizens is led by Dr Matthew Smith.
See all contributions by History Hub - Dr. John M. Hunt
John M. Hunt (PhD, Ohio State University) is an assistant professor of medieval and early modern history at Utah Valley University. His research focuses broadly on street life, popular culture and community in early modern Rome and the Papal States. He has written articles on such diverse topics as rumor and the papal election, ambassadors and their carriages, and betting on the promotion of cardinals and popes. His essay on male violence and carriages in early modern Rome won I Tatti’s Best Essay by a Junior Scholar. His book, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome, was published by Brill in March 2016.
See all contributions by Dr. John M. Hunt - Dr. Ellen Hurst
Dr. Ellen Hurst earned her PhD at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research addresses cultural interaction in the early modern world, with a focus on the exchange between northern Italy and Muscovy in the sixteenth century. She has taught art history in the Midwest and on the East Coast, and currently works as a consulting writer, editor, and researcher for several major arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the US State Department’s Art in Embassies Program.
See all contributions by Dr. Ellen Hurst - Dr. Krisztina Ilko
Krisztina Ilko currently serves as Departmental Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Academic Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Prior to that she held two subsequent Research Fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2018–2020). She is specialising in medieval and early Renaissance art, material culture, and social history from a global perspective.
See all contributions by Dr. Krisztina Ilko - Getty Conservation Institute
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See all contributions by Getty Conservation Institute - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
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See all contributions by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
See all contributions by National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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See all contributions by National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
See all contributions by National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution - Dr. Christa Irwin
Dr. Christa Irwin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Marywood University. She specializes in art of the Renaissance and Baroque in both Europe and Latin America. Her current research involves intersections of Italian and South American art and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Christa Irwin - Dr. Vladimir Ivanovici
I studied ancient history at the University of Bucharest and at the Freie Universität Berlin. I have PhDs in ancient history (2011) and art history (2014), I was postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte Rom (2015-2017), and Summer fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (2019). Since 2015 I am lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana. My work explores the ways in which ancient and late antique societies staged encounters with the divine, with particular focus on living bodies as theophanic media.
See all contributions by Dr. Vladimir Ivanovici - Dorica Jackson
Dorica Jackson is a weaver and the wife of Tlingit carver Nathan Jackson.
See all contributions by Dorica Jackson - Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is a Tlingit (Taantʼa kwáan Teikweidi) tribal leader and former Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President.
See all contributions by Richard Jackson - Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Emily Jennings is manager of School and Teacher Programs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
See all contributions by Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Claire Jensen
Claire Jensen is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto, where she studies the art and architecture of late medieval Southern Italy. Her current research centers on fourteenth-century frescoes in and around Naples.
See all contributions by Claire Jensen - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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See all contributions by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Dr. James R. Jewitt
James Jewitt is Manager and Instructor for the interdisciplinary Visual Arts Minor, hosted by the School of Visual Arts at Virrginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture, and Advanced Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Jewitt teaches the gateway and capstone courses for the Visual Arts Minor. His other teaching areas include the history of art and architecture in the medieval and early modern periods, the history of collecting, as well as the art history methods seminar. Dr. Jewitt has published articles in The Burlington Magazine on the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and on Nicolas Poussin’s activities as a landscape painter in Rome and Spain. He has presented research at numerous academic conferences, including the College Art Association, SECAC, Renaissance Society of America, and Association for General and Liberal Studies. His current research projects reexamine collecting and display practices of landscape painting in Renaissance Venice.
See all contributions by Dr. James R. Jewitt - Dr. Maya Jiménez
Dr. Maya Jiménez is Contributing Editor for Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focused on the transatlantic dialogues between Latin American and European modern art. She currently teaches at Pace University and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
See all contributions by Dr. Maya Jiménez - Dennis Michael Jon, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Dennis has more than 25 years of museum-based experience as a curator, art historian, and educator. A specialist in modern, postwar, and contemporary works on paper and artists’ books, he has organized and overseen more than 65 exhibitions, exploring such subjects as labor and industry, war and its consequences, homicide, art and nature, spirituality, the book as art object, and the history of the American Presidency. His exhibit projects have included solo presentations of the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Hamilton, Ed Ruscha, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Cage, May Stevens, Michael Mazur, James Castle, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirό, Anders Zorn, and James McNeil Whistler. He has authored and co-authored more than a dozen books and numerous articles and essays on subjects related to his specialization, including the catalogue raisonné of the published prints and multiples of Vermillion Editions Limited, a Minneapolis-based collaborative print workshop, whose archive is part of Mia’s permanent collection. Dennis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received his MA in modern and contemporary art history from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
See all contributions by Dennis Michael Jon, Minneapolis Institute of Art - Sol Jung
Sol is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University specializing in Japanese art history, with particular focus on its transnational impact during the premodern period. Sol’s dissertation, “Assembling “Korea:” Peninsular Arts in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” supervised by Professor Andrew M. Watsky, explores the sixteenth-century inception and reception of Korean tea bowls called kōrai jawan in Japan, through period tea documents, literary texts, and archaeological remains. Fieldwork at several maritime kiln and settlement sites in Korea and Japan informs her research. Her project has been supported by the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies and the Kyujanggak International Center for Korean Studies. Sol received her B.A. with distinction at the University of Pennsylvania, with minors in Philosophy and Chinese Studies. Prior to beginning her graduate program at Princeton, Sol co-founded the Kilburn Art Space, the first contemporary art gallery in a traditional Korean vernacular structure within the Bukchon Hanok Preservation District in Seoul, South Korea.
See all contributions by Sol Jung - Dr. Zsombor Jékely
Zsombor Jékely is an art historian from Budapest, Hungary. He works at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. He received his doctorate from Yale University, focusing on medieval art.
See all contributions by Dr. Zsombor Jékely - Dr. Yuka Kadoi
Yuka Kadoi (PhD in History of Art, University of Edinburgh) is an art historian and art historiographer, with particular expertise in the mobility of artefacts, history of collecting and critical museology. She has published extensively on various aspects of Persian art in global contexts, including Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran (EUP, 2009/2018) and more than fifty book chapters and journal articles, while editing/co-editing six volumes and three special issues of peer-reviewed journals.
See all contributions by Dr. Yuka Kadoi - Roshna Kapadia
Roshna Kapadia has an MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and has recently completed an MA in Art History at George Mason University. Although her primary area of focus is South Asian art (Buddhist sculpture, Hindu architecture, Islamic painting from the Mughal era), she also lectures student groups, visiting tourists, and adult audiences in the Washington DC area on a wider set of art history topics.
See all contributions by Roshna Kapadia - Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum
See all contributions by Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum - Dr. Katherine E. Kasdorf
Dr. Katherine E. Kasdorf is Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She received her Ph.D. in South Asian art history from Columbia University in 2013, completing a dissertation on Hoysala-period (ca. 11th–14th-century) temples in southern India’s Karnataka state. She has published articles on architectural reuse in Hindu and Islamic contexts in South Asia, and on works of Tibetan art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Additional research interests include historical urbanism and the topographical contexts of South Asian temples, diachronic histories of religious sculpture, and collections history.
See all contributions by Dr. Katherine E. Kasdorf - Katerina Harris
See all contributions by Katerina Harris - Dr. Bryan C. Keene
Bryan C. Keene teaches art history at Riverside City College. Prior to that he was a curator in the Department of Manuscripts at Getty Museum. He specializes in Italian manuscript illumination and the global Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the nexus of Afro-Eurasian book culture, portable objects, and materials.
See all contributions by Dr. Bryan C. Keene - Jenny Keller
Jenny Keller (Cherokee Nation) is the Associate Curator of Contemporary Culture and Community at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
See all contributions by Jenny Keller - Dr. Laurel Kendall
See all contributions by Dr. Laurel Kendall - Dr. Elsje van Kessel
Dr. Elsje van Kessel focuses on the viewing, use, and display of early modern art. She completed her Ph.D. at Leiden University, the Netherlands (2011), and wrote The Lives of Paintings: Presence, Agency and Likeness in Venetian Art of the Sixteenth-Century (De Gruyter, 2017). She has published articles in Renaissance Studies, the Journal of the History of Collections, Studiolo, and Art History.
See all contributions by Dr. Elsje van Kessel - Farisa Khalid
Farisa Khalid holds a Masters in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where she wrote her thesis on Thomas Hart Benton’s work with Hollywood. Her primary area of interest is nineteenth and twentieth century American art and visual culture with a sub-specialty in South Asian art.
See all contributions by Farisa Khalid - Sal Khan
See all contributions by Sal Khan - Dr. Allison Kidd
Dr. Kidd is a classical archaeologist specializing in the study of Roman and Late Antique architecture and urbanism. She has led fieldwork and research projects in Turkey and in Italy, at sites such as Aphrodisias and Aeclanum, where she brings together methodologies in history, art history, epigraphy, and numismatics to reconstruct expressions of identity and assess the way in which individuals lived within and related to Rome's urban milieu.
See all contributions by Dr. Allison Kidd - Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Dr. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank is the Contributing Editor for Latin American Colonial and Native American/First Nations art. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California Los Angeles. Much of her research focuses on religious art in New Spain, emotions, women in art, and digital art history. In 2013, she received a Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she was an Assistant Professor of Art History until 2015. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University from 2015–2020. Now, she has joined Smarthistory as the Dean of Content and Strategy.
See all contributions by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank - Dr. Haewon Kim
Dr. Haewon Kim is Curator at the National Museum of Korea. She earned her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University and her Ph.D. in Asian Art History at the University of Pennsylvania.
See all contributions by Dr. Haewon Kim - Dr. Mary Kinnecome
Mary Kinnecome’s area of expertise is twentieth century European and American art with a particular interest in women artists, German Expressionism, and American art from the 1940s to the 1960s. Presently, she teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Stevenson University. She teaches introductory art history courses and a grant writing course for film majors and has taught modern art courses. Mary also works as a part-time grant writer in the non-profit world. Mary received an MA in art history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
See all contributions by Dr. Mary Kinnecome - Katrina Klaasmeyer
Katrina Klaasmeyer earned her Masters in Art History from the University of Oregon, with her thesis “Capitalist Realism: The Work of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Konrad Lueg, 1962-67.” She curated an exhibition on the Japanese tradition of manga as it relates to war and romance comics of the 1940s-50s at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Katrina Klaasmeyer - Dr. Caroline Klarr
Dr. Caroline Klarr received her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She has published the areas of Hawaiian Body Ornament in Hula and the Fijian frescoes by Jean Charlot. Her current research focuses on Jean Charlot’s Public Art works in Hawai’i.
See all contributions by Dr. Caroline Klarr - Dr. Jennie Klein
Dr. Klein specializes in contemporary art, theory, performance studies, and new genre art. Her current research interests include feminist performance and video in the 70s, inSITE and the politics of international exhibitions on the U.S./Mexico border and the representation and politics of motherhood in video, performance, and photography.
See all contributions by Dr. Jennie Klein - Sara Klein, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Sara Klein was the Teacher and School Programs Manager at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, where she managed a team of professional gallery teachers and developed and facilitated professional development programs for educators. Prior to joining the education staff at the Amon Carter in 2009, she was the Education Curator at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She holds a MA in Art History from Florida State University. Ms. Klein was recently appointed Director of Education at the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida.
See all contributions by Sara Klein, Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Dr. Peri Klemm
Dr. Peri Klemm is Professor of Art History at California State University, Northridge and teaches course on the arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America. Her current research project focuses on identity, dress, and the body in Oromia, Ethiopia. She received her doctorate in African art history from Emory University.
See all contributions by Dr. Peri Klemm - Dr. Anna C. Knaap
Dr. Anna C. Knaap is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
See all contributions by Dr. Anna C. Knaap - Dr. Rex Koontz
Dr. Rex Koontz is Contributing Editor for Pre-Columbian art in Mesoamerica. Rex is an art historian who works in the museum collections and archaeological sites of Mexico. He has written extensively on the ancient history of Mexico, including the recent Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajin (2009, University of Texas Press). He is also the author (with Michael Coe) of Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, the standard English introduction to the history of Ancient Mexico. He was recently one of three North Americans asked to contribute to the celebration of Mexico’s Bicentenary at the National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. He is currently Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Art, University of Houston.
See all contributions by Dr. Rex Koontz - Dr. Anna Koopstra, Curator of Early Netherlandish Painting, Musea Brugge
Dr. Anna Koopstra is Curator of Early Netherlandish Painting at the Musea Brugge. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art. Koopstra specializes in 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish painting.
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See all contributions by The National Museum of Korea - Dr. Rachel Kousser
Rachel Kousser is Professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; she is also the Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her most recent work, The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture: Interaction, Transformation, Destruction (Cambridge University Press, 2017), received an Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention Award and was shortlisted for the Runciman Book Award for a book on Greek history or culture. Professor Kousser is also the author of Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and of articles in Art Bulletin, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, and the American Journal of Archaeology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts.
See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Kousser - Arpad Kovacs
I am an assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
See all contributions by Arpad Kovacs - Elliot Krasnopoler
Elliot Krasnopoler is a PhD candidate at Bryn Mawr College, where he is studying the relationship between contemporary art and natural history. He received his B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in Fine Art Photography and his M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College, where he wrote about Robert Smithson’s use of photography in his Non-Sites. He has published on Josef Sudek’s still-lives in History of Photography (2018), as well as on Roni Horn’s Library of Water in the volume Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World (2019). He lives in North Adams, Massachusetts at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains.
See all contributions by Elliot Krasnopoler - Dr. Juliana Kreinik
Dr. Juliana Kreinik has taught the History of Photography at SUNY, New Paltz and Pace University, and lectured on German art of the Weimar era. She received her Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she wrote her dissertation on New Objectivity in German painting and photography of the 1920s.
