Art History Faculty

BA, New York University. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Special interests in Greek art of the classical and Hellenistic periods, Roman art of the late republic and early empire, and the art of prehistoric Europe; author of Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens, The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art, and a critical commentary on Alois Riegl’s Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament; editor of Artistic Strategy and the Rhetoric of Power: Political Uses of Art from Antiquity to the Present; recipient of fellowships from the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Early Christian and Byzantine Art and the Society of Fellows of Columbia University and of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. SLC, 1992–

BA, Barnard College. MA, PhD, Harvard University. Work has centered on issues of artistic interchange—in particular among Christians, Jews, and Muslims—and how groups form identities through art and architecture; special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. Author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York and co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, among other books and publications. SLC, 2009–

BA, Brooklyn College. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and the 17th century, the history of architecture, and art and architectural theory; author of articles on Italian 16th-century drawings, French painting of the 17th century, and American 19th-century architecture. SLC, 1978–

BA, Harvard. MFA, Columbia. MA, PhD (ABD), Princeton. As a PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture, her dissertation, “Odilon Redon and the Color of the Unconscious,” looks at psychology, painting, and theories of vision in fin-de-siècle France. Her writing on contemporary art and culture has been published by Artforum, Interview, Flash Art, and numerous museum and gallery exhibition catalogues, including PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Co-founder of Southfirst, an innovative contemporary art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that has presented emerging artists and artist-curated exhibitions for more than a decade. Her shows have frequently been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, and Artforum. Most recently a full-time lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and, since 2005, on the faculty for the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. Museums critic (biweekly column) for The New York Observer. Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. SLC, 2013–

BA, Yale University. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art. PhD, Columbia University. Teaches 20th- and 21st-century European and American art, covering intersections between modernist literature, philosophy, and visual and time-based arts. Special interest in technology and feminist theory. Author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings; co-author of Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents; contributor to catalogues for the Guggenheim Museum, the Americas Society, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and serial publications such as Artforum, Grey Room, and October, among others. Editor-in-chief of Art Journal from 2006-2009. Recipient of 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. SLC, 2000–