History of Art and Visual Culture

D-201 Porter College
(831) 459-4564
havc@ucsc.edu
http://havc.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Harry Berger Jr., Emeritus

Raoul Birnbaum, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China

Carolyn S. Dean
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America

John Hay
Visual and conceptual representation in pre-modern China, especially landscape painting; Asian art history

Virginia Jansen, Emerita
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture; campus planning and architecture

Jasper A. Rose, Emeritus

Catherine M. Soussloff
European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; performance studies; early modern Italian art; media history including film; Jewish identity and representation

Associate Professor

Martin A. Berger
American studies and visual studies, with interest in painting, photography, early cinema, and literature

Elisabeth Cameron
Visual cultures of central Africa, issues of gender, post-colonialism, and iconoclasm

Jennifer A. González
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

Donna M. Hunter
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture

Assistant Professor

Sheila Crane
Twentieth-century art and architecture in Europe and North America; modern French architecture and urbanism

Stacy Kamehiro
Visual cultures of the Pacific, 19th-century Hawai'i, (inter)nationalism, culture contact; (post)colonialism

Professor

John Dizikes, Emeritus (American Studies)

Shelly Errington (Anthropology)
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America