See all contributions by Dr. Juliana Kreinik - Sabena Kull
Sabena Kull is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware and the 2017-2018 Mayer Fellow for Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum. She specializes in the art and material culture of the early modern Spanish world. As the Mayer Fellow at the DAM, Sabena conducts research for the New World department, examining paintings and embroidered samplers from the museum’s collection of colonial Latin American art, and continues work on her dissertation, which investigates women’s art production in seventeenth-century Lima, Peru, and Seville, Spain. Before beginning her doctoral studies in 2015, Sabena earned an M.A. in Art History from the University of Denver and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Montana.
See all contributions by Sabena Kull - Dr. Aparna Kumar
Aparna Kumar is a Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South. She received her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. Before joining UCL in 2020, Aparna was a Lecturer in Art History at UCLA, and a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In 2023-2024, Aparna will be a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Aparna Kumar - Dr. Theresa Kutasz Christensen
See all contributions by Dr. Theresa Kutasz Christensen - Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott
Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott was American History Fellow at Smarthistory in 2021–2022. Previously, she was Senior Content Creator in Humanities at Khan Academy. Kim earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in United States cultural history, visual culture, and religion. Her dissertation, “Lincoln’s Ghosts: The Posthumous Career of an American Icon,” was the recipient of the Hay-Nicolay Prize. Kim was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
See all contributions by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott - Dr. Lara Kuykendall
Dr. Lara Kuykendall is Associate Professor of Art History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She holds a Ph.D. in American art from the University of Kansas and her research examines ways in which American artists of the 1930s and 1940s used heroic imagery to understand and critique the changing social and political fabric of the United States.
See all contributions by Dr. Lara Kuykendall - Dr. Erik Kwakkel
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See all contributions by Nippon Hoso Kyokai - Claire L'Heureux
Claire L'Heureux is a graduate curatorial intern in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her B.A. in Art History at the Indiana University Bloomington and her M.A. in Art History at Williams College.
See all contributions by Claire L'Heureux - Dr. Kristen Laciste
Dr. Kristen Laciste received her MA and PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and specializes in art and visual culture from West and Central Africa. In her scholarship, she examines African fashion practices and subcultures created or influenced by colonialism during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the fashion subculture, the Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons (La SAPE) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, she studies photography in Africa, from its introduction and utilization by Europeans to justify their colonial intervention, to its usage by African artists in the wake of independence to the present, and its circulation in American and European news media.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristen Laciste - Nina Wan Lai-na
Nina Wan Lai-na is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her MPhil degree in Visual Studies at Lingnan University. Her research focuses on paintings of women and current interests include Chinese painting manuals of the late Qing and early Republic period.
See all contributions by Nina Wan Lai-na - Chad Laird
Chad Laird has taught in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology since 2005. He received his M.A. in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University in 2000, and now concentrates on filmmaking, music and sound art.
See all contributions by Chad Laird - Dr. David Landau
Dr. Landau is an art historian and philanthropist, who has lead the effort to save the historic synagogues of Venice as well as it glass making traditions.
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See all contributions by Lori Landay - Julia Langley
Julia Langley received an M.A. in ancient Greek art history from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also completed the graduate program in Museum Studies at the George Washington University with a study of the war memorials on the National Mall.
See all contributions by Julia Langley - Michelle J. Lanteri
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Dr. Kenneth Lapatin is Curator of Antiquities, Getty Museum
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Abigail Lapin Dardashti is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. She has a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American art and more specifically post-war Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
See all contributions by Dr. Abigail Lapin Dardashti - Dr. Perrin Lathrop
Perrin Lathrop received her Ph.D. in African Art History from Princeton University. Her research broadly focuses on the development of modernism in Africa, with a special interest in Nigeria. She holds a BA from New York University and an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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Dr. Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Curator of American Art, Newark Museum
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Beatrice Leal is an honorary lecturer in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, a trustee of the Hungate Medieval Art centre in Norwich (UK), and an associate of the Manar al-Athar image archive at the University of Oxford. Most of her research is on the material culture of the late antique, early medieval, and early Islamic Mediterranean and surrounding regions. She has a particular interest in non-figural imagery, and in the cultural associations and uses of materials.
See all contributions by Dr. Beatrice Leal - Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler
Dr. Jessica L. Ambler holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a specialization is Roman architecture. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at UCSB and a Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. She is now the Head of Research for the Heller Group, an art advisory in New York.
See all contributions by Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler - Alyssa Lee
Alyssa Lee is an undergraduate student in the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.
See all contributions by Alyssa Lee - Casey Lee
I’m the curatorial assistant in the Drawings Department at the Getty Museum and I research and catalogue the collection of Western European drawings. I completed my undergraduate degree at UC Riverside and graduate degrees in Art History at Queen’s University. My research interests include the history of collecting and 17th-century Dutch art.
See all contributions by Casey Lee - Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay
Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay is Acting Senior Historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar; a Presidential Counselor to the National WWII Museum; and the founding director of PORTAL, the Portrait Gallery’s scholarly center. Lemay also served as the founding coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. She earned a dual Ph.D. in American art history and American studies from Indiana University (Bloomington).
See all contributions by Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay - Dr. Anneka Lenssen
Dr. Anneka Lenssen is Associate Professor of Global Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anneka specializes in modern painting and contemporary visual practices, with a focus on the cultural politics of the Middle East. Her research examines problems of artistic representation in relation to the globalizing imaginaries of empire, nationalism, communism, decolonization, non-alignment, and Third World humanism. Her teaching interests include modern art and international mass culture, the visual culture of resistance movements, abstraction and aniconism, translational and comparative practices, and special topic courses on Islamic art.
See all contributions by Dr. Anneka Lenssen - Courtney M. Leonard
Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock) is an artist and filmmaker, who has contributed to the Offshore Art movement. Leonard’s current work embodies the multiple definitions of “breach”, an exploration and documentation of historical ties to water, whale and material sustainability. In collaboration with national and international museums, cultural institutions, and indigenous communities in North America, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and the United States Embassies, Leonard’s practice investigates narratives of cultural viability as a reflection of environmental record.
See all contributions by Courtney M. Leonard - Dr. Ayla Lepine
Dr. Ayla Lepine specializes in British nineteenth-century art and architectural history. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D. at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2011, she studied art history and theology at the University of Victoria and Oxford University. Her thesis focused on intersections between the Gothic Revival and Anglicanism and Oxford and Cambridge, and she continues to be interested in Anglican visual culture.
See all contributions by Dr. Ayla Lepine - Dr. Cynthia Neri Lewis
Dr. Cynthia Neri Lewis is Professor of Art History at Rio Hondo College. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Riverside and her M.A. in Art History from California State University, Fullerton. She specializes in the colonial art of the Americas, with an emphasis on the missions of California and the art of the Spanish borderlands.
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See all contributions by Dr. Julius Lipner - Dr. Jesse Locker
Jesse Locker is Professor of Italian art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods at Portland State University. He is author of a numerous studies on Italian art, including Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press), winner of the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian Studies, and editor of Rethinking Art in the Late Renaissance: After Trent (Routledge).
See all contributions by Dr. Jesse Locker - Dr. Eve Loh-Kazuhara
Eve received her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, where she lectures in Art History. She specializes in Japanese art history, focusing on nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and decolonial perspectives. Eve is passionate about making art history accessible to a wider audience having worked in museum education and interpretation at a national art institution. She is working on a book manuscript based on nihonga painter, Tanaka Isson (1908–1977) and his landscapes of Amami-Oshima.
See all contributions by Dr. Eve Loh-Kazuhara - National Portrait Gallery, London
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See all contributions by Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Erin Long, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Erin Emery Long is a Lead Gallery Teacher at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, where she plans and leads experiences for students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in the galleries as well as assisting with teacher programs. Before joining the museum team in 2002, she taught World History and American History in middle school and high school classrooms in New Mexico and Georgia. Prior to this, Ms. Long earned a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in the Plan II program and an MA in American History from the University of New Mexico.
See all contributions by Erin Long, Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Mary Beth Looney
Mary Beth Looney holds an MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MA in Art History from the University of Georgia. She has worked as an assistant curator, a registrar and a professor of studio art and art history. Her current research focus is the development of American modernism in the 1930s, and she is authoring a college-level game on the topic.
See all contributions by Mary Beth Looney - Dr. Kate Lowe
Kate Lowe is an Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. In 2005 she co-edited Black Africans in Renaissance Europe and she has worked on various aspects of Africa in Renaissance Italy for over 20 years. In 2017 she co-curated A Cidade Global: Lisboa no Renascimento at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon. She was the co-convenor of the research seminar on Italian medieval and Renaissance History at the Institute of Historical Research in London between 1996 and 2018, and editor of the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History monograph series, published by Harvard University Press, between 2012 and 2020.
See all contributions by Dr. Kate Lowe - Dr. John P. Lukavic, Denver Art Museum
John P. Lukavic (he/him/his) serves as the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum where he specializes in Indigenous arts of North America. He is the organizing curator for such exhibitions as Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger (2021), Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer (2018), and Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980 (2015), as well as lead curator for DAM’s reinstallation of their Indigenous Arts of North America galleries (2021). Lukavic received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma (2012) where he conducted his doctoral fieldwork with Southern Cheyenne moccasin makers and religious leaders in Oklahoma, and he received an M.A. in Museum Science from Texas Tech University (1999). In 2018, he was selected for the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University’s NextGen program for emerging top talent in the museum field. In 2019 Lukavic received an Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators for his essay in the Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer exhibition catalogue. He serves as Vice President for the Native American Art Studies Association as well as a Board member for the Denver Indian Center, Inc.
See all contributions by Dr. John P. Lukavic, Denver Art Museum - Dr. April Renée Lynch
See all contributions by Dr. April Renée Lynch - Dr. Billie Lythberg
Dr. Billie Lythberg is Contributing Editor for the Art of Oceania. Billie received her PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland (NZ), and completed post-doctoral research at Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA,UK). She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland Business School and an Affiliated Researcher at MAA. Billie explores Indigenous economies and aesthetics and has collaborated with Māori and Pacific artists, academics and communities towards co-developed research, co-authored publications, co-curated exhibitions, and projects of artistic and economic revitalisation. She has a particular passion for eighteenth-century Māori and Tongan artefacts, and the economic and political objectives their transactions were harnessed to.
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MAP is custodian to a growing collection of over 60,000 artworks that take viewers on a comprehensive journey of Indian art and culture.
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See all contributions by MCN - Dr. Clara Ma
Dr. Clara Ma earned her Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where she is studied Buddhist art in the cave temples in Dunhuang and the rock carvings in Sichuan. She wrote her dissertation on the figural representations of Buddhist thaumaturges and the notion of miraculous transformation in the Tang and Song Dynasties. She received her B.A. in art history from St. Lawrence University, and after working in heritage conservation in Hong Kong, received her M.A. in art history and archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
See all contributions by Dr. Clara Ma - Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland
Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland is Contributing Editor for Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Art. She recently received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, where she attended as a Thomas Lee scholar. Currently, she is working on a book project investigating depictions of visionary experience in early Renaissance Italy.
See all contributions by Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland - Dr. Deanna MacDonald
Dr. Deanna MacDonald has taught art and architectural history at Temple University’s Tokyo Campus since 2012. She received an MA in art history from the Central European University Prague campus, and a PhD in Art History from McGill University, Montreal with a dissertation on the art and architectural patronage of Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands. Her interests include cross-cultural exchange and global art and architecture, the early modern period, gender & the arts and Japanese visual culture.
See all contributions by Dr. Deanna MacDonald - Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay
Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay is Contributing Editor for the Arts of the Islamic World. She brings her expertise in Islamic and Roman architecture, art and archaeology, as well as in digital scholarship and pedagogy to the Smarthistory Board. She has served on the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America and of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Her books include Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries (2018), Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (2018), and Housing the New Romans: Classical Style and the Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World (2017). She is currently an Associate Professor at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and the Executive Officer of the M.A. in Liberal Studies.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay - Dr. Jessica Mace
Jessica Mace, Ph.D., is the current Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Architecture and Landscapes in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Her research explores concepts of modernity and heritage in the architecture of the nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries, particularly in housing and in industrial contexts in Canada. Since 2015, she has been the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada and currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Committee of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. She also serves as adjunct faculty in both the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Graduate Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University.
See all contributions by Dr. Jessica Mace - Simon Mackenzie
Simon is a professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and a member of the criminological research staff at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. As well as coordinating the Trafficking Culture project, Simon is Programme Director for SCCJR’s MSc in Transnational Crime, Justice and Security, Associate Editor of the Howard Journal for Criminal Justice, a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology, and sits on the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College. His main research interests are in white-collar crime, organised crime, policing and regulation, and transnational criminal markets.
See all contributions by Simon Mackenzie - Dr. Annelise Madsen, The Art Institute of Chicago
Annelise K. Madsen is Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Assistant Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She specializes in U.S. painting, sculpture, and visual culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including recent projects on 1930s modernism, Gilded Age and Progressive Era civic art, and John Singer Sargent. Madsen holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University.
See all contributions by Dr. Annelise Madsen, The Art Institute of Chicago - Dr. Sarah Magnatta
Dr. Sarah Magnatta is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Denver specializing in global contemporary art and museum studies. She previously worked at the Denver Art Museum and has independently curated several exhibitions, including Tenzing Rigdol’s first solo U.S. exhibition, My World Is in Your Blind Spot. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Ohio State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Magnatta - Dr. Samuel Mareel, Senior Curator of 15th- and 16th-Century Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Dr. Samuel Mareel is Senior Curator of 15th- and 16th-Century Art at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. He received his Ph.D. in Dutch literature from Ghent University. He specializes in the visual arts and literature of the Burgundian and early Habsburg Netherlands.
