History of Art and Visual Culture

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

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, Emeritus

Virginia Jansen, Emerita

Jasper A. Rose, Emeritus

Catherine M. Soussloff, University of California Presidential Chair
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; construction of gender and race

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

Maria Evangelatou
Medieval visual culture with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies

Stacy Kamehiro
Visual cultures of Oceania; internationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; museums and collecting

Lecturers

Janina Darling
Greek and Roman art; representations of women in the ancient world

Jeffery Lieber
History of architecture and urbanism with specialized research interests in Baroque and Neoclassical architecture in Italy and post-WWII architecture in the United States and Europe

Nick Morrissey
History of Indian art, Buddhist studies, Indology, Sanskrit and Tibetan studies, history of religions, Mahayana sutra literature and the nature of Mahayana Buddhism as religious movement

Soraya Murray
Contemporary art with emphasis in new media art and theory; African diaspora and globalization

Lisa Regan
Italian Renaissance art, with a focus on 16th-century court culture, gender issues, and the intersections of art and literature

Kirtana Thangavelu
Religion and visual culture in India and Asia

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