Art History Faculty and Staff

Dr. Asato Ikeda
Associate Professor, PhD University of British Columbia

Dr. Nina Rowe
John Marion Professor, PhD Northwestern University

Dr. Maria Ruvoldt
Associate Professor, PhD Columbia University

Dr. Nushelle de Silva
Assistant Professor, PhD MIT

Dr. Alexandra M. Thomas
Assistant Professor, PhD Yale University

Dr. Samuel D. Albert received his Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University.vHis areas of interest are art and architecture in Austria-Hungary and the successor states, and in the British Mandate of Palestine.vHe has worked at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, as well as the Center for Jewish Art of the Hebrew University where he also taught in the Art History Program.vCurrently, he is an Adjunct Associate at the Fashion Institute of Technology.vSamuel has written extensively on both Central Europe and Palestine. He is presently at work on a book focusing on architecture and urbanism in Mandatory Jerusalem.

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Katherina Fostano is an educator, digital curator, and interdisciplinary researcher with over ten years of experience in cultural heritage and higher education. She is a Ph.D. student at Fordham's Graduate School of Education, focusing on innovation in curriculum and instructional practices in higher education. Katherina holds a Master's degree in the History of Art and Design from the Pratt Institute. Her disciplinary focus is the visual culture of the early modern period. She also received an MLIS from the School of Information at Pratt, specializing in Special Collections & Archival practices and Digital Humanities. Katherina's interests lie in the intersection of art and cognition, visual & media literacy, and technology integration in art history pedagogy. 

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Dr. Patryk P. Tomaszewski is a New York–based historian of art and visual culture specializing in 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe. He has written and presented on the Polish and Russian avant-gardes, Socialist Realism in the former Eastern Bloc, the relationship between art and politics under totalitarian regimes, and the history of exhibitions during the Cold War in Europe and the United States. Among other publications, Dr. Tomaszewski recently contributed to the edited scholarly volume The 1982 Cultural Exchange Between Łódź and Los Angeles (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2024). Before coming to Fordham, he served as a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and as an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York–BMCC. He earned his Ph.D. in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. in the history of art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a B.A. in art history and German from Fordham.

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Dr. Andrée Hayum
Professor Emerita of Art History, BA CUNY (Queens); MA Radcliffe; PhD Harvard

Dr. Kathryn Heleniak
Professor Emerita of Art History, BA Michigan (Ann Arbor); PhD New York University

Dr. Joel Herschman
Professor Emeritus of Art History, PhD Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Dr. Irma B. Jaffe
Professor Emerita of Art History, PhD Columbia

Dr. Elizabeth Parker
Professor Emerita of Art History, BA Vassar; PhD Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Dr. Jo Anna Isaak
John L Marion Chair in Art History, BA University of British Columbia; PhD University of Toronto

Richard Kalina, Professor, Theatre & Visual Arts, BA University of Pennsylvania.
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