See all contributions by Dr. Samuel Mareel, Senior Curator of 15th- and 16th-Century Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - Dr. Anna O. Marley
Dr. Anna O. Marley is Curator of Historical American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Elizabeth Marlowe earned her Ph.D in Roman Art at Columbia University. She teaches Ancient Art as well as Critical Museum Theory at Colgate University, where she also directs the new program in Museum Studies. She is the author of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship, and the History of Roman Art (2013).
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe - Dana Martin
Dana Martin received her Master’s in art history from Long Beach State University in 2012. Her original thesis focused on the theme of heroic death as it changed through time and medium by exploring the works of the American artists Benjamin West, John Trumbull, and Alexander Gardner. She currently teaches art history and humanities courses at several college campuses in the southern California area.
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Chloé Maurel, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the rue d'Ulm, has a degree in history, a doctorate in contemporary history, a research associate at IRIS, and teaches in the preparatory class at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. . She is a specialist in global history and the United Nations, and has published several books on these topics, such as History of UNESCO (L'Harmattan, 2010), Manuel of Global History (Armand Colin, 2014), History of United Nations ideas. The UN in 20 notions (L'Harmattan, 2015). She often speaks in the media (press, radio, television) about the UN.
See all contributions by Chloé Maurel - Dr. Hayes Peter Mauro
Dr. Hayes Peter Mauro is Professor of Art and Design at CUNY's Queensborough Community College. He earned his M.A. in Art History from Florida State University and his Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York. His books include The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School, which addresses the role of pseudoscientific knowledge and visual representation in the effort to assimilate Native American students at the Carlisle Indian School, and Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America, which critically examines the role of evangelical movements in shaping American identity and visual culture from the Colonial period through the Gilded Age.
See all contributions by Dr. Hayes Peter Mauro - Dr. Leo G. Mazow
Dr. Leo G. Mazow is the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Dr. Anne McClanan teaches western and Byzantine medieval art as well as art history methodology as a Professor at Portland State University in Oregon. She published a book analyzing Byzantine empresses and edited an anthology on Iconoclasm (published as well in Chinese translation) and another anthology on the material culture of sex, procreation and marriage.
See all contributions by Dr. Anne McClanan - Dr. Jennifer N. McIntire
Dr. Jennifer N. McIntire teaches art history part-time at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Far Eastern Art History. Making Chinese art accessible and understandable to a wide variety of people is a primary interest.
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer N. McIntire - Dr. Alberto McKelligan Hernández
Alberto McKelligan-Hernández is an assistant professor at Portland State University. He earned his B.A. and M.A. at The University of Texas at Austin, and he completed his Ph.D. at City University of New York, Graduate Center in 2017. His research interests include modern and contemporary art from Latin America, particularly Mexico, as well as the development of feminist art in different geographic contexts.
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Dr. Cristin McKnight Sethi earned her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines South Asian art of the early modern to contemporary periods with a particular focus on the production and circulation of textiles and craft. She has held curatorial and research positions at a number of museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at the George Washington University.
See all contributions by Dr. Cristin McKnight Sethi - JP McMahon
JP McMahon is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at University College Cork, Ireland. He currently teaches and is academic coordinator on the diploma in European Art History in the Adult Education department of the same university. He received his BA (with distinction) in Art History and English in 2005. He has published a number of essay on American art since 1945.
See all contributions by JP McMahon - Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Virginia Mecklenburg is chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
See all contributions by Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum - Dr. Arathi Menon
Dr. Arathi Menon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Hamilton College. Menon earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, with a specialization in the art and architecture of South Asia and a focus on the material culture of the premodern Indian Ocean. Her research has examined medieval temple architecture in Kerala, and a syncretic and idiomatic mode of sacred art and architecture in Kerala’s churches, mosques, and synagogues. Menon’s research has been supported by the Steven Kossak Fellowship in Indian art, the Riggio Fellowship in Art History, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is co-editor of the Bulletin for the American Council of Southern Asian Art and has previously taught at Columbia University and at Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges.
See all contributions by Dr. Arathi Menon - Elizabeth Kurtulik Mercuri
Elizabeth Kurtulik Mercuri is a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her academic interests include Roman art and architecture of the Late Republic and Early Imperial era. She also works at Art Resource, Inc. assisting scholars and professionals with image licensing and research.
See all contributions by Elizabeth Kurtulik Mercuri - Dr. Elizabeth M. Merrill
Elizabeth Merrill holds a PhD in art and architectural history from the University of Virginia. She specializes in Italian Renaissance architecture, with a particular focus on the early-modern design and building processes. Her most recent work addresses the role of the architect in the early-modern period and the development of the architectural profession.
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Alan Meyer is a volunteer at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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Kelin Michael, Graduate Curatorial Intern, Manuscripts, Getty Museum
See all contributions by Kelin Michael - Emilia Mickevicius
Dr. Emilia Mickevicius is an art historian who specializes in photography and modern and contemporary American art. In 2019 she received her Ph.D. from Brown University, where she completed a dissertation on the reception of the 1975 George Eastman Museum exhibition, New Topographics. She currently works as a curatorial assistant in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
See all contributions by Emilia Mickevicius - Dr. Courtnay Micots
Courtnay Micots (Ph.D., African Art History, University of Florida) is the Assistant Professor of Art History at Florida A & M University. Previously she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand. She has taught at Florida Southern College, the University of Florida, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of South Florida, Elon University, and for the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana in Legon. Recent publications include “Joburg Carnival and the Potential for Social Cohesion and Therapeutic Activism” in the summer 2017 issue of the South African Journal of Art History, “Status and Mimicry: African Colonial Period Architecture in Coastal Ghana” in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and “Carnival in Ghana: Fancy Dress Street Parades and Competition” in the spring 2014 issue of African Arts. She is currently authoring a book on Fancy Dress in Ghana.
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Dr. Ingrid E. Mida is a Research Fellow at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Reading Fashion in Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-based Research in Fashion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Her research can also be found in various publications including Drawing: Research, Theory and Practice; Dress; Fashion Theory; and Museums Studies Journal. She formerly worked as a fashion curator and currently serves as the Editor of The Journal of Dress History. She received her Ph.D. (Art History & Visual Culture) from York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Rachel Miller, PhD, is an assistant professor of art history at California State University, Sacramento. She teaches lower-division surveys of global art and upper-division courses on ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. Her research is focused on the global dissemination of visual representations of Catholic saints in the early modern era.
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Jeremy Miller has taught art history at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Francisco since 2006. He received his MA in Art History from San Francisco State University in 2007, with an emphasis on Venetian Art.
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Olivia Miller received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Oregon with a focus on the Spanish royal hunting portrait tradition. She is currently an art history Ph.D. student and the Curator of Exhibitions and Education at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Prior to her position at UAMA she taught art history at both the high school and college level and worked at multiple non-profit arts organizations in both Oregon and Arizona.
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Dr. Sarah Mills is Assistant Professor of Design History at San Jose State University. Dr. Mills specializing in modern design and contemporary art and also writes on the field of electronic textiles, “expanded textiles” or fiber design in contemporary art, and intersections between technology and materiality. Her work has been supported most recently by a fellowship at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney (2022), a Chester Dale fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018 - 2019) and awards from the Decorative Arts Trust, the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where Dr. Mills completed her M.Phil and PhD. Sarah has lived abroad in Minsk, Berlin, Konstanz, Corrientes, and Cape Town, which she considers critical to her worldview.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Mills - Dr. Leta Y. Ming
Leta Ming joined Chaffey College in fall 2015 as Assistant Professor in Art History. Prior to teaching at Chaffey, she taught at Santa Monica College, Elon University, and Occidental College. Leta completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California with a specialization in modern and contemporary art history and visual studies. Her research interests include San Francisco Bay Area conceptual and performance art of the 1970s, artist-run alternative art spaces, and the history of curating. Concurrent with her graduate work, she directed the research for the expansive survey exhibition Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2011-2012. She also co-curated humor us, an exhibition of Southern California Asian-American artists at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 2007. A native of the East Coast, Leta was Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and worked at Christie’s auction house and in private art dealing, all in New York City. She holds an M.A. in art history from Hunter College and a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Yale University.
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Jessica Mingoia is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Rutgers University focusing on the Hellenistic and ancient Roman periods. Her research mainly focuses on urbanism and domestic art and architecture, particularly in the ancient cities located along the Bay of Naples in Italy. She has taught as an instructor at Rutgers since 2019 and worked as an Art Lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Art Smart NYC since 2016. She received her Bachelor’s in History from SUNY New Paltz (New Paltz, NY, 2010) and her Master’s in Art History and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2016).
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Katarzyna Minollari is a PhD candidate at the University of Tirana, Albania, focusing her research on the decorated pottery from the Classical period found in Albania. She has MA in Art History from the University of Warsaw and currently teaches art history for Quality Schools International, both in classroom and online. She has also taught art history at the University of Arts in Tirana.
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Dr. Mirmobiny is an adjunct professor of art history at Folsom Lake College; she also teaches at California State University, Sacramento, Sierra College and American River Colleges, where she teaches Western and non-Western art history survey courses. Her field of interest and focus of study is critical theory in art history.
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Dr. Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Alfred University, holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research explores the intersection of cultural-political dynamics and artistic expression in modern and contemporary Iranian art.
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Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, where he teaches Ancient and Medieval Art. He is author of Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (2006), co-author of Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders (2018, with Sherry C.M. Lindquist), and Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (2013, with Susan Kim — awarded a Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association and an ISAS Best Book Prize), and author and co-author of many articles on monstrosity and marginality in the Middle Ages, including pieces on Satan in the Junius 11 manuscript (Gesta, with Kim) and “race” in the Middle Ages (postmedieval). He edited the Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (2012), and co-edited Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World (2019, with Rick Godden) and Classic Readings on Monster Theory: Demonstrare, Volume 1 and Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare, Volume 2 (2018, with Marcus Hensel), and is the founding president of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application) and a founding member of the Material Collective, an organization of medieval art historians. His research has been supported by CAA, ICMA, Kress, Mellon, American Philosophical Society, and NEH grants. He edits book series with Boydell and Brill. Mittman co-curated Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders at The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Blanton Museum of Art (2018). Long range research interests include the Franks Casket and images of Jews on medieval maps.
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Magdalena Miłosz is an architectural historian and was previously trained as an architect. Her ongoing doctoral research examines the social and political dimensions of the built environment, with a focus on the spatial dynamics of settler colonialism. She has received awards and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, McGill University, Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians, and Vernacular Architecture Forum. Her writing appears in RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne/Canadian Art Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, and elsewhere. She currently works with Parks Canada and serves as Vice-President (Membership & Communications) of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.
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Dr. Jill Mollenhauer is Professor of Art History at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research interests focus culturally on the art of the Olmec, specifically monumental sculpture. Thematically, her research addresses issues of social memory, commemoration, landscape, space, and agency.
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Emily Moore is associate professor of art history at CSU, where she teaches courses in Native American and American art history. She is also Associate Curator of North American Art at the Gregory Allicar Museum at CSU. Raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, Emily researches historical and contemporary arts from the Northwest Coast, as well as the inclusion (and exclusion) of Native arts in American and world art histories.
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Dr. Kelli Morgan is a Professor of the Practice and the inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University. A curator, educator, and social justice activist who specializes in American art and visual culture, her scholarly commitment to the investigation of anti-blackness within those fields has demonstrated how traditional art history and museum practice work specifically to uphold white supremacy.
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Dr. Mey-Yen Moriuchi received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on cultural encounters, sociological observation, and representations of racial, social, and national identities in Latin American art. She is currently Associate Professor at La Salle University.
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Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press, 2019) and she is currently at work on her second book, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queens University Press). She is an Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Art Education in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Juliet Moss received her MA in art history from California State University, Northridge where she also teaches non-Western art history of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Her work focuses on contemporary African art.
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Dr. Murphy specialises in the art and archaeology of early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia. Has a particular interest in the period spanning the 7th to 9th centuries AD and looks at trade and connections between Southeast Asian cultures and the wider world of Tang China, India and beyond. Museological focus engages with issues surrounding colonialism and post-colonial studies, and debates surrounding the limitations and possibilities of decolonising museums.
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Dr. Andrew Murray completed his Ph.D. on the tomb of Philip the Bold of Burgundy at University College London in 2016. In that year he was also a research fellow at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte.
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Benaki Museum is a network of seven sites across Athens, focusing on archaeology, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine culture, modern Greek art and material culture, European art, Islamic art, and Chinese art.
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To visit the Morgan is to encounter a remarkable range of works that attest to the highest achievement of human creativity—from drawing and literature to music, photography, rare books, and the arts of the ancient and medieval worlds. The collections, some of the greatest of their kind, include superb examples by such masters as Gutenberg, Michelangelo, Mozart, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Pablo Picasso, Irving Penn, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
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Alexandra Nachescu is a museum professional and doctoral student at the University of Vienna. Prior to this she studied Sinology at the University of Oxford and the Art and Archaeology of East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her doctoral research focuses on the art and archaeology of Chinese tombs, material exchange between Eurasian nomadic groups and China and the art and architecture of the Northern Dynasties. She also has a research interest in the collection history of Chinese art in Europe, in particular the collection history and reception of Chinese porcelain. She has taught undergraduate seminars on Chinese ceramics, painting and Buddhist art. Learn more about her work here: https://univie.academia.edu/AlexandraNachescu
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Ryuichi Nakayama is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of New Mexico
See all contributions by Ryuichi Nakayama - Dr. Susan Nalezyty
Susan Nalezyty is the Curator of the School Archives and Collection at the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and is also a lecturer on the history of art at Georgetown University. She has a forthcoming book with Yale University Press, Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector. Her research has been supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Renaissance Society of America, the Bodleian Library, the Kress Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.
