Art History Faculty and Staff

Dr. Caitlin Beach
Assistant Professor, PhD Columbia University

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

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

Dr. Nina Rowe
Professor, BA Oberlin College; MA University of Texas at Austin; PhD Northwestern University

Dr. Maria Ruvoldt
Associate Professor, BA Smith College; MA, M Phil, PhD Columbia University

Dr. Richard Teverson
Assistant Professor, PhD Yale

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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Bentley Brown is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and doctoral fellow at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. His research and curatorial work explores the pioneering role of Black artists and Black creative spaces within New York City’s contemporary art movements of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. In his artistic practice, inspired by African American cultural production, expressionist approaches to artistic process, and the desert landscape of his native Phoenix, Brown uses the mediums of canvas, found objects, photo-collage, and film to explore themes of Black identity, cosmology, and American interculturalism.

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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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Constanza Salazar is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University specializing in Contemporary and New Media Art and theory. Her research explores artists since the 1990s and their responses to different technologies like biotechnology, the internet, surveillance, and artificial intelligence. She focuses on the intersection of these technologies with race, gender, and sexuality. She holds an M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Guelph, and a B.A. in Fine Arts and Philosophy from the University of Waterloo.

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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

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