- The National Gallery (London)
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by Lisa Ackerman - Maggie Adler
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 - 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. 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 - Sarah Alvarez
Sarah Alvarez is the Director of School Programs in the Department of Learning and Public Engagement at the Art Institute of Chicago. In this role, Sarah oversees 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. Sarah has been at the Art Institute since 2001.
See all contributions by Sarah Alvarez - 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. 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 - 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 - Indianapolis Museum of Art
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See all contributions by Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Dr. Darius Arya
Dr. Darius Arya received his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Texas in Austin in 2002. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He co-founded the American Institute for Roman Culture and has directed numerous excavations including digs in the Roman Forum and Ostia Antica. has appeared the History, National Geographic, and Discovery Channels.
See all contributions by Dr. Darius Arya - The Art Assignment
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See all contributions by Dr. Christopher D.M. Atkins - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Stephen Battle
Program Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Monuments Fund
See all contributions by Stephen Battle - 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. Kris Belden-Adams
Dr. Kris Belden-Adams is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Afterimage, Cabinet, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2012 book Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop.
See all contributions by Dr. Kris Belden-Adams - 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
Alejo Benedetti is assistant curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
See all contributions by Alejo Benedetti - 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 - Dr. Javier Berzal de Dios
Dr. Javier Berzal de Dios received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art and Critical Theory at Western Washington University. His research and writing addresses the intersections of art, architecture, and theory, with a focus on space and spatiality.
See all contributions by Dr. Javier Berzal de Dios - Dr. Mindy Besaw
Dr. Mindy Besaw is Curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
See all contributions by Dr. Mindy Besaw - 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
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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. 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 - 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 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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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. 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 - Alex Brey
Alex is a Ph.D. candidate working with Professor Alicia Walker at Bryn Mawr College. 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. For the 2016-2017 academic year he is a Garden and Landscape Studies Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks.
See all contributions by 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 is 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 is currently Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the MA in Studio Art Program.
See all contributions by Dr. Esperança Camara - 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 - Maria Castro
Maria Castro is a PhD candidate in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in late-nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American art and is developing a dissertation project focused on Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral. Maria is currently a Leonard A. Lauder Pre-doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See all contributions by Maria Castro - Dr. Stephanie Chadwick
Dr. Stephanie Chadwick is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. 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 - Art Institute of Chicago
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Dr. Kristen Chiem 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. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Pepperdine University.
See all contributions by Dr. Kristen Chiem - 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 Assistant Professor of Art History at Illinois State University.
See all contributions by Dr. Lea Cline - 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 - 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 - 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 - Balboa Art Conservation Center
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See all contributions by Balboa Art Conservation Center - 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 - 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 currently working as a gallery educator at the Courtauld Institute Galleries and the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.
See all contributions by Pippa Couch - 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 - National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)
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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 - 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 - 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. 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 - Mya Dosch
Mya Dosch is a PhD candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her area of specialization is 20th-century art of Latin America, and her dissertation 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. Mya teaches at Brooklyn College and City College.
See all contributions by 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. 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 - Berfu Durantas
Berfu Durantas teaches at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
See all contributions by Berfu Durantas - Dr. Davor Džalto
Dr. Davor Džalto is associate professor of art history, art theory and religious studies at the American University of Rome. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, on the topic “The Role of the Artist in Self-Referent Art.” He has published five books and over 30 scholarly articles and essays.
See all contributions by Dr. Davor Džalto - 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 - Utah System of Higher Education
See all contributions by Utah System of Higher Education - 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 - 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 Abby R. Eron - 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. 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 - Robyn Farrell
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 - Dr. Andrew Findley
Dr. Andrew Findley is an 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 PhD at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Findley is currently a Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana and serves as an arts contributor to WFIU Public Radio, a charter member of the National Public Radio network.
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 - 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. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, a specialist in colonial art of Mexico and Central America, received her Ph.D. from The City University of New York. She is now an assistant professor of art history at Louisiana State University where she teaches courses in Renaissance, Baroque, and Latin American art.
See all contributions by Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford - Tessa Fleming
See all contributions by Tessa Fleming - 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. Tom Folland
Dr. Tom 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.
See all contributions by Dr. Tom Folland - Dr. Billie Follensbee
See all contributions by Dr. Billie Follensbee - Valentina Follo
See all contributions by Valentina Follo - 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. 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 - Elena Franchi
See all contributions by Elena Franchi - Dr. Jennifer Freeman
Dr. Jennifer Freeman is a visiting assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She has presented and published on images of divinity in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Her area of expertise is in Carolingian art and theology; she is currently preparing a translation of In honorem sanctae crucis by Hrabanus Maurus.
See all contributions by Dr. Jennifer Freeman - 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.
See all contributions by Dr. Suzanne Newman Fricke - 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. 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 - Dr. Senta German
Dr. Senta German, now at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, 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.