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Patrick Nason is an environmental anthropologist whose research is broadly concerned with how humans explore, understand, and relate to the natural world. Recently, he lived in a village with traditional fishermen and woodcarvers in Papua New Guinea. Together with these men and their families, Patrick is developing new ways of sensing environmental change in places like the deep ocean, where human access is out of reach for political, economic, or physical reasons. This research is generously supported by Columbia University, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and The Explorers Club (FN-15).
See all contributions by Patrick Nason - Dr. Jaclyn Neel
Dr. Jaclyn Neel earned her PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Toronto and now enjoys teaching at Temple University. She has written several articles on Roman myth and religion; Smarthistory readers may enjoy "Early Rome: Myth and Society," an English-language collection of translated sources on early Roman myth and history. In a previous project, she offered free online guidance on classical research through her blog (libraryofantiquity.wordpress.com).
See all contributions by Dr. Jaclyn Neel - Dr. Elisabeta Negrău
Elisabeta Negrău is an art historian specializing in the iconography of Romanian medieval painting (14th-18th century) in the Wallachia region. As a researcher, she has collaborated on specialist books, monographs and albums, participated in numerous national and international conferences and authored over 20 scientific articles in relevant Romanian and foreign publications.
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Erika Nelson has an MA in Art History from Brooklyn College, and is a doctoral student in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her area of specialization is modern and contemporary Latin American Art, with a particular interest in 19th-century Mexican popular prints. Erika currently teaches at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
See all contributions by Erika Nelson - Dr. Jenny Newell
Dr. Jenny Newell is co-manager of the Pacific Collection at the Australian Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Pacific environmental history from the Australian National University. Her research focuses on experiences and action on climate change in the Pacific. She works in collaboration with colleagues across the region. Before the Australian Museum she worked in the American Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Australia and the British Museum. Jenny co-edited Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, with Kirsten Wehner and Libby Robin. Her other books are Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange and Pacific Art in Detail.
See all contributions by Dr. Jenny Newell - Dr. Sarah Newman, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sarah Newman is the James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She joined the museum staff in September 2016. Her responsibilities include research, exhibitions, and acquisitions related to the museum’s collection of contemporary art. Her research interests include the relationship between contemporary art and design, and the art of the 1980s. Newman was curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 2006 to 2014.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Newman, Smithsonian American Art Museum - Dr. Suzanne Newman Fricke
Dr. Suzanne Newman Fricke teaches modern and contemporary art history at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. In her work as a curator and in her scholarship, she specializes on contemporary Native American art and has published articles on Bob Haozous, Matika Wilbur, and Melanie Yazzie.
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Dr. Wayne Ngata is a Smarthistory Advisor on the art of Polynesia and Head of Matauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He is an advocate for reo Māori and mātauranga Māori as platforms for helping Māori to contribute constructively to the advancement of New Zealand society, including the museum sector. His research interests include revitalisation of indigenous language and knowledge as future models of best practice.
See all contributions by Dr. Wayne Ngata - Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols, Toledo Museum of Art
Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols is William Hutton Senior Curator of European and American Painting at the Toledo Museum of Art.
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Dr. Bonnie J. Noble is Contributing Editor for the Northern Renaissance. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University, her MA in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialization is the art of the Northern Renaissance, particularly sixteenth-century German painting.
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Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Toledo Museum of Art
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Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, was born in London and is of English and Maori (Ngai Tai) descent. Her doctoral research focused on early missionary collections of Polynesian gods and their extraordinary materiality, which sparked an interest in drawing out the often eclipsed cosmological aspects of Oceanic art. She followed up her involvement on the major exhibition Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760–1860 (2006) at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, with postdoctoral research at Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as part of a research team exploring Oceanic collections in major European institutions—Artefacts of Encounter: 1765–1840 and Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art in European Museums.
See all contributions by Dr. Maia Nuku - Dr. Amy Nygaard Mickelson
Dr. Amy Nygaard Mickelson is an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas where she teaches introductory courses in Art History and graduate seminars in Museum Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2019, writing her dissertation on the intersections of trauma and violence in the works of Jane Alexander.
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Dr. Joshua O'Driscoll is Associate Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, The Morgan Library Museum
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Dr. Christopher Oliver is the Bev Purdue Jennings Assistant Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to her position at the VMFA, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston where she worked from 2000 - 2017. In 2000, she was one of six curators selected to organize the Biennial for the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Dr. Christina Olsen is the Class of 1956 Director of the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Emmanuel Ortega (PhD, Art History, University of New Mexico) is the Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library for 2022-2023. As a scholar and curator, Ortega has lectured on images of autos-de-fe, 19th-century Mexican landscape painting, and visual representations of the New Mexico Pueblo peoples in Novohispanic Franciscan martyr paintings. His writings include "The Mexican Picturesque and the Sentimental Nation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Landscape," (The Art Bulletin, 2021) and his book project, Visualizing Franciscan Anxiety and the Distortion of Native Resistance: The Domesticating Mission (under contract with Routledge). He is a recurrent lecturer for Arquetopia Foundation for Development, the largest artist residency in México.
See all contributions by Dr. Emmanuel Ortega - Dr. Tyler E. Ostergaard
Dr. Tyler Ostergaard is Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He received his Ph.D. from University of Iowa, M.A. at Tufts University, and B.A. from Grinnell College in Iowa. He specializes in Nineteenth-Century European Art History, and also done work in Modern and African Art History.
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Elizabeth Otto is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Executive Director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research, teaching, and curating center on early-twentieth- century experimental art in Europe with a special focus on gender and the art of the Weimar Republic, the Bauhaus, and National Socialism (Nazism). She is the author of many scholarly articles and the book Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt and has co-edited The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film (with Vanessa Rocco) and Passages of Exile (with Burcu Dogramaci). Dr. Otto received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Otto - Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout
Robert G. Ousterhout is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author most recently of Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 46 (Washington, DC, 2017); and Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands, (Oxford University Press, 2019), as well as co-editor of Piroska and the Pantokrator, with M. Sághy (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019); and The Holy Apostles: A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past, with M. Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia (Washington, DC, 2020). His fieldwork has concentrated on Byzantine architecture, monumental art, and urbanism in Constantinople, Thrace, Cappadocia, and Jerusalem. Since 2011 he has co-directed the “Cappadocia in Context” graduate seminar, an international summer field school for Koç University.
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Dr. Jennifer Padgett is associate curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
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Gita V. Pai is an associate professor of South Asian history and director of the International Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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Kirsten Pai Buick is Professor of Art History and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her areas of research and teaching include the material and visual culture of the first British Empire; US art; African American art and material culture; women as patrons and collectors of art; and landscape representation. Her book, In Authenticity: ‘Kara Walker’ and the Eidetics of Racism, is in progress.
See all contributions by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick - Dr. Elena Pakhoutova
Dr. Elena Pakhoutova is Senior Curator at the Rubin Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Elena Pakhoutova - Dr. Melisa Palermo
Melisa Palermo received her Ph.D. in art history from Rice University, and her Masters in art history from the University of Texas at San Antonio as well as from Rice University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas (Houston) and an AP art history high school teacher. Melisa’s primary interest is the relationship between Baroque sacred art and theology, spirituality, and mysticism. Her dissertation focused on the iconography of the heart aflame as a symbol of the virtue of charity, divine union, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in art from 1550-1750.
See all contributions by Dr. Melisa Palermo - Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Dr. Lauren Palmor is Assistant Curator of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She earned a master's degree in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Washington.
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See all contributions by Paulina Pardo Gaviria - Michael John Partington
Michael John Partington holds a BA (Honours) in History and an MA in History of Art (British and Irish) from the University of Nottingham, a Diploma in History of Art (Renaissance and Baroque) from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Arts and Culture (Art, Architecture, and Interior before 1800) from Leiden University. His research interests lie in British and Irish and early modern art and architecture. He has worked as a tour guide at Speyer, Canterbury and Florence cathedrals, as a research assistant for English Heritage, as a researcher and writer for the classic cultural guide book series Blue Guides, and has taught as an instructor in history and history of art at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) based at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He works as a volunteer print cataloguer on the portrait print collection of the naturalist, collector and entomologist William Frederick Hope (1797–1862) housed at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Vaishnavi Patil is a doctoral candidate in the department of history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Her current research is on the origins and development of the cult of the mother goddess in South and Southeast Asia, particularly her representations and the popular practices centered on her.
See all contributions by Vaishnavi Patil - Dr. Jessica Lee Patterson
Jessica Lee Patterson has a PhD in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary research interests are nineteenth-century and Buddhist art, with a particular focus on the role of Chinese immigration and trade on the art, culture, and religion of Southeast Asia.
See all contributions by Dr. Jessica Lee Patterson - Dr. Noelle Paulson
Dr. Noelle C. Paulson, a specialist in nineteenth-century European art history, received her MA and Ph.D .degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Since moving to Switzerland at the end of 2009, she has been an independent art historian, researcher, and freelance writer for museums in Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S.
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David W. Penney is the associate director of museum scholarship, Exhibitions, and Public Engagement at the National Museum of the American Indian. An internationally recognized scholar, curator, and museum administrator, Penney came to the Smithsonian after a 31-year career at the Detroit Institute of Arts where he last served as vice president of exhibitions and collections strategies. Penney has taught at Wayne State University since 1988 and holds a Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University.
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Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University. He loves exploring the complexity and dynamism of Sephardic history with his students. His research investigates connections between Iberian and Jewish culture during the medieval and early modern periods. His essays on Sephardic history analyze the dynamics of religious transformation within the context of the crypto-Jewish experience. His new book, Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith (Indiana University Press) explores family and identity in the early modern Atlantic world. He is currently working on a study of Inquisitorial prisons as sites of cross-cultural encounter and religious discovery.
See all contributions by Dr. Ronnie Perelis - Dr. Ana Cristina Perry
Dr. Ana Cristina Perry is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Oberlin College. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research examines performance, participation, and installation practices by Latinx artists since the 1960s.
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Isaac Peterson is an artist, a writer, and a teacher. His writing is published primarily in Flash Art magazine. In his studio work, he focuses on drawing and animation, but constantly returns to oil painting.
See all contributions by Isaac Peterson - Dr. Andreas Petzold
Dr. Andreas Petzold was educated at Manchester University and the Courtauld Institute of Art where he obtained a Ph.D. for a study of color in Romanesque manuscript illumination. He was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he specialized in Medieval and Renaissance art. He is the author of Romanesque art in the Everyman Art Series. He currently teaches History of Art at MPW London. He has recently published a study on the iconography of color in the Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography and is currently working on a study of religion and color in the medieval period to be published in 2020 in the Cultural History of Color.
See all contributions by Dr. Andreas Petzold - Dr. Filiz Çakir Phillip, Curator, Aga Khan Museum
Filiz Çakır Phillip is Curator at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. She studied Art History and Classical Archaeology, Turcology and Museums Management and was awarded a Doctor's degree in Islamic Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. Before joining the Aga Khan Museum, she worked as curator at the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin and has also served as Senior Fellow at Excellence Cluster TOPOI and Research Fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
See all contributions by Dr. Filiz Çakir Phillip, Curator, Aga Khan Museum - Dr. Carolyn Phinizy
Dr. Carolyn Phinizy is Department Chair and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
See all contributions by Dr. Carolyn Phinizy - Potion Pictures
See all contributions by Potion Pictures - Dianne Pierce
Dianne Pierce is part-time faculty at the State University of New York at New Paltz teaching history of decorative arts, modern design, museum studies, and architecture of New York City. In addition, Dianne is part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, teaching the history of decorative arts and other courses.
See all contributions by Dianne Pierce - Dr. Mark B. Pohlad
See all contributions by Dr. Mark B. Pohlad - Remi Poindexter
Remi Poindexter is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY whose research focuses on images of French Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His current projects examine the ways Martinique was constructed as both an exotic and familiar locale for different audiences and across various media. This research intersects with the broader history of Caribbean travel and the depiction—and frequent underrepresentation—of forced labor across the region.
See all contributions by Remi Poindexter - Dr. Joyce C. Polistena
See all contributions by Dr. Joyce C. Polistena - Ben Pollitt
Dr. Ben Pollitt is an associate lecturer at University College, London. His research focuses on British art and empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
See all contributions by Ben Pollitt - Dr. Stephanie Porras
See all contributions by Dr. Stephanie Porras - Laurie Porstner
Laurie Porstner (B.A. Classical Archaeology- Hunter College, CUNY; M.A. History of Art & Archaeology- Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University specializing in later Greek and Roman art. Her dissertation examines the materiality of magic and religion in relation to a festival of boundaries. Laurie has taught introductory Art History courses at Rutgers University and several other colleges and universities in New York City. She has also taught high school classes inside the Metropolitan Museum for a private school in New York City and worked for the College Board. Her article on magic, religion, and popular culture in two mosaics from Roman Tunisia was published in the New Classicists journal in 2020.
See all contributions by Laurie Porstner - Dr. Chloe Portugeis
Dr. Chloe Portugeis received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 where she specialized in Victorian art. She has presented papers at CUNY and Vanderbilt University and worked as a research assistant at the Yale Center for British Art and as an intern for Venice Guggenheim and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
See all contributions by Dr. Chloe Portugeis - Dr. Matthew A. Postal
Dr. Matthew Postal is a historian of 20th-century architecture and urbanism. A graduate of Vassar College and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, he earned his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of City University in 1998, where his dissertation examined the relationship between Modernism, museums, and the media.
See all contributions by Dr. Matthew A. Postal - Taylor L. Poulin
Taylor L. Poulin is Assistant Curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago
See all contributions by Taylor L. Poulin - Luigi Prada
See all contributions by Luigi Prada - Dr. Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean
After completing his first PhD on Gustave Moreau at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Dr. Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean is currently pursuing a second PhD on Edgar Degas at Fribourg University, Switzerland, while also conducting Cultural Heritage research on late 18th- and 19th-century Transylvanian paintings at the Romanian Academy. His publications include: the “Romanian Contacts with Western Painting” chapter in the Romanian Academy’s "Centennial Art History Treatise" (marking 100 years since the birth of modern Romania), Bucharest/ Cluj-Napoca, 2018, in which he discusses Puvis de Chavannes and Marie Cantacuzène, and “Reaching the Spiritual Realm through la Femme Fatale: Gustave Moreau’s Obsessive Paradox” in "Transgressive Womanhood" (Leiden: Brill, 2019). He was the Convener of the “What is Lurking Underneath Notre Dame's Roof? Visual Heritage and VR Ethics in the Digital Age” session at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2020 (detailed in "Leonardo"’s College Arts Association 108th Annual Conference March 2020 review) and will be the chair of the “Art, Science and the Beginnings of Environmental Awareness: Depicting Climate Change in the Long Nineteenth Century” panel at the 109th CAA Conference in NYC, February 2021. He is currently working on Edgar Degas’s "Femme de Candaules" iconography, to be featured as part of Oxford’s October 2020 "Perlego" event.
See all contributions by Dr. Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean - Oxford University Press
See all contributions by Oxford University Press - Cynthia Prieur
Cynthia Prieur is currently at the ABD stage of her PhD. Her dissertation will focus on the fate of Pietro Perugino’s paintings after they were appropriated by the French army from Perugia in 1797 and taken to France. She enjoys the interdisciplinary nature of her research, which covers the history of French painting restoration at the Louvre Museum, the role of the museum in legitimizing art appropriations, the development of cultural heritage laws in France, and historical instances of art appropriation. Cynthia has previous experience working at Sotheby’s Auction House in London, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Harvard Art Museums in Boston, and the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna.
See all contributions by Cynthia Prieur - Dr. Shannon Pritchard
Dr. Shannon Pritchard is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana. She received both her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Continued areas of research include broader issues of the paragone in late sixteenth-century Florence, Caravaggio and his use of prints, and Giambologna’s role within the Accademia del Disegno in Florence.
See all contributions by Dr. Shannon Pritchard - Nandita Punj
Nandita Punj is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art History at Rutgers University. Her dissertation on early modern Jain manuscript painting examines the role of vernacular art in the visual culture of western India. She highlights the case of eighteenth century Bikaner, home to a community of scribes- turned- artists who helped sustain a vernacular tradition parallel to and in dialogue with courtly artistic practices. Nandita also holds a PhD in History from the University of Delhi having worked on Jain monastic orders in early medieval western India. Prior to joining Rutgers, she held the position of Senior Lecturer in the department of History at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi.
See all contributions by Nandita Punj - Dr. Sheilagh Quaile
Dr. Sheilagh Quaile is an early-career art historian whose research interests include nineteenth-century textiles and design in Britain and South Asia. Funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship and a Bader Fellowship in Art History, Quaile’s PhD thesis examined textile design in the imitation-Kashmiri shawl industry of Paisley, Scotland.
See all contributions by Dr. Sheilagh Quaile - Dr. Kylie E. Quave
See all contributions by Dr. Kylie E. Quave - Camilla Querin
See all contributions by Camilla Querin - Dr. Fatima Quraishi
See all contributions by Dr. Fatima Quraishi - Dr. Amy Raffel
Amy Raffel received her doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center, writing her dissertation on Keith Haring’s Pop Shop. She has a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), taught Introduction to Modern Art as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Lehman College.
See all contributions by Dr. Amy Raffel - Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec
See all contributions by Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec - Thomas E. Rassieur, Minneapolis Institute of Art
John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings, Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
See all contributions by Thomas E. Rassieur, Minneapolis Institute of Art - Michael Rattray
See all contributions by Michael Rattray - Dr. Susan J. Rawles
Dr. Susan J. Rawles is the Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
See all contributions by Dr. Susan J. Rawles - Michal Raz-Russo, Art Institute of Chicago
Michal Raz-Russo is the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. Among her exhibitions at the Art Institute are Never A Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–80 (2018), Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (2016); Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years (2014); Dayanita Singh (2014), and The Three Graces (2011). She is also curator of the biennial Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series, which has featured solo presentations of new work by artists such as Leigh Ledare (The Plot, 2017) and Deana Lawson (2015). In addition to catalogues accompanying the exhibitions Invisible Man and The Three Graces, she has contributed writing to several publications including Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911–2011 (Getty, 2018) and Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (Aperture, 2013).
See all contributions by Michal Raz-Russo, Art Institute of Chicago - Wendy Red Star at Portland Art Museum
Artist Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art. Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Portland Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University, the Figge Art Museum, the Banff Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Dartmouth College, CalArts, Flagler College, Fairhaven College, and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs. In 2015, Red Star was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. In 2016, she participated in Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy at the Portland Art Museum, and recently mounted a solo exhibition as part of the museum’s APEX series. Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland.
See all contributions by Wendy Red Star at Portland Art Museum - Dr. Shirley Reece-Hughes, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Shirley Reece-Hughes is the Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, where she has worked since 2009. Her area of expertise is twentieth-century art, and she recently curated the museum’s first exhibition devoted to modernist sculpture, A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman and Zorach. She contributed the essay, Moments of Discovery: Grant Wood’s Theatrical Paintings, to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2018 retrospective exhibition and catalogue, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. She co-curated and co-authored the 2016 exhibition and catalogue, Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art. In 2012, she established a gallery dedicated to rotations of Texas art that rotate on an annual basis. Before joining the museum, Dr. Reece-Hughes received her PhD in art history from the University of Kansas in 2006.
See all contributions by Dr. Shirley Reece-Hughes, Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Dr. Diane Reilly
Diane J. Reilly studies the art of the Middle Age, especially manuscripts intended to be used by monks and nuns. Her first book, The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders, was published by Brill in 2006. Her second book, The Cistercian Reform and the Art of the book in Twelfth-Century France, will be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018. In between she has published articles and edited volumes (with musicologist and historian collaborators) on eleventh- and twelfth-century art, sound, and history. She is associate professor and chair of the Department of Art History, Indiana University.
See all contributions by Dr. Diane Reilly - Dr. Tatiana Reinoza
Dr. Tatiana Reinoza is an art historian whose research and writing focus on contemporary Latinx art. She received a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame.
See all contributions by Dr. Tatiana Reinoza - Corey Rice
See all contributions by Corey Rice - Dr. Susan Richmond
Dr. Susan Richmond’s research and teaching focus on material histories of art and visual culture in the United States since 1945, with a specific emphasis on feminist historiographies and the intersections of art, gender, and labor. She is the author of Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process as well as articles that have appeared in American Art, Art History, The Journal of Modern Craft, Feminist Theory, and Art Journal, among others. In 2021 she organized Diana Al-Hadid: Nothing is Stable for the Welch Galleries at Georgia State University, an exhibition supported by a GSU CENCIA grant and a Georgia Humanities Grant. Dr. Richmond received her doctorate at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently associate professor at Georgia State University
See all contributions by Dr. Susan Richmond - Dr. Jeffrey Richmond-Moll
Dr. Jeffrey Richmond-Moll is Curator of American Art, Georgia Museum of Art
See all contributions by Dr. Jeffrey Richmond-Moll - Gerhard Richter studio
See all contributions by Gerhard Richter studio - Dr. David Riep
David Riep is an Associate Professor of Art History at Colorado State University. He received a M.A. in art history from the University of Kentucky (2005) and a Ph.D. (2011) in art history from the University of Iowa with a specialization in the arts of Africa. David's area of research centers on South Sotho art and history in southern Africa.
See all contributions by Dr. David Riep - Pietro Rigolo
I am assistant curator at the Getty Research Institute, working on our modern and contemporary collections. In 2018, I co-curated the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions.
See all contributions by Pietro Rigolo - Dr. Carmen Ripollés
Dr. Ripollés is assistant professor of art history at Portland State University (Oregon). She specializes in the art of the Hispanic World during the early modern period, with emphasis on early modern artistic theory, notions of artistic identity, and material culture. She has published in Emblematica and Renaissance Quarterly, and is the author of the entry on Bodegones in Oxford Bibliographies.
See all contributions by Dr. Carmen Ripollés - Dr. Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator, Art Bridges Foundation
Dr. Javier Rivero Ramos is Assistant Curator at the Art Bridges Foundation. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. Javier’s dissertation “Responsive Communication: The Emergence of Mail Art in Latin America” analyzed the precedents, characteristics, and ramifications of mail art as it emerged in the context of social upheaval and political strife within and beyond the region during the 1960s and 1970s.
See all contributions by Dr. Javier Rivero Ramos, Assistant Curator, Art Bridges Foundation - Tina Rivers Ryan
Tina Rivers Ryan is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on new media. She received her BA from Harvard University and her PhD in art history from Columbia University. Her writing has been included in publications such as Art Journal, Artforum, and Art in America, as well as in several museum catalogs and scholarly books. She currently works in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
See all contributions by Tina Rivers Ryan - Stephanie Roberts
Stephanie Roberts received her Masters degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research interests include 19th century British Art, the History of Art in Wales, and Tudor and Stuart portraiture.
See all contributions by Stephanie Roberts - Dr. Fiona Robinson
See all contributions by Dr. Fiona Robinson - Lynn Robinson
See all contributions by Lynn Robinson - Amy Robson
See all contributions by Amy Robson - Dr. Vanessa Rocco
Dr. Vanessa Rocco is Professor of Humanities and Fine Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, and former Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Her latest book, Photofascism was supported in part by a Getty Research Institute Library Grant. She is also co-editor with Elizabeth Otto of The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s to the 1960s.
See all contributions by Dr. Vanessa Rocco - Dr. Melody Rod-ari
Dr. Melody Rod-ari is Contributing Editor for Southeast Asian art. She earned her M.A. from Boston University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines modern and contemporary Thai Buddhist visual culture. She was Assistant Curator of Asian art at the Norton Simon Museum and Editor for the American Council for Southern Asian Art. She is currently an Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
See all contributions by Dr. Melody Rod-ari - Dr. Elizabeth Rodini
Dr. Elizabeth Rodini (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is contributing editor for Museum Studies. She founded the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University and served for ten years as its Director and as Teaching Professor in the History of Art. She teaches and writes about museum and collection history, heritage landscapes, and the politics of culture. Dr. Rodini's art historical work centers on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period, focusing on matters of object mobility, recontextualization, and reuse. Her current book project focuses on Gentile Bellini's portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, using it as a lens to examine questions of authenticity, verisimilitude, ownership, cross-cultural exchange, and political identity in a global context. She is presently the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Rodini - Dr. Xuxa Rodríguez, former Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, now Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Dr. Xuxa Rodríguez is the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. She formerly served as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Rodríguez is a critical race and intersectional feminist art historian and curator dedicated to modern and contemporary art spanning the areas of Latinx and Latin American art, African diasporic art, feminist and queer art, time-based media, and transnational artists. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
See all contributions by Dr. Xuxa Rodríguez, former Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, now Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University - Dr. Sarah Rogers
See all contributions by Dr. Sarah Rogers - Shawn Roggenkamp
Shawn Roggenkamp received her Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London in 2012. She specializes in early Twentieth Century German art and culture with a focus on emigre artists and their influence, particularly on American Post-War art, and cross-disciplinary development between the visual and performing arts.
See all contributions by Shawn Roggenkamp - Rachel Ropeik
Rachel S. Ropeik is a museum adventurer currently serving as the Manager of Public Engagement at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She is dedicated to making art and art museums feel accessible to everyone, and helps make museum visits feel like fun, exciting experiences. Academically, she is a 19th century specialist particularly interested in the intersection of art and costume histories. She received her MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she examined 19th century masculinity and 20th century gender theory, and her BA in Art History and French from Wellesley College.
See all contributions by Rachel Ropeik - Josh R. Rose
Josh Rose earned an MA in Art History from the University of North Texas in 2003. In the years since, he has worked in museum education at the Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Museum of Art, and currently serves as Faculty of Art Appreciation and Art History at El Centro College. His areas of research interest include Surrealism and Surrealist photography, and the history and culture of comic books and graphic novels.
See all contributions by Josh R. Rose - Kristine Rose-Beers, Chester Beatty Library
Kristine Rose-Beers is head of conservation at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland.
See all contributions by Kristine Rose-Beers, Chester Beatty Library - Dr. Nancy Ross
Dr. Nancy Ross is Contributing Editor for Medieval Art. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Cambridge University in 2007. She specializes in medieval illuminated manuscripts and teaches art history at Dixie State College of Utah.
See all contributions by Dr. Nancy Ross - Elisabeth Rowney
See all contributions by Elisabeth Rowney - Dr. Katherine Rush
See all contributions by Dr. Katherine Rush - Soyoon Ryu
See all contributions by Soyoon Ryu - SFMOMA
See all contributions by SFMOMA - Dr. Matt Saba
Matthew (Matt) Saba is Program Head at the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT. Before moving to the role of Program Head in July 2023, Matt served as Visual Resources Librarian, where he was responsible for researching, digitizing, and cataloging the collections, as well as facilitating reproduction of AKDC materials for educational and scholarly purposes. Before joining the AKDC, Matt studied Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Art History at the University of Chicago where he wrote a dissertation examining the palaces of the Abbasid caliphs in Iraq. He has also worked as a curatorial fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and taught courses in Islamic art and architecture at The University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Marymount Manhattan College.