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. Robert Glass
See all contributions by Dr. Robert Glass - 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 - 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 - Robert E. Gordon
See all contributions by Robert E. Gordon - Dr. Maribeth Graybill
See all contributions by Dr. Maribeth Graybill - 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 - 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 - 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 Nathalie Hager - 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. Shaina Hammerman
See all contributions by Dr. Shaina Hammerman - Dr. Jessica Hammerman
See all contributions by Dr. Jessica Hammerman - 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. Shawnya L. Harris
Dr. Shawnya L. Harris is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic 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 - 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, where she started MoMA Courses Online and co-produced educational videos, websites and apps. 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, topics she regularly addresses at conferences around the world. 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 - 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. 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. Jennifer Henneman
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 - 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. 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 - Helen Hillyard
Helen Hillyard is Assistant Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
See all contributions by Helen Hillyard - Dr. Naraelle Hohensee
Dr. Hohensee is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smarthistory.org. She 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 - Lily Hope
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 - Dr. Jane Horan
See all contributions by Dr. Jane Horan - 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 - 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 - 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 - Getty Conservation Institute
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See all contributions by Getty Conservation Institute - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The videos below can be seen on Smarthistory because National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) generously makes their videos available for distribution.
See all contributions by National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution)
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See all contributions by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution) - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The videos below can be seen on Smarthistory because the Israel Museum generously makes their videos available for distribution.
See all contributions by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - 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 is currently a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
See all contributions by Dr. Maya Jiménez - 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 - Dr. Laurel Kendall
See all contributions by Dr. Laurel Kendall - 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. 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. 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 is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University.
See all contributions by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank - Dr. Mary Kinnecome
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 - Sara Klein
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 - Dr. Peri Klemm
Dr. Peri Klemm is the Contributing Editor for African art. She 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. 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. 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 - 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 - 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. 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. Lara Kuykendall
Dr. Lara Kuykendall is Assistant 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
See all contributions by Dr. Erik Kwakkel - Nippon Hoso Kyokai
See all contributions by Nippon Hoso Kyokai - 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 - Lori Landay
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 - Abigail Lapin Dardashti
Abigail Lapin Dardashti is a Ph.D. student in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American art and more specifically post-war Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
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Perrin Lathrop is a PhD student in African Art History at 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. 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 now teaches Humanities online for Southern New Hampshire University.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John is Curator of Native Arts at Denver Art Museum where he conducts and presents scholarly research, develops exhibitions, collects Native arts, disseminates knowledge of the Denver Art Museum’s American Indian, African, and Oceanic collections, and is also responsible for DAM’s collaboration with Native American communities and the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). His specialty is historic American Indian arts from the Plains region, as well as contemporary art by American Indian artists. He conducted his doctoral fieldwork with Southern Cheyenne moccasin makers. Before joining the Museum in 2012, he received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to this, Dr. Lukavic earned an MA in Museum Science from Texas Tech University.
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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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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.
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Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is Contributing Editor for the Arts of the Islamic World. She is an archaeologist and architectural historian. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate Center at CUNY and serves on the governing board of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has a DPhil in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Annalise Madsen is the Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Assistant Curator of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
See all contributions by Olivia Nicole Miller - 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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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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Shadieh Mirmobiny is an adjunct Professor of art history at Folsom Lake College; she also teaches at 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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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. 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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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 York University. She has written several articles on Roman myth and religion, and her first book, “Legendary Rivals”, was recently published by Brill. She also provides guidance to people taking their first steps in advanced research through her blog (libraryofantiquity.wordpress.com).
See all contributions by Dr. Jaclyn Neel - Erika Nelson
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Dr. Christina Olsen is the Class of 1956 Director of the Williams College Museum of Art.
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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.
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Melisa Palermo is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Rice University. She received her Masters in art history from the University of Texas at San Antonio as well as from Rice University. Melisa’s primary interest is the relationship between Baroque sacred art and theology, spirituality, and mysticism. Her dissertation focuses 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 at MPW London and is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. He is currently working on a study of the iconography of color in Medieval art due for publication in 2016.
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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.
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Ben Pollitt studied Art History and English Literature at Edinburgh University. He teaches Art History at Fine Arts College in Hampstead and Ashbourne College in Kensington. He is an A Level examiner in the subject.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Shannon Pritchard is Assistant 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.
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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.
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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).
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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 - Dr. Shirley Reece-Hughes
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
See all contributions by Dr. Elizabeth Rodini - 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.
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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.
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Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese is an assistant professor of Visual Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Trained as an art historian, her work focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on the expressions and theorizations of blackness.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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. 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.
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See all contributions by Dr. Hannah Sigur - 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. 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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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 - 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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Stories of Art from the world’s leading experts. https://henitalks.com/
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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. 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.
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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. 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 - Cara Grace Tremain
Cara Grace Tremain is a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary, specializing in the study of ancient Maya dress. She earned her M.A. from Trent University in Ontario, where she studied ancient Maya architecture at the site of Ka’Kabish in Belize. She continues to work at Ka’Kabish as Field Director of archaeological excavations.
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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.
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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. 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 - 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 Dr. Jennifer Wagelie - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Julie Wilson Frick
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 - 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 - 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 - Allison Young
Allison Young is Contributing Editor for Global Modern and Contemporary Art. She is a Part-Time Lecturer in Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, the New School for Design and is an ABD doctoral candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art History with focus on African and African Diasporic Art.
See all contributions by Allison Young - 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.
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See all contributions by Dr. Rachel Zimmerman - 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, topics he regularly addresses at conferences around the world. 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 Associate Professor of Art History at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. 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.
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