See all contributions by Dr. Matt Saba - Dr. Donna L. Sadler
Dr. Donna L. Sadler graduated from Boston University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her first book, Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France, focused on a sculptural program aimed at teaching French kings to be just rulers. The topic of her Gladden lecture, which is also the subject of the book she is completing titled, Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in late Medieval Burgundy, examines the mimetic nature of medieval piety in a series of deeply moving representations of Christ’s entombment from the 15th and 16th centuries in France.
See all contributions by Dr. Donna L. Sadler - Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese
Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese is an Associate Professor of American Art and the outgoing Editor-in-Chief for the College Art Association's Art Journal. Trained as an art historian, her work focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on the expressions and theorizations of blackness.
See all contributions by Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese - Dr. Kathryn Santner
See all contributions by Dr. Kathryn Santner - Sunanda K. Sanyal
Sunanda K Sanyal is Professor of Art History & Critical Studies, College of Art & Design at Lesley University.
See all contributions by Sunanda K. Sanyal - Dr. Marika Sardar
Marika Sardar is an independent scholar who has held curatorial positions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her research interests include the arts of India, particularly the Deccan region; trade and intercultural exchanges; and the circulation and collecting of objects.
See all contributions by Dr. Marika Sardar - David Saunders
I’m associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Exhibitions I’ve curated include Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani, and Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze. Exhibitions aside, my main research interests lie with ancient Greek vase-painting and the history of restorations.
See all contributions by David Saunders - Dr. Rachel Saunders
Dr. Rachel Saunders is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Associate Curator of Asian Art and the Harvard Art Museums
See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Saunders - Dr. Anisha Saxena
See all contributions by Dr. Anisha Saxena - Dr. Nader Sayadi
Nader Sayadi earned a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include power and patronage in the processes of making artifacts, buildings, and cities, technical analysis of historic textiles and looms, socio-political dynamics of center-periphery relations, and early modern global trade of fibers and fabrics/the silk world-system. He is the author of "“Architecture of Exclusion: The Savujbulagh-i Mukri Garrison, Border-Making, and the Transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar Frontier," International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Volume 8, Number 2, 1 July 2019, pp. 363-388.
See all contributions by Dr. Nader Sayadi - Sarah C. Schaefer
See all contributions by Sarah C. Schaefer - Dr. Wendy Schaller
Dr. Wendy Schaller is an Associate Professor of Art History at Ashland University. She earned her BA from the University of Tennessee and both her MA and Ph.D. in art history from the Ohio State University. Her research focuses primarily on portraits of children and the subject of death, grief and consolation in the seventeenth-century Netherlands.
See all contributions by Dr. Wendy Schaller - Dr. Mandira Sharma
Dr. Mandira Sharma earned her MA in History from Delhi University. She completed her Ph.D. in the History of Art at the National Museum Institute (New Delhi), with a dissertation on Ajanta paintings. Her research interests include Buddhist art and literature, historiographical trends, Indian iconography, problems of identification and interpretation in early Indian art, and Indian miniature paintings. She currently teaches at Delhi University.
See all contributions by Dr. Mandira Sharma - Dr. Irene Schaudies
See all contributions by Dr. Irene Schaudies - Dr. Miriam E. Schefzyk, associate curator, Sculpture & Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum
Dr. Miriam E. Schefzyk is associate curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She completed a joint Ph.D. program in Art History at the University of Münster (Germany) and the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (France). Schefzyk is an expert on French decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Miriam E. Schefzyk, associate curator, Sculpture & Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum - Dr. Sarahh Scher
Dr. Sarahh Scher is a Contributing Editor for Pre-Columbian South American Art. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Emory University and an M.F.A. in printmaking from New Mexico State University. Her research focuses on issues surrounding the representation of gender, identity, and costume in the Andean area. She teaches part-time at Emerson College and Lesley University.
See all contributions by Dr. Sarahh Scher - Karen Schifman
Karen Schifman is an Art Historian who focuses particularly on women artists and the representation of women in visual culture. She received her MA from California State University, Northridge.
See all contributions by Karen Schifman - Eve Schillo, LACMA
Eve Schillo is Assistant Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Eve Schillo, LACMA - Dr. Stephanie Schrader
Dr. Stephanie Schrader is a curator in the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her B.A. from Occidental College, her M.A. from Oberlin College, and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in 16th to 18th century Dutch and Flemish art.
See all contributions by Dr. Stephanie Schrader - William Schwaller
See all contributions by William Schwaller - A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott is chief film critic for The New York Times and distinguished professor of film criticism at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth, New York: Penguin Random House, 2017.
See all contributions by A.O. Scott - Dr. Monique Scott
See all contributions by Dr. Monique Scott - Dr. Yoonjung Seo
See all contributions by Dr. Yoonjung Seo - Dr. Lee Sessions, Permanent Collections Associate Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Dr. Lee Sessions is the Permanent Collections Associate Curator at El Museo del Barrio. Lee has previously worked as an Arts Administrator at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, a Database Consultant at Jonathan Silver Foundation, and as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at New York Botanical Garden. Lee has extensive experience in curating exhibitions, researching, writing texts, and managing art collections. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University, an M.A. in Art History from New York University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from Brandeis University.
See all contributions by Dr. Lee Sessions, Permanent Collections Associate Curator, El Museo del Barrio - Dr. Holly Shaffer
See all contributions by Dr. Holly Shaffer - Ajanta Shah
See all contributions by Ajanta Shah - Dr. Mustafa Shah
Dr. Mustafa Shah is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, SOAS University of London
See all contributions by Dr. Mustafa Shah - Danielle Shang
Danielle Shang is a Los Angeles-based curator, writer, and art historian. Her research interests include artistic and intellectual developments in contemporary art history in Asia. Her recent focus is on the impact of globalization, urban renewal, social change, and class restructuring on art-making in China, where artists participate in the decentralized informal economy to produce works to be disseminated in the institutionalized formal system of the global art world. She received her M. A. in East Asian Studies from UCLA.
See all contributions by Danielle Shang - Dr. Eiren Shea
Eiren Shea is Assistant Professor of Art History at Grinnell College, where she offers classes on the arts of pre-modern Asia. Her book, Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020) focuses on textiles and dress of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth century and investigates how this newly-confederated group from the Steppe conquered the most sophisticated societies in existence in less than a century and impacted the arts of China, West Asia, and even Europe. Her principle fields of research include arts of the Mongol period, the Silk Road, China, Central Asia, and Persia, with a special focus on textiles. She is also interested in East-West cultural exchange more broadly. Her interest in textiles has led her to pursue research in museum and private collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and China. To better study the material she also completed the intensive textile analysis course offered by the Centre International d’Étude des Textiles Anciens (CIETA) in Lyon. Shea was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in Washington, D.C. from 2014-2016.
See all contributions by Dr. Eiren Shea - Dr. Karen Shelby
Dr. Karen Shelby is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Her research focuses on the visual culture of Flemish nationalism in the Great War. Her book, Flemish Nationalism and the Great War: The Politics of Memory, Visual Culture and Commemoration, will be published in spring 2014.
See all contributions by Dr. Karen Shelby - Hung Sheng
Hung Sheng is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her research interests are the history and aesthetics of twentieth century Chinese and Hong Kong art as well as art education in different settings. She received a BA (Hons) (2011) and MPhil in Visual Studies (2013) at Lingnan University. Her MPhil focused on the art of Irene Chou as a case study of Hong Kong Ink Painting.
See all contributions by Hung Sheng - Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai
Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai received her PhD in Japanese Art from UCLA, and enjoys living and teaching Asian art in Los Angeles. She has taught at UCLA, Otis College of Art & Design, USC, and Occidental College. She remains grateful to Japan Foundation for awarding her a doctoral fellowship to study Buddhist statuary excavated from the ruins of temples dating to the 7th and 8th centuries C.E., and especially her host institution, Nara kenritsu Kashihara Kokogaku Kenkyujo (Nara prefectural Archaeological Institute of Kashihara). What she learned from that experience, in addition to the contacts she made, serve as the basis of her publications on Early Japan.
See all contributions by Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai - Dr. Anne Showalter
See all contributions by Dr. Anne Showalter - Gabriella Shypula
Gabriella Shypula is an independent curator, art historian, and writer based in New York. A PhD Candidate in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University, her research examines the relationship between lived experience and art practice, studying women artists whose art features autobiography from the 1970s to present. Her dissertation seeks to recover autobiography as a historical mode, centering women’s artmaking in New York City from 1972 to 1988. Gabriella has collaborated on curatorial and research projects at the Baltimore Museum of Art, MoMA, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and A.I.R. Gallery. She has contributed to exhibitions including “Joan Mitchell” (Baltimore Museum of Art, SFMOMA 2021-2022) and “Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done” (MoMA, 2018-2019).
See all contributions by Gabriella Shypula - Dr. Hannah Sigur
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See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Silberstein - Dr. Larry Silver
Larry Silver (Ph.D. Harvard, 1974), Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, taught at Penn between 1997 and 2017 and still lives in the Philadelphia area. He specializes in painting and graphics of Northern Europe, particularly Germany and the Netherlands, during the era of Renaissance and Reformation, and he has a secondary expertise in Jewish art history. He served as President of the College Art Association as well as the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and previously taught at Berkeley and Northwestern. He also served as co-founder and Editor in Chief of "caa.reviews," the on-line reviews journal of the College Art Association, and he is a member of the Print Council of America.
See all contributions by Dr. Larry Silver - Dr. Malka Simon
Dr. Malka Simon holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in art history. She specializes in 19th- and 20th-century architecture and urban development of the United States, with a particular focus on New York City. Her most recent work addresses the role of industrial architecture in shaping urban landscapes. She is a Lecturer in the Art Department at Brooklyn College.
See all contributions by Dr. Malka Simon - Dr. Surana K. Singh
Dr. Surana K. Singh is Professor of Art History at East Los Angeles College. She studied art history at U.C. Santa Cruz and Pratt Institute, and earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies and media studies from Claremont Graduate University.
See all contributions by Dr. Surana K. Singh - Linda Sioui, M.A. Anthropologist
Linda Sioui is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation of Wendake, near Quebec. She holds a master's degree in anthropology from Laval University and a bachelor's degree in sociology and Indigenous studies. Sioui's master's thesis is entitled "The Reaffirmation of Wendat/Wyandotte Identity in the Age of Globalization." She has worked in the fields of education, culture and heritage within institutions such as the Council of the Huron-Wendat Nation, the Confederation of First Nations Educational and Cultural Centers, as well as the Canadian Museum of history, the McCord Stewart Museum and the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. She is currently a speaker, consultant, researcher, and professor at Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup. She has also worked in the field of translation for over 30 years.
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Dr. William Smith is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and works as the Associate Director Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum and Co-Director of the Museum Science and Management Program at the University of Tulsa.
See all contributions by Dr. William Smith - Jessica T. Smith, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jessica T. Smith is Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art, and Manager, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
See all contributions by Jessica T. Smith, Philadelphia Museum of Art - Dr. Lorenza Smith
Dr. Lorenza Smith received a Master in History of Art at the Università degli Studi di Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. She’s the author of Venice: Art and History (2011). She currently teaches at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology in the History of Art Department, she previously taught at New York University, SPS, and worked for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Venice, Italy.
See all contributions by Dr. Lorenza Smith - Dr. Tamara Smithers
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Gillian Sneed holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research centers on modern and contemporary Latin American art and women's art practices across the Americas.
See all contributions by Dr. Gillian Sneed - Dr. Andrea C. Snow
Andrea C. Snow earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specializing in early medieval art, she focuses on Old Norse stone and metal objects. As a former illustrator and committed teacher, the representation—and misrepresentation—of the Middle Ages in popular culture are also among her interests.
See all contributions by Dr. Andrea C. Snow - Dr. Juanita Solano Roa
Dr. Juanita Solano Roa is Assistant professor at the Department of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. Her work focuses on the history of photography and the history of modern and contemporary art in Latin America. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and a master's degree from the same institution. Prior to joining the University of Los Andes, she worked at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) as the collection manager. Her academic work has appeared in publications such as Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture (London: D. Giles, 2018), Lámparas de mil bujías: Fotografía y arte en América Latina desde 1839 (Barcelona: Fog, 2018) —book of which she was also co-editor — and Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Vintage (New York: Throckmorton Fine Art, 2014).
See all contributions by Dr. Juanita Solano Roa - Jihyun Son
Jihyun Son is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. Her working doctoral thesis researches the visual representations of the Korean nation-state from the 1880s to the 1910s. She deals with visual imagery that include the Korean flag, imperial emblem, royal portraits, illustrations of historical figures, the map of the Korean Peninsula, and symbolic landscapes of Korea.
See all contributions by Jihyun Son - Valerie Spanswick
Valerie Spanswick earned her BA in art history from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a special interest in Classical and Roman baroque art and architecture. She then moved to the UK and, subscribing to the saying "When in Rome do as the Romans do" changed her focus to 18th and 19th century British art for her MA, which was granted by the University of York. She currently resides in mid-Wales and is a freelance editor and writer.
See all contributions by Valerie Spanswick - Dr. Virginia B. Spivey
Dr. Virginia B. Spivey is an art writer specializing in late 20th and 21st century art history and theory. She holds degrees in art history from Case Western Reserve University (M.A., Ph.D.). Now based in Washington D.C., she develops art history educational materials in addition to her scholarly work, which is currently focused on the relationship of performance to contemporary craft production.
See all contributions by Dr. Virginia B. Spivey - Dr. Emma Natalya Stein, Freer Gallery of Art
See all contributions by Dr. Emma Natalya Stein, Freer Gallery of Art - Dr. Nancy Steinhardt
Dr. Nancy Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1982. She received her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1981 and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1978–81. Steinhardt taught at Bryn Mawr from 1981–82. She has broad research interests in the art and architecture of China and China’s border regions, particularly problems that result from the interaction between Chinese art and that of peoples to the North, Northeast, and Northwest.
See all contributions by Dr. Nancy Steinhardt - Dr. Karen Stern
Karen Stern is an award-winning author who draws from fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and religion to research the daily lives and material cultures of Jews of the ancient Mediterranean, Arabia and Mesopotamia. She earned an A.B. in Classics at Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University and has conducted field research in Greece, the Middle East and North Africa with grants, fellowships and residencies from National Endowment for the Humanities, CAORC and the Getty Villa. She is author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa (Brill 2007); Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (PUP 2018; 2020), winner of a 2020 Schnitzer Book Award; and co-editor of With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021). Her current book project considers Jewish history through the senses. The Daily Beast, Atlas Obscura, NPR, and the Guardian have featured her work.
See all contributions by Dr. Karen Stern - Jessica Sternbach
Jessica Sternbach is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University focusing on the Dutch Early Modern Period. During her time at Temple, her focus had been on the vibrant and complex exchange between art and society. She has been an instructor at Temple since 2016. She has previously written for the Mütter Museum Library Blog, “Behold the Body: Capturing the Spectacle of the Anatomy Theater” (2017). She received her Bachelor’s in Art History from Willamette University (Salem, Oregon, 2013) and her Master’s at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2016).
See all contributions by Jessica Sternbach - Gioia Stevens
Gioia Stevens is Special Collections Cataloger at New York University Libraries. She received a Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute and she is currently completing her Master of Liberal Studies degree in digital humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
See all contributions by Gioia Stevens - Dr. Danielle Stewart
Danielle joined the department of art history at the University of Warwick after spending a year as a research associate with the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities. Danielle specializes in Modern and Contemporary art and architecture across Latin America with a special focus on Brazil. Her current major research project investigates the capacity of mass distributed artistic, documentary, journalistic, and advertising photography to shape urban spaces and construct urban imaginaries in São Paulo--Brazil's major industrial capital. Danielle is also interested in ecocritical approaches to Latin American art and is working on a study of Inhotim, a contemporary art museum in the Brazilian interior that has been linked to environmental disasters in the surrounding area. Most recently Danielle's writing has been published in the Latin American Research Review. She also has an essay on the mid-century German-Brazilian photographer Alice Brill forthcoming in a publication by the Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil's leading private photography collection.
See all contributions by Dr. Danielle Stewart - Father Columba Stewart, OSB
Columba Andrew Stewart, is a Benedictine monk and the current executive director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) in Collegeville, Minnesota. Father Columba is also a historian of Christian monasticism
See all contributions by Father Columba Stewart, OSB - Deborah Stokes
See all contributions by Deborah Stokes - Greg Stuart
Greg Stuart is the Public Programs and Outreach Manager at the Samek Art Museum, part of Bucknell University. He received an MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research interests include globalism in historic and contemporary art from West Africa.
See all contributions by Greg Stuart - Jan Stuart, Freer Gallery of Art
See all contributions by Jan Stuart, Freer Gallery of Art - Dr. Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Alex Rodriguez Suarez is an independent researcher based in Barcelona. He received his PhD in Byzantine history from King’s College London (2014). Since then he has conducted research in Turkey (ANAMED, AKMED), Bulgaria (CAS Sofia), Italy (Centro Vittore Branca), Greece (American School of Classical Studies at Athens), Lebanon (Orient-Institut Beirut) and Israel/Palestine (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research). Moreover, he has been a summer fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington DC). His latest projects have focused on the religious soundscape of the Christian communities of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, mainly the use of church bells. Among his other research interests are cultural exchange and iconography.
See all contributions by Dr. Alex Rodriguez Suarez - Shivani Sud
Shivani Sud is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She works on the visual cultures of South Asia, with a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her areas of interest include colonial artistic cultures, regional Indian and Mughal painting, photography, and object and collecting histories.
See all contributions by Shivani Sud - Dr. Alice Isabella Sullivan
Dr. Alice Isabella Sullivan is a historian of medieval art, architecture, and visual culture, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. Her current projects focus on the history, art, and culture of regions of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Mountains (especially in modern Romania), which developed at the crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic traditions between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.
See all contributions by Dr. Alice Isabella Sullivan - Dr. Robert Summers
Dr. Robert Summers received his Ph.D. in Art History at UCLA. Currently he is a lecturer at Otis College of Art, where he received the Excellence in Teaching award (2010-2011), and he is a Research Associate at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women (2010-2011). He has published papers in anthologies, such as Dead History, Live Art and Art & Shame, and academic journals.
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See all contributions by TED-Ed - Dr. Anna Tahinci
Anna Tahinci, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Art History at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
See all contributions by Dr. Anna Tahinci - HENI Talks
HENI Talks is a non-commercial initiative dedicated to sharing insights about art history from authorities in the field, as part of a broader commitment to supporting art education and widening public access to art. Check out https://www.youtube.com/c/henitalks to learn more.
See all contributions by HENI Talks - Dr. Kristine Tanton
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See all contributions by Tate - Dr. Laurel Taylor
Dr. Laurel Taylor received her Ph.D. in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania (2001) and teaches in the Departments of Art and Classics at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Her research interests have focused on funerary art and ritual in ancient Italy and exploring the social meaning of death through Etruscan and Roman visual culture. Her current archaeological fieldwork is at the Etruscan and Roman site of Cetamura del Chianti, Italy.
See all contributions by Dr. Laurel Taylor - Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor has more than a decade of experience in arts communications, having led communications campaigns & initiatives at several world-renowned museums (MoMA PS1, the Getty, and MOCA), before joining FITZ & CO, a strategic communications and marketing firm specializing in contemporary art and culture. She received an M.A. in Modern Art, Connoisseurship and the Art Market from Christie’s, New York.
See all contributions by Rebecca Taylor - Dr. Susanna V. Temkin, Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Dr. Susanna V. Temkin is Curator at El Museo del Barrio. Temkin earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a focus on Cuba.
See all contributions by Dr. Susanna V. Temkin, Curator, El Museo del Barrio - Dr. Rebecca Quinn Teresi
Dr. Rebecca Quinn Teresi earned a Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University specializing in early modern Spanish art. She has held fellowships at the Meadows Museum, the British Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, and her research has been supported by the Kress Foundation, the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, and the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History.
See all contributions by Dr. Rebecca Quinn Teresi - Dr. Alison Terndrup
Alison Terndrup is a faculty member in Visual Intelligence at Northeastern University. Terndrup received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. Her research spans the fields of Islamic art and nineteenth-century art history with a focus on Ottoman imperial and sub-imperial identities, cross-cultural encounters, and the use of visual arts in supporting ideologies of power.
See all contributions by Dr. Alison Terndrup - Dr. Emily Thames
Emily Thames received her Ph.D. in Art History from Florida State University. She specializes in the visual and material culture of the colonial Atlantic World, with a focus on the Spanish Americas and the Caribbean (c. 1500-1900).
See all contributions by Dr. Emily Thames - Dr. Erin Thompson
As America’s only full-time professor of art crime, Dr. Thompson studies the damage done to humanity’s shared heritage through looting, theft, and the deliberate destruction of art. She has discussed art crime topics in, e.g., The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Freakonomics podcast, and has been invited to lecture at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia. Her book, Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors, is now out from Yale University Press. Currently, she is researching the ways in which terrorist groups both sell and destroy art to support their genocidal campaigns, as well as the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage.
See all contributions by Dr. Erin Thompson - Dr. Susanna Throop
Dr. Susanna Throop studies the cultural intersection of religion, violence, ideology, and emotion in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe, especially in the context of the crusading movement. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Previously she earned an M.A. as a Mellon Fellow at the University of Toronto and a B.A at Cornell University. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of History at Ursinus College.
See all contributions by Dr. Susanna Throop - Dr. Felix Thürlemann
See all contributions by Dr. Felix Thürlemann - Dr. Laura Tillery
Dr. Laura Tillery is the Contributing Editor for Northern European Medieval art. She received a Ph.D. in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania and held a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research concentrates on late-medieval multimedia devotional art in northern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Sea region, with particular focus on cross-cultural exchange and pre-modern race-making. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Art History at Hamilton College.
See all contributions by Dr. Laura Tillery - Dr. Courtney Tomaselli
Dr. Courtney Tomaselli holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Harvard University. Her research focuses on Byzantine art, monasticism, theology, and the use of illustrated books in teaching and the dissemination of knowledge in Byzantium.
See all contributions by Dr. Courtney Tomaselli - Dr. Nicolette S. Trahoulia
Nicolette Trahoulia earned a B.A. in art history from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has taught art history at Portland State University in Oregon and currently teaches in Athens at Deree – The American College of Greece, where she directs the art history program. She has published on Byzantine manuscripts, icons, and other portable objects.
See all contributions by Dr. Nicolette S. Trahoulia - Dr. Debora Trein
Debora Trein is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She specializes in Maya archaeology, and has worked in archaeological excavations in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, and UK. Her current research area is at the ancient Maya site of La Milpa, in northwest Belize, where she studies the nature of interactions between the La Milpa community and its monumental architecture between 600 - 900 AD. She has also conducted research in cultural heritage management and protection, with a particular focus on Belize.
See all contributions by Dr. Debora Trein - Dr. Cara Grace Tremain
Cara Grace Tremain has a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. She specializes in the study of ancient Maya dress, cultural heritage issues, fakes and forgeries, and Maya archaeology. She currently teaches at Langara College. From 2010–2015 she worked at Ka’Kabish as Field Director of archaeological excavations.
See all contributions by Dr. Cara Grace Tremain - Dr. Mary Trent
Mary Trent is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston and a specialist in American and African American Art and Visual Culture. She teaches courses in American Art, African American Art, and the History of Photography. Her research focuses on issues of identity in visual culture, including ways marginalized figures have used art and media to critique dominant visual norms and better visualize their own experiences. She has a special interest in how individuals from diverse backgrounds have used domestic, vernacular album-making practices to gain agency in the visualization of themselves and their worlds.
See all contributions by Dr. Mary Trent - Vanessa Troiano
See all contributions by Vanessa Troiano - Dr. Francesca Tronchin
Francesca Tronchin is a graduate of Smith College and earned her MA and PhD from Boston University, having studied classical art and archaeology. She has excavated in Israel, Greece, and Italy and has worked in American museums. For fifteen years, Francesca has taught at the university level. Her publications include numerous book reviews, as well as scholarly articles on the art and archaeology of Pompeii, Roman sculpture, Roman domestic architecture, and classical receptions. Her photographs of archaeological sites and museums have appeared in various academic and popular publications.
See all contributions by Dr. Francesca Tronchin - Dr. Mark Trowbridge
See all contributions by Dr. Mark Trowbridge - Dr. Andrew Turner
Dr. Andrew Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. He received his B.A. in Art History and Classics from the University of Arizona, his M.A. in Art History and Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on art, identity, and cross-cultural interaction in ancient Central Mexico, and he has also written articles on the Classic Maya and the ancient Andes.
See all contributions by Dr. Andrew Turner - Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith
Stuart Tyson Smith is an Egyptologist and professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialty is the interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.
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See all contributions by Dr. Verónica Uribe Hanabergh - Victoria Valdes
Victoria Valdes is studying at the University of Virginia as a candidate for the Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture. She works primarily with early medieval manuscripts, specializing in the Ottonian period.
See all contributions by Victoria Valdes - Dr. Miguel A. Valerio
Miguel A. Valerio is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in several journals, including Slavery and Abolition and Colonial Latin American Review. He is currently completing a book on Afro-Mexican festive practices, Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Festive Practices, 1539-1640.
See all contributions by Dr. Miguel A. Valerio - Dr. Kristina Van Dyke
Kristina is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Houston and is currently writing a manuscript on depictions of disease in terracotta figures produced in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali between the 11th and 17th centuries. She received her master’s from Williams College and her doctorate from Harvard University and was previously director of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and prior to that, Curator for Collections and Research at the Menil Collection.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristina Van Dyke - Dr. Natalia Vargas Márquez
Dr. Natalia Vargas Márquez is a writer, researcher, and educator with a focus on art, culture, and sustainable communities. Vargas Márquez earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Minnesota.
See all contributions by Dr. Natalia Vargas Márquez - Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys
Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys received her PhD in the anthropology of material culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK), and completed post-doctoral research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA) and the Musée du quai Branly, Paris (France). She is currently curator Oceania at the National Museum of World Cultures (Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum and Museum Volkenkunde) in the Netherlands. She is an affiliated researcher in an Australian Research Council photographic project and a European Research Council focusing on Oceanian collecting histories. Wonu’s research interests are Pacific art and material culture, museums and cultures of collecting, Pacific musical instruments, Pacific textiles, and the significance of historical objects in a contemporary setting.
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See all contributions by Nature Video - Dr. Charlene Villaseñor Black
Dr. Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. Her research focuses on the art of the early modern Ibero-American world as well as contemporary Chicanx visual culture. Her published work includes Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire (2006), and Transforming Saints: Women, Art, and Conversion in Mexico and Spain, 1521–1800 (2022).
See all contributions by Dr. Charlene Villaseñor Black - Julia M. Vázquez
See all contributions by Julia M. Vázquez - Dr. Jennifer Wagelie
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer Wagelie - Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres is an Asian art historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include modern Chinese painting and photography, and Asian contemporary art with a special focus on visual culture in its global context. She is also a curator and exhibition planner who has worked with museums and intuitions around the world.
See all contributions by Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres - Dr. Alicia Walker
Alicia Walker (PhD Harvard University 2004) is Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at Bryn Mawr College. Her primary fields of research include cross-cultural artistic interaction in the medieval world from the ninth to thirteenth centuries and gender issues in the art and material culture of Byzantium. Her first monograph, The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Byzantine Imperial Power, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. In addition, she is co-editor of the essay collection Negotiating the Secular in Medieval Art. Christian, Islamic, Buddhist (Ashgate, 2009), and the special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters, Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission, Scale, and Interaction in the Arts and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean (Brill, 2012). Her work has appeared in essay collections and journals including Muqarnas, Gesta, Ars Orientalis, The Art Bulletin, The Medieval History Journal, Studies in Iconography, The Medieval Globe, and Travaux et Mémoires. Walker is co-director of the digital scholarship project “Re-excavating Carthage: Digitization and Online Publication of the White Fathers’ Archives (Rome).” She is a member of the editorial boards of the journal The Medieval Globe and a series co-editor for Edinburgh Byzantine Studies (Edinburgh University Press).
See all contributions by Dr. Alicia Walker - Dr. Diana diZerega Wall
Diana diZerega Wall is an archaeologist who specializes in New York City from 17th through the 19th centuries. Her interests include the construction of class, race, and gender. Professor Emerita at City College and CUNY Graduate Center, she holds a Ph.D. from New York University. Her books include The Archaeology of American Cities (with Nan Rothschild, 2014) and the award-winning Unearthing Gotham (with Anne-Marie Cantwell, 2001). She is currently working on two books, one on New Netherland (with Anne-Marie Cantwell) and one on Seneca Village, the 19th century African-American and Irish immigrant community that was located in today's Central Park (with Nan Rothschild).
See all contributions by Dr. Diana diZerega Wall - Dr. Catharine Wallace
Dr. Catharine Wallace has a Ph.D. in Art History from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She specializes in the visual and material culture of 16th-century Rome.
See all contributions by Dr. Catharine Wallace - Dr. Susan Waller
Dr. Waller is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She regularly teaches courses in modern European art and African art. She has taught specialized courses on French and British art in the later nineteenth century, representations of race in the modern era, and self-portraiture and the social construction of the artist. Previously, she taught at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to completing the Ph.D., she was Curator at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Director of The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine.
See all contributions by Dr. Susan Waller - Matthew K. Ward
Matthew Ward is a PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism at SUNY Stony Brook. He is currently writing a dissertation on Willem de Kooning's first five years in America.
See all contributions by Matthew K. Ward - Rachel Warriner
Rachel Warriner is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Art History Department at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research focuses on post-war feminist practice. She received a BA (Hons) in Theatre from Dartington College of Art, Devon, UK in 2002 and has since been co-editor of DEFAULT magazine, and has published a number of papers and reviews on post war art and performance.
See all contributions by Rachel Warriner - Jessica Watson
Jessica Watson received her BA in Art History and Museum Studies from Smith College and her MA in Art History from the École du Louvre in Paris, where she worked on propagandist photomontages in the USSR. She is particularly interested in the art of Russian and Soviet artists during the first half of the 20th century in modeling a utopic vision of society in a very specific political climate.
See all contributions by Jessica Watson - Marie Watt
Marie Watt is an American artist. She is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and also has German-Scot ancestry. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University; she also has degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts; and in 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Willamette University. She has received fellowships from Anonymous Was a Woman, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, and the Native Arts and Culture Foundation, among others.
See all contributions by Marie Watt - Dr. Bert Watteeuw, Director, Rubens House, Antwerp
Dr. Bert Watteeuw is Director at the Rubens House, Antwerp. He studied art history and social and cultural anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven. Watteeuw's main interests are the cultural history of the human body, archival research on Rubens and "the little things" or "the other" in the works of the great masters of Antwerp art.
See all contributions by Dr. Bert Watteeuw, Director, Rubens House, Antwerp - Jeffrey Weaver
Jeffrey Weaver associate curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and co-curator of the installation Louis XIV at the Getty.
See all contributions by Jeffrey Weaver - Kendra Weisbin
Kendra Weisbin has a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a concentration in Islamic Art and Architecture. Kendra specializes in writing and editing interpretive and educational materials on Islamic art. Her most recent projects include an educator’s resource guide to the Islamic collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a visitor’s walking guide to the same collection, both co-authored with curators from that department.
See all contributions by Kendra Weisbin - Dr. Benjamin Weiss
Benjamin Weiss is Leonard A. Lauder Senior Curator of Visual Culture Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
See all contributions by Dr. Benjamin Weiss - Dr. Hilary Whitham Sánchez
See all contributions by Dr. Hilary Whitham Sánchez - Charles Wiebe
Charles Wiebe has been a visual arts professional for over thirty years. He has served as curator, art gallery director, educator, author and editor. He earned a BA in Printmaking from West Virginia University and an MA in the History of Art & Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University; with dissertation and thesis research on American and Italian Renaissance architecture. He has lectured in art history at the University of Pittsburgh as well as Point Park University; currently teaching the history of architecture and modern art at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He also serves as Subject Matter Expert on Art, in charge of revising course content on the Humanities Faculty of the University of Phoenix, where for the past ten years he has also taught film studies; since 2009 he has contributed over 200 online articles on film related topics. From 1980 to 2002 he directed three different Pittsburgh area art galleries; curating several hundred exhibitions and publishing various catalogues on contemporary art. He is also recognized as an authority on Japanese woodblock prints.
See all contributions by Charles Wiebe - Charlotte Wilkins
See all contributions by Charlotte Wilkins - Dr. Maggie M. Williams
Maggie M. Williams is trained as both a medievalist (Columbia University) and a union organizer (Local 2110 UAW). She works at the intersection of art history and contemporary politics. Her book, Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World, considered the role that ringed Irish crosses have played in signifying Irish and Irish-American identities. Her most recent essay, " 'Celtic' Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness" appeared in the 2019 volume Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments from an Ill-Used Past (Fordham University Press).
See all contributions by Dr. Maggie M. Williams - Carol Wilson
Carol Wilson is the Lunder Education Chair at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
See all contributions by Carol Wilson - Keith Wilson, Curator of Ancient Chinese art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
See all contributions by Keith Wilson, Curator of Ancient Chinese art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian - Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson is a teacher of History of Art and a freelance writer. He is a graduate of the University of Nottingham (BA Hons) and the Courtauld Institute (MA). His most recent book - Symbols in Art - will be published in September 2020. A particular interest is iconography through global art history, and he is especially passionate about the art and architecture of the European Baroque.
See all contributions by Matthew Wilson - Julie Wilson Frick, Denver Art Museum
Julie Wilson Frick is the Program Coordinator of the Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and Junior Scholar in the New World Department at the Denver Art Museum. She coordinates the Mayer Center annual symposia and publication of the subsequent papers, as well as assisting scholars with New World collections’ research. Before joining the museum in 1998, Julie earned her MA in History with a specialization in Art History from Cleveland State University and a BA in Art History from the University of Cincinnati.
See all contributions by Julie Wilson Frick, Denver Art Museum - Dr. Arielle Winnik
See all contributions by Dr. Arielle Winnik - Jeffrey Wolf
Director and Executive Producer
See all contributions by Jeffrey Wolf - Dr. Kathryn Wolford
Dr. Kathryn Wolford received a Ph.D. in History from Claremont Graduate University in 2012. Her research and teaching interests concern the symbiotic relationships between the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the political revolutions within Europe and the wider Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is a reader at the Huntington Library and has taught at the University of California, Riverside, and Harvey Mudd College.
See all contributions by Dr. Kathryn Wolford - Louisa Woodville
Louisa Woodville teaches at George Mason University where she specializes in medieval and Renaissance art history, focusing in the social, economic and political context in which artists created works. After receiving an M.A. in Renaissance Studies from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University, Professor Woodville worked at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the painting department at the Manhattan auction house William Doyle Galleries.
See all contributions by Louisa Woodville - Hayley Woodward
See all contributions by Hayley Woodward - Diane C. Wright, Toledo Museum of Art
Diane C. Wright is Curator of Glass and Decorative Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Diane C. Wright, Toledo Museum of Art - Dr. Jin Xu
Dr. Jin Xu is an assistant professor of Art History at Vassar College. His research has focused on religious and funerary art in early medieval China (220-589 CE). He is also interested in stone objects, such as sarcophagi and Buddhist steles.
See all contributions by Dr. Jin Xu - Mai Yamaguchi
Mai Yamaguchi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She is broadly interested in the arts of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Japan, and in particular print culture.
See all contributions by Mai Yamaguchi - Jayne Yantz
Jayne Yantz teaches Art History at Rowan College at Burlington County in New Jersey. She completed her Master’s degree at The Ohio State University and three years of work toward the Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. Her main interest is non-Western art and culture, especially cultures of the ancient Americas and the Islamic world. Yantz has traveled extensively and studied in Peru and Jordan.
See all contributions by Jayne Yantz - Dr. Allison Young
Allison Young is Contributing Editor for Global Modern and Contemporary Art. She is currently Assistant Professor for Contemporary Art History at Louisiana State University. A specialist in postcolonial and contemporary art of the Global South, Allison received her Ph.D. in Art History in 2017 from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with her dissertation “Torn and Most Whole: On the Poetics of Difference in the Art of Zarina Bhimji." She previously held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, where her curatorial projects included Carlos Rolón: Outside/In (2018), Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories (2018), Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred (2018), Bodies of Knowledge (2019) and others.
See all contributions by Dr. Allison Young - Dr. Orin Zahra
Orin Zahra is the Associate Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC. In 2021, Zahra earned her doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis in nineteenth-century French art, with a secondary field in modern and contemporary South Asia. At NMWA, Zahra has focused on issues of gender, race relations, and cross-cultural exchanges in modern and contemporary art.
See all contributions by Dr. Orin Zahra - Christine Zappella
Christine Zappella is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Chicago and holds Master’s degrees in both Art History from CUNY Hunter College and Teaching (Math Concentration) from Pace University. Christine focuses on sixteenth century Italian painting and is especially interested in the transfer and manifestation of style, the appropriation and transformation of the classical world, and the historiography of Mannerism.
See all contributions by Christine Zappella - Dr. Adriana Zavala
Dr. Adriana Zavala is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. Her fields of specialization include Modern/Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Art; Latinx and Chicanx Art
See all contributions by Dr. Adriana Zavala - Dr. He Zhang
Dr. He Zhang is Professor of Art History and Fulbright Scholar at William Paterson University. Her field of specialization is Pre-Columbian Art, and her teaching responsibilities include Asian Art, Silk Road Art, and Western Art History survey. Growing up in Khotan, a little oasis town on the ancient Silk Road deep in the Taklamakan Desert in west China, Dr. Zhang has dedicated her recent research studies and publications to the archaeological artifacts from Khotan and Central Asia, focusing on the interactive cultural relationships as reflected in the arts between the East and West.
See all contributions by Dr. He Zhang - Jinchao Zhao
Jinchao ZHAO is a Ph.D. candidate in the doctoral program of Art and Architectural History at the University of Virginia. She specializes in visuality, materiality, and transculturality in early medieval Chinese Buddhist art. Her research interests include Buddhist stupa and pagoda worship, Buddhist visual narratives, and early Indian art. She completed her MA in Comparative Literature and World Literature at Peking University and her BA in Chinese Literature at Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research has recently been supported by the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Chiang Chiang-Kuo Foundation.
See all contributions by Jinchao Zhao - Zhenru Zhou
Zhenru Zhou is a PhD candidate, Department of Art History, the University of Chicago
See all contributions by Zhenru Zhou - Dr. Rachel Zimmerman
Dr. Rachel Zimmerman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on artistic production, circulation, and consumption within the early modern Portuguese world, particularly the colony of Brazil.
See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Zimmerman - Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Monica is Vice President of Public Education and Engagement at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
See all contributions by Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - Lilian H. Zirpolo
See all contributions by Lilian H. Zirpolo - Barbara Zucker
Barbara Zucker received her MFA from Hunter College in New York, where she established her career as an artist. Her work is in the collections of the Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Kresge Art Museum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Portland Museum of Art and many others. Zucker has contributed to many journals including Art Journal, Art in America, and Heresies. She has an extensive curatorial background and founded, with Susan Williams, A.I.R., the first not-for-profit, artist-directed gallery for women artists in the United States. She lives and works in both Vermont and New York.
See all contributions by Barbara Zucker - Dr. Steven Zucker
Steven is co-founder and executive director of Smarthistory. Previously, Steven was dean of art and history at Khan Academy. He was also chair of history of art and design at Pratt Institute where he strengthened enrollment and lead the renewal of curriculum across the Institute. Before that, he was dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY and chair of their art history department. He has taught at The School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and at The Museum of Modern Art. Dr. Zucker is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has co-authored, with Dr. Beth Harris, numerous articles on the future of education and the future of museums. Dr. Zucker received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
See all contributions by Dr. Steven Zucker - Dr. Bryan Zygmont
Dr. Bryan J. Zygmont is Contributing Editor for American Art. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland in 2006. He is currently Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Louisiana Tech University. Zygmont is the author of Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825: Gilbert Stuart, John Vanderlyn, John Trumbull, and John Welsey Jarvis, a book he partially wrote while a Visiting Scholar at the National Portrait Gallery. Zygmont was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013.
See all contributions by Dr. Bryan Zygmont - Dr. heather ahtone
Dr. heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw Nation) is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
See all contributions by Dr. heather ahtone - Dr. Annette de Stecher
Professor de Stecher is Associate Professor, Critical Museology, Visual Arts of America in the Department of Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her M.A. in Art and Its Institutions and Ph.D. in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University, and her B.A. in Art History from McGill University. Her doctoral research was supported by a Fellowship at the Canadian Museum of History and a Curatorial Fellowship at Carleton University. After receiving her Ph.D., she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Laval University.
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